LPGA
Kupcho Opens With a 66 as Riviera Bares Its Teeth
The first major to be played at Riviera on the women’s side was always going to ask hard questions, and on Thursday it did exactly that. The course gave …
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Opinion
The Tees You Should Actually Be Playing
There is a quiet decision made on the first tee of almost every amateur round, and it is usually the wrong one. A group arrives, looks at the markers, and walks …
Equipment
The Adjustable Hosel: What All Those Settings on Your Driver Actually Do
Most amateurs who own an adjustable driver have used the wrench exactly once, on the day they bought it, and have been faintly afraid of it ever since. The …
LPGA
The U.S. Women's Open Comes to Riviera, and Brings Its Best Stories With It
There are courses that the women’s game visits and courses that feel like an arrival, and Riviera, this week, is firmly the latter. The 81st U.S. …
DP World Tour
Kaneko Holes Out on 17 to Claim a First DP World Tour Title in Austria
There are wins that arrive on the back of a steady, almost dull procession of pars, and there are wins that turn on a single moment a player will replay for the …
Courses
TPC Sawgrass: The Course That Was Built to Be Watched
Most great golf courses were laid out by men who wanted to find the best holes hiding in a piece of ground. Pete Dye’s Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass was …
LPGA
Boutier Rallies From Four Back to Win the ShopRite LPGA
Celine Boutier started the final round of the ShopRite LPGA four shots off the lead, which on the Bay Course at Seaview is the sort of deficit that asks a …
Tips and Instruction
The Sidehill Lies That Quietly Wreck Your Card
The driving range is a flat lie machine. Every ball a club golfer hits in practice sits on a level mat or a level patch of turf, the feet square to a level …
Opinion
In Defence of Nine Holes
There is a particular look a certain kind of golfer gives you when you tell them you only played nine. It is somewhere between sympathy and suspicion, as though …
PGA Tour
The Memorial at Fifty: Scheffler Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody Has Managed Since Stricker
Jack Nicklaus’s tournament turns fifty this week, and it is doing so with a leaderboard threat that would have pleased the host in his own playing days. …