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Six shots at the halfway: Augusta's math problem
Rory McIlroy owns the largest 36-hole lead in Masters history. Five of six men who held five-shot leads went on to win. But Augusta has a way of rewriting arithmetic.
The Masters Without Tiger and Phil: Augusta Moves On
For the first time in 32 years, neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson is in the Masters field. The tournament doesn't need them anymore, and that should worry you more than their absence does.
Augusta's Real Test Happens Before the Ball Hits the Green
Everyone calls the Masters a putting contest. The stats say otherwise. The last five winners didn't even crack the top 10 in strokes gained putting. Augusta is an approach shot exam, and the greens are the proctor.
After the Grand Slam: What History Tells Rory McIlroy
Six men have completed golf's career grand slam. Some kept winning majors. Others never won another. Where does Rory fit in the pattern?
22 Rookies, One Course, and a 47-Year Curse
Augusta National punishes first-timers harder than any course in golf. With 22 rookies in the 2026 Masters field, here's why the learning curve is so steep and which debutants have the best shot at breaking through.
The class of 1926: why golf's best courses are turning 100 this year
Yale, Riviera, Fishers Island, Bel-Air. The greatest architects in golf history all built masterpieces the same year. A century later, their work still defines the game.
Golden Bell: 155 Yards That Decide the Masters
Augusta's 12th hole is the shortest on the course and the most dangerous in major championship golf. With the Masters a week away, here's why a wedge shot over a creek keeps destroying the best players alive.
The Last Ticket to Augusta: Who Wins Their Way In This Week?
The Valero Texas Open is the final gateway to the Masters. Rickie Fowler, Tom Kim, and Tony Finau are among those who need a win on Sunday to earn a Monday flight to Augusta.
The Masters Gamble: Why Golf's Best Are Sitting Out Before Augusta
Scheffler, McIlroy, and Morikawa haven't played a competitive round since mid-March. Every Masters winner since 2015 teed it up in the two weeks before. Someone's making a mistake.
Arccos Air killed your last excuse for not tracking your game
Sensorless shot tracking fits in your pocket and costs less than a sleeve of Pro V1s per month. The real question isn't whether the tech works — it's whether you're ready for what the data will tell you.
Hyo Joo Kim and the Number 61
She shot 61 to win her first major at 19. Twelve years later, she shot it twice in four days. The best two-week stretch on the LPGA this year belongs to a player most fans forgot about.
Gary Woodland Dropped a Thousand Pounds and Found His Game
Two weeks after revealing his PTSD diagnosis from brain surgery, Woodland is leading the Houston Open by three. Turns out carrying a secret is heavier than carrying a bag.
You Have a Favorite Wedge Distance. You Should Probably Know What It Is.
Most amateurs obsess over their driver but can't tell you their best wedge yardage. That's backwards. The 75-125 yard zone is where rounds are actually won and lost.
TGL Just Finished Season 2. So Is It Working?
Los Angeles Golf Club swept the finals, ratings dipped, and Tiger returned for one last cameo. Two seasons in, the indoor golf league still hasn't answered its biggest question.
Seven Days: How Fitzpatrick Turned a Gut-Punch Loss Into a Win
Matt Fitzpatrick missed a 7-foot putt to lose the Players Championship. Six days later, he drained a 13-footer to win the Valspar. The space between those two putts tells you everything about surviving on Tour.
The Old Course Shouldn't Have to Chase the Golf Ball
St Andrews is adding 132 yards and new bunkers ahead of the 2027 Open. It's a smart renovation, but it's also an admission that golf's oldest course can't keep up with modern equipment. That's the real problem.
Jake Knapp Was a Nightclub Bouncer Three Years Ago. Now He Leads the PGA Tour in Scoring Average.
From bouncing at a Costa Mesa nightclub to ranking second in strokes gained on the PGA Tour, Jake Knapp's 2026 breakout is the best story in golf right now.
Aberg Got Fast. You Do Too. Fixing Tempo Under Pressure
Ludvig Aberg's Players Championship collapse came down to two swings where his tempo got away from him. The same thing wrecks your weekend rounds, and the fix is simpler than you think.
The Snake Pit: Three Holes That Decide Everything at the Valspar
No Valspar winner has ever played holes 16-18 better than even par. Here's why Copperhead's finishing stretch eats tournaments alive.
Cameron Young Won The Players, and It Wasn't a Surprise
Seven runner-up finishes. A record-tying drought before his first win. Then Cam Young birdied the island green and beat Matt Fitzpatrick at TPC Sawgrass. Here's why this was always coming.
Alice Dye: The Woman Behind Golf's Most Famous Hole
The island green at TPC Sawgrass wasn't Pete Dye's idea. It was his wife Alice's — and that one suggestion was the least of her contributions to the game.
The Players Championship Starts Tomorrow — Is It Time to Call It a Major?
The Players Championship has the field, the purse, and the pressure. But the 'fifth major' debate is about more than prestige — it would rewrite the entire history of golf.
Akshay Bhatia Is 3-for-3 in Playoffs — What Makes a Sudden Death Specialist?
Bhatia's Arnold Palmer Invitational win makes him the eighth player in history to win his first three PGA Tour titles in playoffs. What separates the clutch from the choke?
McLaren Golf: Can Formula One Engineering Actually Make Better Clubs?
McLaren just announced a full golf equipment company — not a licensing deal, not a collab, but a standalone brand. Here's why this one might actually be different.
282 Years Ago Today, Golf Got Its First Rulebook — And It Was Only 13 Rules
On March 7, 1744, the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith wrote down the first 13 rules of golf. Most of them still make perfect sense. A few are wonderfully strange.
Daniel Berger's 63 at Bay Hill and the Comeback That Won't Quit
After a debilitating back injury, 18 months away from golf, and a broken finger, Daniel Berger just shot the lowest round at Bay Hill in over a decade. His story is about more than one great round.
Why Your Range Game Doesn't Translate to the Course (And How to Fix It)
You stripe it on the range but fall apart on the course. The problem isn't your swing -- it's how you practice. Here's what's actually going wrong and how to close the gap.
John Daly II and the Impossible Standard of Golf's Famous Fathers
John Daly II makes his PGA Tour debut this week in Puerto Rico. History says the odds are stacked brutally against him — only 10 father-son pairs have ever both won on Tour, and almost none of the sons matched their fathers.
Bay Hill: Arnold Palmer's Course That Bites Back
With the Arnold Palmer Invitational teeing off this week, here's why Bay Hill remains one of the toughest — and most personal — courses on tour.
Justin Thomas's Back Surgery Is a Warning — Golf Is Destroying Your Spine
JT returns at Bay Hill this week after a microdiscectomy at age 32. He's not an outlier — he's a symptom. The modern golf swing generates 8x your bodyweight in spinal compression, and most golfers are making it worse.
Why America's Best Courses Are Spending Millions to Go Backwards
Seminole, Oakland Hills, East Lake — elite clubs are ripping up decades of changes to recover original designs. The restoration movement says more about golf's identity crisis than most people realize.
Inside the Bear Trap: Why Golf's Most Feared Three-Hole Stretch Breaks More Minds Than Scorecards
PGA National's 15th through 17th holes have swallowed 1,121 balls since 2007 and ended more tournament hopes than any closing stretch in non-major golf. But the data suggests the Bear Trap's greatest weapon isn't water — it's what it does to your head.
Tiger Woods Is Building His Most Meaningful Golf Course — At a Public Muni Next to Augusta National
The Loop at The Patch opens April 15 in Augusta, Georgia. It's not Tiger's flashiest design, but it might be his most important — a nine-hole par 3 built on history, community, and the caddies who made the Masters possible.
The PGA Tour's Two-Tier Problem Is Getting Harder to Ignore
This week's Cognizant Classic has one top-30 player in the field. That's not a scheduling quirk — it's a structural crisis the Tour built on purpose.
Golf's Cruelest Stat: Why 54-Hole Leaders Lose More Than They Win
Jacob Bridgeman took a six-shot lead into Sunday at the Genesis and barely survived. That's not a choke — it's the norm. The data on 54-hole leads reveals one of the most counterintuitive truths in professional golf.
Spanish Bay Is Getting Torn Up — And It Might Finally Become the Course It Was Meant to Be
Gil Hanse is completely reworking The Links at Spanish Bay. Here's why one of the boldest redesigns in modern golf could transform Pebble Beach's overlooked sibling into a destination unto itself.
Rain Golf: What the Pros Know About Playing in Wet Conditions
The Genesis Invitational reminded us that golf doesn't stop for rain. Here's how to stop losing strokes when the skies open up.
The Curious Case of First-Round Scottie: Why the World's Best Keeps Digging Holes — Then Climbing Out
Scottie Scheffler has struggled in three straight opening rounds — and responded with some of the best golf on the planet. The pattern reveals something important about elite performance.
315 Yards, Zero Consensus: Why Riviera's 10th Hole Divides the Best Players Alive
As the Genesis Invitational returns to Riviera for its historic 100th playing, the world's best golfers still can't agree on whether the 10th hole is a masterpiece or a mess.
What 259 Million Shots Reveal About Where You're Actually Losing Strokes
Arccos tracked nearly 3 million rounds in 2025. The data confirms what most golfers don't want to hear: you're probably practicing the wrong part of your game.
The Grass That Eats Golf Balls: How Kikuyu Became Southern California's Secret Weapon
With the Genesis Invitational returning to Riviera this week, it's time to talk about the course's real defense — an invasive African grass that punishes every missed fairway.
What Morikawa's 28-Month Drought Teaches Us About Playing to Win
Collin Morikawa's emotional Pebble Beach victory wasn't about a swing fix — it was about rediscovering a winning mindset. Here's what every golfer can learn from his drought.
100 Years at Hogan's Alley: Why the Genesis Invitational's Centennial Matters
The Genesis Invitational celebrates its 100th playing at Riviera next week. From the richest purse in 1926 to breaking golf's color barrier, this tournament shaped the sport more than most people realize.
3D-Printed Irons Are Here — And They Might Change How Every Club Gets Made
Cobra's 3DP irons use laser-sintered metal and internal lattice structures to do things forging and casting physically cannot. Here's what that means for your next set.
Redan, Biarritz, Cape: The Template Holes Every Golfer Should Know
Golf's most influential hole designs have been copied for over a century. Here's what template holes are, where they came from, and why recognizing them can actually help your game.
Pebble Beach Hole by Hole: What Makes It the Ultimate Test
With the AT&T Pro-Am teeing off this week, here's a course strategy breakdown of Pebble Beach — the holes that decide tournaments, the shots that separate pros from amateurs, and why this 106-year-old layout still confounds the best in the world.
The Mini Driver Revolution: Should You Ditch Your 3-Wood?
Mini driver usage is surging on tour, with players like Fleetwood, Rose, and McIlroy gaming them in competition. Here's why the trend matters for your game — and whether it's time to make the switch.
Chris Gotterup Is the Hottest Player in Golf — And His Path Here Is the Real Story
Two wins in three starts to open 2026. Four career victories by age 26. How a multi-sport kid from the Jersey Shore became the PGA Tour's most dangerous player.
Golf Is Building Again — And This Time, Public Courses Are Finally Getting Their Due
Over 140 new courses are in the pipeline for the first time in a decade. But the real story isn't another luxury destination — it's the quiet renaissance happening at municipal courses across America.
The 16th at TPC Scottsdale: How a Solid Par 3 Became Golf's Loudest Stage
With the WM Phoenix Open underway, we look at how TPC Scottsdale's 16th hole evolved from a quiet par 3 into a 20,000-seat coliseum — and what it tells us about where golf is headed.
Justin Rose at 45: What His Record-Breaking Win Teaches Us About Getting Better With Age
Rose just set the scoring record at Torrey Pines, gained 11 mph of ball speed since his mid-career low, and climbed back to world No. 3. Here's what every golfer over 40 should take from his remarkable resurgence.
Born Today in 1912: Byron Nelson and the Records That Still Won't Fall
On what would be Byron Nelson's 114th birthday, we look at why his 1945 streak of 11 consecutive wins remains golf's most unbreakable record — and how Lord Byron quietly shaped the modern game.
5 Practical Tips to Break 90 for the First Time
Breaking 90 is a major milestone. Here are five actionable strategies that focus on course management, not swing overhauls.
The 2026 PGA Tour Season Is Already Wild — Here's What You Need to Know
From Scheffler's 20th win to Koepka's emotional return from LIV, the early 2026 PGA Tour season is delivering drama on every front.
The Zero-Torque Putter Revolution: Hype, Science, and Whether You Should Switch
Zero-torque putters went from niche curiosity to the hottest trend in golf. Here's how the technology works, who's using it, and an honest look at whether it's right for your game.
Best Golf Balls for Every Budget in 2026
From tour-level urethane to budget distance balls, here's what actually matters when picking a golf ball.
Understanding Your Golf Handicap: A Complete Guide
What your handicap actually means, how it's calculated, and why it matters even if you never play in a tournament.