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In celebration of Golf Digest’s 70th anniversary, we’re revisiting the best literature we’ve ever published. Each entry includes an introduction that celebrates the author or puts in context the story. Catch up on earlier installments. They used to say, one of the dirty little secrets of sports is that more money was wagered at a

2:32 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN Sports around the world have only been on hiatus since mid-March, but when the numbers are crunched, the impact coronavirus has had on the industry will certainly leave an impact for years to come. Only 53% of the sports events originally scheduled for 2020 are likely to take place this

In 22 years as PGA Tour commissioner, Tim Finchem nimbly shepherded the organization through a myriad of difficult circumstances, from the antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission early in his tenure in 1995 to Greg Norman’s World Tour overtures in the late 1990s to the 2008 economic downturn. But none of it, he says,

4:16 PM ET The idea of staging the Ryder Cup in September without spectators is being discussed, according to PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh. In a radio interview on WFAN in New York, Waugh acknowledged that “fans are the Ryder Cup, to a certain degree,” and that it’s “hard to imagine one without fans,”

It wasn’t long ago that Erik van Rooyen was playing on the Challenge Tour, so finding himself near the top of the leaderboard at the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black was something of a “pinch me” moment. In just his second major championship appearance, the South Africa native and University of Minnesota grad found

In celebration of Golf Digest’s 70th anniversary, we’re revisiting the best literature we’ve every published. Each entry includes an introduction that celebrates the author or puts in context the story. Catch up on earlier installments. John Daly will have lived 54 years on April 28 and weighs 215 pounds; it says so in his profile

12:23 PM ET If you cannot sell winning or success to your fans, the next best thing you can sell them is hope. The PGA Tour is now dealing in the currency of hope, something we need in America as much as we have ever needed anything. People are still getting sick, and people are

Picking your favorite Tiger Woods’ stat is a little like choosing your favorite ice cream: It’s hard to go wrong with whatever flavor you say you like most. Any number of numbers point to Woods’ dominance during his two-decade-plus PGA Tour career, none as straight forward as 82 overall wins (it might be vanilla, but