5:31 PM ET A 54-hole fundraising tournament involving a handful of Dallas-area pros and top amateurs, including former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, will take place this week, with entry fees earmarked for the caddies at Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas. Golf Channel first reported the event and Alison Morrison, managing member at Maridoe Golf
There was good news for college golf fans from the NCAA late Friday. A proposal that some coaches and administrators feared could result in schools defunding and cutting non-revenue sports, including golf teams, in the face of budget issues brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, was turned down by the Division I Council. More than
One way our team at Golf Digest has tried to understand and illustrate the differences in golf balls is a specific short game test we’ve been running for many years. Using good players and a Foresight Sports GCHawk launch monitor, we evaluated each ball’s spin and launch angle on 50-yard wedge shots (above). The specific
The last of it left the day before. Everything save for the tops of the tents—grandstands, hospitality structures, merchandise pavilions—had been built for the RBC Heritage Classic when its tournament staff was informed in March that the event had been canceled, so director Steve Wilmot and his team went about tearing their village down. As
One thing about a pandemic in the digital age is there’s no shortage of information. It’s the good information that has been more elusive, and that extends to our understanding of the coronavirus in a golf setting. Can you get the virus from even walking past another golfer? Is there danger in reaching into the
The surreal nature of the 2019-’20 college golf season was amplified once more this week when the Golf Coaches Association of America and Women’s Golf Coaches Association revealed the players who earned first-time All-American honors for their performances during the abbreviated campaign, honors given roughly a month before they would have been announced in an
The waiting game continues for fans longing to watch live golf, the PGA Tour still almost two months away (if everything breaks right) from restarting its 2020 season. If you’re a true golf junkie, you joined us earlier this month in watching the final rounds of 23 straight Masters tournaments, thus exhausting Augusta National’s YouTube
The golf schedule took another COVID-19 hit on Friday, when the United States Golf Association announced that it has canceled the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls Junior. “Our primary focus when making determinations around championships continues to be the safety and well-being of everyone involved,” John Bodenhamer, senior managing director of Championships for the
Professional golf remains on hiatus for (hopefully only) the next seven weeks, meaning live network television of the game remains on break. But while golf fans won’t be hearing Jim Nantz say “Hello, friends,” his closest friend in the CBS tower, Nick Faldo, will still be getting plenty of air time. CBS announced the six-time
8:17 AM ET The PGA Tour was one of the last major professional organizations to shut down operations due to the coronavirus pandemic when it pulled the plug after the first round of the Players Championship back on March 12. If all goes as planned, the tour will be one of the first to come
The Match is very much on. A day after an announcement confirming that Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning would play a televised golf match to benefit the COVID-19 relief effort—officially called The Match: Champions for Charity— Woods spoke in further detail about the event, which is scheduled for some time in
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