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Michelle Wie walks the aisle, Phil Mickelson needles Tiger Woods, and Bryson DeChambeau gets roasted for slow play

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we secretly hope the PGA Tour’s slow-play problem never gets solved. Bryson DeChambeau’s dawdling at Liberty National gave us a pair of viral videos...

August 16, 2019

Clear No.1

Sunday’s silencing of Rory McIlroy was the best measure yet of Brooks Koepka’s dominance

Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy playing in the final pairing Sunday at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, one shot separating the No. 1 and No. 3 golfers in the world, had all the promise of a heavyweight superfight. Instead, it was over about as fast as Mike Tyson-Leon Spinks.

July 29, 2019

PGA Tour

Brooks Koepka did more than win a WGC title at TPC Southwind. He also wrapped up Player of the Year honours

There’s still a month left in the PGA Tour season, but can anyone unseat Brooks Koepka in the race for Player of the Year honours?

July 29, 2019

News & Tours

Brooks Koepka cruises to his third victory this season with final-round 65 at WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

What was supposed to be an epic showdown between Brooks Koekpa and Rory McIlroy on Sunday at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was anything but.

July 29, 2019

News

Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy, shake hands and come out fighting

Big Game Brooks vs. Rory the Resilient.

July 28, 2019

Still Plenty to Play For

Tiger’s playoff push, Koepka vs. McIlroy for POY, and a return to one of the world’s best courses: What golf still has in store for 2019

Shane Lowry’s march up Royal Portrush’s 18th hole, with a united Ireland following suit, proved a poignant scene. And, to some, one of melancholy, for the lifting of the claret jug signalled the year had concluded. Fear not, golf fans.

July 26, 2019

Major Rewind

Rory McIlroy says he has to reassess the way he reassessed his approach to majors in 2019

The good news for McIlroy? He has won twice this season and has just four finishes outside the top-10 in 15 starts in 2019.

July 25, 2019

Major Rewind

The best, worst, and weirdest from the 2019 major season

Four majors in four months produced a few stars and a few disappointments

July 24, 2019

Stats

Why Rory McIlroy’s 2019 season at major championships was even worse than you think

McIlroy’s drought in major championships will be approaching six years when he tees it up at the 2020 Masters.

July 24, 2019

What Might Have Been

The Open 2019: Rory McIlroy got emotional after Friday charge to make the cut at Portrush fell one shot short

Rory McIlroy tried to treat this year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club, an hour north from where he was born and raised and where he announced his presence to the golf world in the form of a course-record 61 as a 16-year-old, like any other tournament.

July 20, 2019

148th Open Championship

The Open 2019: The story of Day 1 at Royal Portrush in 9 (or so) sentences

The first two rounds of the Open Championship are the longest days on the golf calendar. But we decided to keep things short.

July 19, 2019

148th Open Championship

The Open 2019: Rory McIlroy’s miserable start was shocking—and predictable

The cheers from grandstands had barely died when Rory McIlroy’s tournament followed suit.

July 19, 2019

148th Open Championship

The Open 2019: There’s an explanation for why there’s out-of-bounds on the first hole at Portrush (but don’t expect to like it)

It took one swing for Rory McIlroy’s Open Championship to go sideways on Thursday—and start a heated debate about a very golf-wonky subject.

July 19, 2019

Legends

Open Book: The Black Knight on Tiger, Jack, Rory and the return to Royal Portrush

In a wide-ranging interview on the eve of the 148th Open Championship, Player shares memories from his three wins in the oldest major, shares his tips for Royal Portrush this week...

July 17, 2019

148th Open Championship

The Open 2019: This Nike mini-doc will have you emptying the bank account on Rory McIlroy at Royal Portrush

If you already liked McIlroy’s chances this week (he is the favourite after all), then you really like them after watching this.

July 17, 2019

Golf Digest Podcast

Open Preview Podcast: Can Rory McIlroy handle the pressure of playing a “home game”?

The 2019 Open Championship is the rare golf tournament where Tiger Woods might not be the biggest story.

July 17, 2019

148th Open Championship

The Open 2019: In Rory McIlroy’s hometown, traces of where the legend began

To the uninformed, a walk down High Street, the main drag lined with shops, cafes and pubs, offers few clues that one of golf’s biggest stars was born and raised in this seaside town of 12,000.

July 16, 2019

Winning Around The World

From the U.K. to Nigeria to Taiwan, we’ve crowned the king of golf’s national opens

The following exercise in madness—for indeed that’s what it is—can be blamed on Rory McIlroy. He won the RBC Canadian Open early last month, and it occurred to me then...

July 3, 2019

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