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AUGUSTA — Someone very wise once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.” The Google machine tells me this person was Albert Einstein, who certainly fits the bill intelligence-wise. Watching Rory McIlroy’s golf rounds over the last 10 months has brought Dr. Einstein’s

7:08 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — On Tuesday of Masters week, every former winner who wants to attend comes to Augusta National for the Champions Dinner. It is one sports’ most exclusive dinner parties. This year, defending champion Dustin Johnson is the host. This is his menu. His brother, Austin, who is Johnson’s caddie and

The Masters is Christmas for golf bettors, and this year we’re getting two Christmases in a span of six months. You could say we’ve been spoiled rotten. It only makes sense, then, to spoil our readers with more gambling content. We’ve given you our best bets and our favorite DFS plays already, so now it’s

7:30 AM ET MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — Six years ago, not long after Dustin Johnson had completed one of the worst collapses in golf history at the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, he was behind the wheel of his courtesy car headed back to his rental house. No one in the car —

Golf Digest’s betting panel consists of three of the most respected data scientists in the industry: Pat Mayo of Mayo Media Network/DraftKings, Brandon Gdula of numberFire/FanDuel and Rick Gehman of RickRunGood.com. We’re fortunate to have an anonymous tour caddie giving his picks every week on tour—and our caddie got bold this week. He saw Jordan

It’s officially Masters Week, which means that everyone—your mom, your dad, your little cousin, Nancy in accounting, etc.—is going to have a “dark horse” pick to win at Augusta National. By the time Wednesday evening rolls around, there will be no dark horses left. One guy who has slipped through the cracks so far, though,

3:26 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth got to drive down Magnolia Lane late Monday morning with a sense of relief. For the first time in nearly four years, he was a winner again Sunday on the PGA Tour, the constant scrutiny and questions concerning his troubling play now changing to talk of him

The Masters overflows with traditions, from the Champions Dinner to the Par 3 Contest (though not this year again, because COVID-19) to the Crow’s Nest to the ceremonial opening tee shots that gets the tournament under way. Binding them all is how they each manage to connect old and young, generations past and present brought

7:00 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bryson DeChambeau was going to obliterate Augusta National last fall. He was coming off a convincing 6-shot win at the U.S. Open, overpowering famed Winged Foot. He arrived at the Masters with a plan to do the same. But a funny thing happened on the way to a green

Don’t get too excited, but there’s a chance you could play Augusta National someday. I mean, it could happen. Because it has happened. For a fortunate few, at least. In the current issue of Golf Digest, our Peter Finch wrote about the various, sometimes sneaky ways you can get a coveted tee time at the

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Realistically, Lydia Ko was out of contention entering the final round of the ANA Inspiration on Sunday, though reality and Ko apparently were not in agreement on that. Ultimately she did not win, but she injected the final round with a jolt of drama that otherwise would have been missing. Ko,

8:00 AM ET Bernhard Langer stood toward the back of the tee box on the first hole of the Masters in November and watched Rory McIlroy launch his opening tee shot of the third round 322 yards. Moments later, the 63-year-old Langer hit his — 251 yards. The differences between the two were greater than

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka apparently hopes to give next week’s Masters a try after recently having a procedure on his injured right knee. Koepka showed up at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, hit balls on the range and then headed for the course. He last appeared in a PGA Tour event on Feb.

8:00 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Only five months since the last Masters Tournament another is here, back in its familiar April spot. Tiger Woods won’t be here as he continues to recover from injuries he suffered during a single-car crash in Los Angeles in February. But the patrons will return, in limited numbers. The

“When do you start thinking about Augusta?” Well, that didn’t take long. The date is January 10, 2001, and Tiger Woods, coming off a historic season in which he won nine times and captured the year’s final three majors, already is being asked about the Masters. Which doesn’t begin until April 5. It’s 86 days

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — When taking the measure of LPGA rookie Patty Tavatanakit, it would do well to start with a tape measure. She is a home run hitter in a single hitter’s frame and her power helped distance herself from the rest of the ANA Inspiration field on Saturday. Tavatanakit, 21 and five feet,

6:07 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Many words can be summoned to describe Augusta National, the long-time home of the Masters and one of the most famous golf courses in the world. Sometimes, like in golf, it’s best to just keep it simple. “Magical,” said Olivia Mehaffey, one of 30 players who made it to

The PGA Tour will continue to hold the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta this September, it said in a statement released late Friday. The announcement comes after the Georgia State Legislature passed controversial new voting regulations last week that prompted Major League Baseball to decide to move its All-Star Game from

11:31 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Michelle Wie West tumbled out of the ANA Inspiration on a hot, breezy Friday afternoon in the desert. Patty Tavatanakit held onto the lead. Playing for the second straight week after a 21-month break, Wie West followed an opening 2-under 70 with a birdie-less 79 to

Smile, friends, for major season is upon us. Five months after a one-off autumnal Masters, the world’s best are back in Augusta for our favorite rite of spring. We’re not quite all the way back to normal—players will still take COVID-19 tests and patron attendance will be limited—but there is something so comforting about returning

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Patty Tavatanakit should not be considered an interloper atop the leader board at the ANA Inspiration, notwithstanding her relative obscurity. If she were a stock, analysts likely would be bullish on her. For the second straight day at the ANA Inspiration, the 21-year-old from Thailand finished with the lead, this time

8:58 PM ET Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Cameron Tringale made a move for his first PGA Tour victory with a 3-under-par 69 Friday and a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Valero Texas Open. Tringale, a 12-year veteran, was at 9-under 135 after a round that included five-straight birdies and leads Jordan Spieth

Cristie Kerr was having a brutal back nine at the ANA Inspiration on Friday—until a miraculous finish. The 20-time LPGA winner was in contention at the year’s first major until playing a six-hole stretch in six over that put her outside the cut line when she arrived at the 18th hole at Mission Hills Country

Mar 29, 2021 There can be only one first. History rarely cares if someone says, “Hey, I was the second person …” Which is why historically Jennifer Kupcho’s name will always be remembered. She was the first to win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2019. Because of the pandemic, the event was not played

Played annually at a bastion for the 1 percent, it figures that the Masters has a rigid caste system. The fans feel it. Snagging one of the toughest tickets in sports should be enough, but once you’re on the grounds there is always a tantalizing experience just out of reach: a spot under The Tree,

Being the incredibly fickle game it is, golf lends itself to a lot of comeback tales. Right now, the most talked about one is Jordan Spieth’s. Before that it was Brooks Koepka’s (he’s going to get another one when he returns from his latest injury). If he can get it turned around, Rickie Fowler will

8:20 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ingrid Lindblad of Sweden had a 2-under 70 for one of only three rounds under par in the wind and chill Thursday, giving her a share of the lead with top-ranked Rose Zhang going into the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Zhang, the 17-year-old

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Michelle Wie West became a teen idol largely with a golf game that turned heads here when she was 13 and 14, the formative years in a career that has been an amalgam of hits and misses. Now 31, a wife and a mother, Wie obviously is in a different place

3:51 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California but would not release details Wednesday, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star. Woods suffered serious injuries in the Feb. 23 crash when he

This is a story about proud men, men with something to be proud of. Every April, they attend one of the sports world’s most exclusive gatherings. Every April, they are allowed to don a special and distinctive green garment, one worn by only a few. Every April, as past winners of golf’s most important tournament,