Category Archives: Golf News


An all-time Tiger Woods prop bet lock, Phil Mickelson’s special “training” for THE MATCH, and golf’s revival tour rolls on

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re feeling extra thankful this Turkey Day. You see, before Tiger Woods made Thanksgiving week car crashes all the rage, I had one of my own in 2008 that I celebrated the 10-year anniversary of on Monday. You never heard about it because it predated my arrival at Golf Digest by a few months and wasn’t accompanied by an international sex scandal.
A decade after escaping the wreckage (My poor silver Scion TC) and getting hugs from a group of strangers who saw it happen while driving behind me, I’ll get to hug a wife and daughter I couldn’t have dreamed of at the time. And I’ll also get to spend part of my holiday with Woods (sort of) thanks to THE MATCH. What a time to be alive! Literally.
Alright, enough with the sappy stuff. Let’s take a look at everything happening in golf, and remember, watch out for fire hydrants.
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Charles Howell III: OK, maybe just a little more sap. How could you not have all the FEELS when CH3 drop..

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Man sets luggage on fire to protest cancelled flight, is all of us this holiday season

It's the most wonderful time of the year once again. The halls are decked, the stockings stuffed, and the partridge is in the pear tree or whatever. But this season, instead of roasting chestnuts on the open fire, toast your Samsonite instead—a tribute to this righteous rage monster who will be spending the holidays in a cell after setting his suitcase ablaze to protest a cancelled flight last week.
It all went down on Thursday morning, when PIA Flight PK-607, bound for Gilgit, Pakistan was grounded due to inclement weather at Islamabad Airport. When passengers learned that the airline would not be putting their lives in mortal danger by firing them into the eye of a storm via a speeding steel tube in the sky, they revolted, shouting and pushing airline personnel in hopes of reaching their destination—presumably a mountainside appearing suddenly out of the fog—as planned. After the airline offered passengers complimentary overnight hotel rooms until the rescheduled flight the foll..

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A beginner’s guide to Fortnite, from a clueless holiday father

Christian PetersenIf you’re noticing more teens driving into telephone poles and elderly pedestrians in your town lately, there’s a perfectly logical reason: They’re driving while playing Fortnite! As you know if you’ve recently parented, interacted with or literally laid eyes on a human under the age of 32, Fortnite is the planet’s hottest video game, teen social event, cultural touchstone and reason Kentucky’s governor thinks the world is lapsing into decay and sin.
We at The Loop are no stranger to video games—you just watch what we can do at Lee Cavallo’s Putting Challenge—but between the holidays, keeping up with Jim Nantz and getting into occasional beefs with Phil Mickelson (HE KNOWS WHY), we frankly don’t have as much time for Fortnite as most people. That’s why we’re only now offering this Highly Researched, Expertly Played, Adverb-Decorated and Only Slightly Middle-Aged look at the fieriest competition in all the land. If you are new to Fortnite, and want some advice on how t..

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