Dave Shedloski

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Dave Shedloski

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Rory McIlroy pulled out his driver on the third hole in Sunday’s final round of the Masters, Jack Nicklaus figured that either anger or desperation already had overcome the Northern Irishman and that he had discarded his carefully conceived pre-tournament plan. Nicklaus was leaning toward the former.

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. — He was the player who looked the most like he wanted to win, like he had the game and the will to win, and even like the player who should win. History be damned. Justin Rose played arguably the round of his life Sunday in the 2025 Masters, though later he couldn’t quite convince himself of that. He couldn’t go there because his inspired play didn’t take him where he ultimately wanted to go.

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The long and short of Bryson DeChambeau’s third round in the 2025 Masters is that when he wasn’t long, he was usually short. Distance control is crucial to success at Augusta National Golf Club, and the reigning U.S. Open champion left home without his on Saturday, his vaunted power game nullified much of the afternoon by displaying the touch of an anvil delivery man.

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth knows he is not supposed to talk about it, but then he went ahead and talked about it anyway. At length. Apparently, any mention of mud balls draws the ire of the powers that be at Augusta National Golf Club, but the 2015 Masters champion insists that mud balls are the X-factor in determining the outcome of the year’s first major. MORE: The visual trick that makes Augusta's fairways look greener.

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anger enveloped Nick Dunlap Thursday afternoon and into the evening. Anxiety gripped him on Friday morning as he grappled with the visceral discomfort from the knot in his stomach—”more than I've ever had starting a round of golf.” The anger he addressed by rifling several dozen golf balls into the woods behind his rented house. His trainer, Clark Holter, practically emptied a supply at an area Target store to facilitate the session that was more about passion than practice.