Luke Kerr-Dineen

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus, the man with more green jackets in his closet than any golfer in history, often spoke of eliminating one side of the golf course. Bryson DeChambeau, the man who is now the betting favorite to slip on the green jacket this year after opening rounds of 69 and 67 put him one back of Justin Rose's 36-hole lead, is on a similar quest. Unlike Nicklaus, famous for his left-to-right fades, Bryson's stock is a right-to-left draw.

1 week ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

AUGUSTA, Ga.— Practicing and warming up are distinctly different things. And the data Augusta National is collecting from the practice area this week proves it. You see all sorts of interesting things during pre-tournament practice sessions, some of which we wrote about here. Players alternating technical work with more artful stuff. Different driver-wedge splits, and all sorts of other things. But pre-round warmups are a different proposition.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

Augusta, Ga.—It was all going so well for Rory McIlroy during his first round of the 2025 Masters—until it wasn't. Two double bogeys three holes apart tumbled him down the leaderboard into territory that, if recent history is to be believed, has effectively ended his chances of winning a green jacket. It's easy to be Captain Hindsight on these things. Nitpick some details about what Rory could've done better over a shot that I could never hit even in my wildest dreams.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Gary Player is a golfing great from another era. A man light-years ahead of his time, with some strong opinions about the golf swing. A few of which he unleashed following his ceremonial opening tee shot at the 2025 Masters. Asked to give a piece of advice about how countries outside the U.S. can create a golf superstar of their own, Player dropped a multi-faceted take based on his own experience.

2 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Luke Kerr-Dineen

It's been something of a slog on the golf swing front for most of the past years for Hovland. Hovland's been unflinchingly honest about the struggles in his own golf swing. Perhaps to his own detriment. "It probably would benefit me to shut my mouth a little bit more," he said on Tuesday. "But I don't mind being honest. I think if you hold it in, the fear almost becomes bigger instead of when you speak the truth out there." The fear in Hovland's golf swing comes from a two-way miss.