The Masters has radically changed over the last decade —gnomes, celebrities, sticky social content—to reach new, wider audiences. But can the Masters be everything for everyone without losing what it is? www.golfdigest.com/story/master...
Posts by Joel Beall
There’s a legend about a writer sneaking onto Augusta National and making an albatross during the Masters media lottery. For 30 years, most assumed the story was made up. We went looking for the truth. Turns out it's richer than the legend www.golfdigest.com/story/master...
We don’t know the struggle or its shape, but it’s there. It’s been there. And until its reckoned with nothing else matters.
Tiger Woods is not OK www.golfdigest.com/story/tiger-...
There is no stronger male bond than two bench guys who have to physically hold each other back after a 3-point play they had absolutely nothing to do with
Brian Rolapp has a plan for the PGA Tour. He just needs everyone to get out of his way www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
If you read the story you’d realize it’s not my opinion but merely informing readers what’s happening behind the scenes
The PGA Tour has spent years avoiding the word. Now it's about to go all-in. Inside the quiet campaign to make the Players Championship a major www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
A really well-written, thorough read on the "fight" over DC's municipal golf courses. I knew nothing of these courses until it became a political football last year. Now I want to play them all.
They rescued D.C.'s munys. Then Trump took over. Inside the fight between the president and public golf
www.golfdigest.com/story/presid...
The Problematic Thing created the Meaningful Thing. On Anthony Kim and LIV Golf's big win www.golfdigest.com/story/anthon...
Unbelievable night in Livigno. Triple corks on triple corks on triple corks. I don’t pretend to know much, but I know this was pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...
Brooks Koepka has always resisted easy analysis. Warrior and bully. Swagger that never connected. Machine and human. But as he returns to the PGA Tour, here's a moment away from the cameras about the other side of Brooks www.golfdigest.com/story/other-...
feels like pro golf has turned into a blizzard where everyone is toiling with a shovel while Scheffler is waving behind a snowplow
Free press isn’t abstract. Shoutout to the journalists in the field and the people filming on their phones for documenting and defending truth
fred shuttlesworth looking over the wreckage of his bombed house
i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.
a face that says well, on we go
Cignetti just won a natty and still looks like he’s been told the greens were aerated this morning
One of the worst parts of getting older is realizing most jobs are won through schmoozing/asskissing rather than results/resume. Which makes Cignetti’s success such a refreshing validation of meritocracy.
Inside the PGA Tour's shocking decision to allow Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm back www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
Tour brass believes extracting any one of Rahm/Bryson/Koepka—without losing a star in return—would be a blow LIV couldn't answer. Add in that Koepka never sued the Tour, and his return may come sooner than you think www.golfdigest.com/story/brooks...
Is this the end of the PGA Tour's Hawaiian swing? On the uncertain future of Kapalua www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
What the American Ryder Cup team can learn from USA Basketball www.golfdigest.com/story/what-t...
Rory McIlroy’s future could be very different than you think www.golfdigest.com/story/rory-m...
Hunting for paychecks despite a trophy-case shortage while incinerating reputation in the process? Lane Kiffin, do I have a golf league for you ...
Giving thanks for bad golf www.golfdigest.com/story/thanks...
How real is the possibility of a 20-event PGA Tour season? www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
The comedy world’s Saudi backlash is a reminder for Brian Rolapp and the PGA Tour www.golfdigest.com/story/brian-...
The comedy world’s Saudi backlash is a reminder for Brian Rolapp and the PGA Tour www.golfdigest.com/story/brian-...
Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage—and came out the other side a deserving winner www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...