By Brendan Mohler

By now you know that Vijay Singh has filed suit against the PGA Tour. Yes, he’s suing the organization that let him off the hook after admittedly using a banned substance, the organization that has made him rich and the same organization that named him Player of the Year in 2004. How could he do such a thing?

 

By John Strege

Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images

When choosing a Tiger Woods vintage, 2000, as they might say in Johnny Miller’s Napa Valley neighborho

By Alex Myers

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Area thunderstorms delayed play at the Players for nearly two hours on Saturday afternoon, but the break did provide a bit of entertainment. Sergio Garcia sat down with NBC/Golf Channel’s Steve Sands for a quick TV interview and seemed to blame Tiger Woods for the bogey he made on No. 2.

By Derek Evers

Much is being made of Lee Westwood’s whiff on the first hole of the third round at TPC Sawgrass today. But as this slowed down video shows, it’s actually not as embarrassing as i

By Ron Sirak

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- On the day after he sued the PGA Tour for allegedly damaging his reputation in the Great Deer Antler Spray Saga, Vijay Singh returned to competition with little interest from fans and even less from his fellow players.

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another editon of The Grind, where we don’t understand the shock surrounding Derek Ernst’s win at Quail Hollow. So what if he was the fourth alternate and ranked 1,207th in the world. There are SEVEN BILLION people in the world. You’re legit if you crack the top 2,000 in anything. Like we’ve said before, the PGA Tour’s slogan should really be: "These guys are ALL good." As Ernst proved

By Brendan Mohler

President Obama took politics to the golf course yesterday, playing an 18-hole round with Republican senators Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.) along with Democratic senator Mark Udall (Colo.), according to USA TODAY. The foursome played the 6,759-yard South Course at And

By Alex Myers

When Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn first went public with their relationship, the 14-time major champion said, "We want to continue our relationship privately, as an ordinary couple." Apparently, he meant to say, "an ordinary celebrity couple."

By John Strege

Vijay Singh has been cleared of charges that he violated the PGA Tour’s anti-doping policy after the World Anti-Doping Agency declared recently that it no longer considered the use of deer antler spray prohibited unless a drug t

Official statement by the PGA Tour:

The PGA TOUR Anti-Doping Program, which has been in effect since July 2008, closely follows the International Anti-Doping Standard set forth by the World Anti-Doping Agency ("WADA") particularly as it relates to the interpretation and application of the List of Prohibited Substances and Methods.

In a Jan. 28, 2013 article that appeared on SI.com, Vijay Singh was quoted as admitting to his use of a deer antler spray supplement. Subsequently

By Brendan Mohler

During a recent drive to the golf course, golf fanatic Samuel L. Jackson was accosted by a TMZ crew and asked who the best celebrity golfer is. To those who don’t follow golf tournaments for a living, his answer may come as a surprise. But for us in the Golf Digest/Golf World Office, Jackson hit the nail right on the head with his res

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we are really impressed by Jason Collins. It takes a lot of guts to do what he did. A finely-tuned professional athlete coming out and admitting he’s a bad golfer? Well done. Ohhh, that wasn’t the big anno

By John Strege

Former PGA Tour and Champions Tour player Al Geiberger has a tax issue, but he said that’s not the reason he auctioned off much of his memorabilia, including the clubs with which he recorded the first 59 in PGA Tour history.

When Jack Nicklaus won the 1986 Masters at age 46, we know it was for his sixth green jacket. What we don’t know -- or at least can’t seem to agree upon -- is whether the win was Nicklaus’ 18th or 20th in a major championship.

The gray area has to do with whether you count Nicklaus’ two wins in the U.S. Amateur as a major, an argument that has even greater relevance these days since Tiger Woods has three U.S. Am wins of his own (putting his career major total at either 14 or 17 depen

By Alex Myers

Augusta National Golf Club waited until it was ready to have its first female members. Apparently, it will be up to the three all-male clubs in the British Open’s rota of courses to do the same.

At a Tuesday press conference, the R&A’s chief executive, Peter Dawson, made it clear that the governing body of golf for most of the world  

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re wondering what has happened to American golf? After opening 2013 with 14 straight victories, a U.S. player hasn’t won THREE weeks in a row. C’mon, guys, that’s almost an entire month! We already stink at tennis; we can’t lose our grip on the other main country club sport! At least, the red, white and blue contingent will have a chance to get back on t

By Derek Evers

More than a week has passed. The furor has died down. Everyone within golf’s inner circle is breathing a sigh of relief that Tiger Woods didn’t win the Masters. And thanks to a dramatic finish by a guy with movie star good looks, there were plenty of feel-good storylines to bury the lede on Woods’ drop fiasco at the Masters. But as great as Adam Scott’s sudden death playoff victory over Ange

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re convinced Adam Scott might grow the game of golf more than anyone since Arnold Palmer. For non-golfy women around the country casually tuning into the end of the tournament -- or perhaps looking for "60 Minutes" -- watching the end of the Masters was a real eye-opener (Even  

By Tim Rosaforte

From the April 15 edition of Golf World Monday:

By Ron Sirak

AUGUSTA, GA. -- This is where it all started for Tiger Woods, the place where he first took over the No. 1 spot in the golf world, winning the 1997 Masters by a record 12 strokes at the age of 21.

A man of color wearing the champion’s green jacket a mere half-dozen years after Augusta National GC first opened its doors to a non-white member made Woods more than a golfer and more than a sports

"He was standing an inch from me saying, ’Do this,’ " Couples said. "I got better fast."

By John Strege

News unfolds at a languid pace in golf, but a languid pace was the news in the second round of the Masters, introducing a note of controversy that provided a seamless segue from the end of the Golf Channel’s "Live from the Masters" show to the beginning of ESPN’s telecast.

Tianlang Guan, the Chinese teenager who earned widespread admiration for his poise and ability a day befor

By Bill Fields

From the April 12 edition of Golf World Daily:

Fred Couples doesn’t have gray hair when he comes to Augusta National GC. He doesn’t have a putting stroke that can flinch. He doesn’t have a lower back that spasms more than the financial markets.

By John Strege

All eyes will be on Tiger Woods on Thursday...or would be were the Augusta National Golf Club not so stubbornly resistant to change.

So Tiger Woods will play the bulk of the first round of the Masters out of view of audiences with access via television or computer. Woods tees off at 10:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday. Coverage of the Masters on ESPN begins at 3 p.m., or four hours, 15 minutes a

By Ryan Herrington

AUGUSTA, GA. -- There were no fireworks when Augusta National’s Billy Payne met with the media Wednesday morning for the yearly chairman’s press conference. With last August’s announcement that Condi Rice and Darla Moore had become the club’s first female members, the issue that annually fostered the most contentiousness had been defused.

By Ryan Herrington

AUGUSTA, GA. -- What were you doing during Masters week when you were in the eighth grade? Let us answer this for you: You were certainly not playing in the world’s biggest golf tournament.

Given he’s all of 14 years old, China’s Tianlang Guan has looked surprisingly calm as he’s made his way around Augusta National GC the past few days in preparation for becoming the youngest competitor eve

By John Huggan

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- As a group, they’ve achieved almost everything else in this century. Five Ryder Cup wins over the Americans. Eight major championship victories. And countless tournament triumphs across the globe. But so far in this century, no European golfer has donned a green jacket.

It’s an oddity, as even a glance at the Official World Golf Ranking over the past 12 and-a-bit years shows only too

By Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. - On Sunday, as he and his wife, Angie, were walking up the 18th hole completing a casual round at Augusta National Golf Club, Bubba Watson noticed a small group congregating near the location of his renowned recovery shot from the trees right of the 10th fairway, the shot that won him the Masters.

 

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re starting to question Jim Nantz’s whole "Hello, friends" routine. After all, the guy will go straight from covering one of the most exciting Final Fours ever to working golf’s most-anticipated event. Considering how jealous we all are, wouldn’t "Hello

By Dave Shedloski

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He arrived here in his custom motor home late Saturday night and parked in his now customary spot in front of the entrance to Hooters restaurant a little more than a mile away from Augusta National Golf Club.

 

By Stephen Hennessey

As the owner of the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazzard, Bubba Watson already rides with swagger.

It’s just fitting that Watson’s apparel company, Oakley, has provided a hovercraft to add to the reigning Masters champion’s garage of impressive stuff,

By Alex Myers

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we treat every week with the same excitement that "Opening Day" gets in baseball. And now, the Masters is here! Woo! Wait, that’s next week? Dagger. OK, OK, we said we treat every week like it’s special so we’ll stick to our promise. Here’s what has us buzzing at the moment.

By Alex Myers

A somewhat unfortunate picture of a sad-looking Jason Dufner visting a youth center in Dallas surfaced today on Deadspin. The article reports that Dufner was in town as part of media day for the Byron Nelson Championship, an event in which Dufner is the defending champion.

By Alex Myers

Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer have combined for 21 majors in their illustrious careers. Apparently, the two of them make quite a tag team in a brawl as well.

In a new commercial for Woods’ video game, EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’14, Woods and Palmer are confronted by a gang looking to steal their expansive trophy collection. Let’s just say things do not go well for the gang.

Ch

By Alex Myers

It’s all happening this weekend at Bay Hill.

An epic storm caused play to be suspended -- and the media to be evacuated from the press center -- during Sunday’s final round, but before that, three of the oddest shots you’ll ever see happened.

First, Nicholas T