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Golf Magazine is the number one source for golf instruction, equipment and travel, including: exclusive instruction from our Top 100 Teachers in America, introspective interviews with the game’s rising stars and old masters, and short-game tips from guru David Pelz. Plus, you’ll get the latest in gear, including ClubTest equipment reviews, and private lessons, tips personalized for your game.

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Better Bring Your A Game • Our 8AM family of companies provides endless opportunities to see, play and experience the very best the game has to offer

Up Close with Dylan Dethier J.J. Spaun • Seven top 10s, a near miss at the Players, fiery play at Bethpage and a U.S. Open win. At 35, the gritty late bloomer had something to prove. And he did it in 2025.

ON THE NUMBERS • There's data behind every swing. We crunch it so you don't have to.

Short Game Chef Conquering Long Bunker Shots

Worth a Shot Get Face-to-Face • This simple finish position check makes it easy to hit high, soft-landing pitches and chips

Access Sportin’ Life • Think San Francisco's Olympic Club is merely a golf paradise? Its City Clubhouse tells a different story.

Ask The Rules Guy Do any rules govern playing music on the course? It seems to me it shouldn't be allowed, with its potential to distract or assist players. Do I have a case?

Stuff Golfers Should Know Numbers Game • Your wedges are essential tools for scoring and recovery. Here's how you should be thinking about them.

LAB REPORT • If there's one company that's disrupting what players think of putters, it's L.A.B. Golf. Here's why it's finding favor with pros and ams alike, and also how it's making the rest of the putting industry stand up and take notice.

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TOP 100 COURSES in the WORLD 2025 - 2026 • To get the clearest picture of our ranking of the planet's most storied and sought-after golf courses, it helps to take the long view, with context only time provides. Change comes slowly. But who wouldn't want to dream about the game's greatest playgrounds for a lifetime?

Have you played PEVERO?

From PEAK TO PEAK • Thinking of conquering a few courses? Prepare for breathtaking experiences.

WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN • Their partnership is somewhat unexpected. Gil Hanse is a fairway-smooth-talking design polymath and Grateful Dead nomad from rural New York. Jim Wagner is a Philly-tough shouter and former course superintendent who likes to keep his boots on the ground. But their jam—the stunning courses they make together—just keeps rocking the Top 100.

So YOU WANT TO BUILD A GOLF COURSE • So many things in life seem easy to the uninitiated. Juggling. Unicycling. Giving a toast. Playing golf. And, yes, to some golfers even, building a golf course. A nice piece of land with pretty views, a bulldozer, 18 flags—what's so complicated? World Top 100 here we come! Thankfully, your accountant, spouse, employer and so on will quash such Keiser-esque visions, because creating any course, never mind a great one, is hugely complex and fraught with danger—not unlike juggling chain saws on a unicycle while giving a toast. A world-class course can easily run into the tens of millions of dollars. Here's a quick primer on the process.

TOM DOAK'S New OLD PETTY • If the Old Petty logo is any indication, the people behind the Cabot Collection are bullish (okay, Highland cow-ish) on the newest entry to its remarkable portfolio of golf courses. The Doak design is kin to Top 100 fixture Castle Stuart.

WISE GUYS • When three elite squads of senior-tour sticks square up at the second Skechers World Champions Cup,...