Why this week's Crown Australian Open host and its Composite Course is as perfect as golf architecture gets.

Tiger Woods says he recently began chipping and putting as he continues his "slow" recovery from disk replacement surgery back in early October.

Justin Thomas offered insight into the slow-green controversy at the Ryder Cup, revealing the U.S. team "fought with" the Bethpage greens crew.

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Not every golf upgrade requires a major purchase. In fact, some of the most impactful upgrades you can make are less than $100. These upgrades may help you look better, feel better or simply have more fun on the course.

Below is a full guide to the best under-$100 upgrades, broken out by category so you can quickly find where your game needs a boost.

Performance upgrades (Play better, score lower)

The Compression Ball

If you want a noticeable improvement in your swing fundamentals without adding anything complicated, the Compression Ball is one of the simplest tools on the market. It fits between your forearms to help you feel a connection through the takeaway, backswing and into impact. I sometimes use this to warm up before a round and it’s effective.

SuperStroke Putter Grips

SuperStroke had a big year on the PGA Tour. The oversized, stable-feeling profile minimizes excessive wrist action and helps you deliver the putter face more consistently. Refreshing your putter grip, especially with something tour-proven, is one of the fastest under-$100 upgrades you can make to improve your putting stability.

A golf ball that matches your game

If you want an upgrade that affects every single shot, this is it. Using a premium urethane ball, one matched to your speed and launch needs, gives you better distance control, more consistent iron flights and the greenside spin you need to save shots.

November on YouTube golf belonged to the Internet Invitational. The entire Bob Does Sports x Fore Play series from the chaotic draft to the final-day money matches dominated golfers’ watch time. Aside from that, Bryson and Grant made their typical appearance in the top 10.

1. 48 Golfers Compete For One Million Dollars! | Internet Invitational Episode 1

Channel: Bob Does Sports, Fore Play Golf, Internet Invitational
Views: 6.6 million

The Internet Invitational dominated November, pulling together 48 of the biggest names in YouTube golf for a $1-million creator tournament at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri. Before the competition begins, the Barstool crew opens with an emotional tribute to their late friend and colleague Cody “Beef” B., dedicating the entire series to him. The result is one of the most ambitious creator-golf productions ever released and viewers turned out in massive numbers to watch it unfold.

2. Can They Make The Greatest Comeback In YouTube Golf History? | Internet Invitational Episode 2

Channel: Bob Does Sports, Fore Play Golf, Internet Invitational
Views: 4.9 million

It’s no surprise that Part Two of the Internet Invitational was the second most-watched golf video of the month, carrying the same momentum and curiosity that made the opening episode explode. Viewers came back in huge numbers to see how the chaos unfolded next.

Christmas time is here and so is our top mallet of 2025: the Wilson Infinite Buckingham. This thing absolutely cannot stay on shelves and it’s understandable why. Flat out, this is an awesome putter at an awesome price. $129.99 for a premium looking and feeling putter? Yes, please.

This is likely your last chance at getting one at retail price for the holiday and likely your last chance of getting one for the holiday, period. If you’ve been wanting one or are shopping for someone who you know has been wanting one, stop what you’re doing and buy it.

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I’ll level with you. I had never heard of the Alma Mater shoe brand before this nice brown box landed on my doorstep. Wanting to know what I was getting into, I put the unopened box aside and sparked up the Google machine to find out just what these shoes were all about.

Apparently, Alma Mater has a reputation for premium handcrafted luxury sneakers with a youthful, hipster vibe.

Being neither youthful nor a hipster, it’s no wonder I’d never heard of them.

Didn’t stop me from opening the box, though. And I’m glad I did. These new golf shoes from Alma Mater aren’t cheap but if you’re a walking golfer (and even if you’re not), they’re definitely worthy of your attention.

Who is Alma Mater and why a golf shoe?

Alma Mater was established in Southern California in 2017. Co-founders Eric Sarin and Beatriz Gomez Martinez were footwear industry veterans. Sarin designed shoes for adidas, PUMA and Skechers, while Gomez Martinez spent 20 years in operations at adidas and The Walking Company. The rest of Alma Mater’s team came from footwear companies such as K-Swiss, Reebok, Fila and Lodger.

It’s been a year and a half since PXG rolled out its Black Ops drivers—well within conventional replacement windows, which is to say the company isn’t rushing anything. But what happened over the last 18 months or so wasn’t conventional at all. The team was on a mission to crack a fundamental problem: When you’re already bumping up against the limits of what the USGA allows, where do you find more speed?

The answer, it turns out, wasn’t about making the face thinner or the body lighter. It was about timing: understanding how the club and ball vibrate together in that split-second collision and synchronizing them in ways nobody else was really talking about.

\The result is Lightning, a new metalwoods family with new model names. PXG’s signature weighting, carbon construction and custom-fit philosophy remain intact. But, this time, despite what the product name suggests, the story isn’t so much about flash as it is about physics—what really happens within the confines of the clubhead in that split-second when face meets ball.

Fair warning: We’re about to get into some serious nerd shit. Maybe it’s not as sexy as strapping yourself to a hog and rolling around in the mud (not sure that’s actually sexy), but sometimes telling a meaningful tech story is enough. At least it should be.

The Lightning concept

For all the bluster of the early days of PXG, behind the scenes the R&D team has always been pretty much no nonsense. The company provides as much, if not more, data than anyone (with the disclaimer that most comes from internal testing). More often than not, core technologies have been rooted in physics, not fantasy, and that’s no different this time around.

It’s pretty much the nature of the business that fairway woods and hybrids play second fiddle to the larger and infinitely more interesting driver. The fact of the matter is that while golfers aren’t afraid to replace drivers with near alarming regularity, fairway woods and hybrids tend to stick in the bag longer … a lot longer.

Frankly, I’m hard-pressed to find any issue with that. Higher-lofted options notwithstanding, for many golfers, fairway woods are the most difficult clubs in the bag to hit. As for hybrids? Well, they’ve fallen out of favor in recent years (in no small part to the growing popularity of 7- and 9-wood offerings). Plenty of you say that although you like the idea of hybrids, they go nowhere but left when you hit them. Others simply prefer traditional long irons, utility clubs and basically anything else to a hybrid.

All of this is a roundabout way of saying that if you already have a fairway wood or hybrid that works for you, you’re well within your right mind to demand a higher level of proof that the latest new thing is better than what you have.

Said another way: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Still, there isn’t a bona-fide golf brand that’s going to skip an annual or biannual replacement cycle for fairway woods and hybrids. Even if you or I don’t need (or want) a new one. Somebody does (probably).

The reborn design at Great Dunes is one of just three public-access layouts designed by three-time U.S. Amateur champion Walter Travis.

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On a recent episode of the Destination Golf podcast, architect Gil Hanse described the unique pressure of working at North Berwick.

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Six-time major champion Nick Faldo explained why he thinks it will be "tough" for Rory McIlroy to win another major title.

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Laurie Canter, who finished No. 7 on the European tour, has turned down his PGA Tour card to instead join the Majestiks in LIV Golf for the 2026 season.

Here is the list of the five most affordable courses in GOLF’s Top 100 in the World ranking. Among the courses is Bethpage Black.

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Golf photography blends sports action with landscape artistry. A great golf photograph captures the intensity of the game, the precision of the swing, and the beauty of the course.

Essential Gear and Preparation

Success in golf photography often starts with the right equipment and planning.

Here are the complete odds for the 2025 Hero World Challenge, the event hosted by 15-time major champion Tiger Woods.

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Not all courses are created equal. Some, like the toughest tests on GOLF's all-new World Top 100, are especially stout in their demands.

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The prelude to Launch Season is officially upon us, as eight new drivers have hit the USGA Conforming List. It looks like both Callaway and COBRA will be offering four distinct driver models come January, with each model following in the footsteps of their 2025 counterparts.

We only have rudimentary info from the USGA listing, as well as imagery of the sole only. Additionally, we can at best infer only a few things from the listings, and what we think it all means.

With that, let’s take a peak.

A Quantum leap for Callaway?

We’re guessing that’s the notion Callaway is going for with the new Quantum line. We won’t know for sure if the Quantum drivers are, in fact, a quantum leap from the Elyte, but we do know the four new offerings aren’t quite the same.

The Quantum TD appears to the follow-up to MyGolfSpy’s 2025 Best Driver, the Elyte Triple Diamond. Of particular interest is a movable weight port in the back, with labels for Fade and Neutral.

We covered Heathlander’s Golf Shoe earlier this fall, and it quickly earned praise among our editors for its comfort, build, waterproofing, and traction. If you’re a walker or rider, these shoes definitely deserve a look and/or place in your golfing wardrobe. I’m going to give it to you straight, if they’re John Barba approved, you know you’ve got a winner.

For Black Friday, Heathlander has it marked down 20%, bringing the price from $205 to $164. If you walk most of your rounds or you’re shopping for someone who does, this is an easy buy. Shoot, even if you ride, this is a great deal because Heathlander’s Golf Shoe looks great, feels great, and comes with some really nice accessories. This is a premium shoe, and at this price, do yourself a favor and buy a pair for a loved one and for yourself.

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With only four models, one could consider Evnroll’s new ORIGIN putter line as a small release. Don’t let the number of models fool you. This new line of Evnroll ORIGIN putters could have a big impact on your putting performance.

MyGolfSpy readers are well aware of just how good Evnroll’s putters perform. Evnroll putters, especially the ER2, have racked up numerous Most Wanted putter wins.

In doing so, Evnroll definitively demonstrated that their SweetFace grooves work as advertised, improving not only distance control but reducing dispersal.

In terms of assistive putter technologies, Evnroll’s milled grooves are the gold standard.

The strength of the SweetFace is what makes the ORIGIN release so interesting and significant. Although there are only four models, each model features Evnroll’s new SweetFace 2.0 grooves.