Jerry Tarde

Editor-in-Chief Jerry Tarde responds to criticism of his column about the USGA handicapping system.

The PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) program helps rehab and assimilate military veterans back into society.

Former USGA president Jim Hand turns 100

Editor’s Letter: The Best Golf Of Your Life

Editor’s Letter: A Pocketful of Miracles

Editor’s Letter: To Absent Friends

What unites the big three of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson?

‘The Phantom of the Open’ won Golf Digest’s editor-in-chief over, and here’s why.

‘It’s no accident Father’s Day always falls on U.S. Open Sunday.’

In my garage at home is a red canvas, cylindrical shag bag with a protruding aluminum tube that retrieves golf balls without back strain. It’s my longest serving piece of golf equipment in continuous use. The Original Shag Bag was invented by Clifford Hurd and Ian McDonald in 1948, and the same company, Madewell Products, has manufactured them in the United States ever since. By the early 1970s when I took up the game, owning one was a rite of passage, and every self-respecting golfer had a shag…