Joel Beall
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Senior Writer, Golf Digest | email: joel.beall@wbd.com Connecticut via Ohio My debut book Playing Dirty on sale: https://back9press.com/pages/beall
On the surreal scene at Birkdale after Bryson DeChambeau’s penalty www.golfdigest.com/story/britis...
British Open 2026: The surreal scene at Birkdale after Bryson DeChambeau's penalty
After a controversial ruling, DeChambeau leaves observers in the dark.
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The Open keeps growing. But is it coming at the price of tradition? www.golfdigest.com/story/britis...
British Open 2026: The Open keeps growing. But is it coming at the price of tradition?
The R&A says revenue from the Open funds the majority of its grassroot initiatives, so increasing that helps the governing body overall. But is the Open itself losing its soul in the process?
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You’re going to hear a lot about Wyndham Clark today, much of it distilled to the Oakmont locker. But his story is deeper and more complicated than one incident. On golf's thorny relationship with Wyndham: www.golfdigest.com/story/us-ope...
U.S. Open 2026: The golf world doesn't know what to do with Wyndham Clark
Arugably no PGA Tour player in good standing conjures as much bad feeling among the golf populace as the man now holding the U.S. Open by the throat.
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Exclusive: Phil Mickelson accused of nonconsensual, inappropriate contact with a female employee at his home course. Following the allegation, he is no longer a member of the club. Our Golf Digest investigation: www.golfdigest.com/story/phil-m...
Exclusive: Phil Mickelson accused of inappropriate contact with female course employee, removed from club
Multiple sources confirmed to Golf Digest that Phil Mickelson is no longer a member at The Farms outside San Diego after a club employee accused him of inappropriate contact with her before a round of golf this spring
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Golf needed a new hero. It has one in Aaron Rai www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-ch...
PGA Championship 2026: Golf needed a new hero. It has one in Aaron Rai, your new major champ
Golf has a long history of coronating the expected. Familiar names, Familiar faces. But occasionally the sport surprises itself, and Sunday was one of those days when Aaron Rai walked away with his first major title.
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LIV Golf is dying. The damage is permanent. My piece on what 5 years of LIV actually cost the sport www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-go...
LIV Golf is dying. The damage is permanent
LIV Golf is on life support as Saudi Arabia pulls its funding and its boss has stepped down. But the damage it has done to golf is still being accounted for.
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This month's Golf Digest cover is Robert MacIntyre. Chatted with Bob near his home in Scotland on Ryder Cup brotherhood, shinty, turning down LIV, the difference between American and Scottish golf culture, and why he moved back home www.golfdigest.com/story/bob-ma...
Great Scot: Bob MacIntyre on moving home, Ryder Cup brotherhood, shinty and how to meet the moment
The two-time PGA Tour winner sat down with us at Taymouth Castle in Kenmore, Scotland.
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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...
Masters 2026: The Masters is appealing to a broader audience. Is it losing its identity in the process?
There is still nothing like The Masters. But as it chases expansion, does it risk diminishing the things that made it special in the first place?
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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...
Masters 2026: There's a legend about a writer sneaking onto Augusta National and making an albatross. The truth is richer
Investigating the urban legend that a media member was able to sneak onto Augusta National and make an albatross on the 15th hole reveals what really happened.
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Gary Woodland didn't beat PTSD. He just refused to let it win www.golfdigest.com/story/gary-w...
Gary Woodland didn't beat PTSD. He just refused to let it win
Gary Woodland won the Houston Open for his first win in seven years. That matters. Just not as much as what came before it.
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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-...
Tiger Woods is not OK
Tiger coverage has center around one persistent question for years: Can he play? It becomes incomplete without an honest answer to a prior question—Is this man OK?
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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
On Scottie Scheffler pounding balls in the rain www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
Players 2026: Why Scottie Scheffler was pounding balls on the range for hours in the rain
Scottie Scheffler was on the range hours after his round on Thursday at TPC Sawgrass hitting balls in the rain. The reason why is surprisingly simple.
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Brian Rolapp has a plan for the PGA Tour. He just needs everyone to get out of his way www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
Players 2026: Brian Rolapp has a plan. He just needs everyone to get out of his way
Brian Rolapp has a plan for the future of the PGA Tour. Now, he needs buy-in from a disparate group of constituents that don't always have the same vision
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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...
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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.
Joel Beall@joelmbeall.bsky.social · 5mo agoThey rescued D.C.'s munys. Then Trump took over. Inside the fight between the president and public golf www.golfdigest.com/story/presid...
They rescued D.C.'s munys. Then Trump took over. Inside the fight between the president and public golf www.golfdigest.com/story/presid...
They rescued D.C.'s munys. Then Trump took over. Inside the fight between the president and public golf
The National Links Trust spent five years reviving Washington, D.C.'s public golf courses. But the Trump administration had other plans. A look at the uncertain future of D.C. golf.
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The Problematic Thing created the Meaningful Thing. On Anthony Kim and LIV Golf's big win www.golfdigest.com/story/anthon...
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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...
Kokomo Murase wins women’s snowboard big air gold in astonishing Olympic final
Kokomo Murase added the Olympic title to the World Championship gold she won in 2025.
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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-...
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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
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...
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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...
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