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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: back9press.com/pages/beall

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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LIV Golf informed most of its employees on Wednesday that their employment will be terminated next week
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Ryan Ballengee @ryan.thegolfnewsnet.com · 25/08/2026
This is probably the most comprehensive look back on LIV and the last 5 years that I've read. Very well done.
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GS @fundhuman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is so good. I recommend this to any golf or sports fan.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the last days of LIV Golf and what the hell any of it was for www.golfdigest.com/story/last-d...
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The last days of LIV Golf and what the hell any of it was for
Michael La Sasso’s final putt had barely dropped before the champagne bottles opened, even if it was almost certainly the last time anyone could spray champagne and pretend the league had a future worth toasting.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Jordan Spieth is a unique golfer.” “That's it? As a golf fan, that’s the breadth of your opinion of Jordan Spieth?”
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sources tell Golf Digest that reports about Jon Rahm returning to the PGA Tour are inaccurate. Tour already offered a reprieve and he (and DeChambeau and Smith) declined. Besides, Koepka wanted to return; Rahm + others asking only because LIV’s in trouble. All smoke is coming from Rahm's camp
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Brian Rolapp spent 20 years building the modern NFL. He left for a sport unkind to outsiders, one that was at war with itself. Our behind-the-scenes profile on the man trying to save professional golf www.golfdigest.com/story/brian-...
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The Reconstructionist: How PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp is putting golf back together
From the Civil War to football, the man putting golf back together thinks history rhymes.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On the surreal scene at Birkdale after Bryson DeChambeau’s penalty www.golfdigest.com/story/britis...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Open keeps growing. But is it coming at the price of tradition? www.golfdigest.com/story/britis...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The PGA Tour just reinvented itself. It was long overdue www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
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The PGA Tour just reinvented itself. It was long overdue
After five years of asking where it was going, the PGA Tour can see where it's heading
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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U.S. Open 2026: They wanted him to fall. He’s the last man standing. On Wyndham Clark’s antihero win at Shinnecock
U.S. Open 2026: They wanted him to fall. He’s the last man standing. On Wyndham Clark’s antihero win at Shinnecock from GolfDigest.com
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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...
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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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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. 

Magic!

Goodnight.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Golf needed a new hero. It has one in Aaron Rai www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-ch...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Gary Woodland didn't beat PTSD. He just refused to let it win www.golfdigest.com/story/gary-w...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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-...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
On Scottie Scheffler pounding balls in the rain www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Brian Rolapp has a plan for the PGA Tour. He just needs everyone to get out of his way www.golfdigest.com/story/player...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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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Andy Garman @andygarman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They rescued D.C.'s munys. Then Trump took over. Inside the fight between the president and public golf www.golfdigest.com/story/presid...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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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Brendan Quinn @bfquinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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...
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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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
feels like pro golf has turned into a blizzard where everyone is toiling with a shovel while Scheffler is waving behind a snowplow
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Free press isn’t abstract. Shoutout to the journalists in the field and the people filming on their phones for documenting and defending truth
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Cignetti just won a natty and still looks like he’s been told the greens were aerated this morning
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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.
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Is this the end of the PGA Tour's Hawaiian swing? On the uncertain future of Kapalua www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What the American Ryder Cup team can learn from USA Basketball www.golfdigest.com/story/what-t...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Rory McIlroy’s future could be very different than you think www.golfdigest.com/story/rory-m...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Hunting for paychecks despite a trophy-case shortage while incinerating reputation in the process? Lane Kiffin, do I have a golf league for you ...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Giving thanks for bad golf www.golfdigest.com/story/thanks...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
How real is the possibility of a 20-event PGA Tour season? www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The comedy world’s Saudi backlash is a reminder for Brian Rolapp and the PGA Tour www.golfdigest.com/story/brian-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The comedy world’s Saudi backlash is a reminder for Brian Rolapp and the PGA Tour www.golfdigest.com/story/brian-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage—and came out the other side a deserving winner www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage—and came out the other side a deserving winner www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Walking with Rory McIlroy amid the shower of F-bombs and abuse as Bethpage Ryder Cup crowd crosses a line www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
America’s secret weapon didn’t show up to the Ryder Cup; it brings me no joy to report that European Ryder Cups fans simply do it better www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...
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Joel Beall @joelmbeall.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This Ryder Cup has forgotten what the Ryder Cup is about www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...
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