Joel Beall

Joel Beall

@joelmbeall.bsky.social

Senior Writer, Golf Digest | email: joel.beall@wbd.com Connecticut via Ohio My debut book Playing Dirty on sale: https://back9press.com/pages/beall

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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.

On Scottie Scheffler pounding balls in the rain 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

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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6 days ago

If you read the story you’d realize it’s not my opinion but merely informing readers what’s happening behind the scenes

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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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2 weeks ago

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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2 weeks ago
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.

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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3 weeks ago

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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1 month ago
Preview
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.

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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1 month ago

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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1 month ago

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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1 month ago

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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1 month ago
fred shuttlesworth looking over the wreckage of his bombed house

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

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1 month ago

Cignetti just won a natty and still looks like he’s been told the greens were aerated this morning

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1 month ago

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

What the American Ryder Cup team can learn from USA Basketball www.golfdigest.com/story/what-t...

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2 months ago

Rory McIlroy’s future could be very different than you think www.golfdigest.com/story/rory-m...

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3 months ago

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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3 months ago

Giving thanks for bad golf www.golfdigest.com/story/thanks...

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3 months ago

How real is the possibility of a 20-event PGA Tour season? www.golfdigest.com/story/pga-to...

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5 months ago

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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5 months ago

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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5 months ago

Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage—and came out the other side a deserving winner www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...

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5 months ago

Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage—and came out the other side a deserving winner www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...

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5 months ago

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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5 months ago

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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5 months ago

This Ryder Cup has forgotten what the Ryder Cup is about www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...

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5 months ago

On the most popular dude in golf being Public Enemy No. 1 at the Ryder Cup www.golfdigest.com/story/ryder-...

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