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Best of 2023: Our top 10 LIV Golf stories (with a healthy dose of Brandel Chamblee’s opinions)

The league’s import dipped a bit in 2023. But that doesn’t mean the circuit has fallen off the map altogether.

While stories about LIV Golf’s poaching of PGA Tour players produced many of the biggest digital traffic numbers for Golfweek in 2022, the league’s import dipped a bit in 2023. But that doesn’t mean the upstart circuit has fallen off the map altogether.

In fact, posts with LIV Golf produced the fifth-most buzz on our site, behind the PGA Tour, equipment, architecture and the Ryder Cup (in that order).

Unfortunately for league organizers, the focus is still primarily on player movement and opinions about the movement, and not on the on-course product as seen in the top 10 stories of the year below.

Once again, this list was created off of interaction totals with you, the Golfweek reader. We appreciate you.

Best of 2023: Our top 10 equipment stories (including irons, irons and more irons)

Under the watchful eye of our equipment guru David Dusek, this list has some of our top posts of the year.

The course is important. The swing is important. The outfit is important.

But the equipment? It’s what you geek out most on.

As the year comes to a close, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf.

Today we’re looking at equipment. Under the watchful eye of our gear guru David Dusek, this list has some of our top posts of the year in terms of your clicks.

Best of 2023: Our top 10 PGA Tour stories (including rants from James Hahn, Lanto Griffin)

It’s been another fascinating year following the PGA Tour.

It’s been another fascinating year following the PGA Tour, one complete with surprise moves, defections, internal strife, and of course, memorable victories.

And as part of taking our year-end inventory, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention — and sharing the findings with you.

For the final days of 2023, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf.

Here’s a look at the top 10 PGA Tour stories, as clicked on by you (we should note, this list doesn’t include photo galleries or money lists):

Best of 2023: Our top 10 LPGA golf stories (No. 1 is a Q&A with a prodigy turned analyst)

To close out the year, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention.

Over the final few days of 2023, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf.

Our esteemed LPGA senior writer Beth Ann Nichols covers the LPGA as well as anyone, following players across the globe to uncover the best stories the women’s game has to offer. And 2023 had so many of them, from Rose Zhang’s instant impact, Lilia Vu’s two major victories and a fascinating Solheim Cup.

To close out the year, we’ve been looking through the numbers and tallying up which stories drew your attention, and we’re now sharing the findings with you. Here’s what we’ve already counted down.

Best of 2023: Our top 10 instruction stories (including how to keep from blading your chips)

Our crack staff has been providing nuggets of golf instructional wisdom throughout the year.

People kept coming to golf in record numbers during 2023, as the pandemic and post-pandemic boom have allowed many who have never previously played the game to now share in the sheer frustration of not understanding why you can’t replicate something as seemingly simple as a golf swing.

But have no fear, our crack staff has been providing nuggets of golf instructional wisdom throughout the year, whether it’s World Long Drive competitor Averee Dovsek or 1996 U.S. Amateur runner-up and PGA Tour Live analyst Steve Scott.

As the year comes to a close, we’re offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf.

We’re leading things off with instruction, starting with the top 10 posts of the year, as clicked on by you, our readers:

The 10 best movies of 2023 (so far), including the Michael Jordan sneaker drama Air

There have been some outstanding movies to come out in theaters and on streaming this year.

We’re officially halfway done with 2023 in film, which means it’s time to tally up the 10 best movies of the year so far.

While it’s not quite yet time to do any rankings, we do have 10 films from this year that really stand head-and-shoulders above the rest of the year’s cinematic offerings.

While we certainly can’t claim to have seen every movie that’s come out this year, there have been plenty that have crossed our radar as we survey what’s hit movie theaters and streaming platforms so far.

There have been some incredible films to debut at festivals that you might not have gotten a chance to see yet, so we won’t include those here.

If you’re looking to check out some of the year’s best films, look no further. We’ve got you covered with some excellent recommendations of 2023 movies.

All of these films are available in theaters or at home, so you can see any of them as soon as you want.