It has been speculated that Woods could be the Ryder Cup captain for the 2025 matches at Bethpage Black or 2027 in Ireland. But Furyk sounded like any other golf fan who has a genuine curiosity about what Tiger might do.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler arrived this week at Augusta National Golf Club with his mind and his heart in two places but with his game in a very good place. He had to leave his wife Meredith at home in Dallas, where she is weeks away from giving birth to the couple’s first child. Read more…
The five-time champion finished with a 16-over 304 total, surpassing the 301 strokes he accumulated two years ago as his highest aggregate score in his 26 Masters appearances. Will there be another? That remains to be seen.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Collin Morikawa appears to have figured out the greens in his fifth visit to Augusta National Golf Club. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t fear them. Probably a smart idea. In pursuit of his first Masters title and the third leg of the career Grand Slam, Morikawa has improved incrementally each day and Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — What will the golf world do without Patrick Reed to kick around in a major championship? We might soon find out, depending on the outcome of Sunday’s final round in the Masters. Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, hasn’t missed a major since his debut at Augusta National Golf Club in 2014, a Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods had little time to ruminate on the disappointing completion of his opening round 73 in the 88th Masters Friday morning, facing a turnaround of 49 minutes before embarking on round 2 at 10:18 a.m. EDT. Unforced errors from the middle of the fairway at the 14th and 18th holes prevented Read more…
It’s usually a good idea to not judge the potential success of an endeavour by how it starts. Apollo 13 launched successfully on this date in 1970, and, well, that ride ended up getting kind of bumpy.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — In days long passed, Sam Snead would tell an off-color joke that would bring down the proceedings of the annual Champions Dinner. Tom Watson broke up the gathering of past champions Tuesday night with one line about the current state of the game. No joke. Watson asked Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The left wrist injury that first struck prior to last year’s PGA Championship continues to hamper 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth, including flare-ups twice in the last month prior to the Players and again a week ago Monday at the Valero Texas Open. “It’s an ECU [extensor carpi ulnaris] tendon issue that Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fred Couples refuses to go away. The Masters just means too much to him. And the lengths the 1992 champion will go to for another few tours of Augusta National Golf Club, the outright stubbornness, deserves respect. One of the most popular players in the annals of the Masters, Couples is preparing Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — There are 20 rookies in the field for this week’s 88th Masters Tournament, and if they’re feeling more than the usual amount of nervousness, it might help them to hear how shaky two-time champion Jose Maria Olazabal was during his debut in 1985. Olazabal, who earned an invitation by winning the ’84 Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Will Zalatoris remembers well the worst shot of his Masters career. It came last year, just moments before he was to tee off for his opening round. It was a 7-iron. The effects lingered for seven months. As Zalatoris was warming up that Thursday, he felt a jarring in his back. “I Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A year ago Ben Crenshaw fretted over how carefully he might have to choose his words as host of the Masters Club dinner. It marked the first year in which the annual Tuesday night affair would include a number of former winners who had joined the fledgling LIV Golf League. This year, Read more…
On a bright spring day in 2009, Trevor Immelman found himself hitting balls next to Tiger Woods on the practice range at Augusta National Golf Club. It was Tuesday, and Immelman, the Masters defending champion, had a big day ahead of him, but in that moment, he was just trying to loosen up before an Read more…
Slightly unsteady on his feet, not unusual for an 83-year-old man who has undergone a couple of back surgeries, Verne Lundquist admits he is a bit more fretful about climbing into his tower at the 16th hole at Augusta National Golf Club, his broadcast assignment at the Masters Tournament for CBS Sports since 2000. That Read more…
Since his epic back-nine collapse in 2011 that torpedoed what would have been a wire-to-wire victory, McIlroy hasn’t given himself many chances at the Masters.
The opening night for take two of TGL’s inaugural season has been set, with the new tech-infused team golf league slated for a prime-time debut on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
The lone player director on the PGA Tour’s policy board who truly represents the little guy used his temporary platform to remind anyone who would listen that the game is full of little guys who cherish signature moments as much or more than signature events.
“I feel this is a great break, and I want you to be here,” Peter Malnati said to PGA Tour rules official Steve Rintoul during a crucial moment in the closing stretch of his eventual victory in the Valspar Championship Sunday in Palm Harbor, Fla. Malnati had hit his approach through the green and into Read more…
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