The marketing claims around the first Grass League event held last week at the Phoenix-area night golf course, Glass Clippings Rolling Hills, were bold. It was to be high stakes par-3 golf under the lights, where amateurs would compete for a $100,000 purse (yes, amateurs. More on that later). The tournament’s organizers, who leased and Read more…
Frankie Capan III became the latest Korn Ferry Tour pro to fire a sub-60 round this year during Thursday’s opening round of the Veritex Bank Championship. Perhaps even more impressive was the fact he didn’t even realize he had shot 58. That’s right, Capan had to be informed about making KFT history. And he found Read more…
The 2000 PGA Tour season was Tiger Woods’ best and one of the greatest seasons any tour player has ever had. That year he won three consecutive major championships—the U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship—by a combined 24 shots. He had nine total wins in 2000, and he was named the PGA Tour Player Read more…
LONDON — No one said it was going to be easy. And less than a month into his tenure as just the fifth Chief Executive in the European/DP World Tour’s more than 50 years of existence, Guy Kinnings isn’t having to look too far for problems that need solving. Predictably, one in particular is dominating Read more…
The boys at Ripper GC took time out during an actioned-packed week at LIV Golf Adelaide to settle a longstanding debate: which Aussie biscuit reigns supreme?
Cameron Smith and his all-Australian Ripper GC team were were treated like touring rockstars by the 35,000-strong crowds on day one of LIV Golf Adelaide, but it was qualifying school graduate Jinichiro Kozuma who upstaged the home favourites with a scintillating round.
The LIV Golf League has reached the sixth event on its 14-event schedule, and after two weeks off, this one has historically been the rowdiest on the rotation. Yes, the tour is Down Under, in golf-crazed Australia, returning to the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide. The overall purse is its usual $20 million and the Read more…
Ohoopee Match Club is in rare air among modern courses. Only five new designs have debuted higher on our America’s 100 Greatest Courses ranking over the past 30 years, putting the Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner design in the same conversation as some of the highest-ranking courses of the modern era, such as Sand Hills Read more…
Every golfer has their go-to swing thoughts. They are the feelings that make a complex game simpler, and help a series of technical motions feel more natural. The goal for our new Swing Thought Finder was to ask the best golfers on the planet to reveal the feels they rely on in the heat of Read more…
In case you didn’t hear, Rickie Fowler made a hole-in-one at one of the world’s most famous golf courses, Pine Valley, on Wednesday. Thanks to a variety of sources, we learned the ace came on the downhill par-3 third, that Fowler used a 7-iron on the 182-yard shot, and that he was playing with Justin Read more…
Home and away tournaments held at golf courses designed and owned by players. Events under lights in destinations like Dubai and more exotic overseas locations. These are just a few of the ideas LIV officials and players are considering as it looks to reproduce its successful Australian event across the globe.