After insulting the Saudi Government and openly admitting he was using the now named LIV Golf Invitational Series as leverage against the PGA Tour’s “obnoxious greed”, you might have thought Phil Mickelson would be persona non grata to the breakaway league.
Golf’s ruling bodies continued their stated intention to curtail driving distance with an announcement Thursday that if adopted as an equipment rule by the R&A and USGA very likely would make nearly every current golf ball played on tour nonconforming.
In a matter of weeks, a full raucous gallery will flood the confines of Augusta National for the first time since 2019, and from the looks of things, the hallowed ground is more than ready for its return. Behold:
If fortune favours the bold, then Cameron Smith deserves his Players Championship win after the tee shot he hit on the scariest hole at TPC Sawgrass – the island-green 17th.
Cameron Smith is off to quite the start in 2022. He took the first event of the year at the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions, then fashioned a wild final-round 66 to win the Players Championship.
If Netflix was hoping for drama in the upcoming PGA Tour docuseries, the streaming service got all of it and then some from the group of Daniel Berger, Viktor Hovland and Joel Dahmen in the 16th fairway on Monday at TPC Sawgrass.
Nelly Korda, the No.2 ranked golfer in the Rolex Women’s Rankings, announced on Sunday that she has been diagnosed with a blood clot and is recuperating at home in Florida.
Once a Hunter product tipped to challenge the likes of Jan Stephenson and Jack Newton as one of the region’s greatest ever golfers, Flanagan returns for the TPS Hunter Valley at Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club facing his own golf mortality.
Keelan, who was in a practice round group with 2019 Open Champion Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton, grabbed Hatton’s 8-iron and turned it upside down to hit it lefty.
Shane Warne was many things. A once-in-a-generation cricketer. A loving father. A connoisseur of baked beans. An extremely passionate and talented golfer. And a very underrated comedian, at least if this video is anything to go by.
For all the praise lavished on Tiger Woods, spoken and written, tweeted and typed, Thursday afternoon (AEDT) marked a first: a gathering dedicated solely to appreciating his immeasurable impact on golf.
Sawgrass doesn’t just roll out of bed and look like that, however. There’s a lot of grooming involved, and this lovely bit of escapism helps to shine some light on that process.
The Players Championship boasts the best field in golf, but the player who dominated commissioner Jay Monahan’s press conference Wednesday (AEDT) is one who isn’t here.
Thanks to a pair of appearances in the PNC Championship, Tiger Woods’ son Charlie has become an overnight star. But it will be Tiger’s other child, older daughter Sam, who will take centre stage this week.
A tee shot marginally off-line provided Jarryd Felton with the slice of good fortune to win TPS Sydney in a playoff after rain forced the tournament to be reduced to 54 holes on Sunday.