The Spaniard ranked third in strokes gained/approach-the-green, picking up more than seven shots on the field while also leading the field in greens in regulation, missing just 12 greens over 72 holes.
For much of the round, it looked as though Peter Malnati had done enough to claim his second Sanderson Farms Championship. Sergio Garcia had other ideas…
One week after a second-place finish at the Irish Open, the man who wears two gloves to hit every full shot is now a two-time winner on the European Tour.
Happily, this week and next, when the BMW PGA Championship is held at Wentworth, also represents at least a brief return to what used to be normal on the European Tour. Financially anyway.
Despite parts of Victorian golf being shuttered for extended periods of 2020, year-to-date rounds played nationally are down only 1 per cent by the end of August.
Tickets for the Bermuda Championship went on sale to the general public on Monday, and the daily allowance will be determined by the island’s public-gathering regulations.
For the first time since the WGC–Bridgestone Invitational in August 2011, Garcia found himself outside the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking, sitting at 51st.
Molonai Hola claims he had an arrangement with Finau’s family to pay expenses for Tony and his brother Gipper for several years with the understanding that Hola would eventually be compensated.
Hudson Swafford hadn’t won since the 2017 CareerBuilder Challenge, but captured his second title using eight of the same clubs he carried during his first PGA Tour victory.
The ultimate legacy of his astonishing win at Winged Foot – a course that was supposed to be the antithesis to and kryptonite for the DeChambeau Style – is that we can no longer dismiss him as a pretentious pseudoscientist.
The USGA overnight announced that Davis is stepping down as its chief executive officer, effective at the end of 2021, to embark on a career in golf course design and construction.
Lee, 27, made 22 starts on the PGA Tour last season and finished 45th in the FedEx Cup. He is not in this week’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship field.
Bryson DeChambeau bullied both Winged Foot and his competition in winning the 120nd US Open by six shots. The victory was the culmination of a full-body transformation and a pivotal moment in the distance debate. We’re discussing all that and much more in our 18 Parting Thoughts from Winged Foot.
The praise for Bryson DeChambeau flowed freely in the wake of his dominant six-stroke US Open victory at Winged Foot, supporters and critics alike recognising his unorthodox methods resulted in his title.