Jordan Spieth got off to an absolutely electric start to the Players Championship on Thursday. Of course, most golf fans would just characterize that as a normal start for the three-time major champ. RELATED: The new (but familiar) obstacle that could wreak havoc this week Starting his tournament on the back nine, Spieth birdied No. Read more…
Two days after losing to Russell Henley in heartbreaking fashion at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Collin Morikawa was finally ready to talk about it. “I fully am aware of how it played out,” the two-time major champ said on Tuesday at TPC Sawgrass ahead of the Players Championship. “But I just have to move on Read more…
As we saw at the recent Cognizant Classic, Joe Highsmith can close out a golf tournament. Turns out, he also knows his PGA Tour history. Well, recent PGA Tour history, at least. On Wednesday, Highsmith received a pair of Tiffany cufflinks for qualifying to play in his first Players Championship. And he got the fancy Read more…
A new tee was designed around the placement of the new tree and there’s plenty of room for tee shots to fly underneath, but PGA Tour rules officials “want the players to think about it”.
A year ago, Johnson Wagner’s second career truly took off at TPC Sawgrass by taking some golf balls and . . . throwing them. In case you don’t remember, Wagner began his journey as a golf recreation artist by trying to mimic the bounce of Rory McIlroy’s tee shot into a water hazard on No. Read more…
Australia’s Karl Vilips took home his first PGA Tour trophy and a winner’s cheque for more than a million (Aussie) dollars yesterday. But he may have smiled even more getting something more unexpected: Tiger Woods’ digits.
Ask 100 golf fans for their opinion on the third season of Netflix’s “Full Swing” and you’ll likely get a wide range of answers. But good luck finding someone who didn’t enjoy Neal Shipley’s appearance in the show. Shipley’s memorable Masters debut in which he claimed low amateur honors (and managed to go viral) is Read more…
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston’s latest injury setback could cause him to miss the entire DP World Tour season. And the 36-year-old Englishman is particularly unhappy about it—because the situation probably could have been avoided. Johnston, the fan favorite who rose to fame during the 2016 Open Championship, has faced a slew of injuries and mental health Read more…
A year after Augusta National asked Jason Day to remove his ‘busy’ sweater vest during the second round of the Masters, the 13-time PGA Tour winner says he will “have” to get advanced approval for his planned outfits this month. And he doesn’t sound too optimistic about that happening. If TLC is looking for a Read more…
An English golf course has been put up for sale as part of a large-scale fraud case ruling. Mill Ride Golf Club, a Donald Steele design that opened in 1990, has been put on the market for £4.25 million. The Berkshire “popular parkland venue,” according to Bunkered, was one of several assets forfeited by Zamira Read more…
If you’re betting on Scottie Scheffler to win at Bay Hill this week—and many people are with the World No. 1 being an overwhelming favorite—you might want to think again. Because the two-time Arnold Palmer Invitational champ just lost a tune-up match over the weekend to . . . a 10-handicapper. OK, so we should Read more…
No matter what you think about TGL, you can’t argue that the SoFi Center has become the a place to be for celebrities. Whether it’s legendary athletes like Serena Williams, Derek Jeter and Mike Trout or legendary entertainers like Celine Dion, who even sang a little “My Heart Will Go On” in the stands on Read more…
TGL might have its first real rivalry in Rory McIlroy vs. New York Golf Club. Well, New York Golf Club’s social media team, that is. McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf squared off with New York on Monday night in what was an entertaining—and important—match that determined the four teams making the new leauge’s inaugural playoffs. But Read more…
We’ve seen a bunch of amazing full-court putt attempts by college basketball fans in recent years, including one that had Patrick Mahomes more hyped than when he won any of his three Super Bowls. But what we saw on Sunday during a Michigan game does NOT fall into that category. We don’t know the guy’s Read more…
Dale Whitnell defied staggering odds to make not one, but two holes-in-one during the same round. And that was just the beginning of what will go down as one of the wildest days in pro golf history.
Jake Knapp narrowly missed matching the PGA Tour single-round scoring record on the opening day of the Cognizant Classic. He happily settled for just the 15th sub-60 score in tour history.
The scores are low at PGA National in Florida so far, but the beer and wine prices sky high, according to past Open and Australian Open champion, Mark Calcavecchia.
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