I know what you’re thinking: Not another article proposing some change to the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup. We’ve certainly seen plenty of those of late and have even offered up some possible solutions ourselves. But this is different. I promise. This story starts on the Tuesday afternoon ahead of the Tour Championship and it Read more…
One of golf’s traditions is that the person who makes a hole-in-one buys the drinks after. It’s a somewhat odd tradition considering most people would expect it to work the other way, but it’s a tradition nevertheless. Just how many drinks the lucky golfer is expected to buy, however, is where things get murky. A Read more…
Thanks to that two-shot cushion and an opening 65, Scottie Scheffler took a commanding seven-shot lead after Day 1 of the Tour Championship. Fifteen years ago, however, he was happy to just be playing with the big boys. Literally. An unearthed local news video circulating on Golf Twitter this week shows the current World No. Read more…
With Wednesday’s the inaugural Creator Classic now in the books, it didn’t take long for the PGA Tour pros to get back to creating the highlights at East Lake on Thursday. Ben An, in particular, wasted no time. RELATED: Chris Kirk has set an interesting golf goal for the offseason After hitting his opening tee Read more…
Like many PGA Tour pros, Chris Kirk will get some much-needed R&R after this week’s Tour Championship. Unlike most tour pros, when he returns to the golf course, he’ll be playing a much different game. That’s because for the second consecutive offseason, the right-handed Kirk plans on playing predominantly from the left side. Say what? Read more…
In case you missed it, the college football season started over the weekend with “Week 0,” highlighted by Georgia Tech’s 24-21 upset of Florida State in Ireland. Of course, if you’re a fan of the (formerly) 10th-ranked Seminoles, it wasn’t quite a highlight. At this week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta, there will be plenty of Read more…
ATLANTA — The tournament trophies, the season-long awards, and the stats all say the same thing: Scottie Scheffler has been the best golfer on the planet for the past three years. And it’s not even close. But during his Tuesday press conference ahead of this week’s Tour Championship, the World No. 1 sounded like every Read more…
East Lake Golf Club’s extensive restoration under architect Andrew Green has this year’s crop of 30 players feeling like they’re playing it for the first time.
ATLANTA — Ludvig Aberg has one of the sweetest swings in golf, but he also has one of the sweetest deals when it comes to his living situation. On Tuesday, though, he said that might be changing soon. Earlier this year, the 24-year-old Swede revealed that he lives in Tallahassee with fellow PGA Tour pro Read more…
With The Loop headquarters located in NYC, our staff is a mix of Giants and Jets fans come NFL season. But one player has united both fanbases around our office: Sauce Gardner. The New York Jets star cornerback caught the golf bug this summer and he caught it in a big way. Sauce stayed busy Read more…
Thursday marked Castle Pines’ long-awaited return to the PGA Tour, but it was also a day for another more unexpected comeback: Max Homa is back on Twitter. The six-time PGA Tour winner and Golf Twitter King had been taking a break from social media. But after two months—which probably felt like the two decades Castle Read more…
Augusta National Golf Club (yes, THE Augusta National Golf Club) is looking for a senior manager and historian. And if you love golf, this seems like an absolute dream gig.
It’s been a busy couple years for Rory McIlroy. The four-time major champ was basically working a side gig as the PGA Tour’s spokesperson for a stretch, he announced—and then reversed—a divorce with his wife, and he’s continued to make major off-course business investments. Oh yeah, he’s also kept his day job as one of Read more…
A year ago, Nick Dunlap, fresh off winning the U.S. Amateur, hopped on The Loop podcast and had no illusions that he would be the big man on campus when he returned to school for the fall. Of course, that school was Alabama, where the football players are treated like royalty. But maybe it will Read more…
Sadly, the Jordan Spieth Experience ended earlier than expected this PGA Tour season with the three-time major champ not advancing past the first round of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. A T-68 (out of 70) at the St. Jude Championship wrapped up a rough 2024 for Spieth, who revealed after that he plans to undergo wrist Read more…
Happy Gilmore’s Boston Bruins jersey worn by Adam Sandler sold for an eye-popping price earlier this week. Or, maybe it’s not so eye-popping. After all, we’re talking about the jersey worn by Sandler in the iconic film. A film that’s been back in the news a lot of late with Netflix’s sequel in the works. Read more…
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