This week’s FedEx St Jude Classic on the US PGA Tour features a hole that’s a little reminiscent of the famous par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, site of last month’s Players Championship.
Regular golfers always feel just a little bit better about their own games after seeing top golfers struggle. So delight in watching every single one of the 11 shots that wound up wet on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in the final round of the 2017 Players Championship this morning.
The hunt is on for two high performing female amateurs to compete in the professional field of the LPGA Tour’s McKayson New Zealand Women’s Open this spring.
A final-green bomb from Brian Harman has denied world No.1 Dustin Johnson a fourth straight US PGA Tour title at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina.
Ping’s new book, And The Putter Went…PING, an inspiring and comprehensive look inside the family-owned company that revolutionised the way golf equipment was designed and manufactured, is now available for purchase.
Kevin Chappell can scratch his name off the winless list on the US PGA Tour after breaking through on his 180th start, beating Brooks Koepka with a 72nd-hole birdie at the Valero Texas Open.
Kevin Na is known as one of the more, ahem, deliberate players on the US PGA Tour but he was entitled to take his time six years ago when he racked up a 16 – yes, 16 – on one hole at the Valero Texas Open.
Known for his trick-shot antics and triple Web.com Tour wins in 2016, the US PGA Tour’s latest winner Wesley Bryan has shown some serious game at the top echelon.
The mystique, the undulations, Rae’s Creek, the azaleas – all the subtle nuances of Augusta National provide something no other course can. And it takes remarkable vision to ‘see’ certain shots; shots you truly only witness at the Masters. Shots like this.
Russell Henley played in the Masters three consecutive years starting from 2013. He missed out last year and appeared destined to spend the second week of April on the sidelines once again – until he caught lightning in a bottle at the Shell Houston Open.
The carnage of Jordan Spieth’s collapse and the fortitude Danny Willett showed on the back nine of the Masters last April made for scintillating viewing, although for a moment of sheer golf madness – in a good, although freakish way – nothing topped Louis Oosthuizen’s ace at the 16th hole.
Tonight marks one week until the 2017 Masters tees off and the turning of the calendar each year from March to April generates a heightened level of excitement in every golfer.
He’s drifted out to No.184 in the world ranking but 2015 Australian Open champion Matt Jones still owns one of the best moments in Shell Houston Open history courtesy of his finish to the 2014 tournament.
Only one World Golf Championship had eluded Dustin Johnson to this point in his career, but he erased that omission in his CV with a 1-up victory over a gallant Jon Rahm to claim the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas.
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