Articles by Brian Wacker

May 24th, 2018

Memories of his 2016 Colonial win could wake up Jordan Spieth from his putting slump

Spieth enters this week’s Fort Worth Invitational ranked 190th on the US PGA Tour in strokes gained/putting, losing an average of .471 strokes per round to the field on the green this season.

May 12th, 2018

Players Championship: Steve Stricker, 51, defying trend toward youth

Few might have expected Stricker to be in contention halfway through the PGA Tour’s flagship event.

May 11th, 2018

Players Championship: Phil Mickelson’s shirt upstages group that included Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler

The opening round’s marquee threesome delivered mostly lows rather than high points.

May 10th, 2018

Players Championship: Winning is easy. Defending your title, now that’s difficult

The so-called ‘fifth Major’ has proven difficult to successfully defend, perhaps more than any other top-tier tournament.

May 10th, 2018

Players Championship: Why a move back to March is the right call

The move to May helped elevate the Players, but there are still greater benefits to a March date.

May 9th, 2018

The reason Jordan Spieth has under-performed at TPC Sawgrass

Spieth is hoping to capture the same kind of attention that he has when it comes to Majors. Even though the Players isn’t one, the course demands as much.

May 9th, 2018

Rivals Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, together again, in perfect harmony… maybe

Of the 35 times Mickelson and Woods have played together, their scoring averages are remarkably close.

April 8th, 2018

Seven years after Masters heartbreak, Rory McIlroy has a shot at redemption

The career Grand Slam aspirant will put in place the harsh lessons he learned from the final day of the 2011 Masters.

April 8th, 2018

Augusta’s 12th hole: Forever Golden

Our writer spent a day at Augusta National’s 12th hole, where fans soak up the history and hope to see some in the making.

April 7th, 2018

Tiger Woods makes the Masters cut. Contending? Well, that’s another story

In two rounds, Woods has hit just over half his fairways and half his greens, not the stuff of Masters contenders.

April 5th, 2018

Dustin Johnson is watching his step this year at Augusta

The Masters is always met with a great deal of anticipation, yet Dustin Johnson is looking forward to it more than most, and with good reason.

April 3rd, 2018

Jason Day says “best bud” caddie is ready for Masters debut

Jason Day is playing in his eighth Masters this week, twice having finished in the top 3. This will be his first, though, without caddie Colin Swatton on the bag.

March 31st, 2018

2018 Masters: Whatever happened to Adam Scott?

There was no surprise when he won the 2013 Masters. But instead of it being the first of multiple Majors, Scott remains stuck on one.

March 13th, 2018

Bill Haas happy to be back playing, though he’s still haunted from losing friend in car crash

A few weeks ago Bill Haas was the passenger in a family friend’s Ferrari that clipped another vehicle and slammed into a concrete telephone pole.

March 11th, 2018

Tiger Woods is 18 holes away from one of the greatest comeback stories in all of sports

Tiger Woods has played his share of big rounds en route to winning 79 times on the US PGA Tour and collecting 14 Major championships. Sunday’s at the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook will be his biggest in years.

March 10th, 2018

Jordan Spieth struggles with putting, misses cut at Valspar Championship

With the first Major of the year looming, Jordan Spieth is hopeful he can turn things around before then.

March 10th, 2018

Tiger Woods turns back the clock, briefly leads for first time since 2013

It was the first time that Woods held a solo lead since the final round of the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

March 7th, 2018

Mickelson, Woods and Wie bring a ‘Back to the Future’ quality to 2018

While the young bucks are still firmly in the picture, 2018 is shaping as a season when the old guard returns.

February 26th, 2018

Greater expectations?

Tiger Woods’ expectations have gone up following a tournament – and a Sunday – in the hunt.

February 25th, 2018

HONDA CLASSIC: Tiger tripped up by Bear Trap, still tied for 11th

Statistically, it was the best Woods has performed all week.

February 24th, 2018

HONDA CLASSIC: Tiger tied for 14th, in the hunt

Tiger Woods is only four back in Honda Classic, ‘right there…where I can win a golf tournament’

February 23rd, 2018

HONDA CLASSIC: Tiger ‘very pleased’ with opening-round 70

Woods matched his lowest first-round score in five career starts in the tournament.