No disrespect to Charles Barkley, Emmitt Smith or any of the number of PGA Tour pros we’ve had on as guests of The Loop podcast in our 300-plus episode history, but this week we had by far our most-famous guest – Owen Wilson. The “Wedding Crashers” legend is now the star of one of Apple Read more…
Last week, Will Zalatoris announced that he’s due to undergo spinal-fusion surgery in November, which will sideline him for the entire 2027 season. It will be the 30-year-old’s third major back surgery since 2023. “I’ve been through four years of hell so it’s good to have something that will hopefully correct it,” Zalatoris said. “It’s Read more…
As an avid golfer, OCD freak, keeper of score and follower of rules, I’ve always felt it is the bare minimum task to know what golf ball you are playing on any given hole. It should be easily identifiable to you with a marking of your choice, though nowadays you can get your damn name, Read more…
About 10 or 11 years ago, I got one of the most coveted invitations I could possibly dream of – an invitation to the world-famous Rao’s in East Harlem, N.Y. I remember my heart skipping a beat, then quickly realizing the pickle I was in. Still in the early stages of dating my now-wife, we Read more…
With his victory at the U.S. Mid-Am last week, Andrew Bailey became the latest posterchild of the reinstated amateur debate. Bailey, 34, is a former professional, as was his opponent in the final match, Nate Smith. This battle of former pros in an amateur tournament came on the heels of Mike Sposa’s win at the Read more…
As I wrote back in February, if you fancy yourself a competitive golfer, then you simply have to be playing for money on the course. Whether it’s $1, $5 or $10-10-20, it has to be an amount that makes that six-foot, downhill right-to-left slider mean something. For some, it’s a much larger sum, which I Read more…
Of all the questionable decisions US captain Brandt Snedeker made at the Presidents Cup this past weekend at Medinah, perhaps none were as puzzling as sitting Scottie Scheffler in the Saturday afternoon foursomes session. Trailing by three after a strong morning Four ball session in which Scheffler and his partner, Sam Burns, earned a full Read more…
It’s Presidents Cup week at Medinah, and, surprise, surprise, the U.S. team is heavily favored to take down the Internationals for an 11th straight time. It’s hard to imagine any other outcome given the talent discrepancy between the two rosters, removing a lot of potential intrigue from the biennial event. That said, the plethora of Read more…
Before Brandt Snedeker made his captain’s picks for the U.S. Presidents Cup team, J.J. Spaun sat at 10th in the American team standings. He was one year and a few months removed from his U.S. Open victory at Oakmont, and just four months removed from his third PGA Tour win at the Valero Texas Open. Read more…
After a two-week, what-felt-like-an-eternity break, the PGA Tour returns this week with the first-ever Biltmore Championship in Asheville, N.C. It’s the first event of the FedEx Cup Fall, and the lone tuneup event for those competing in next week’s Presidents Cup at Medinah. A number of Presidents Cuppers are in N.C., among them Corey Conners, Read more…
The United States Solheim Cup team did not lose to Team Europe because they had celebratory beers on the team bus Saturday night, with the score tied 8-8. Optically, though, it was not a great look. Of course, no one would have cared if they had just kept it to themselves. In fairness, that’s impossible Read more…
Fred Couples somehow got even smoother. In a closest-to-the-pin competition alongside John Daly, Henrik Stenson and Miguel Angel Jimenez, “Boom Boom” clipped a half-swing hybrid, called his shot, then turned away before it even dropped.
If you’ve come here in anger, I get it. This is the exact type of headline I’d normally roll my eyes at in disgust. I’d probably look up a picture of the author and concoct a story in my head about how much of a wet blanket they must be a parties. You and I Read more…
If you missed it, last week’s Golf Debate du jour revolved around former professional golfers looking to regain their amateur status. Mainly, the focus was on Colt Knost, whose bid for reinstatement into the amateur ranks was denied by the USGA, which said it was re-evaluating its reinstatement guidelines. This was cause for celebration for Read more…
Blades Brown’s mother, a former WNBA player, has coached and taught high school kids for over 20 years. Something she noticed about her son as he grew up was how he was “a little more mature” than most of the young people she came across, and that his temperament was ideal for the golf course. Read more…
One of the great things about building a community of fellow complainers in this Stupid Golf Problems space is that even people already close to you begin thinking of their own stupid golf problems that they’ve encountered. Or actively seeking them out to confirm their preconceived biases. A prime example of this came last week, Read more…
Everybody has “the hole.” The one that keeps you up at night, staring at the ceiling wondering how you’re going to walk off with double, at best. The hole you try to envision on the range, practicing your “fairway finder” (you are not going to find the fairway). It doesn’t matter how many you hit Read more…
Fifty of the PGA Tour’s best head to St. Louis this week for the BMW Championship at Bellerive, yet it feels like 49 of them don’t have a chance to win. That’s the way Scottie Scheffler makes it seem, at least, when he’s going well. He’s been going just fine all year, but not winning Read more…
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