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…
At the national championship earlier this summer, Florida State’s Jack Whaley couldn’t fight off a bad headache in the middle of his round. His head coach, Trey Jones, came out and asked him “how are you with a sugary drink on the course?” Whaley perked up and said “absoutely fine with it.” Jones brought him Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — Sitting at 2 down after the morning 18 holes, Jack Whaley had serious work to do to take down Jay Leng Jr. in the U.S. Amateur championship match at Merion. He was used to it. Whaley began the week by shooting two-over par in the 36-hole stroke play portion of the event, Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — Jay Leng Jr. thrust himself into the Walker Cup conversation with his victory at the Western Amateur earlier this month. Despite the fact he fell short at the U.S. Amateur on Sunday, his performance at Merion solidified his spot on the team. The U.S. team announcement came shortly after the final putt Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — One of the many unique aspects of the U.S. Amateur is the 36-hole final match on Sunday. A marathon day that features just two golfers on the course and thousands following just behind them in the fairways and around the greens. Of course, the two finalists don’t just plow through the 18th Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — Jack Whaley knew that simply getting to the final match of the U.S. Amateur came with two huge perks – spots in the 2027 Masters and 2027 U.S. Open. What he didn’t know was where one of those (the U.S. Open) was being played next June. As for the Masters, well, that’s Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — Before each full-swing shot, U.S. Amateur semifinalist Carter Loflin places his trail hand at the very bottom of the grip, holding the golf club almost like you would a hockey stick. He takes one full practice swing with that grip, then takes his normal grip and quickly strikes. Loflin calls it a Read more…
ARDMORE, Pa. — The first quarterfinals match at the U.S. Amateur on Friday at Merion teed off at 1:15 p.m. ET, the last at 2 p.m. All four were wrapped up by Happy Hour (5 p.m.), with only the first match between Carter Loflin and Brandon Knight even reaching the 16th hole. The quick work Read more…
Longtime looper Andy Sanders found plenty of success on the bag of Jimmy Walker, who he helped win a major – the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol. They spent 12 years together before parting ways in 2019. Sanders bounced around with some other guys, namely Lanto Griffin, who was dealing with a back injury in Read more…
When the rule changed that you were allowed to keep the flagstick on the putting green in 2019, it became the new hip thing to do. Bryson DeChambeau, among others on the PGA Tour, popularized the method further. Then, COVID hit, and when golf was the first recreational activity to come back, flagsticks stayed in, Read more…
With Jackson Koivun’s win at the 3M Open and Michael Thorbjornsen’s breakthrough at the Rocket Classic, it feels like star-making season on the PGA Tour. A few of our experts believe that trend will continue this week at the Wyndham Championship. Speaking of trends, we’re trending, too. Ryan Noonan hit on Koivun and Steve Hennessey Read more…
A single hits a wayward drive that bounces off a playing partner, no “fore” call, no apology worth the name. How mad is too mad when someone breaks golf’s most basic etiquette rule?
We’re back on the board (!), all thanks to our rookie expert panelist, Ryan Noonan, who cashed on Jackson Koivun’s maiden victory at the 3M Open last week. Plus, he hit a 7-1 top-10 bet on Emiliano Grillo, too. When you’re hot, you’re hot. RELATED: Rocket Classic 2026 picks: Why our expert thinks Jackson Koivun will Read more…
According to the CDC, your chances of being struck by lightning on a given year are less than one in a million. However, you are at much greater risk if you are participating in an outdoor activity, like golf. In just the last year alone, there have been three prominent cases of a golfer being Read more…
The majors are done but the betting doesn’t stop. We roll right along to the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities, where some longer shots have fared well since the tournament’s inception in 2019. There’s just one tiny problem with that – Scottie Scheffler is surprisingly in the field this week, acting as the elephant Read more…
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