Last year, we reported on Los Angeles golf teaching professional Dave Fink, who launched a movement called #FreeTheTee to raise awareness for a growing problem in the L.A. golf community—tee-time brokers. Public golfers in the Los Angeles area found themselves struggling to land tee times at municipal courses like Balboa Golf Course, Hansen Dam and Read more…
It’s better to be lucky than good. It’s an old saying and not an altogether true one, but you wouldn’t have known it if you were watching the final hole of Jon Rahm’s second round at the BMW PGA Championship.
The average is golfer is lucky if they get to play a single one of those courses in their lifetime. MacIntyre will be playing all of them, back to back to back to back.
Just listen to Tyrrell Hatton, who told the story of the ‘messy night’ he spent partying with Jon Rahm after learning he had automatically qualified for the 2025 European Ryder Cup team.
On Wednesday, Bronny James, the son of all-time NBA great LeBron James, will embark on a new journey: golf influencer. James, who plays predominantly for the Los Angeles Lakers’ G-League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, will join YouTube golf superstar Grant Horvat for a highly anticipated video that is sure to break the Internet. On Read more…
Whatever people see in this Ryder Cup Rorschach Test – real, imagined or somewhere in between – will define what it is and isn’t. Not that McIlroy is losing sleep over it either way.
In classic Bryson DeChambeau fashion, he couldn’t help but deliver another Internet-breaking moment, revealing his favourite golf hole on the entire planet.
It’s a home game this week for Shane Lowry at the Amgen Irish Open. The Ryder Cup stalwart had a tough end to his season, particularly in his oddly agitated return to Royal Portrush, but perhaps the luck of the Irish is finally turning his way on home soil this week. On Friday at The Read more…
This weekend, the Walker Cup returns to the hallowed bluffs of Cypress Point Golf Club for the first time in 44 years. In that time, the competition, which pits the best men’s amateurs from the United States against the best from the United Kingdom and Ireland, has visited many iconic tracks. Pine Valley in 1985, Read more…
For nearly a year, a pro-shop heist totaling over $12,000 in stolen goods stumped local investigators in Connecticut. At around 6:30 a.m. on the morning of September 7th, 2024, a thief forced their way into the pro shop of Longshore Golf Club in Westport, Ct. by breaking a side door, and made off with golf Read more…
The U.S. Open (the other one) is officially underway in Flushing, Queens and the talk of the town has been Carlos Alcaraz’s new look. In a move straight out of the Andre Agassi playbook, Alcaraz cut off both his hair and sleeves, transforming himself into a tennis bad boy overnight. The look wasn’t a hit Read more…
Ever since Peyton and Eli Manning landed a mega-hit with ESPN’s ‘Manningcast’—a casual, cameo-laden reinvention of the typical Monday Night Football broadcast—sports across America have been searching for their own version. Now, thanks to the PGA of America, the Manning brothers’ Omaha Productions and Chad Mumm’s Pro Shop Studios, the format is coming to the Read more…
The 2025 Ryder Cup is right around the corner, and much has been made about the role raucous New York sports fans will play as the U.S. defends its home soil at Bethpage Black. Roars will be heard, jeers will be had and, of course, many, MANY beers will be drunk. Those of us watching Read more…
The funny thing about a huge, season-defining golf tournament like the BMW Championship is that no matter how many cameras are on the course or how many fans are watching at home (a whopping 3.5 million in this case), there’s still so much that we don’t get to see. Take, for instance, perhaps the funniest Read more…
Fans tuning in to the BMW Championship on Sunday afternoon were greeted by an all-time implosion in the makng. Ben Griffin, well inside the top-30 after two wins this season, started the day six over through three holes, plummeting down the leaderboard. After four-putting the first hole and hitting his tee shot on two OB, Read more…
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