Bryson DeChambeau has been in the news this week. Stop us if you’ve heard that one before. The US Ryder Cup star has come under fire from Rory McIlroy and Brandel Chamblee specifically, the latter unleashing a scathing monologue in New York in which he likened DeChambeau to a “circus barker.”
One of the most beloved parts of the Ryder Cup is the chippiness. While pros play their cards close to the chest most of the year, the Ryder Cup offers a biennial opportunity to go all-in.
Some golfers wait their entire lives for a hole-in-one. The seasons change, one after the next. Their hair turns gray, their backs stiffen. They go from walking to riding—from the back tees to the forwards—and still the wait goes on. But not for this kid. This weekend, Reddit user r/haydenantal posted video of his son’s Read more…
For as long as anyone can remember golf has been predicated on two things: Solid contact and unbroken silence. Unfortunately, Keita Nakajima got neither on Thursday at the Open De France when a cough during his backswing led to one biggest – and most bizarre – whiffs you’ll ever see in professional golf.
The only constant in fashion is change. By the decade, by the year, by the season. Trends come and go (and come back and go again), leaving the non-nudists of earth scrambling to catch up. That includes the U.S. Ryder Cup team, who face off against Team Europe every other year in a showdown of Read more…
While we in Australia slept, it was Monday morning in USA – time to rise and grind once again – but Americans woke to a message from the nation’s Commander in Chief, who was already wide awake tackling the big issues facing humankind.
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…
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