On Saturday, a fan at Quail Hollow was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Jon Rahm lost his approach shot on par-4 11th hole left, striking the man square in the head. Thankfully the fan was alright, or at least appeared to be, which is more than former SportsCenter anchor Sage Steele Read more…
Golf is not a contact sport, but that doesn’t mean injuries don’t occur. Backs tweak, wrists get sore, blisters burst and sometimes, on rare occasions, innocent bystanders get golf ball dimples permanently tattooed on their foreheads. That’s what happened on Saturday afternoon at Quail Hollow, when Jon Rahm lost his approach on the par-4 11th Read more…
It’s not been a great PGA Championship for LIV Golf’s aging crop of big-money major winners. Dustin Johnson missed the cut with a 78-76 that had the armchair warriors screaming “washed!” Phil Mickelson joined him after taking four hacks to get out of a greenside bunker on Friday, finishing his tournament at nine-over par. Then Read more…
Fans pay good money for major championship tickets. In the case of this week’s 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, upwards of $300. That may sound like an arm and a leg, but it doesn’t compare to actually losing an arm and a leg, as one fan nearly learned on Friday. It all began on Read more…
Tyler Collet’s game is trending at just the right time. Last month, the assistant pro at John’s Island Club won the 2025 PGA Professional Championship by a record 10 strokes, punching his ticket to this week’s PGA Championship. On Thursday at Quail Hollow, Collet proved he isn’t in Charlotte simply for the BBQ when he Read more…
The hands-down, number-one best thing about being a kid is that you genuinely don’t know any better. There’s a simple innocence (and sometimes brutal honesty) in being young and carefree, and many adults long for those days as they grow older and more aware of the barriers, guardrails and, of course, gallery ropes that society Read more…
Scottie Scheffler is a pretty mild-mannered fella, so it came as a shock to the sports world when we woke up on the morning of May 17th, 2024, to find a mugshot of the World No. 1 plastered across the Internet. As fans soon came to learn, Scheffler was arrested trying to enter Valhalla Golf Read more…
Trump ruffled feathers when he accepted a $US400 million “Palace in the Sky” jumbo jet from the Qatari government just days after his private business, the Trump Organisation, finalised plans to construct a luxury golf resort in the Middle Eastern nation.
As far as a summer sports sagas go, Aaron Rodgers’ will-he, won’t-he flirtation with the Pittsburgh Steelers has failed to move the needle. We’ve been here before with the Rodgers, who. much like his Green Bay predecessor Brett Favre, has cried “retirement!” one too many times for anyone to care. Plus, what we’re really talking Read more…
Last October, the Internet issued a collective “awwww” when photos of Shane Lowry dressed as Travis Kelce to complement his daughter’s Taylor Swift costume began to make the rounds. Despite being a professional golfer by trade, the 6’ 1” Lowry looked the part of an all-pro tight end decked out in a full set of Read more…
The 2025 US Open is over a month away. In fact, we still have another major to get through before we can really start looking ahead to Oakmont. Judging by the looks of things, however, it’s going to be a bloodbath.
Have you ever stepped into a clubhouse so beautiful, so historic, so relaxing that you wished you could live there? Well, now’s your chance … sort of. Enter 7 S Mountain Ave. in Montclair, New Jersey, a rare residential foray by Clifford C. Wendehack, the architect responsible for many of the Tri-State’s finest clubhouses including Read more…
Rejoice, golf fans, for Today is the most wonderful day of the year. A day of magic and wonderment to be shared with family and friends alike. Today is [drum roll please] TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA DAY!!! Sure, the Travelers doesn’t kick off until June, but on Tuesday organizers got the festivities started early with some Read more…
We all know that flying with golf clubs can be risky business. Half the time they show up to their intended destination in pieces. The other half of the time they don’t show up at all. And if you’re trying to smuggle a shotgun in your golf bag, replete with its own camouflage “headcover,” fuhgeddaboudit. Read more…
This week, LIV Golf continues it’s, uh, Western Hemisphere swing in Mexico City, noted for its sprawling metropolis, world-renowned street food and, of course, altitude. At 8,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin at Club de Golf Chapultepec and that means golf balls fly far. Like really, really far. Don’t believe us? Just Read more…
Depending on the golf course you play at, the rules and regulations of the clubhouse often spill out into the carpark – no changing your shoes on your bumper, no practice swings, no parking in the club pro’s spot, so on and so forth.
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