Despite admitting he felt the pressure of playing alongside Michael Jordan – we all saw ‘The Last Dance’ and know that Jordan sometimes treated teammates worse than opponents – Thomas says he made “four birdies in the last seven holes and helped to pay for my first car”.
We don’t make a habit of complaining about tap-in birdies around here but when they come at the expense of a shiny new car and an ever-elusive hole-in-one, we’re willing to make an exception.
The real star of the Players Championship wasn’t Scottie Scheffler—the tournament’s first-ever back-to-back champ—or Wyndham Clark, one brutal lip-out from dragging the World No. 1 kicking and screaming into a playoff. It was mustachioed, dad-bodied former PGA Tour pro Johnson Wagner, who became Golf Channel’s crash-test dummy darling on Thursday as he violently whipped range Read more…
America. The land of opportunity … and also exploitation. Here you can be anything you want and make however much you can, often at the expense of ethics, morals and boundaries. Los Angeles golfers are learning this the hard way thanks to the emergence of a new and unsavory character, the tee time broker. RELATED: Read more…
Scottie Scheffler has put in a gritty performance at TPC Sawgrass this week. He came out of blocks flying on Thursday but early Friday his neck seized up and he’s been playing injured since, clubbing up with his irons and struggling to hit draws off the tee. Yet somehow the World No. 1 has hung Read more…
The 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass keeps delivering highlight reel moments on Moving Day. We saw Sam Burns befuddle the booth with his own “better than most” moment en route to a Saturday 65. We watched Adam Schenk nearly putt it in the drink and then bonk it in from the fringe to salvage par. Read more…
There’s been a lot of talk at TPC Sawgrass about burying the hatchet. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan began the week by revealing that partnership talks with the PIF were continuing to advance while Jordan Spieth admitted that player directors have been “strongly encouraged” to meet with PIF head Yasir Al-Rumayyan. After three years of Read more…
If you come at a PGA Tour pro, you best not miss. They’re better at golf than you are. Because they’re better at golf than you are, they make more money than you do. Because they make more money than you do, their wife is more attractive, their garage holds more cars and they get Read more…
You don’t want to start the Players Championship the way Justin Thomas started his on Thursday, feet clinging to the edge of a fairway bunker, ball buried in the TPC Sawgrass Bermuda, needing to dig out a heck of an iron shot to just make par. But that’s precisely what Thomas did, uncorking a beauty Read more…
Intrigue abounds over the future of top NFL Draft prospect Caleb Williams. Will he go number-one-overall to the Chicago Bears, who still have former first-round pick Justin Fields on the roster? Or will the Patriots or Commanders try to trade up for the former USC signal caller? Either way, his future—at least in the short Read more…
This week, Kevin Yu is competing in his first Players Championship. Most first-timers are a sweaty-palmed mess at the mere thought of TPC Sawgrass’ infamous island isthmus green, but not Yu who was as cool as the other side of a cucumber pillow on Wednesday. In fact, he wasn’t thinking about the Players Championship at Read more…
While the PGA Tour’s best and brightest get ready attack pins at the Players Championship this week, residents of Leesburg, Florida are still reeling from a different kind of attack on a local golf course. That’s where a man was ravaged by a nine-foot male alligator while fishing on a pond at Pennbrooke Fairways. The Read more…
While not a major itself, since its move to March several years ago, the Players Championship has heralded the unofficial start of golf’s slam season. Each spring, the sport’s best players gather at TPC Sawgrass to knock off the competitive cobwebs and the cauldron-like crowds have responded in kind, packing the Pete Dye design throughout Read more…
Part of Saudi Crown Prince MBS’ ambitious Neom development, Gidori will sit at the northern tip of Red Sea, lending the course stunning coastal views and plenty of windswept terrain to navigate.
On Thursday at Bay Hill, Luke List make a highlight-reel birdie at the par-4 11th, rolling up his pants, choking up on the club and drawing a beauty back onto the putting surface for a good look, which he drained. At the time it seemed unlikely we would see a better circle on the scorecard Read more…
Any lasting relationship, whether romantic, platonic, or that of PGA Tour player and caddie, can be attributed to a few key traits: Trust, open communication and the willingness to try new things. For Chris Kirk and caddie Michael Cromie, who have held down a successful partnership since 2020, that last one is particularly important. “We Read more…
At 18-13 and 9th in Big East, the Butler Bulldogs won’t be going dancing this year. After jarring a 94-foot putt for $5,000 at halftime of the Bulldogs’ 72-66 win over Xavier on Wednesday night, however, this young pup was dancing all the way home. Let’s see those moves, kid. RELATED: Stephen Curry busts out Read more…
Between this and Talor Gooch’s recent comments about the Masters deserving an asterisk, you could start a winery with all the sour grapes being squeezed by LIV golfers as the majors approach.
What’s in a name? Well, a hell of a lot if you were watching the leaderboard at the SDC Championship on Friday. That’s where a fella by the name of Robin Williams tore through the field like Rickie Bobby at Talladega, firing five birdies and an eagle enroute to a five-under 67. Obviously with a Read more…
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