For most of us mere mortals, opening our 2025 golf campaign with a round at The Olympic Club—one of the West Coast’s most storied U.S. Open theaters—would be enough. Hell, just the sight of a golfer playing under blue skies in short sleeves in January is enough to make half the world seethe with jealously. Read more…
With golf balls finding the bottom of the cup at a record clip on Sunday at Kapalua, it was easy to overlook Taylor Pendrith’s landmark albatross. Though the Canadian finished T13, a whopping 13 strokes off winner Hideki Matsuyama’s all-time PGA Tour mark of -35, Pendrith’s big bird was notable for a host of reasons. Read more…
At long last, TGL—the long-anticipated tech golf league from the minds of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy—is here. After a delay of nearly a year due to the collapse of league’s dome last winter, TGL will debut Tuesday night when New York Golf Club, led by Rickie Fowler, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele, takes on Read more…
Want to hear something scary? Tiger Woods—golf GOAT billionaire, winner of 82 PGA Tour events and 15 majors, owner of countless eye-popping stats like this—believes that most weeks, he “didn’t really have it.” Yes, really. On Wednesday, the PGA Tour released a fascinating conversation with Woods. In their shiny new PGA Tour Studios theater, they Read more…
It’s been almost exactly a year since Jersey Jerry exploded into the golf consciousness with his 37-hour hole-in-one chase on a simulator version of Pebble Beach’s iconic par-3 7th hole. Broadcast live on YouTube, the Barstool Sports personality slept on an air mattress in front of the simulator screen, refusing to leave until he made Read more…
How did you spend the holidays? Curled up on the couch watching movies, cocktail in hand? Enjoying some prime rib and a glass of wine (or three) at dinner? Stress eating cookies while your mother-in-law nitpicked the cleanliness of your silverware? Needless to say, it’s a fraught time of year for health-conscious revelers, as the Read more…
If there’s anyone on the planet who’s thought longer or harder about swinging a golf club than Tiger Woods, we haven’t found them. Though the 82-time PGA Tour winner may be the greatest of all time, he remains a student of the game and that perspective has proved to be a blessing for the entire Read more…
Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 season was nothing to scoff at. The World No. 1 won the Players Championship, the Masters, the Tour Championship and an Olympic gold medal. He became the first player since Tiger Woods to be named the PGA Tour Player of the Year three years in a row and helped lead the U.S. Read more…
The holiday season is all about traditions, and this year the USGA is starting a new one. For the first time ever, the governing body of golf in America has released the data of more than 77 million scores posted under the World Handicap System in 2024. The report contains insight into who played golf, Read more…
The PGA Tour failed to mention Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler’s opponents, and golf fans quickly swarmed the comments, asking the PGA Tour for a little clarification on the opposing team.
“Golf Stat Pro” Lou Stagner decided to crunch the numbers to determine if a 12-handicapper could win the Masters if they began each hole with the longest possible putt on each of Augusta National’s greens.
On Tuesday, the news we’ve all been expecting for months was finally confirmed. No, we’re not talking about the PGA Tour’s reported deal with PIF. We’re talking about Scottie Scheffler being named the 2024 PGA Tour Player of the Year. RELATED: PGA Tour pro shares eye-popping travel expenses total for 2024 season Of all the Read more…
Despite John Andre’s plea, Delta Airlines initially denied his request. But after more back and forth, the airline, which generates more than $US50 billion in revenue annually, finally agreed to honour Andre’s claim.
In late 2023, Boo Weekley made his rumblin’, bumblin’, stumblin’ return to professional golf. Though Weekley only played a handful of events since 2017 due to injury, he quickly endeared himself to former peers and fans with his affable attitude, folksy musings and, uh, creative pronunciations of fellow pros’ names. RELATED: Boo Weekley drives to Read more…
Fandom is a funny thing. Sometimes it brings you joy, sometimes it brings you sorrow and, occasionally, it drives you to tweet at a PGA Tour pro for 850 days straight. Just ask @ConkyCBR, who has tagged Max Homa on Twitter each day for nearly two-and-a-half years asking to play a round of golf with Read more…
Jon Rahm is a beast. At 6’ 2”, 220 lbs, the Basque bruiser is built more like an NFL tight end than a pro golfer, but for whatever reason, he slipped to the golf gods in the draft. Thank goodness for that, as Rahm has gone on to win the U.S. Open and Masters, establishing Read more…
Last week, Bryson DeChambeau rocked the Internet when his 16-day saga to hit a hole-in-one over his Texas mansion ended the only it could have (with a hole-in-one, duh). Naturally, many fans were already following in his spike steps, but none more impressive than Jack, a young golfer who accomplished the feat on Thanksgiving day, Read more…
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