Two PGA Tour stars mired in a funk on the golf course had a chance to emerge from their competitive darkness and lift a trophy. Only one managed to finish the job.
A long day at the Players Championship on Sunday was extended into Monday when J.J. Spaun’s 30-foot birdie bid for victory at the 72nd hole stopped two rolls short, setting up a three-hole aggregate playoff with world No.2 Rory McIlroy.
Golf fans have a chance to hang with Sir Nick Faldo Sunday while watching the final round of the Players Championship. Actually, more like HANG. The six-time major champion and former CBS Sports lead analyst is joining forces with HANG Media to launch a pilot program for golf. Faldo and co-host Brandt Packer, a former Read more…
Always a relatively aloof character, Brooks Koepka neither confirmed nor dispelled rumours that he is seeking to leave the LIV Golf League in favour of a return to the PGA Tour. Which in and of itself might be telling.
[Main Image: Richard Heathcote] Someone check on Russell Henley to make certain he has a pulse. We assume that he does. But one can never be too sure. He just stunned Collin Morikawa over the closing holes in the Arnold Palmer Invitational to win $US4 million, and he walked off the final green at Bay Hill Read more…
ORLANDO — Someone check on Russell Henley to make certain he has a pulse. We assume that he does. But one can never be too sure. He just stunned Collin Morikawa over the closing holes in the Arnold Palmer Invitational to win $4 million, and he walked off the final green at Bay Hill Club Read more…
ORLANDO — Keegan Bradley said that his game felt on point throughout the week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. On Sunday, he posted a score to prove it. Thanks to a record seven-under 29 on the opening nine, Bradley tied the low round of the tournament with an eight-under 64 at Bay Hill Club. Expected Read more…
ORLANDO — Xander Schauffele is glad he got that out of the way. It wasn’t just that the two-time major winner was coming back from a rib injury after eight weeks on the sidelines, but that he also was doing so on one of the tougher layouts on the PGA Tour. But he got in Read more…
ORLANDO — Andrew Novak still retains much of the build of the football player he was in high school, a tight end who knew how to block but preferred to line up on defense and hit somebody. He also was a standout pitcher and catcher in baseball and a swingman in basketball with a decent Read more…
ORLANDO — Shane Lowry has thrived the first two rounds at the Arnold Palmer Invitational under withering pressure. The Irishman came to Bay Hill Club desperate to put himself in position to win the $20 million signature event after a breakthrough third-place finish a year ago. ‘Beef’ Johnson is ‘pissed’ about the misdiagnosis of his Read more…
ORLANDO — Not every apparent rules question we see on TV turns out to result in a penalty—or even an actual violation. In the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Friday, Wyndham Clark took a drop after finding his ball embedded in the fairway at the par-4 third hole at Bay Hill Club. Read more…
ORLANDO – The good news is that he wasn’t in pain. Not physically, anyway. After resting for eight weeks to allow a nagging rib injury to heal, Xander Schauffele returned to competitive Thursday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and his first round on the PGA Tour since the season-opener at The Sentry went—unfortunately—much like he Read more…
ORLANDO — Making birdie on the vaunted par-4 18th hole at Bay Hill Club is always going to make a player feel like he gained a stroke on the field. In that regard, Si Woo Kim has to feel like he stole at least a few shots to complete his opening round on Thursday in Read more…
ORLANDO — Maybe he would have been asked about it anyway, but for Keegan Bradley, the fiery U.S. Ryder Cup captain, there was no escaping the media after he seized the clubhouse lead Thursday in the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Chilly air and gusting winds conspired with firm greens to make Bay Read more…
ORLANDO — After stewing on the couch at home in Jupiter, Fla., with his French bulldog Chewy by his side for most of the past eight weeks, Xander Schauffele makes his return to competitive golf at this week’s $20 million Arnold Palmer Invitational. It’s not a moment too soon. MORE: Rory McIlroy offers counter opinion Read more…
Whatever promising developments were achieved in a February 4 meeting at the White House between the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf League apparently have evaporated after a follow-up meeting with US president Donald Trump on February 20.
ORLANDO — In a gathering space adjacent to the well-preserved office of the late Arnold Palmer, Golf Digest Editor in Chief Jerry Tarde wasted little time Tuesday finding just the right words to explain the magic of the man who had not only an immense impact on golf but also on countless lives who needed Read more…
Despite the intervention of US president Donald Trump in two meetings on February 4 and February 20 at the White House, it appears that the two sides are no closer to reunifying the game.
Gary Woodland, who has returned to competitive golf after undergoing brain surgery in 2023, was named the recipient of the PGA Tour Courage Award. The 2019 U.S. Open champion learned of his selection during an interview Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and formally accepted the award during a presentation at the Cognizant Classic in Read more…
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