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…
Jim Nantz called it. He guaranteed it, in fact. Said it would be, “slam dunk of the year.” Prior to last month’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course, the CBS golf anchor predicted that the network’s ratings of PGA Tour events on the West Coast would be higher than a year ago. “I’m Read more…
It was nearly three years ago that Anthony Noto sought an opportunity for SoFi Technologies Inc. to gain a foothold in golf to increase brand awareness for the financial-services company based in San Francisco. That opportunity was TGL.
PEBBLE BEACH — Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans together last year, shared beer and pizza expenses for the media on Thursday when each made a hole-in-one, and matched scorecards on Saturday at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The Irishmen seem to be moving in lockstep these days. MORE: Tom Read more…
Golfers of all stripes can identify with Tom Kim and the execution—or lack thereof—of his opening tee shot Saturday in the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Everyone gets a little shaky and doesn’t put their best swing on the ball.
PEBBLE BEACH — When Gary Woodland stepped onto the first tee at Pebble Beach Golf Links for a practice round Monday afternoon, he paused for just a moment and allowed his emotions to settle into his heart before striking his tee shot. He hadn’t been back to the storied layout since he won the 2019 Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Jim “Bones” Mackay isn’t bored, isn’t itching to get back into the full-time caddie ranks and doesn’t need the extra cash. The famous looper, who now walks the fairways as an on-course reporter for NBC Sports, returned to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am because he wanted to help a friend. MORE: Rory Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH – Scottie Scheffler bogeyed his first hole of the season Thursday to begin the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Nice of him to give everyone a head start. Sidelined for a month after suffering a freak hand injury at Christmas making ravioli—look it up, we’re not repeating the gory details—Scheffler showed glimpses of why Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH – Rory McIlroy had just opened his PGA Tour season Thursday with a bogey-free 6-under 66 at Spyglass Hill that included his second career hole-in-one, and it didn’t take long before he was asked about the burning questions of the day—the state of the tour, television ratings and the importance of “putting on Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — The No. 9 player in the world currently sucks at golf. That would be Viktor Hovland, who would tell you that that’s not an unfair assessment, because he is the one who said it. “In my opinion, I suck at it right now,” he said through a tight smile, “but that’s all Read more…
Perhaps the least surprising thing the PGA Tour has learned since it launched its Fan Forward survey initiative last June is that it has a pace-of-play problem. What it intends to do about it has yet to be determined, but changes are coming.
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