A victory by Brooks Koepka at the 105th PGA Championship would have several layers of meaning, both for the man who achieves it and for the game of golf at large.
Quite often a player who comes close to winning a Major championship tends to give himself another chance almost right away if he keeps his form intact and carries the right attitude.
Years from now, Michael Block can spin a yarn about his week at the 105th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club, and it’s going to sound like a fairy tale or a tall tale—and probably a little bit of both—but it won’t need any embellishment.
Ryan Fox stepped up round one as the obligatory mystery man, at least to US reporters unaware of his efforts on the DP World Tour, that tends to pop up on a first-round leaderboard of a major championship—though he shouldn’t be.
Jason Day, showing signs of a resurgence most of the year, won his 13th PGA Tour title on Monday (AEST), 13 years after his first one, and both came in the same event.
According to Columbia University student Will Knauth, who is on a path to earn his PhD in statistics, a 24-year-old amateur who played Division III golf and is probably more accomplished as a violinist than he is a golfer has a 4-in-1 chance of making the cut in his PGA Tour debut at this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson.
Finau, runner-up to Jon Rahm a year ago, flipped the script, beating Rahm head-to-head on the final day to win for the fourth time since tying for second in 2022.
With nine players among the top-10 teams on the leaderboard through 54 holes seeking their first PGA Tour victories, chances were good for a breakthrough story at the Zurich Classic, and Davis Riley and Nick Hardy, former AJGA All-Americans almost a decade ago, wrote the final chapter in a record-setting win in Avondale, Louisiana.
The chill in the air Saturday morning at Augusta National Golf Club did nothing to cool down Jason Kokrak’s mood after he needed all of two minutes to complete his second round in the Masters.
Brooks Koepka says he feels very much like the guy who not long ago won four Major championships in a span of eight starts and, well, it’s hard to argue with him when you look at the scoreboard in the 87th Masters.
Cameron Smith, the reigning Open champion and the highest-ranked player in the Masters field representing the LIV Golf League, found himself on shaky ground, of sorts, when he stepped on the sprawling practice facility on Monday at Augusta National Golf Club.
This Tuesday on the second floor of the stately white clubhouse at Augusta National, a contingent of young and old and wise Masters champions will reconvene for another edition of golf’s most exclusive dinner party.
While the final two men’s Majors of 2022 had LIV golf participants, this will be the first Masters with members of the rival circuit to the PGA Tour competing at Augusta National Golf Club.
Wallace’s last victory was the Made in Denmark in early September, 2018. Since then, he has overhauled his game with the help of former European Tour winner Robert Rock, among others.
Being expelled from Masters coverage for CBS Sports in 1994 arguably was one of the best things that ever happened to Gary McCord in his broadcast career. Perhaps that’s why he enjoys retelling the tale of his banishment from Augusta National Golf Club – though perhaps never to this degree of detail.
On Monday, in his first go from the new tee, the Masters champion grabbed his driver and promptly plunked his tee shot into the tributary of Rae’s Creek left of the fairway. On Tuesday, he reached the green by going driver, 4-iron.
With a sixth victory in the past 13 months, Scheffler joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only men to hold the Masters and Players titles at the same time.
In the midst of chopping his way to a one-over-par 73 on Thursday in the first round of the Players Championship, Hayden Buckley accomplished a feat never seen before at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass that still gave him reason to smile.
Golf Digest spoke to a number of players about the plan that was presented to them in a meeting on Tuesday at the Players Championship – and was apparently passed in a surprise vote nine days ago by the PGA Tour Policy Board during the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Sentiment ranged from hope to unease to downright indignation.
Australian Golf Digest
