Staying patient won’t be easy for the professional golfers competing at the Players Championship this weekend. With extended storm delays on Thursday and Friday, 24 golfers including co-leader Tom Hoge did not even tee off for their second rounds at TPC Sawgrass on Saturday. Yes, that’s right, Saturday – by which stage three rounds should Read more…
A heavy-hearted Jason Day will tee it up at the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass this week looking to throw himself back into work after his mother Dening’s death last week.
BAY HILL, Florida – Lucas Herbert says he is ready for a debut at the Players Championship after a stunning final round in brutal conditions at the Arnold Palmer Invitational catapulted him up the leaderboard and secured more than $US300,000 ($A407,000) in extra prizemoney.
A frustrated Matt Jones lit up social media when he launched his putter into the water during the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida.
Adam Scott says a golf equipment change felt silly when playing partner Rory McIlroy drove his way to the top of the Arnold Palmer Invitational leaderboard in Florida.
FIVE things to keep an eye on at this week’s Desert Classic in La Quinta, California. The Aussies Six Aussies are in the field this week, led by Matt Jones. The Sydneysider is coming off a respectable T29 at last week’s Sony Open in Hawaii and will be joined in the California desert event by Curtis Read more…
Adam Scott Adam Scott will kick off his year at Waialae Country Club for the first time since 2016. Although he didn’t feature in that edition, he went on to tie second at the LA Open and then win back-to-back events in his next three PGA Tour starts. Scott is coming off an 11-week break that Read more…
By Evin Priest – in Atlanta Until this year, the Wyndham Championship was a much-needed week off for the elite players on the US PGA Tour. It sat between the PGA Championship, the final major of the year, and the Northern Trust – the first event of the $US67 million playoffs. Only those fighting to Read more…
That’s it. The Tour Championship is here and thus, the end of a very long US PGA Tour season. It won’t be this long next year, and the Tour Championship’s delivery of the FedEx Cup champion will be far different. (Instead, the FedEx Cup leader will start the season-finale at 10 under par, while the Read more…
FOUR Australians in the $US67 million FedEx Cup playoffs is the smallest representation we’ve had since the US PGA Tour’s finals series was launched in 2007. But it seems a case of quality over quantity as Jason Day (8), Cameron Smith (16), Marc Leishman (24) and Adam Scott (40) are all in healthy positions on Read more…
If you hadn’t heard of young Australian golfer Adam Thorp, you have now. On Saturday, the 17-year-old from Canberra joined an illustrious group of golfers including fellow Australian Jason Day (2004), David Toms (1984), and Nick Price (1974) in winning the Junior World Championship at the famed Torrey Pines in California. Afterwards, Thorp revealed a whopping Read more…
Opinion – by Evin Priest Planning an overseas trip next year and want to tie in a US PGA Tour event into your itinerary? Fantastic idea. Depending on where you live in Australia, world-class PGA Tour fields can be a nine-hour plane trip away – and in idyllic locations you would visit regardless. I’ve assembled Read more…
It is the packaged deal with the potential to take Australian golf into a new era. Former Web .com Tour winner-turned golf broadcaster Ewan Porter has conceptualised a solution to the isolation problem our summer of golf faces each year. With a majority of the world’s best players using the ‘fall’ swing (late September through Read more…
Australian Golf Digest will be on the ground at Shinnecock Hills in New York for the US Open. To get you up to speed, here is a guide to the year’s second major. First round tee times, Aussies Thursday AEST 8:56pm – Trey Mullinax, Gardendale, Ala.; (a) Matt Parziale, Brockton, Mass.; Jason Scrivener, Australia 9:07pm – Read more…
Brisbane native Cameron Smith returns to New Orleans to defend his Zurich Classic title alongside Jonas Blixt in the two-man teams event the duo won in extra holes last year. The stroke play format will be foursomes in the first and third rounds and fourball for the second and fourth rounds. The top 35 teams Read more…
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