Scottie Scheffler won the FedEx Cup Playoffs and Tour Championship to “wrap up” the 2024 PGA Tour season earlier this month. Or so it seemed. But there’s actually more golf in store on the PGA Tour as the FedEx Cup Fall begins with tour cards for 2025 on the line. This week’s Procore Championship (previously Read more…
This is a no-lose situation. You get to tee off at one of the best golf courses in the United States while giving a student out a better chance to get into the college of their choice. That’s a real Butterfly Effect scenario, and all you have to do is pony up some money and Read more…
I get nervous before a lot of things: work Zooms, first dates, whenever I have to call someone. But that all pales in comparison to teeing off against Christopher McDonald, aka Shooter McGavin, aka my new bitter rival. Growing up as a “Happy Gilmore” fanatic, I never expected to meet McDonald, let alone play golf Read more…
A good-luck charm isn’t going to win you a tournament. It’s not going to sink a putt or find the fairway for you, but sometimes, it’ll get you in the right mindset … ready to play the best golf of your life. U.S. Amateur winner Josele Ballester knows this, which is precisely why he needed Read more…
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — We’re driving a golf cart the wrong way down Fiddler’s Elbow’s Forest Course discussing death. Behind the wheel is Hailey Rounsaville, and she’s reminiscing about Timothy Piazza’s all-too-short life. Back in the spring of 2017, her friend Timothy, a 19-year-old sophomore at Penn State, was pressured into running an alcohol-infused obstacle course Read more…
Thirty players have the chance this week to claim the title of 2024 FedEx Cup champion with a victory at the Tour Championship—and take home the $25 million reward for the honor. The money is substantial—$7 million to the winner than a year ago—but it’s about a lot more than that, especially for Scottie Scheffler. Read more…
Exhausted, crabby, upset, loud, sore, mad, blubbering. We could be describing a toddler mid-temper tantrum or perhaps an especially unhappy golfer amid a tough day on the course. Either way, both have the same descriptives, which is a connection that tour pro Adam Schenk put to good use while parenting a cranky kid this week. Read more…
It can’t be easy to have everyone with a Netflix account be able to watch one of the worst moments in your life at the click of a button. “Full Swing” captured Keegan Bradley just missing out on the 2023 Ryder Cup and now you can watch Bradley’s heartbreak while eating lunch, running on the Read more…
When Tiger Woods turns 50 at the end of 2025, he’ll be surrounded by friends, family, loved ones… and perhaps Rocco Mediate and Padraig Harrington with a tee-time all set up.
No matter what happens this year at the BMW Championship, we know one thing for certain: It’s going to be long. 8,130 yards to be exact. Not only is Castle Pines the lengthiest course in PGA Tour history, but it’s set to host the first tour event over 8,000 yards. To be fair, it is Read more…
It’s a big week for Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama and the rest of the 50-player field at the BMW Championship, the second event in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Only the top 30 on the FedEx Cup points list when play ends Sunday will advance to the Tour Championship at East Lake with the Read more…
Sherwood Country Club has had quite the roster of members over the years. Wayne Gretzky, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Will Smith, Sylvester Stallone and Justin Timberlake have all been recognised as club members at one time or another, and we haven’t even gotten to the non-celebrity Los Angeles elite teeing it up and hitting the Read more…
A game of inches, it doesn’t take much to win big or lose dramatically on the PGA Tour. The best of the best are out there teeing it up on a weekly basis, and you have to find any edge possible to emerge victorious. Hideki Matsuyama, now a 10-time PGA Tour winner after a FedEx Read more…
Happy Gilmore hit theaters 18 years ago—sorry to make you feel ancient—and it almost immediately became a golf classic. We love it, we quote it, we compare all fights to the Bob Barker masterpiece, and yet, it seems like our adoration for the sports comedy pales in comparison to that of Christopher McDonald. The Shooter Read more…
Now that Matt Kuchar has finally finished his last hole at the Wyndham Championship, it’s time for us to start thinking about the FedEx Cup Playoffs and its opening event—the FedEx St. Jude Championship. The top 70 pros in the PGA Tour standings, led by Scottie Scheffler, will have the opportunity to take home the Read more…
Golf is a sport of ingenuity. It’s a game of doggedness, passion and creativity centered around a desire to consistently improve and grow the game. In the never-ending arc of time, the greats always figure out what to do whether they’re A. W. Tillinghast, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio or … Ed from South Carolina? This Read more…
A group of researchers at Stellenbosch University in South Africa scrutinised 186 recreational golfers at five different clubs and came to a definitive conclusion that work smartphone use has a “small negative effect on performance”.
The Wyndam Championship, the final regular-season PGA Tour event, is here, and with comes a good deal of chaos, some 11th-hole jockeying for position and a few broken hearts on Sunday for those who’ll have just missed out on qualifying for the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Several Olympians will be making the trek from Paris to Read more…
The Wyndham Championship is renowned for euphoria and heartbreak. In the last event of the PGA Tour regular season, some of the best golfers in the world will be hoping to sneak into the FedEx Cup Playoffs, with some greats (like Justin Thomas last year) inevitably missing out. That said, if anyone’s purely happy to Read more…
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