Augusta National’s famous rules for wearing the green jacket outside club grounds allowed the reigning Masters champion to don it at another timeless sporting event.
After a loaded June schedule that featured a major and two signature events, this week’s John Deere Classic will be a bit of a break for the world’s best (along with a much-needed July 4th holiday weekend). And yet, there are still quite a few major champs and rising stars looking to attain some much-needed Read more…
Many of the best golfers in the world have just made the three-plus-hour drive from Shinnecock Hills to TPC River Highlands for the final Signature Event of 2026. Yes, that means it’s Travelers Championship week, and a chance for Wyndham Clark to continue his hot summer (as well as escape Long Island). Clark will look Read more…
Over the years, we here at The Loop have written up our fair share of golf course police chases. Just last year, there was a high-speed Detroit pursuit that led to $10,000 in golf course damages and 13 felony charges. Or maybe you’d prefer to watch the not-so-high-speed Georgia golf cart police chase that could Read more…
The 2026 U.S. Open returns to Shinnecock Hills for the first time since Brooks Koepka’s memorable victory in 2018. The club is one of the USGA’s five founding members and is now hosting its sixth U.S. Open. NBC Sports and the USGA will deliever wall-to-wall TV and streaming coverage across NBC, USA Network, Golf Channel Read more…
With the U.S. Open right around the corner, the PGA Tour will take a quick Canadian sojourn before next week’s Shinnecock Hills major. Four top-10 pros in the Official World Golf Ranking will head to TPC Toronto, as will a bevy of players looking for one last tune-up before the third men’s major of the Read more…
In the definitive example of a romantic outing gone awry, a couple on a scenic hot air balloon ride around Solano County, Ca. this weekend held on for dear life as they crash landed on the Green Valley Country Club driving range. According to KCRA 3, Zachary and London Kellis were on board Saturday morning Read more…
Miles Russell is among 78 golfers teeing off at BallenIsles Country Club today, looking for one of the few remaining golden tickets to the upcoming U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He’s playing in one of 10 Final Qualifying tournaments, a 36-hole affair in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., against top talent like Matt Kuchar, Luke Clanton Read more…
Scottie Scheffler will have a chance to go back-to-back-to-back this week at the Memorial Tournament. That’s something that has never been done at Jack’s Place and has only been accomplished by 18 pros in PGA Tour history. If the World No. 1 really wants to be in the right headspace heading into Muirfield Village, he Read more…
It’s the 50th anniversary of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village, which means a few things: 1. Scottie Scheffler is going for yet another signature event victory. 2. A loaded field taking on the vaunted Jack Nicklaus/Desmond Muirhead design. 3. Milkshakes. With the Shinnecock Hills U.S. Open rapidly approaching, this is a chance for the Read more…
Sure, we’re over 300 days from the next Masters, but the beloved major technically starts in June the preceding year. That’s because the Masters ticket application lottery is officially open for you … and everyone else in the world. The application period for 2027 Masters tickets opened on Monday, June 1 and will run through Read more…
This week marks the 80th playing of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. And yet again, it’ll feature some of the best golfers in the world taking on the Texas mainstay. Ben Hogan won the first tour event here in 1946. Other victors over the years include Arnold Palmer, Jack Read more…
You drink too much Fireball in college, you throw up and you eventually move on from that nightmarish cinnamon whiskey. That’s what usually happens (at least in this one writer’s experience), and then you’re off the stuff forever. Well, unless you’re this Florida woman with a recent DUI arrest that’s going viral for all the Read more…
After an eight-shot “World No. 1 being the World No. 1” victory last year, Scottie Scheffler returns as the defending champion/leader-in-the-clubhouse for this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson. The Texas event is back at TPC Craig Ranch after an offseason renovation led by former pro Lanny Wadkins. And many are hoping the course will have Read more…
There was a lot of talk (which we definitely added to) about Rory McIlroy’s 2026 Masters Champions Dinner menu. It’s an all-timer … it’s way too expensive … it’s too fancy. Instead of trying to one-up the World No. 2 at the upcoming PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler has gone with the classic of all classics. Read more…
Sure, the sun’s coming out, and the flowers are blooming, but take the summer to spend time with your family and hit the course. You’ll only have one chance to watch the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club (in 2026). World No. 1 and defending PGA champ Scottie Scheffler will be the player to beat Read more…
Rory McIlroy has three more chances at an additional major this season, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t already thinking about next year’s Masters Champions Dinner. For the fourth time in golf history, a Masters winner will choose the menu for the most important dinner in the sport in successive years. And this is something Read more…
After a one-year sojourn at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Truist Championship, along with seven of the top-ranked golfers in the world, will head back to Quail Hollow for a final test before next week’s PGA Championship. Rory McIlroy will tee it up for the first time since his second Masters victory, as will defending Read more…
It’s been 10 years since the PGA Tour has held an event at Trump National Doral in Miami, but that’ll change this week with the “inaugual” Cadillac Championship. (We put “inaugural” in air quotes because coincidentally the car company was the sponsor back in 2016 when Doral last hosted a World Golf Championship event). The Read more…
A wild viral video shows a driver taking an SUV onto a Topgolf driving range in North Carolina. No injuries were reported, but the bizarre incident has quickly made headlines.
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