You’re on the 18th green about to win the Masters. You’re leading on the last day and the whole world is watching your every move. You eight putt it, and then wake up from your dream soaked in sweat, gasping for air. It’s petrifying, and it’s evidently what happened to one of the best golfers Read more…
Power became the fifth Irishman ever to have a hole-in-one in the Par 3 Contest after Darren Clarke (2001, second hole), Pádraig Harrington (2006, ninth), Graeme McDowell (2010, ninth) and Shane Lowry (2019, second), and he is just the fourth player ever to have two holes-in-one in the same Par 3 Contest.
We doubt that the party gets as raucous as this clip suggests, but since we don’t get an inside look year-to-year, there’s no proof that this isn’t what happens.
Dealing with hecklers is an art. There are many approaches, but nothing as cutting and direct as hitting it to 10 feet, delivering an expletive—preferably in a thick Irish brogue—and casually strolling past your assailant.
Maybe the best part of the TikTok is the anticipation as the father-son duo watches the ball bounce to the green and take its time finding the cup. You can’t hear the dad’s shriek of joy in the actual video, but you can certainly hear it through osmosis.
Since jumping to the LIV Golf League last year, the 2020 US Open champion has played in 10 individual events but finished no better than his T-8 at the Open Championship. In three starts so far in 2023, he has missed a cut (Saudi International), posted a T-24 (LIV Mayakoba) and a T-44 (LIV Tucson); in the last two there were only 48 players in the field.
A trademark application from the Saudi-backed league to trade LIV Golf’s logo has been denied by Miami Beach’s LIV nightclub, the renowned discotheque in the Fountainbleu Hotel. (Random note, but how good is the word discotheque? We should use it more.)
Dubbed The Watering Hole, the 12th at The Grange will host DJs, grandstands full thousands of (most likely inebriated) fans and of course plenty of cheers, jeers and chaos.
There will always be another wedding, but you can’t miss the opportunity to watch something critical happen on the course. And this legendary father understands that with all his heart.
There are a lot of ways to praise the field at this week’s Genesis Invitational. Every player among the top 30 players of the latest FedEx Cup standings is competing at Riviera Country Club outside of Los Angeles, as are 23 of the top 25 in the world led by new World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and the man his took the label from, Rory McIlroy.
In an interview with TMZ last weekend, Finau was asked if there was any bad blood between him and the LIV Golf guys. No, Finau told them. In fact, some were his closest friends on tour.
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