Urban legends are a barstool currency, traded among sports fans to inform and debate but mostly to entertain. Many of them are surreptitious in nature and border on the apocryphal, such as Michael Jordan’s really retiring from basketball because of a gambling suspension, Cassius Clay’s phantom punch of Sonny Liston, and the 1985 NBA Draft’s Read more…
No one knows everything for sure, but we do have some idea of the behind-the-scenes intrigue regarding power control and the trajectory of the PGA Tour’s future, so we’ll do our best to explain what is going on.
Michael Block has snuck into his office and he reminds himself to shut the door. This is his home, a room tucked away in the ranch-style clubhouse surrounded by the rolling foothills of Southern California. But Block prefers an open entryway so he can keep an eye on the assistants running Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club’s Read more…
There have been 25 players that have shot sub-60 scores on leading golf tours around the world. Out of that bunch, 20 have come in the last 15 seasons and four in the past calendar year alone (Bryson DeChambeau and Joaquin Niemann at LIV, John Catlin on the Asian Tour and Casey Jarvis on the Read more…
Tournament favourites Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry delivered on the first hole of a playoff, giving both a ‘much-needed’ victory at this point in the PGA Tour season.
This was a week of attrition, and while others were worn down by the course and the wind or the significance of what they were trying to chase, the unassuming superstar was undeterred by his surroundings, in command of his game and of himself. For that, Scheffler earned his second Masters title.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — He was too young to be burdened by a past and too inexperienced to know pain. But that was 90 minutes ago, when Nicolai Hojgaard was atop the white boards littered across Augusta National. Now, as he stumbled off the green, briefly looking back at the 15th fairway to wonder what went Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the unacquainted, his solemn, intense energy can be unnerving, uncomfortable even. Most tour pros carry themselves in a similar manner, but it’s not what you expect from Max Homa. He’s the funny guy, the goofy guy, the guy who can give as much as he can take. That’s not this guy, Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was not an auspicious start to Brian Harman’s first major round as a major champ. Harman, who won the Open Championship last July at Royal Liverpool in front of a crowd that didn’t want to see him do it, has been given a most hospitable welcome in his home state of Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Matt Fitzpatrick turned in a one-under 71 on Thursday. A good score, given the windy conditions. And a very good score, given Fitz is having equipment issues. Again. The former U.S. Open champion briefly spoke after his first round at the Masters and relayed that his current set of Ping Blueprint S Read more…
Once upon a time, in the days when he was transitioning from man into Mack Truck, Bryson DeChambeau made a declaration about Augusta National that even by his standards was bold.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The first round of the 2024 Masters is under a weather delay. Slated to begin at 8:00 a.m., heavy rain over Wednesday night and Thursday morning pushed the tee times back by two and a half hours Thursday morning. The honorary starters ceremony will still take place, with Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
