Articles by Joel Beall

American team golf keeps losing twice

The US arrives at team events with a conviction that their topline firepower and deep rosters should make victory inevitable, and when it doesn’t arrive it acts like the loss is a consequence of fate failing to follow script.

18 questions (and answers!) about the new, ridiculous AI golf analyst

This has been a rough week for artificial intelligence. An Anthropic official resigned after warning AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” and others in the field shared his concern, including one official who places the odds of AI causing human extinction at 10 percent and a Nobel Prize Read more…

LIV Golf files for bankruptcy, with Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm owed millions

LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday while announcing a proposed restructuring agreement that could transfer majority ownership of the league to its players. The filing, made in the District of New Jersey, shows that several of LIV’s biggest names—including Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith—are owed millions of Read more…

Presidents Cup 2026: Rosters revealed with a huge surprise and a few snubs

United States captain Brandt Snedeker and International captain Geoff Ogilvy announced their six wildcard selections for the 2026 Presidents Cup on Tuesday. In a Golf Channel presentation, Snedeker chose Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Jacob Bridgeman and Jackson Koivun to join automatic qualifiers Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Russell Read more…

The most dangerous man at Medinah

Ryan Fox is the old-man underdog who did what no one thought he could do, win an Open Championship. It’s precisely why he will be a marked man at this month’s Presidents Cup.

The last days of LIV Golf and what the hell any of it was for

Michael La Sasso’s final putt had barely disappeared before the champagne bottles opened, his teammates dousing the former NCAA champion as he captured LIV Golf’s season finale in Indianapolis. The extravagance carried an uncomfortable dissonance, considering blue-collar workers were asking LIV to pay for labor already performed while millionaires emptied bottles over one another in Read more…