Articles by Joel Beall

Why the Wyndham Championship pairings may offer a Ryder Cup clue

Several Ryder Cup hopefuls will be under the microscope at this week’s Wyndham Championship, and American captain Keegan Bradley’s first and second round pairings may offer clues about his wild-card considerations. When the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale released tee times for Thursday and Friday at Sedgefield Country Club, fans quickly noticed that Bradley’s grouping seemed Read more…

British Open 2025: A controversial decision shows the tricky problem players face with the Rules of Golf

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Twenty minutes, dissecting a tenth-of-a-second sequence, to determine if a ball had shifted two dimples. The verdict would decide not just a two-stroke penalty but whether a man’s integrity would survive intact. It sounds absurdly dramatic, yet that was what hung in the balance Friday at Portrush when high-definition cameras caught Read more…