For the second straight year, Anna Davis was involved in a rules issue at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Davis, who won the event in 2022, missed the 2024 ANWA cut by one shot on Thursday at Champions Retreat, a fate made particularly cruel as Davis was assessed a one-shot penalty for slow play on Read more…
Dan Pohl stood outside the gates of Magnolia Lane, looking down the only entrance he ever needed at Augusta National. He’s unsure how many times he’s traveled down the road—as a two-time PGA Tour winner, a Ryder Cupper, Vardon Trophy champ—just that the first time was in 1982. It was Pohl’s Masters debut, and the Read more…
Scott’s withdrawal is not a surprise. The Queenslander has previously stated his apathy towards golf’s inclusion in the Olympics, referring to it as an “exhibition” and that a better idea would be to allow amateurs in the field. He passed on both the 2016 and 2020 games.
Peter Malnati could not hold back the tears he knew were coming, as he tried to explain the gravity of what he just did. “You wonder if you are ever going to do it again,” Malnati said on Sunday, minutes after capturing the Valspar Championship for his second career tour win but first in almost Read more…
The USGA has announced the roster for its inaugural United States National Junior team. Last year the organization introduced plans for the first American developmental golf program, with a stated mission to “identify, train, develop, fund and support the nation’s most promising junior players.” This includes the formation of different national teams that will compete Read more…
Monahan did not provide any details on the rendezvous, stating only that the conversation was “constructive and represents an important part of our due diligence process in selecting potential investors for PGA Tour Enterprises”.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Wyndham Clark began to chase, but something deep inside signaled doubt, his left foot defying physics by freezing the rest of his body in place to corroborate what he was about to do was not premature. Either momentum or conviction or being on the precipice of the sensational overruled because the chase for Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The chunk echoed off the hospitality suites that surround the hole and sounded like the thud soil makes when striking a lowered coffin. Sorry for the macabre description, but at that moment the portrait seemed fitting, as Wyndham Clark’s chances at the Players Championship appeared to meet a watery grave. Clark Read more…
Multiple sources familiar with the matter told Golf Digest that LIV Golf’s team component is one of many highly contested subjects in a potential deal.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The ball stopped three feet short and Xander Schauffele couldn’t stop smiling. It was unclear if the smirk was because the putt had looked so good for 45 feet until it wasn’t, or that he thought he had killed it and the ball still didn’t reach the cup, or if it Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Tom Kim has withdrawn from the Players Championship. The PGA Tour announced Thursday morning that Kim, 21, had pulled out of the tour’s flagship event due to illness. No other details were provided. Kim had completed eight holes of his first round when he dropped from competition. He was five over at the Read more…
Though the incontrovertible takeaway from the past two years in professional golf is that no one knows anything, at least for certain, we’ve spent much of this week at TPC Sawgrass gathering intel on the status of the deal.
The PGA Tour and its constituents know the league has lost its way, although just as important is recognising what brought them here in the first place. In Rory McIlroy’s opinion, that starts with questioning who’s behind the wheel.
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