PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp is expected to announce sweeping changes to the tour’s future next week, with a re-imagined schedule at the core of the proposal. One of his biggest stars, however, doesn’t appear sold.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — U.S. Open practice rounds are notoriously punishing slogs, the treks often stretching past three hours as players brace for golf’s most unforgiving examination. But on Monday at Shinnecock Hills, fans who made the trip — navigating their own gridlock, Hamptons traffic being what it is — arrived to find a course that Read more…
Brooks Koepka captured the US Open the last time the national championship visited Shinnecock Hills. But days ahead of the third major of the season, Koepka is dealing with a mysterious injury. Koepka, playing in this week’s RBC Canadian Open, received treatment to his left elbow before Saturday’s third round. He was followed by a Read more…
This year marks the 126th playing of the U.S. Open and the sixth time Shinnecock Hills has served as host. The championship has outlasted empires, survived two world wars and produced the most consequential leaderboards in American golf. But its history was nearly erased before it began. Here, at Shinnecock, in the summer of 1896, Read more…
Multiple sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to Golf Digest that Mickelson is no longer a member at The Farms Golf Club outside San Diego after a female club employee accused the six-time major champion of inappropriate contact with her before a round of golf earlier this year.
LIV Golf chief executive Scott O’Neil remains bullish on his league’s future in the wake of Saudi Arabia pulling its funding. But in a TV appearance on Tuesday he wouldn’t go so far as to guarantee its immediate future.
Sportico and CNBC report that a pitch deck outlines a plan built around international events, with attendance figures from Australia and South Africa used as benchmarks.
The PGA Tour sent a survey to tour and Korn Ferry Tour players regarding the upcoming distance rollback. And one question signals a potential breakaway from the tour and golf’s traditional rules-making bodies.
Aaron Rai’s encore will have to wait. Rai, a day after his PGA Championship breakthrough at Aronimink, has pulled out of this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson tour event.RELATED: Golf needed a new hero. It has one in Aaron Rai It is not uncommon for major champs to withdraw from the next tournament, given the Read more…
Axios reports that as LIV shops to outside investors, the league is seeking $US250 million ($A350 million), projecting profitability within 20 months. A secondary option exists at $US150 million, contingent on team sales and a new media rights deal bridging the gap.
At tournaments of this magnitude, the temptation is to project, to extrapolate, to chart the arc of what comes next. At 31, Rai has time on his side, a long runway ahead. But what makes his story worth sitting with isn’t that he’s here, but the route he took.
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Kurt Kitayama turned in a record round on Sunday. Now has must wait and see if it’s enough. Kitayama, beginning his day outside the top 60 and teeing off six hours ahead of the final paring, made seven birdies—including at the 18th—and went bogey free for a final-round 63. If that Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — After Friday’s pin placements stirred some strong emotions about set-up, Saturday’s course presentation at the PGA Championship seemed to meet the platonic ideal of facilitating fireworks but causing punishment for anything less than right. That doesn’t mean it was universally loved by the field, however. Most notably, Shane Lowry. The former Read more…
During Friday’s round at the PGA Championship, cameras caught Justin Thomas and Keegan Bradley in an animated discussion with a rules official, with the broadcast informing viewers that the two (along with Cameron Young) were put on the clock.
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The pin at the 10th hole at Aronimink is tucked next to a ridge with slope so severe that anything on the wrong side is playing to mitigate the pain. Most of the field, staring at that geography, aims for the middle of the green and moves on. There is no Read more…
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