Articles by Justin Girshon

August 9th, 2025

How U.S.-China trade tensions now extend to … golf carts

Instead of rolling down the fairway after a striped drive, golf carts have swerved into the middle of America’s trade tensions with China. With Chinese-based companies importing golf carts that some believe are cheaply made and undervalued, domestic United States brands have faced increasingly difficult paths toward fairly competing. While U.S.-based Club Car and E-Z-GO’s Read more…

July 24th, 2025

Back-to-back holes-in-one on a par 4?! This father and son just accomplished the unthinkable

Courtesy of Alyssa Lawrence At first, they were told it was a 17-million-to-one moment. Then, a quant investor crunched the numbers, deeming it to be 1 in 6 trillion. Playing in the same foursome, Jim Rohrstaff, 46, and his son Blake, 18, each aced the 280-yard, par-4 eighth hole at Cullen Links in Scotland on Read more…

July 10th, 2025

Adaptive golfer becomes just the fourth male player in USGA history to accomplish this feat

After breaking his own U.S. Adaptive Open 36-hole scoring record—shooting a 17-under-par 127 on Monday and Tuesday—Kipp Popert told the media he had to get back on crutches in preparation for his final round on Wednesday. Popert, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, underwent the 12th surgery of his life in January to Read more…

June 29th, 2025

This misunderstood new rule affects your handicap without your control

Not all golf scores are created equally. That’s why, in 2020, the United States Golf Association adopted a handicap rule called Playing Condition Calculation (PCC). Depending on how golfers perform on a certain day, a PCC adjustment range of -1 to +3 can be applied. A negative adjustment to your score means the course played Read more…

June 21st, 2025

Rickie Fowler has hilarious reaction after hitting shank at Travelers Championship

Fowler’s reaction to the miscue was classic, including the introduction of a new term in the golf lexicon.

June 20th, 2025

Adam Schefter’s golf broadcast debut was ‘cool’ for noted Patriots fan Keegan Bradley

As Keegan Bradley stretched in the fitness trailer before his 10:35 a.m. tee time with Rory McIilory on Thursday, he had ESPN’s “Get Up” playing on TV. Sure enough, Bradley heard senior NFL insider Adam Schefter talking about him. While golf is typically an unconventional sport for Schefter to talk about, it wasn’t on this Read more…

June 20th, 2025

‘I’m very sorry for what happened’: Wyndham Clark apologises for Oakmont locker incident

Wyndham Clark kicked off the Travelers Championship with a stellar six-under 64, two strokes behind early first-round leader Austin Eckroat. But instead of talking about his great round, the highlight of his post-round talk with the media was about something else he kicked last week – the lockers in the Oakmont Country Club locker room.

June 19th, 2025

A ‘steal’ and ‘really positive’: Tour stars react to Brian Rolapp being named PGA Tour’s first CEO

Among the things that’ve stood out to four of the PGA Tour’s brightest stars about incoming CEO Brian Rolapp has an impressive background, and he’s said all the right things.

June 19th, 2025

The Ryder Cup is getting real for Keegan Bradley with 100 days until the opening tee shot at Bethpage

Everywhere Keegan Bradley goes, the USA chants follow, raining down on him as a reminder of what lies ahead. And as the countdown continues until the opening tee shot of the 2025 Ryder Cup, now 100 days away, they will only intensify for the captain.  RELATED: ‘I kinda needed to throw a few back’: Jordan Read more…

June 19th, 2025

Inside J.J. Spaun’s whirlwind 48 hours after winning the U.S. Open

CROMWELL, Conn. — J.J. Spaun’s world has turned so upside down since his shocking U.S. Open victory, he literally doesn’t know what day it is. His younger daughter, Violet, will be celebrating her birthday on Thursday. Until Spaun began talking about it Wednesday ahead of this week’s Travelers Championship, he didn’t realize that tomorrow is, Read more…

June 18th, 2025

A 15½ hole? How tour pros helped the Travelers Championship launch its unique umbrella challenge

The 40-foot red umbrella at the Travelers Championship wasn’t made to shield anyone from rain. Nor was it supposed to become a bullseye. Instead, influenced by TV shots from a blimp of the pond surrounding the 15th, 16th and 17th holes at TPC River Highlands, the umbrella was meant as an advertisement for Travelers, which Read more…

June 9th, 2025

US Open 2025: Matthew Vogt quit his college golf team and stopped competing for seven years. His journey back to Oakmont is as unlikely as it gets

Dentist Matthew Vogt quit his college golf team and stopped competing for seven years, before his recent, inspiring journey back to Oakmont through qualifying commanded the attention of the golf world.

June 8th, 2025

U.S. Open 2025: This device will be all the rage at Oakmont. So what is a Stimpmeter anyway?

For the first time since 2016, and the 10th time in U.S. Open history, the USGA is bringing its marquee championship to Oakmont Country Club outside Pittsburgh. The famed course has proven to be a difficult test over the years, Dustin Johnson’s four-under 276 total in 2016 proving the best winning score. Between media day Read more…