Playing an entire tournament “under the lights” always had the potential to create some unusual Rules of Golf situations, particularly with a $20 million prize money payout on the line. But the Rules violation that tripped up Lee Westwood during Friday’s second round of the LIV Golf season-opener in Saudi Arabia had everyone befuddled. “Well Read more…
It’s early in 2025 to have clinched best-shot-of-the-year honors on the PGA Tour. And given that he finished four back of winner Rory McIlroy at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—who pulled off one hell of a shot of his own en route to victory—Cam Davis’s Sunday heroics on the 18th hole might not rank as Read more…
American Ollie Schniederjans won the International Series India event on Sunday. He overcame a three-shot deficit with four holes remaining in his third round to win by four shots over Bryson DeChambeau.
It’s been going on three years now that Scottie Scheffler has made golf look really easy, even when it can be really hard. The latest example came Friday and involved one of the game’s most picturesque holes, the par-5 18th at Pebble Beach. Scheffler was two under on the day and seven under overall heading Read more…
As of January 1, 2025, in competitions where the Model Local Rule is in effect, visible cracks to the face and clubhead now also constitute “broken or the damage significant” enough to allow the club to be removed (providing it was not caused by player abuse).
Fourteen years removed from working full-time with Tiger Woods, Steve Williams is finally opening up about one of the most dynamic player-caddie relationships in golf history.
Masters chairman Fred Ridley acknowledged that what Augusta National Golf Club fans will see in April won’t have “quite as many trees as we did a year ago” but that any damage suffered last September when Hurricane Helene rolled through Georgia and the Carolinas won’t be an issue when the Masters is held in less than three months.
When asked about the news yesterday of Greg Norman being replaced as LIV Golf chief executive by established sports executive Scott O’Neil, McIlroy offered a relatively magnanimous response.
The 10th edition of the Latin America Amateur Championship takes place this week at Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a field of 108 golfers ages 15 to 56, all dreaming about the rewards that await the winner on Sunday: invitations to this year’s Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship. Indeed, those major Read more…
At 32, Taylor Dickson is a little young perhaps to be called a “journeyman” tour pro. That said, it took the North Carolina native five years playing on an assortment of mini tour and another five years toiling on the Korn Ferry Tour before he finally earned a PGA Tour card last fall by virtue Read more…
As the 2025 PGA Tour season begins, we too begin our annual tracking of eery drive used by a winner during the course of the tour year. It’s a fun endeavor as it provides an interesting way to review the year while also offering a closer look at the best technology used on tour. With Read more…
To win on the PGA Tour usually requires a good week with your putter. That’s why we’ve been compiling for a few years now a list of the putter that every winner on the PGA Tour has used en route to victory. And it’s why we’re doing it again here in 2025, chronicling what’s in Read more…
It wasn’t a true New Year’s Resolution that Billy Foster revealed on Instagram earlier this week, but it was certainly news about the veteran caddie’s plans for 2025. As he starts his 43rd year working on the pro tours, Foster is happy to be working once again with Matt Fitzpatrick, but also happy to say Read more…
There are nine months and counting until the Ryder Cup is played at Bethpage Black, which means nine months and counting for players hoping to make Keegan Bradley’s U.S. team to have to answer a seemingly simple but potentially explosive question: What are you going to do with your $200,000 stipend? Xander Schauffele was in Read more…
The threshold for college golfers earning a tour card via the PGA Tour Accelerated program is substantial, and that didn’t change when tour officials announced some subtle tweaks to the program on Thursday that go into effect starting in 2025. Florida State junior Luke Clanton and Auburn sophomore Jackson Koivun still remain three points shy Read more…
In covering the game of golf the past two decades for Gannett-owned USA Today and Golfweek, Steve DiMeglio had won the respect of tour pros as well as fellow journalists for his writing and reporting. But it was in the last 2½ years as the Minnesota native documented his journey with cancer—chronicling the good and Read more…
Jordan Spieth might not be competing this week at The Sentry, the opening event of the 2025 PGA Tour season, but his caddie is. Michael Greller, Spieth’s looper for his entire professional career, will be working at the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, picking up the bag Max Homa. Mind you, this appears to Read more…
Fourteen years after helping launch Golf Channel’s first morning program, Gary Williams will be back in the early a.m. slot in 2025. The network announced Thursday that Williams will host a new one-hour show, “5 Clubs on Golf Channel,” starting Jan. 6. “As a consumer of sports radio and television and for more than 20 Read more…
If any golfer requires a reminder of the need to always, always, always follow one of the golden rules of the competitive game – read every word of the local rules before teeing off – we offer the tale of Anthony Quayle at this past week’s Vic PGA Championship.
Fred Perpall is set to serve a third and final year as USGA President as the governing body released on Monday its nominating committee’s slate of selections for the 15-member Executive Committee in 2025. In the process, the USGA also revealed the identity of Perpall’s eventual successor. Kevin Hammer, a 52-year-old financial planner from Boynton Read more…