Fans at the Sanderson Farms Championship had to be excited to see reigning NCAA champion Michael La Sasso near the top of the leaderboard during the opening round at the Country Club of Jackson. The 21-year-old Ole Miss senior had been given a sponsor’s exemption to play in the PGA Tour event roughly 160 miles Read more…
There were a lot of scenarios being predicted for what the 2025 Ryder Cup might look like heading into Sunday singles at Bethpage Black. A European blowout, however, wasn’t necessarily high among them. After all, the home teams in recent years were the ones who were taking command of the competition and the raucous New Read more…
The idea of a LIV Golf player becoming captain of either the US or European teams seems very unlikely; the Europeans would actually have to re-write their rules to allow it to happen. It also seems like Mickelson isn’t biting on the idea, either.
Saturday at the 2025 Ryder Cup is upon us, bringing with it a host of questions that will go a long way to determining which team will be spraying champagne come Sunday night. Chief among them is the most simple yet most important: Can the Americans play their way back into contention after falling behind Read more…
In the annuls of Ryder Cup frivolity, “Hat Gate” from the 2023 match at Rome is destined to have its own frothy chapter for fans to shake their heads about in the years to come. For those who don’t dine on flat-brim fodder, the Cliff Notes version is that Patrick Cantlay didn’t wear a hat, Read more…
The New York metropolitan region has been blessed with an incredibly comfortable eight-week stretch of weather to close out the summer and welcome autumn.
We live in a “hot take” world, where hyperbole seems to know no end. Yet, objectively speaking, the following statement is not a stretch: The 2025 Ryder Cup is the most anticipated golf event in history. Indeed, ever since Bethpage Black was selected to host the match, originally for 2024 but delayed a year after Read more…
Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew one day this test between Read more…
[Picture: Steve Gibbons/USGA] When a match in a USGA championship ends on the 20th hole, it frequently wraps up with some drama. In a way that was the case during a first-round showdown between Ryan O’Rear and Paul Mitzel at the US Mid-Amateur Championship on Monday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale. Just not the Read more…
In the spring of 2024, Andrew Rodriguez was a talented teen golfer hoping he had caught a break. A high school sophomore in Whittier, Calif., Rodriguez had honed a reliable swing with a local instructor and begun to excel on various Southern California junior tours. But to achieve his ultimate goal of playing Division I Read more…
Among a group of youngsters, 34-year-old Stewart Hagestad did himself proud at Cypress Point Club, the lone mid-amateur on the US Walker Cup side contributing a pair of singles wins in the Americans’ 17-9 victory over Great Britain & Ireland.
PEBBLE BEACH — “It’s finally here,” said U.S. Walker Cup captain Nathan Smith as he greeted friendly faces behind the first tee Saturday morning at Cypress Point Club. The XX-year-old insurance salesman from Pittsburgh, Pa., has been waiting two years to lead his 10-player team in the greatest amateur event in the world. The build-up Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Mason Howell didn’t hesitate when answering the question, as if it’s something he had asked himself recently in a quiet moment of reflection. Three months ago, could he have imagined he would be speaking to the media at Cypress Point as a member of Team USA on the eve of the 50th Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — On Thursday at Cypress Point, it was Luke Poulter of the Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team holing out from the fairway for eagle on the first hole then making a hole-in-one on the par-3 third. He would make a third eagle before the day was over, leaving some to wonder Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Motivation can come from the strangest of things. Including, apparently, a golf pencil. Jackson Koivun, the No. 1 ranked amateur in the world, grew up in San Jose and had played several of the Monterey Peninsula courses as an aspiring teenage golfer. It was four years when the Walker Cup was played Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — Blink and there’s a risk of missing the actual Walker Cup. A week’s worth of pomp and circumstance—practice rounds, dinners, flag-raising ceremonies—proceeds the two-day sprint of a competition between the best amateurs golfers from the United States against their counterparts from Great Britain & Ireland. Teams understandably arrive early, anxious and excited Read more…
PEBBLE BEACH — The scorecard for the 50th Walker Cup lists Cypress Point Club at a meager 6,620 yards, but don’t let that fool you. The team that’s celebrating on Sunday evening won’t be victorious because it overpowered Alister Mackenzie’s famed course. Rather it’s the one that comes closest to solving the 18 enigmas that Read more…
The PGA of America allowed the drama to come to a boil on Wednesday during its U.S. Ryder Cup captain’s picks announcement. First, it had Keegan Bradley extol the virtues of the six golfers who were automatic qualifiers to play next month at Bethpage. Then Bradley went one-by-one through his captain’s picks, each player fielding Read more…
On its face, the Tour Championship would seem such a simple tournament to understand and follow. The PGA Tour’s season finale has a limited field of 30 players, each earning their way into the event based on their play over the course of the season. And this year, the winner will once again also be Read more…
And then there was one. One last tournament to decide who will be the 2025 FedEx Cup champion. After nearly eight months and 35 events, the PGA Tour season comes down to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, where all 30 players start at even par and the golfer with the Read more…
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