In the context of team match-play golf events like the Ryder Cup and the upcoming Presidents Cup, “loading the boat” means sending your best players out at the beginning of the lineup, and it’s mostly used in reference to a final singles session. Over time, collective team-golf strategy has evolved to a place where it’s Read more…
As the professional golf calendar starts to wind down for the year, the Presidents Cup is fast approaching at Medinah, and we’ve already had some fun with the Walker Cup and Solheim Cup. Times are good in Europe too, with the Race to Dubai coming down to a blood feud between Rory McIlroy and Patrick Read more…
The longer you play golf, the more its specific rhythms become second nature: the rules, the etiquette, the language. It’s easy to forget that for somebody who comes to the sport with no background, especially as an adult, it can feel like landing on a foreign planet. Outside of the simple act of striking the Read more…
The debate about including rookie Jackson Koivun on this year’s Presidents Cup team often centered on a false dichotomy: Either you pick him as preparation for future competitions, like the Adare Manor Ryder Cup next fall, or you take someone with “experience” who can help you immediately. This, of course, was always wrong. Koivun is Read more…
While the players will deliberate in a few months on their vote for PGA Tour Player of the Year, we aren’t waiting. It’s time to hand out some awards of our own, from the serious to the tragic to the comical.
The PGA Tour’s new matchplay format arrives in 2028. We simulated how this year’s Tour Championship would have played out under the new system, hole by hole.
Last summer, on a magical day at a course here in Durham, NC, I shot a personal best 74 and ascended to the heavens on a white cloud, surrounded a choir of glowing angels. It may sound strange, but if you play golf, you know exactly what I mean. I was truly happy. I had Read more…
This week’s Ten Things digs into the newly wide-open Player of the Year race between Scottie Scheffler and Wyndham Clark, previews the Tour Championship at East Lake, and asks whether Rory McIlroy’s BMW Championship form signals a late-season resurgence.
The hardest part of this for you, if you disagree with the headline, is that I’m going to start by bludgeoning you with statistics. I’m going to bludgeon you so thoroughly that you’re punch drunk and reeling, and whatever you say next is going to sound feeble and desperate. You should just agree with me Read more…
This week’s Ten Things covers Scottie Scheffler’s statement win at Memphis and the case for Player of the Year, Jordan Spieth’s narrow miss on the top 50 cut, a breakdown of Bellerive Country Club ahead of the BMW Championship and why the current playoff format might be lacking in stakes.
As the FedEx Cup Playoffs get underway at TPC Southwind, here’s a look at the biggest storylines to watch, from a stacked field to a genuinely unpredictable Player of the Year race.
On Saturday night, sitting in a tie for the lead at the Wyndham Championship, Michael Brennan briefly allowed himself to think about what it would mean to win—not only would he rise 58 spots in the FedEx Cup standings and make the playoffs, but he’d get such a boost that he’d be in position to Read more…
The 21-year-old newly minted pro stayed and watched until the not-so-bitter end. In the clubhouse at Sedgefield Country Club, Jackson Koivun waited and observed as the leaders came down the stretch at the Wyndham Championship, the finale of the PGA Tour’s regular season. He shot a somewhat disappointing 71 in his own final round, which Read more…
With the FedEx Cup playoff cut line on the line, Jackson Koivun, Beau Hossler and Michael Brennan head into the final round of the Wyndham Championship fighting to lock in their post-season spots.
Scott O’Neil declined to say who the investor or the additional parties were, or how much money has been committed so far, or what 2027 might look like for LIV Golf. He did, however, add one key detail about the vision for LIV’s future.
As the FedEx Cup playoff race heats up, here’s a look at the biggest storylines heading into the Wyndham Championship, from Cam Young’s title defence to Brooks Koepka’s must-win week.
Golfpocalypse is a collection of words that runs prior to each week’s PGA Tour event, mostly ABOUT that event. Reach out with your hottest takes on absolutely anything at [email protected]. We’ll publish the best emails here. SCENE: Outrageous electric guitar music plays, I ride up on a skateboard, come to a sudden stop, chug a Read more…
\The great and painful rule on days like these is that everyone has to fall. They’re raindrops on a car window, waiting for gravity and accumulating pressure to send them cascading out of sight. It’s a thing that happens gradually for the field but suddenly for the lone player, and on certain Sundays, like the Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — In the aftermath of his close call at last month’s U.S. Open, when he was playing the best of the contenders on Sunday but couldn’t quite catch Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns couldn’t hold back the tears. His father was there, and the 29-year-old PGA Tour pro badly wanted to win his first Read more…
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