CHARLOTTE — When the dust settled on the morning wave Thursday at the PGA Championship, the flags at the top of the leaderboard might have fooled a passerby into thinking he’d accidentally stumbled into a meeting of the Charlotte chapter of the European Union. Five different European nations were represented, starting with Germany’s Stephen Jaeger Read more…
CHARLOTTE — I hate to brag, but this vibes guide is currently a perfect 100 percent in 2025 at having the winner somewhere on the list. Back in April, I had Rory McIlroy as the 41st most likely player to take home the green jacket, and lo and behold, he pulled it off. It will Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Let it be known that Rory McIlroy did not care for the question I posed on Wednesday morning: If you had to trade one part of your game—driving, putting, approach, around the green—with another current player, what part would you change, and with who? A question like this depends on a player’s willingness Read more…
CHARLOTTE — This year at Quail Hollow, the questions were inevitable. Jordan Spieth has won the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, thus needing a PGA Championship victory to complete the career Grand Slam. This is the eighth year in a row that has been true, but what makes it feel so pressing Read more…
Two summers ago, we endeavored to rank all 40 courses that have hosted multiple major championships since 1920 (outside the Masters and its forever home, Augusta National) in a matrix weighing course prestige against actual tournament results. You can see the results here, and the chart just below this paragraph, followed by a few cliff Read more…
The statistic we care most about in golf, as fans and writers and players and sponsors and any other role you can imagine, is wins. It’s the broadest statistic of them all, and maybe not the best in determining history’s most talented golfers, but it’s the most important. So let’s start there: Rory McIlroy has Read more…
You could be forgiven for missing it, since it happened the same weekend Rory McIlroy won the Masters and wrapped up his career Grand Slam chase. In early April, the U.S. National Junior Team defeated Team Canada, 16-8, in a three-day, Ryder Cup-style competition featuring three different match-play formats at Champions Golf Club in Houston. Read more…
At the risk of sounding self-important, we should lead with the truth of the matter: This mystery could have been solved by anyone who took a few hours to track down results with a newspapers.com account. However, nobody seems to have done so before us, and we now have an answer to the following question: Read more…
On Tuesday morning, the PGA Tour announced that Brandt Snedeker (USA) and Geoff Ogilvy (International) would be the captains for the 2026 edition of the Presidents Cup, to be held at Medinah No. 3 outside Chicago. For the U.S. this signifies the re-establishment of a captaincy pipeline that seemed to vanish with the selection of Read more…
Here at the halfway point, with 17 weeks until the Tour Championship, these are the seven stats that have defined the PGA Tour season so far, telling the story of a wild 2025.
The US Presidents Cup team was unveiled Tuesday with the PGA Tour naming Brandt Snedeker as captain for the 2026 American squad that will compete at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago.
Golfpocalypse is a collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. First off, I have to tell you about Read more…
The history of Northern Ireland’s troubles goes back basically as far as you want it to, but its origins hundreds of years ago shouldn’t overshadow the fact that it’s an intensely modern conflict that still rages even 27 years after the signing of the Good Friday peace accords in 1998. Anyone who’s visited Belfast, for Read more…
When the dust had settled on his win at the RBC Heritage Sunday, Justin Thomas rose to No.5 in the world for the first time since 2022, and also bagged his first trophy since the PGA Championship that year.
The headline here, beyond the putt itself, is that Thomas has his first victory after a drought that started after he won his second PGA Championship at Southern Hills in 2022, and lasted nearly three years.
Golfpocalypse is a collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. On Wednesday, I came across this Instagram post Read more…
“May you get what you wish for.”—The third Chinese curse When Rory settled down in front of the media in the aftermath of his great, chaotic, cathartic victory at the Masters, he began his opening statement with a joke: “What are we all going to talk about next year?” It landed. Everyone laughed, and he Read more…
When my editors had the idea of writing about the trend of men getting vasectomies around the Masters, there was an initial suggestion—I’m almost positive it was a joke—that it should be a first-person immersive piece. As in, “Hey Shane, go get a vasectomy for the story.” “Ha, ha!” I replied. “What if, instead, I Read more…
Have you failed to watch any golf this year, but can’t resist the sweet siren song of the Masters, and need a quick catch-up? Have you watched literally every minute from Pebble to Puerto Rico, but you’re sick of reading player guides that run the risk of giving you too much useful information? Are you Read more…
In the late 1960s, after Charlie Sifford integrated the PGA Tour but before the Masters had seen a black player in its field, there weren’t many white voices antagonizing for integration inside the sport itself. Even more than today, it didn’t pay to be on the wrong side of Augusta National, and golf has always Read more…
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