How do you sum up a professional career of 20 years that has approached but never quite reached the top? How do you describe the long journeyman’s path, littered with the memory of those who were just like you in every way except one: you never quit? The path that brings to the front lawn Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The pitch was simple as I approached people individually and in groups on a sunny Tuesday afternoon at the Players Championship: This is a quick survey, I only have one question, and I don’t need your name—just your opinion. In fact, I had two questions, the second of which was more Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The pitch was simple as I approached people individually and in groups on a sunny Tuesday afternoon at the Players Championship: This is a quick survey, I only have one question, and I don’t need your name—just your opinion. In fact, I had two questions, the second of which was more Read more…
In a performance that was alternately confident and cautious, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke in front of the gathered media for the first time since last August at the Tour Championship.
The Players Championship is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week, which makes this a good time to take a look back at the history of the PGA Tour and to look beyond its flagship event. Obviously, this tournament is the jewel in the crown of the tour’s season, and the closest it’s come to getting Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the season of the Netflix golf documentary series “Full Swing.” Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
Before he passed, the billionaire businessman Herb Kohler liked to tell a story about working with Pete Dye, the designer he employed to build Blackwolf Run, the first of the Sheboygan-area courses and a precursor to Whistling Straits, host of several majors and the Ryder Cup. In their initial project, they had a disagreement about Read more…
I don’t smile much, and I never laugh. If you’d been through what I’ve been through, you wouldn’t be smiling either. Charlie Sifford said these words to Guy Yocom in his late 70s, a little more than a decade before he died in 2015, and they might be the best summation of everything he endured Read more…
Are you an American NFL fan? Did you watch the Super Bowl? If so, you’re part of a demographic that just watched the second-most viewed TV program in the history of the country, after the moon landing. Which means you may have missed the scenes in the desert, where a weather-delayed WM Phoenix Open culminated Read more…
After another wild week in Phoenix, where alcohol sales were cut off on Saturday and some ticketholders weren’t admitted to the grounds, it’s the understated Canadian Taylor who reaps the rewards of winning.
This week, we attempted to compile every public quote Rory McIlroy has made about LIV Golf, its predecessor the Premier Golf League, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and all the related drama in the golf world over the last four years. We scoured press conference transcripts, interviews with various media sources in the United States Read more…
When Anthony Kim withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship in 2012 after just one round, plagued by injuries and poor play, nobody had a clue that it would be his last round on the PGA Tour—including Kim. But a month later, when he tore his Achilles tendon jogging on the beach, it was the straw Read more…
Bonjour, mon ami, and bienvenue to the latest edition of THE C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.I.O.N. SCALE, our highly advanced scientific method for determining the quality of each victory celebration on the PGA Tour. This week, we honor the out-of-nowhere French sensation Matthieu Pavon, the 31-year-old Toulouse native who triumphed on Saturday at Torrey Pines. It was a shocking Read more…
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