Billy Horschel had every reason to be upset, even before the heckler let loose on Friday at the Cognizant Classic. The eight-time PGA Tour winner, who has struggled enough over the past year to fall to No. 81 in the world, was grinding to try to make a par at the par-3 15th at PGA Read more…
Three of the four tournaments on the mainland portion of the PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing feature poa annua greens. And just about every player would tell you that even at those venues, the way putts roll at eadch of them can be completely different. MORE: This umbrella snafu at Riviera might be one of Read more…
Charlie Woods has made his college choice, and he’s heading to one of the strongest collegiate men’s golf programs in the country. In news first reported by Rivals.com, the junior at the Benjamin School in Palm Beach, Fla., has made a commitment to Florida State. The son of Tiger Woods can be expected to land Read more…
Neal Shipley enjoyed one heck of a debut in TGL. The former Ohio State star and current PGA Tour rookie—whose long hair and affable nature have made him popular with fans—joined The Bay Golf Club TGL team for the first time on Monday, and he hit what is among the tech-infused league’s most memorable shots Read more…
The big winner at LIV Golf’s season opener in Riyadh, under the lights in Saudi Arabia, was clearly the man who lifted two trophies and is cashing two checks for individual and team victories. Elvis Smylie, a 23-year-old who had never won a pro tournament outside of his native Australia, played brilliantly all week in Read more…
Justin Rose steamrolled the field at the Farmers Insurance Open to win by seven shots, top a Tiger Woods record and do something that hasn’t happened since 1955.
As Rose fashioned a historic victory in which he set the tournament’s 36, 54 and 72-hole scoring records, he said he never brought up the past with caddie Mark Fulcher – until the end.
SAN DIEGO — Sahith Theegala swears he had no idea the milestone was approaching. He didn’t know that he had made his 100th cut on the PGA Tour on Friday in the Farmers Insurance Open until a half-dozen members of his entourage of family and friends pulled on freshly made blue T-shirts on Saturday morning Read more…
SAN DIEGO — Joel Dahmen couldn’t believe what he just saw. Playing partner Justin Rose, enjoying an extended heater at Torrey Pines, had a lie on Saturday in the first cut of rough off the fairway on the South Course’s challenging seventh hole. The pin location was as tough as it comes, tucked into the Read more…
SAN DIEGO — In a round that he’d put plenty of circles and squares on his scorecard, Brooks Koepka had a strong chance to head for the locker room feeling decent about his Saturday in the Farmers Insurance Open. After starting on the 10th hole of the Torrey Pines South Course, he was only 55 Read more…
SAN DIEGO — It was tough way to make a network TV debut. Johnson Wagner was hired by CBS away from Golf Channel before this season to do what he does best—try to re-create shots hit by the pros, usually with highly entertaining results. There have been a lot of memorable attempts, including Johnson trying Read more…
SAN DIEGO — When Justin Rose learned that his short birdie miss on the final hole in Thursday’s round kept hin from setting the course record of 61 on the Torrey Pines North Course, he groaned. His next thought: “We’ll go after the 36-hole record.” MORE: Joel Dahmen makes 3 eagles in a crirtical round Read more…
SAN DIEGO — At a time just before Christmas last year, the anxiety grew for Joel Dahmen. He was happy to be home in Arizona with his wife, Lona, and their two boys, the youngest having been born in November. But the popular, one-time PGA Tour winner was staring at an upcoming calendar filled with Read more…
In a brief statement, the PGA Tour announced in the evening that Michael Brennan had been disqualified for a breach of Model Local Rule G-11 because he used “non-permitted green-reading materials”.
On the PGA Tour’s policy board, Scott was part of what he said was a unanimous vote for the Returning Member Program policy that also included Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith, all of whom decided to stay at LIV Golf. For Reed’s return, there was no vote needed.
Ahead of the start of the last San Diego tournament that will be sponsored by Farmers Insurance, Schauffele admitted that he’s hardly the guy tying himself to a Torrey pine tree to save the event. But he also doesn’t seem overly concerned that the event is in danger of going away.
Koepka, wearing a sweatshirt and his Nike hat low over his eyes, spoke almost solemnly and for the first time at length about his stunning return in front of a larger-than-normal gathering of reporters at the annual PGA Tour stop near San Diego.
With his 20th PGA Tour win in 151 starts, Scheffler is the second-fastest behind Woods to reach that milestone. Of greater significance, the 29-year-old Texan joined only Woods and Jack Nicklaus to have four majors and 20 wins before age 30.
Have you ever fathomed Tiger Woods or Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler playing rock-paper-scissors with a fan at the ropes in the heat of competition? Of course not. Tiger loathed even eye contact, and Rory and Scottie offer fist bumps occasionally, but most of the great players covet trying to stay in some kind of Read more…
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