AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy press conferences are among the best in the sporting world because he’s an introspective athlete who listens, truly thinks about his answers before giving them, and when he wins, the joy and satisfaction are palpable. So it was yet another fascinating meeting the media on Sunday when the 36-year-old Ulsterman Read more…
Just as Rory McIlroy answered every doubt in last year’s Masters win, Rose could have come to the sweetest peace with a victory on Sunday. Instead, he walked away with more kudos for his skill and grit, but the nagging feeling that he still couldn’t do enough to seize a green jacket.
The Players Championship winner says capturing that tournament last month is the all the preparation he needs as he shares the 54-hole lead at Augusta National.
There are automatic standing ovations reserved for a select few at the Masters. They are for those who have won a green jacket, and if you’re Nicklaus or Palmer or Player or Woods, you are greeted warmly by the patrons for as long as you walk these grounds. RELATED: There’s only one man who can Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anybody who tuned into the first round of the 90th Masters on Thursday saw what looked to be a glorious day. Bright sunshine, wispy white clouds and a playing palette of impossibly green grass everywhere. The men trying to control their golf balls would tell you it was all an illusion. To Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Amid the serious matters of a golf ball rollback and the Masters role in the changing world of professional circuits, the question was asked rather gingerly to Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley in his annual Wednesday press conference. I apologize in advance if this question appears somewhat trivial, but from Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — One boy was white, and soon after World War II his father became the proprietor of the Augusta Municipal Golf Course. There was inherent middle-class status to the job, as the son came to understand after he was born in the mid-1960s. The golf perks included his family receiving 50 tickets to Read more…
Woods entered a written plea of not guilty and planned to waive his appearance during an arraignment later this month, according to an online court docket in Martin County, Florida. He is also asking for a jury trial.
It was a club twirl that spoke loud and clear. Gary Woodland had 259 yards over the water on the par-5 16th on Saturday at Memorial Park. He was up by one shot in the Texas Children’s Houston Open and looking to step on the gas. The 41-year-old pulled 2-iron and rifled a high shot Read more…
A scary incident involving a girl being pinned by a golf cart at the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship has apparently ended without serious consequences.
There are likely few players on the PGA Tour who have used the same putter for more than 20 years. Heck, there are a bunch who were toddlers when Brandt Snedeker put an Odyssey Rossie White Hot XG into his bag. The putter and Snedeker’s poppy putting stroke were part of his nine tour victories, Read more…
The tiniest of twigs caused Englishman Matt Wallace considerable bother in the second round of the Valspar Championship. Thankfully for him, his honesty about the rules was matched by his own resilience. Wallace was playing the par-5 11th hole of Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course on Friday when he drove into pine straw and leaves. As he Read more…
On only the second hole in her first start as a rookie on the LPGA Tour, Natasha Oon suffered a quadruple-bogey 8 in the Fortinet Founders Cup. It would have been easy to write her off for the weekend at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Menlo Park, Calif., but to do so would Read more…
Among the many difficult layers to Gary Woodland’s battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was deciding to tell the world was he was going through. Since then? He’s felt the weight of the world off his shoulders, and, probably not a coincidence,his golf is improving, too. “It’s been amazing, to be honest with you,” Woodland, Read more…
Two-time major champion and current LIV Golf player Jon Rahm has withdrawn his appeal against outstanding sanctions levied against him by the DP World Tour, but he remains on an island when it comes to his future status on the circuit.
A victory in the PGA Tour’s opposite-field Puerto Rico Open on Sunday wouldn’t quite send the golf world spinning on its head the way his father’s zero-to-hero triumph in the 1991 PGA Championship did, but John Daly II could hardly care. He would still be among the few sons of renowned golfers to following in Read more…
Jacky Cupit enjoyed an extraordinary amateur golf career and won four times on the PGA Tour. But he was probably best known for dueling Arnold Palmer down the stretch in the 1963 U.S Open at The Country Club, only for he and Palmer to lose in an 18-hole playoff to Julius Boros. Cupit, then just Read more…
Italian golfer Andrea Pavan is recovering after a serious elevator accident in South Africa, sharing progress on his surgery and rehabilitation in an Instagram update.
Tiger Woods and Bobby Jones are considered to have forged the greatest amateur careers of all-time, and the USGA is recognizing Woods’ dominance in a fitting way. Starting this year, the U.S. Amateur medal and U.S. Junior Amateur trophy will carry Woods’ name, the USGA announced on Saturday at its annual meetings that are being Read more…
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