Marc Dull put the odds at 10 percent, and he was on the wrong end of that estimation in the Round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball on Tuesday morning. Two against one didn’t seem like a fair fight. Dull and his fellow Floridian, Chip Brooke, advanced through 36 holes of stroke play and Read more…
Scheffler confirmed he was among the 50 players whose drivers were tested early in the week at Quail Hollow, and that the TaylorMade Qi10 driver that he planned to use in the championship did not pass testing.
Jon Rahm thoughtfully and earnestly analysed a stunning late collapse that took him from possibly completing the third leg of a career Grand Slam to basically being just another guy in the pack who finished well behind PGA champion Scottie Scheffler.
CHARLOTTE — In a fraction of second, the time it takes to swing a golf club, Alex Noren’s prospects for the 2025 season changed dramatically. The 42-year-old Swede was on the driving range early in the week of the season-opening Sentry in Maui, pleased to be included in a $20 million signature event after reaching Read more…
CHARLOTTE — The car doors had no handles—that is a standout memory to John Fields. So was knowing that the vehicle in which he was riding with PGA Tour player Jhonattan Vegas was bulletproof, and that the motorcycles zooming alongside weren’t ridden by tourists but hired protectors. To Fields, the men’s golf coach at the Read more…
CHARLOTTE — The PGA Tour and major championships have tossed civility, and maybe fairness, aside when it comes to setting up par-3 holes these days. There were a couple of nearly 300-yard beasts in the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, and the tour last week had a 250-yarder in the Truist Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Scottie Scheffler called it a “tremendous amount of fun.” The guys he was playing with might have muttered under their breath, “Speak for yourself.” The PGA of America smartly created a mega group for the first two rounds of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, putting together Scheffler, the World No. 1, with Read more…
It’s not that Rory McIlroy hasn’t watched some of the highlights of his final round and emotional reaction to winning the Masters in April. It’s just not something he wants running in a loop in his head.
CHARLOTTE — A midday thunderstorm blew through Quail Hollow on Tuesday, with a bolt of lightning coming so close to the property that the boom had those in the vicinity ducking for cover. As it had for much of the previous day, a deluge flooded the course and confined players for a time to the Read more…
Tragic, disturbing incidents have been happening in the skies over the U.S. this year, and no one is immune. Greg Norman, a 40-year flier on private aircraft, can attest to that. The 70-year-old World Golf Hall of Famer who most recently served as LIV Golf’s CEO posted on Instagram on Friday that he endured a Read more…
We will maintain for all time that some of the best and funniest photos ever taken of Xander Schauffele don’t involve a golf club or ball. If you’ve looked at the main photo of the two-time major winner that accompanies this story, we dare you not to smile—the puff of smoke captured perfect, Schauffele feigning Read more…
Just over two months ago, Jim Dent did an interview with NBC BLK in which he said he would never have become a pro golfer if he hadn’t first been among the Black caddie corps at Augusta National Golf Club. “It gave me everything I own,” Dent said in the interview of his introduction to Read more…
The experimental use of rangefinders has seen its first admitted violator in terms of a penalty, with Davis Riley calling a two-stroke penalty on himself on Saturday in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas. MORE: The fascinating tale of how a caddie brought rangefinders to the PGA Tour While finishing the weather-delayed second Read more…
On a day when the team had torched the course for eight birdies and an eagle through 17 holes of fourball, McIlroy had a 30-foot putt for eagle that, if he made it, would give them a hard-charging 61 and a legitimate chance for a title repeat.
Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, future pro-caddie-to-the-stars Cayce Kerr could have been like most kids, worshipping athletes or lead singers in rock bands. But Kerr showed at a young age that his mind worked quite a bit differently. It’s pretty much guaranteed that he was the only teen in his native Maryland who Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — There were double takes after double takes on Saturday when the Japanese identical twins who are rookies on the LPGA Tour finished the round they’d played together in the JM Eagle LA Championship. Akie and Chisato Iwai were among the afternoon’s biggest attractions at El Caballero Country Club, and at one point Read more…
Rory McIlroy has no doubt had a whirlwind week after winning the Masters. The plan he put forth in this champion’s press conference last Sunday was to fly home to Northern Ireland to celebrate securing the career Grand Slam with his parents. He’s not going to be there for long. Shane Lowry, his good friend Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy used 73 strokes to play his final round of the 89th Masters, the worst score of any player among the top five on the final leaderboard on a spectacularly sunny day with little wind. He suffered four double bogeys in the week, which no Masters champion has ever done. The Read more…
For a player who had two double-bogeys late in the first round, seemingly ruining his hopes early of a Masters win, Rory McIlroy has bounced back in historic fashion. After a 66 on day two, McIlroy became the first player in history to start a round at the Masters with six consecutive 3s on the scorecard.
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