There are 84 players in the field at the Legacy Golf & Tennis Club, with five expected to advance. It’s Charlie Woods’ first time attempting US Open qualifying.
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Over nearly four decades on the PGA Tour, outside of the four major championships, the La Costa Resort & Spa was one of the most sought after destinations for every player. In the 1960s through 1990s, be you Palmer, Nicklaus, Watson or Woods, you could only reach San Diego’s northern coastal enclave Read more…
It’s one of those developments in professional golf for which you just shake your head and say, “What the heck?” Those who have followed the game closely in the last few years know the story of Morgan Hoffmann. He is the former No. 1 ranked amateur in the world who starred at Oklahoma State and Read more…
In the three years since Chevron became the sponsor, purses for the tournament, previously held in California’s Palm Springs area and best known as the Dinah Shore, have risen by $US4.8 million.
Scheffler shot 33 on the inward nine and produced six birdies in the last 11 holes, none of those requiring a putt of longer than 10 feet. That’s how dialled in he was.
With no mobile phones or tablets, or really any contact with the outside world, the galleries at the Masters exist blissfully in a time capsule. Nowhere does that feel more the case than the farthest reaches of Augusta National, at the grand terrarium that is Amen Corner. There, above the 11th green, is the massive hand-operated scoreboard that keeps thousands updated on the tournament’s machinations.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Max Homa claims it as his first golf-watching memory, and in that, he shares the experience with thousands of others. On April 13, 1997, he was 6 years old and completely enthralled watching Tiger Woods wrap up his record-setting first Masters victory. Homa vividly remembers the champion’s drive far to the left Read more…
Fred Ridley offered his support of the governing bodies’ efforts, but most of his other comments on the subject seemed to note his concern about where the game is headed on distance.
Take a look at the photo above. Or at the PGA Tour video below. See how the golfer is playing his third shot on the 18th hole at TPC San Antonio, and the conclusion could be that this is a screen shot from a video game. There is no green grass in sight. No flagstick. Read more…
Jimmy Walker could have suffered the embarrassment in relative anonymity. But no, Golf Channel happened to catch him on the eighth hole on Friday in the Valero Texas Open doing something rarely witnessed on the PGA Tour. With Rory McIlroy doing on-air commentary, no less. Walker, the 2016 PGA Championship winner, had a seven-foot putt Read more…
The odds of winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur have always been tipped toward Americans. Among the qualifying classifications is that the top 30 U.S. players in the World Amateur Golf Rankings from the previous year get into the event, as well as those who receive special invites by the tournament’s committee. In the previous Read more…
The less-than-casual angle to it is that this visit probably provides a good indication that Woods is feeling healthy enough to compete in the 88th Masters when it begins on April 11.
For all of the deserved accolades and hoopla surrounding Nick Dunlap’s January victory as an amateur in the PGA Tour’s American Express at PGA West, it’s hardly been a smooth road since for the 20-year-old. When the then-University of Alabama sophomore decided four days after his dramatic win—the first by an am in 33 years Read more…
In his remarkable, record-setting run on the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler hadn’t signed a scorecard of even par or worse in 28 consecutive rounds. He hadn’t suffered a double bogey in 218 holes. In his home state, the Texan was scuffling a bit on his back nine on Friday in the Texas Children’s Houston Open, Read more…
Chan Kim has to believe that the hole-in-one he made on Friday in the second round of the Texas Children’s Open wasn’t happenstance, but a sign from a good friend. On Thursday, Chan, 34, learned that a buddy of his from high school in Chandler, Ariz., died. “We were on the same golf team,” Kim Read more…
The Coody brothers thought it was a typo. The twins, Pierceson and Parker, were playing a practice round ahead of this week’s Texas Children’s Houston Open when the tee times for the first two rounds were released. The 24-year-old PGA Tour rookies were listed as playing together with Jacob Bridgeman. “I thought it was going Read more…
As one of golf’s great characters, three-time major champ Padraig Harrington never lacks for interest, on or off the golf course. Just in the last couple of months, he spoke to Golf Digest at length about the golf ball rollback and taught our colleague, Christopher Powers, how to gain a bunch of speed with the Read more…
Today is Opening Day of the 2024 Major League Baseball season—if you don’t count two games the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres played in South Korea. (And we don’t.) Hundreds of thousands of fans will make their way to 15 games, many no doubt happily singing along to John Fogerty’s catchy 1994 baseball Read more…
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