We offer a few dates you might want to circle on your calendars – and not just the ones you think – as you look ahead to another intriguing year in our sport.
They’re all professional golfers. Many of them live in Florida. We know it’s a big state, but you figure that they cross paths at one time or another. So this is one that shocked us: Nelly Korda, the current No.1 female player in the world, had never met Tiger Woods.
Henrik Stenson was attending his own celebrity roast party, and he didn’t even know it. Or if he did, his 11-year-old son, Karl, created an act with Peter Jacobsen that was worthy of a “Saturday Night Live” skit.
The story was buried deep in the New York Times sports section on November 15, 1988. Jammed into the bottom corner of the page next to the college football scores, the short piece carried the headline, “Strange Wins Playoff.” With due respect, the editor whiffed on the headline. Yes, Strange beat Tom Kite with a Read more…
The beauty of Tyrrell Hatton’s circumstance in the Hero World Challenge was that it gave us all a chance to consider the delicious outcomes. And because it was Hatton, who can be volcanic and hilarious at the same time, were just knew there would be a reaction worth watching.
The UK announced it was suspending flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries and making travellers from these countries self-isolate for 10 days effective from noon yesterday.
The narrative predictably fades with time, and though we’re only six months removed from Hideki Matsyama’s historic win in the Masters, it’s probably already forgotten that the Japanese star was on the precipice of a monumental collapse at Augusta National.
Bubba Watson and his caddie, Ted Scott, are among the most recognisable pair on the PGA Tour, and they’re also the couple about whom everybody scratches their head and says, “How have they stayed together for so long without clobbering each other?”