To say Aldrich Potgieter’s game can be a little erratic is an understatement. Last year on the Korn Ferry Tour, the South African won in only his second start as a tour member to become the circuit’s youngest-ever champion at 19. But then he notched only two other top-10 finishes, still earning his PGA Tour Read more…
The conversation stuck with APGA Tour co-founder and CEO Ken Bentley. PGA Tour player Billy Horschel has been an avid supporter of the pro circuit for minority golfers, and Bentley was trading ideas last year with the golfer’s mental coach, Dr. Bhrett McCabe. Among the topics was the notion that the APGA should focus more Read more…
Tiger Woods said he believes the professional game will “heal very quickly” if and when the PGA Tour can come to an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund as negotiations between the two entities continue.
SAN DIEGO — Patrick Rodgers found the Hollywood ending in his private life. The PGA Tour veteran is married to actress and longtime movie industry insider Jade Olivia Grodon, a Briton who played Astoria Greengrass in the eighth Harry Potter movie. They have two children, Rafi and Rosie. And in an 11-year playing career, Rodgers Read more…
SAN DIEGO — Barring a really brutal lie or ridiculous slope or distance, PGA Tour players expect to hit every chip they try. With their skills, it’s like having a putter in their hand. It can be comical sometimes to see their pained reactions on a miss when regular hack golfers are just trying to Read more…
SAN DIEGO — A horrible break on a bad drive, followed by one of the most cagey uses of the rules we’ll ever see, highlighted the opening half hour of Scottie Scheffler’s second round of the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines. Call it a very “Scottie” par. MORE: The weather was bad and Scottie Scheffler Read more…
SAN DIEGO — There’s a generation of young PGA Tour players who have memories of Tiger Woods’ best golf when they were still watching SpongeBob while their parents took pictures with flip phones. Jake Knapp, now 30, qualifies for that group and has a story better than most. MORE: The incredible way the Genesis is Read more…
For an organization that for decades meant so much to the Black golf community, nurturing the likes of Lee Elder, Ted Rhodes, Charlie Sifford and Renee Powell throughout their careers, the United Golfers Association met a quiet and sad demise. Infighting about the direction of the organization, as well as the sense that the integration Read more…
McIlroy has the attention of some of the most powerful people in the world, and he’s not afraid to offer an opinion or listen intently when the time is right.
Born in the US state of Georgia, to an Australian father and Ghanaian mother, Danny List was raised in the West African nation and possessed a “weird obsession” with golf. He’ll compete at Torrey Pines this week under an Australian flag.
TGR and Genesis staff, as well as representatives from the Century Club of San Diego, have been essentially working around the clock to make the Genesis Invitational as unique and successful as possible.
If you were in a loud bar on Sunday, didn’t know the scores in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and looked up just as Justin Rose made eagle on the famed 18th hole, you’d have thought the Englishman had won his second major. MORE: The clubs Rory McIlroy used to win at Pebble Beach That’s Read more…
They number in the thousands around the country—an army of volunteers at golf courses who plant seeds of love for golf in children and then nurture that interest in the game and its life lessons. Golf Digest once again recognizes and honors the First Tee Game Changers—the recipients of the highest awards given out by Read more…
SAN DIEGO — South African Kieron van Wyk, a senior at the College of Charleston, had never been to California in the 23 years of his life before this week. He’d never seen the Torrey Pines South Course until he walked it outside the ropes on Saturday while following groups in the final round of Read more…
SAN DIEGO — Joel Dahmen calls himself a “SEAL junkie.” He’s not talking about marine life. “Anytime there was a documentary out or any of those movies like ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ l love watching those,” he says. “I was obsessed, because tthose guys are the baddest dudes on the planet Earth.” Dahmen was speaking, of Read more…
This was not the Joel Dahmen we all know. On Thursday in the Farmers Insurance Open, the popular tour player who is easily recognizable because of his bucket hat looked like just your average pro. A normal golf cap was the headwear of choice because it had to be, with the Santa Ana winds consistently Read more…
Max Homa apparently had enough of the wind and his own ragged play on Thursday in the Farmers Insurance Open. The champion of the event at Torrey Pines in 2023 withdrew with three holes to play on the North Course after heavy winds forced officials to suspend play. Homa stood at four over par for Read more…
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