LOUISVILLE — Harris English was among the first competitors in the PGA Championship to finish playing his round on Friday, and the questions for him immediately went to the tragic events of the morning at Valhalla Golf Club, where a pedestrian was killed by a bus, and the separate but stunning news that World No. Read more…
LOUISVILLE — It was well before lunchtime on Thursday when Tiger Woods finished his play on Valhalla Golf Club’s 18th hole with a tap-in par. He’d started the first round of his 23rd PGA Championship early with his grouping on the 10th hole. A sizeable moving gallery followed Woods over the first nine holes, but Read more…
There isn’t a leader among golf’s most important organising bodies who has been more bluntly critical of LIV Golf than PGA of America chief executive Seth Waugh.
LOUISVILLE — If he didn’t quite grasp it before, Scottie Scheffler now understands there’s a more heroic figure in his family who doesn’t hit golf balls for a living. Last Tuesday, Scheffler’s wife, Meredith, gave birth to their first child, a boy they named Bennett. And from the sound of it, Scottie was in awe Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — On a Thursday in mid-April, University of Texas men’s golf coach John Fields arrived at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa with a small entourage in tow. Fields’ Longhorns wrapped up play the day before in a college tournament at Pasatiempo, and on the school’s private jet, Fields and his group Read more…
Kim posted a venom-fuelled diatribe on X/Twitter about NBC Sports commentator Brandel Chamblee, who has been one of the most outspoken critics about LIV and its financial backers from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The 2023 LIV player of the year announced on social media that he received an invitation from the PGA of America to compete in next week’s PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.
The squad named The Bay Club and representing the San Francisco Bay Area will feature reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark, PGA Tour rookie and world No.6 Ludvig Aberg, 2019 Open Championship winner Shane Lowry and Australia’s Min Woo Lee.
The two Irishmen playing as a team for the first time in the Zurich Classic outside of New Orleans have been wearing matching outfits all week. Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry hardly look like twins, but they’ve suited up as a pair, wearing pink shirts and blue pants in the first round, all black in Read more…
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.
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