The news came out of the blue for the members of San Diego Country Club, and like any big surprise it arrived wwith doses of thrill and apprehension. An attorney representing the estate of LPGA legend Mickey Wright called to say that someone had designated $175,000 to the club to fulfill an extremely unusual request—commission Read more…
Akshay Bhatia had every reason to believe that the 2025 PGA Tour season would serve as yet another step in his strong and popular rise. Over the previous two years, the lanky North Carolinian, who skipped college and turned pro at the age of 17, has grown into a much-respected competitor. Bhatia won once in Read more…
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — This year’s Open Championship was like a science fair in which the one kid from Mensa builds a talking robot and the other kids glue together log cabins with Popsicle sticks. Scottie Scheffler was a genius for nearly all of the week at Royal Portrush, and the result was a masterclass Read more…
The comparisons, debate and analysis of Scheffler’s past four seasons to some of Woods’ greatest runs are inevitable. And upon closer examination, it’s a legitimate exercise because the ways in which they stomped on their peers are very similar in some respects – and quite a bit different in others.
In playing companion Matt Fitzpatrick’s view, what he witnessed of Scheffler on the greens during the third round at Royal Portrush was far different from the reputation he knew only a few years ago.
PORTRUSH, Ireland — Give Harris English and his caddie for this week in the Open Championship credit for making the most of a disheartening situation for the five-time PGA Tour winner. The troubles that Harris’ caddie of nine years, Eric Larson, faced in being denied entry into the U.K. because of a drug conviction 30 Read more…
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — In 2012, an unnamed writer on an unnamed website—we’ll spare them the embarrassment—wrote emphatically that Phil Mickelson would never win an Open Championship after he badly missed the cut at Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s, extending a string of mostly middling career play in golf’s oldest major. “For whatever reason, the Read more…
Schauffele is so unconcerned with the trophies that he’s not even sure where they are, other than the original version of the claret jug, which he had to return this week.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Jon Rahm’s two major championship victories have come on American soil and he has deep golf and familial ties to the States. But ask him what the Open Championship means to the Spaniard and his answer is both surprising and not. “In my opinion, the Open Championship is the most prestigious Read more…
The LET announced overnight (Australian time) that chief executive Alexandra Armas will step down on October 1 after helming the tour since early 2020.
The five-time major winner, incensed after a bad drive on the ninth hole and apparently not feeling well, slammed his driver to the turf and then took a Happy Gilmore swing in the first round of LIV Golf Dallas.
It sure seems that Philip Knowles deserved some golf grace coming his way, because over the last couple of years the 28-year-old from Florida has experienced horrible luck. He’s endured a freak injury and the recurrence of the very painful shingles virus—in his eye, no less. MORE: In stunning turnaround, Jake Knapp breaks course record Read more…
As the first season of the televised simulated golf league, TGL, played out on weeknights over the winter, there was one piece of the technology that truly stood out. Sure, the six-story-high simulator screen was the eye-catching behemoth in the operation, but the biggest accomplishment by engineers surely was the way shots were tracked onto Read more…
Tex Mex. Team Biggie Smalls. Roses for Ryu. Kilted Koalas. Yamada. Hot Bob’s Girls. LA Dropouts. Team Sloth Machine. And our favorite … Jin and Ronic. They sound like team names for beer league softball, but there’s some whimsy to the Dow Championship in Michigan this week with the two-player squads coming up with their Read more…
The were signs for a bike lane and no parking near the road that runs along the 16th hole at Midland Country Club. Since Megan Khang had neither a car nor bicycle, the American LPGA player was clearly in a tough spot on Thursday in the Dow Championship. Her partner in the team event in Read more…
In the case of the short-lived 15-inch cup in golf, Golf Digest served as the leading guinea pig. Or was it the biggest sucker? In the June 2011 edition of the magazine, writer Jaime Diaz was tasked with documenting what was dubbed the Golf Digest WIDE Open at the Pine Needles Lodge & Club. “OPEN Read more…
Russell Henley didn’t know he was going to get into deep contention at the Travelers Championship by shooting a career-best 61 on Saturday at TPC River Highlands. He didn’t know that he’d truly have a shot at winning his second PGA Tour signature event of the season and the $3.6 million champion’s check. MOREL Justin Read more…
Justin Thomas was typically blunt earlier the week about he’s played in this season’s majors. The two-time PGA Championship winner missed the cut last week in the U.S. Open at Oakmont after not reaching the weekend in the PGA at Quail Hollow. At the Masters, he mustered only a T-36. “I still get pretty pissed Read more…
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