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…
“It’s called The Snake Pit for a reason.” Those were the words of Keith Mitchell on Saturday afternoon after he’d played the third round of the Valspar Championship on the Innisbrook Copperhead Course. If you’re saying something like that, it’s probably a rationalization for having been hammered by the final three holes that are dubbed Read more…
A few hours after their teammate celebrated a victory in a college tournament, the University of South Carolina men’s golf team was involved in a terrible crash caused by a driver who reportedly ran a red light. Fortunately, no major injuries were suffered. Gamecocks assistant coach Brady Gregor told Golfweek that the accident happened on Read more…
McIlroy cautioned that the current state of affairs, with two entities currently holding very different forms of competition and some players secured by LIV through the late 2020s, will require patience to be worked out.
The shots were so good on Saturday, the drama so compelling and the late-afternoon light so perfect on TPC Sawgrass’ hearty closing stretch, it’s a shame they weren’t playing the final round of the 50th Players Championship. Xander Schauffele was five strokes back of Wyndham Clark after the first hole of the third round, only Read more…
We’ve seen on many occasions tour golfers getting hosed by hitting the flagstick with a perfectly struck approach shot. How about when the ball clangs off the stick and goes off the green or into a bunker? The worst. On Saturday in the Players Championship, Sungjae Im suffered a horrible break because of his accuracy Read more…
In the PGA Tour’s return in 2021 to TPC Sawgrass after the previous year’s Players Championship was shut down because of COVID-19, Justin Thomas seized his most meaningful personal triumph outside of the majors on the strength of a Saturday 64. This year, he won’t be around on the weekend. Thomas, who hadn’t missed a Read more…
With a mere couple of taps of his club behind a ball in the rough, reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark caused a stir on the television broadcast of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and, of course, in many golf corners of social media.
Anybody checking out the overnight LIV Golf leaderboard from Hong Kong on Friday morning likely made a quick scroll to the bottom. Why? Because that’s probably the dwelling spot for Anthony Kim, who is making his second start this week after a 12-year absence from the pro game. Given the rust, Kim predictably finished last Read more…
Woods joins fellow Jones winners Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Francis Ouimet, Mickey Wright, Patty Berg, Annika Sorenstam and US president George H.W. Bush.
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