Despite making seven birdies and an eagle over this first 10 holes, Joaquin Niemann swears he didn’t know what he was shooting on Friday in the LIV Golf season opener in Mexico.
SAN DIEGO — Michael Herrera had 14 long hours on the flight home from Thailand to process the crushing disappointment. Just over a week ago in Thailand, the California mini-tour pro missed a six-foot birdie putt on the last of 80 holes in Asian Tour Q School to not get full status by one shot. Read more…
Frenchman Matthieu Pavon birdied the 72nd hole of the Farmers Insurance Open to win his first PGA Tour title in only the third start of his rookie season.
SAN DIEGO — This is the ultimate lineup test on the PGA Tour. If we put the top nine players on the Farmers Insurance Open leaderboard heading into Saturday’s final round side by side and asked even an ardent golf fan to identify them, the success rate would not be pretty. If you knew even Read more…
SAN DIEGO — Back in professional golf’s era of oversized bellies and visions of Arnold Palmer more than occasionally puffing on a cigarette, if a player sought medical treatment at a tournament, he had probably just tweaked a back muscle or wrenched a knee. A few stretches and a couple of aspirin later, he was Read more…
When players the calibre of Hideki Matsuyama make a hole-in-one, it’s hardly a shock. But when you hear that it’s the first one in a veteran’s career—now, that raises our eyebrows a little bit.
In a decision that seemed inevitable from the time the last putt dropped in his historic win, Nick Dunlap announced overnight (Australian time) at a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that he has decided to become a professional golfer.
Like most golfers on the planet, Jake Knapp dreamed of one day playing the Pebble Beach Golf Links. He grew up in Southern California and competed in college at UCLA, but somehow never made it to the Monterey Peninsula to tour the likes of Pebble, Spyglass Hill and Spanish Bay. Finally, Knapp thought he was Read more…
Torrey Pines South has consistently ranked among the longest and toughest tracks on the PGA Tour, and it figures to keep that position this year after the Farmers Insurance Open is played this week.
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 nuture that interest in the game and its life lessons. This year, we recognize and honor The First Tee Game Changers—the recipients of the highest awards given out by The Read more…
Michael Kim is no dummy. In the grand pecking order of professional golf, he understands he is a journeyman who has played on the PGA Tour for the better part of eight years. He’s claimed one victory in 198 starts, and still isn’t recognized by average golf fans at tournaments, let alone restaurants or grocery Read more…
In a matter of seconds, the Alabama men’s golf team might have just lost one of the best golfers in program history to the pros, and yet the players celebrated as if they had all won the NCAA Championship. Or maybe the Super Bowl. With 20-year-old Crimson Tide sophomore Nick Dunlap trying to nail down Read more…
Rory McIlroy had a decision to make. From the back fringe on the par-5 18th hole at Emirates Golf Club on Saturday, the Irishman had 45 feet to the pin and would normally pitch his ball. But the lie was just tricky enough that McIlroy opted for his putter. Smart choice. McIlroy rolled his ball Read more…
The first two times the USGA staged the U.S. Adaptive Open, it felt more akin to an invitational than a true “open.” Entries were taken and the fields for each division were based largely on handicap index. Some of that was due to the USGA not knowing what kind of interest in would receive for Read more…
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Tom Whitney, a 34-year-old PGA Tour rookie who is playing his first event of the year this week in The American Express, is speaking in a front of a rapt audience of reporters, earnestly explaining a former job from what must seem like another lifetime. A transcript of the chat will Read more…
In a sport as mentally taxing as professional golf, most players would admit they’ve suffered through times of doubt and self-loathing. At the same time, most appear to be masters of pulling on a mask to hide those emotions. Grayson Murray has never been that guy. The 30-year-old from North Carolina went through a period Read more…
The way Kevin Kisner’s second round was going at the Sony Open in Hawaii on Friday, the safety of the broadcast booth must have looked mighty inviting. Kisner made his NBC Sports broadcast debut to mostly positive reviews at The Sentry in Maui last week, and then returned to competition at Waialae Country Club, where Read more…
The days of golf fans wanting to cover their eyes while watching Will Zalatoris’ looping putting stroke may be over. Or, at least, Willy Z hopes so. Zalatoris, who ranked 103rd in strokes gained/putting in his last full season of 2021-22 before a back injury sidelined him for much of last year, said on Tuesday Read more…
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