Where do we start? It’s a legitimate question considering how much there is to unpack about Myles Creighton’s 11-under-par 59 on Saturday in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Wichita Open. Is it most notable that it was the second 59 of the week at Crestview Country Club, a wholly gettable, par-70 track of only 6,910 yards? Read more…
Lexi Thompson has experienced more than her share of heartaches in major championships through the years. She has only win in the LPGA Tour’s Big Five among her 11 career victories, while there are 10 top-four finishes—some of them with the 30-year-old coming excruciatingly close before making crucial mistakes down the stretch on Sunday. MORE: Read more…
For years, since he coached J.J. Spaun at San Diego State in the early 2010s, Ryan Donovan has watched the golfer float between cockiness and crushing self-doubt. Spaun, the improbable winner of the U.S. Open at Oakmont on Sunday, came from humble beginnings, growing up in working-class San Dimas in L.A.’s San Gabriel Valley. Without Read more…
U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun grew up in Los Angeles, and all over Southern California there are far more kids who pick up a skateboard at one time than try golf clubs. There is, after all, a better chance of a neophyte, or grom, running into Tony Hawk or Shawn White at a skatepark rather Read more…
Like any savvy patient who gets a bad diagnosis, Sam Burns wanted a second opinion. When his drive on Oakmont’s par-4 15th hole stayed on the fairway next to the first cut, he seemed to catch a good break. But when Burns arrived at the ball, it looked and felt to him that it was Read more…
Very few people will ever know what the true relationship was between Arnold Palmer and O.J. Simpson. As two sporting icons, were they friends, or merely fellow “actors” shooting very corny Hertz commercials together in the mid-1980s? What we do know is that their lives became unintentionally tangled in the most bizarre way on a Friday in June nearly 31 years ago.
In his first start since his worst finish this season – a T-47 in the PGA Championship – the reigning Masters champion suffered an extremely rare setback – he missed the cut at the RBC Canadian Open.
Sahith Theegala has tried to play through the pain of a neck injury this season, and after missing the cut at last week’s Memorial he has been advised to take time off at a most unfortunate juncture in the schedule. The 27-year-old one-time PGA Tour winner said in a social media post on Wednesday that Read more…
In the storied history of the Oklahoma State men’s golf program—one that includes a legendary past head coach in Mike Holder, alums such as Rickie Fowler and Viktor Hovland, and 11 national championships—only one of those titles had previously come in the 15 years of the match play era. MORE: Charlie Woods shoots final-round 66 Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Michael La Sasso was not the kind of hot head who tossed around clubs or curse words. He had a slow, internal burn, as described by Ole Miss men’s golf coach Chris Malloy, and La Sasso was more apt to shut down than act out. And at the outset of the 2024-25 Read more…
CARLSBAD, Calif. — For Jackson Koivun, it was not if, but when in his hunt for a PGA Tour card through its University Accelerated qualifying program. But that “when” was a pesky mental pretzel that stayed with him. Each time Koivun teed it up in a big event, reporters and their stories reminded him that Read more…
When Will Zalatoris putted out for a second-round 76 at the PGA Championship in missing the cut last week, he stiffly reached down to pick his ball out of the hole. He smiled when shaking hands with his competitors, but he clearly was not feeling well. There was a reason for that.
Any pro golfer with deep Texas ties would like to have his name included in the same sentence as the great Ben Hogan, and Scottie Scheffler on Saturday gave himself that opportunity—fittingly, at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club. MORE: 7 equipment secrets inside Scottie Scheffler’s bag Two days after opening the Charles Schwab Challenge with Read more…
There apparently comes a time among golf’s elite when a $20 million purse, $US4 million winner’s check and a tournament’s rich history aren’t enough to make the week worth it. Rory McIlroy has arrived at that place.
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Can you be one of the greatest college women’s golf teams in history and not win the the national championship? That is question Stanford will forever face about the Cardinal’s ultimately bittersweet 2024-25 campaign. Top ranked, unbeaten in stroke play for the season, and the prohibitive favorite at the NCAA Division I Read more…
Marc Dull put the odds at 10 percent, and he was on the wrong end of that estimation in the Round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball on Tuesday morning. Two against one didn’t seem like a fair fight. Dull and his fellow Floridian, Chip Brooke, advanced through 36 holes of stroke play and Read more…
Scheffler confirmed he was among the 50 players whose drivers were tested early in the week at Quail Hollow, and that the TaylorMade Qi10 driver that he planned to use in the championship did not pass testing.
Jon Rahm thoughtfully and earnestly analysed a stunning late collapse that took him from possibly completing the third leg of a career Grand Slam to basically being just another guy in the pack who finished well behind PGA champion Scottie Scheffler.
CHARLOTTE — In a fraction of second, the time it takes to swing a golf club, Alex Noren’s prospects for the 2025 season changed dramatically. The 42-year-old Swede was on the driving range early in the week of the season-opening Sentry in Maui, pleased to be included in a $20 million signature event after reaching Read more…
CHARLOTTE — The car doors had no handles—that is a standout memory to John Fields. So was knowing that the vehicle in which he was riding with PGA Tour player Jhonattan Vegas was bulletproof, and that the motorcycles zooming alongside weren’t ridden by tourists but hired protectors. To Fields, the men’s golf coach at the Read more…
CHARLOTTE — The PGA Tour and major championships have tossed civility, and maybe fairness, aside when it comes to setting up par-3 holes these days. There were a couple of nearly 300-yard beasts in the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, and the tour last week had a 250-yarder in the Truist Read more…
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