They were born only year apart and grew up only 60 kilometres from each other in the greater Los Angeles area, crossing paths time and again in junior golf events.
The inaugural playing of such a tournament was supposed to take place in late 2022. That didn’t happen, but many of the same organisers have kept pushing forward, and the event will become a reality later this year.
Augusta National bought part of Augusta Country Club behind the 13th tee to complete a lengthening that debuts this week with a tee from the tips at 498 metres.
Cameron Smith doubled-packed this week for the Masters, and it’s not because the weather forecast looks all over the place for the four days of the tournament.
The Augusta victory completes a quadrilateral of top amateur wins for Zhang, after triumphs in the US Women’s Amateur, US Girls’ Junior and the individual portion of the 2022 NCAA Division I Championship.
Anna Davis, who is defending her title this week at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, has been hit with a four-stroke penalty over a rules violations she committed early in the first round Wednesday.
Before the final round of the Valspar Championship on Sunday, Taylor Moore’s name wouldn’t have been on anybody’s lips as the potential champion at the end of the day.
Beefed up and swinging his driver with wild abandon, Bryson DeChambeau led the most recent charge to get the most distance humanly possible out of a golf ball. So it will surprise exactly no one that he is vehemently opposed to the proposed rollback of the golf ball that was announced by the USGA and R&A.
Phil Mickelson has made it abundantly clear that he believes if the PGA Tour leadership had latched onto some of his ideas to emphasise its marquee players, it wouldn’t find itself in the position of contending with LIV Golf. And to take it a step further, maybe the upstart Saudi circuit wouldn’t have come into existence at all.
Veteran James Hahn has put the hard feelings out in the open in an interview with Golfweek, even calling out Tiger Woods for making big money from the tour despite rarely competing.
In the end, it’s tough to figure out what was more entertaining: watching Akshay Bhatia not once, but twice, strip down to his shirt and nearly get stuck in the mud during the third round of the Honda Classic, or his good-natured reaction afterwards.
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman called it a “momentous day” for his golf league when it was announced in mid-January that the second-year Saudi-backed circuit signed its first U.S. television deal with The CW Network. In its first season, LIV could be seen only on YouTube and its own website in the U.S., so getting onto linear television was viewed as an enormous step forward.
The formidable posture and play of Jon Rahm when he’s at his best is something to behold, and on Saturday it was all on display over just a few minutes in the late afternoon light at Riviera Country Club.
Tiger Woods has apologised for a prank involving a feminine hygiene product that he pulled on fellow golfer Justin Thomas during Thursday’s first round of the Genesis Invitational.