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…
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…
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