For those of us who have grown up playing mostly local public courses, the world of high-end, nationally-ranked private clubs seems very far away, about as accessible as the sun. It doesn’t have to be that way. With a little foresight, and with the help of the internet, social media, and charity organizations, there are Read more…
ORLANDO — As he ambled down the first fairway at Bay Hill Club during Wednesday’s Arnold Palmer Invitational pro-am after launching one of his standard guided missiles, Chris Gotterup casually flipped a gold ball marker in the air. The shiny metal token sported the familiar logo of Augusta National Golf Club, one of the several Read more…
Mi Hyang Lee hadn’t won an LPGA event in 3,143 days—a span of nearly nine years. Even though she had the 54-hole lead at the Blue Bay LPGA, she didn’t do anything early Sunday to warrant an end to the drought in China. Lee shot 40 on the front nine and lost her lead but Read more…
Kelsey Bennett has claimed the most significant win of her young career, with the New South Wales local triumphing at the Australian Women’s Classic on International Women’s Day at Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club.
ORLANDO — Even on a course set up as difficult as Bay Hill Club, treading water often means you’re sinking in a PGA Tour event. Daniel Berger found that out Saturday in the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The leader by five strokes through 36 holes, Berger saw his margin cut to two Read more…
A victory in the PGA Tour’s opposite-field Puerto Rico Open on Sunday wouldn’t quite send the golf world spinning on its head the way his father’s zero-to-hero triumph in the 1991 PGA Championship did, but John Daly II could hardly care. He would still be among the few sons of renowned golfers to following in Read more…
[Photo: Tracy Wilcox] World No.2 Rory McIlroy withdrew from the $US20 million Arnold Palmer Invitational prior to the start of his 12:55pm third-round tee time, citing a back injury. RELATED: Relieve your back pain in less than 10 minutes with this simple workout According to Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis, McIlroy left the practice range at Read more…
Jacky Cupit enjoyed an extraordinary amateur golf career and won four times on the PGA Tour. But he was probably best known for dueling Arnold Palmer down the stretch in the 1963 U.S Open at The Country Club, only for he and Palmer to lose in an 18-hole playoff to Julius Boros. Cupit, then just Read more…
Protein is having a moment. If you’re trying to get more protein into your diet, you have to be smart about how you’re consuming it, says performance coach Leisbeth Pauwels. She’s located in Amsterdam and works with LPGA and LET players. She’s seen golfers reach for protein bars as on-course fuel. But she recommends you Read more…
Today’s drivers are more forgiving than ever, if you don’t stray too far off the sweet spot. When contact does drift from the centre, you want it drifting towards the toe, not the heel.
Here are the ways we’d view golf differently in a strange new world where not only was the Players added as the fifth major from its inception 52 years ago, but all the same people won.
Average golfers will do just about anything to get out on the golf course. Turns out, celebrity golfers are the same way. RELATED: The most painful fantasy football punishment ever In a funny clip making the rounds on Golf Twitter, several San Francisco 49ers players are striking, um, interesting poses around a tree while on Read more…