On Saturday night in Indianapolis, Michigan blanked the Iowa 26 to nada, claiming their third straight Big Ten title. This was obviously big news for the undefeated Wolverines, who punched their top-seeded ticket to College Football Playoff in the process, but also X-Golf Cedar Rapids, a location of the popular golf simulator/bar chain that offered Read more…
SYDNEY, Australia — For LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann, the challenge was simple, if hefty. Travel down to Australia, play its two biggest tournaments, which are co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour, and secure enough Official World Golf Rankings points to climb almost 40 places and enter the top 50 by December 31 who are Read more…
Hitting crisp iron shots for most amateur golfers, is the key to more consistency, longer drives, and straighter shots. It’s a lack of solid contact that causes a majority of most golfers’ blow up holes, too. A slice or hook most times you can deal with. But those contact errors: A chunk, or skull, or Read more…
In October, sibling history was made in pro golf when Min Woo Lee and Minjee Lee became the first brother and sister to win on major golf tours in back-to-back weeks. Min Woo went wire-to-wire in capturing the Asian Tour’s Macau Open, and seven days later, Minjee prevailed in a BMW Ladies Championship playoff for Read more…
NASSAU, Bahamas — About six months ago while visiting his swing coach Mark Blackburn in Birmingham, Ala., Justin Rose was rummaging through myriad training aids and came across a swim hand paddle. Intrigued, he wondered how it might help his game. Now he uses it almost every time in his warm-up routine before competition. Rose, Read more…
On Tuesday it was announced that the 20 players in the field at this year’s Hero World Challenge—14 of them among the top 25 in the World Ranking—would be competing for the new and improved prize money payout of $4.5 million at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. Mind you, it was an afterthought in Read more…
Every now and again I’m tasked with covering a golf tournament where Lee Trevino is playing, and you can’t help but get pulled into his orbit whenever you do. The six-time major champion is still an avid range rat who holds court whenever he gets the chance. In honor of his 84th birthday this week, Read more…
NASSAU, Bahamas — His victory in early July at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, as one might suspect, was “the cherry on top” to Rickie Fowler’s comeback season. Now the real work begins. After struggling for the better part of three seasons, falling out of the top 100 in the World Ranking and having to sit Read more…
There are plenty of reasons we should be concerned about the developing power of artificial intelligence. For instance, is this story being written by an actual person or a computer? You can’t say for sure, can you? Are you a real person? See, things are already getting weird. If we can agree we need to Read more…
You can tell a lot about another human by the way they order their coffee in the morning (or evening, depending on your mood). A black coffee drinker is someone who likes to get stuff done. A mocha cappa frappa trappa lappa with 22 pumps of whatever-the-f— drinker is usually a crazy person who cannot Read more…
When it came to putting talk on Thursday, it was all about Will Zalatoris, AKA Willy Broomstick. That experiment seemed to be paying dividends early, with Zalatoris dropping a 23-footer for birdie on No. 1 to make his “return” official. Tour wife loses suitcase ‘standoff’ with husband, chivalry might be dead Zalatoris then promptly shot Read more…
Great golf courses are often the passion projects of single-minded individuals. A pair of under-40 entrepreneurs, Nick Schreiber and PGA Tour player Zac Blair, are the visionaries behind two of the country’s most intriguing new courses—Old Barnwell and The Tree Farm—just 25 miles apart outside Aiken, S.C. Perhaps because of the relative youth and inexperience Read more…
Jordan Spieth had one of the most eventful rounds of his career on Thursday afternoon at the Hero World Challenge. Unfortunately, it could lead to one of the roughest hangovers of his caddie’s life on Friday morning. Spieth’s buddy, Eric Leyendecker, is filling in for normal looper Michael Greller in the Bahamas this year. And Read more…
Jordan Spieth was in midseason form Thursday during the first round of the Hero World Challenge. By midseason form, we mean his round was just as nutty as they usually are while in the heart of the PGA Tour schedule. The three-time major champion hasn’t hit a competitive golf shot since the U.S. got beat Read more…
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