Max Homa has racked up some pretty impressive golf accomplishments during a PGA Tour career that includes six victories (and counting), even winning at a place his idol, Tiger Woods, never did. But the athletic highlight of his life may have come on the basketball court more than a decade ago. Unfortunately, it was very Read more…
NASSAU, Bahamas — “Kind of a golfer’s worse nightmare is feeling your back giving out on the driving range at Augusta 30 minutes before your tee time.” That was the disaster that befell Will Zalatoris prior to his opening round in the 2023 Masters. The back problems that had plagued him for a number of Read more…
Tiger Woods is back. The 82-time PGA Tour winner will return to competitive golf this week as both host and participant for the Hero World Challenge at the Albany Golf Club in The Bahamas. Not the worst place to stage a comeback, even if it’s technically an “unofficial” PGA Tour event. The golf legend hasn’t Read more…
Last May, Justin Thomas revealed that he was three months into a gluten-free, dairy-free diet, and the man was going through it. “I’d do some messed up things for a pizza just doused in ranch,” Thomas told the media at the Wells Fargo Championship. Unfortunately, the dietary change was a necessary evil for Thomas, who Read more…
The natural order of all life is to ripen and then fade, and while writing those words might make me sound like a fatalistic Scandinavian novelist, they are also—obviously—true. They are true in the abstract sense when you’re young, and then true in an increasingly painful sense when that youth is gone. I am seven Read more…
NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods is turning to longtime friend and confidant Rob McNamara to serve as his caddie this week at the Hero World Challenge. Going forward, he hasn’t given much thought to whom he might recruit to carry his bag if he should make the handful of starts he hopes for in 2024. Read more…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that is already impacting most aspects of everyday life. From learning to reasoning to self-correction and creativity, AI is influencing how we all live, work, and play. Any golfer who has booked an online tee time at a favorite course and then received an email offering a free Read more…
Max Homa doesn’t pull many punches. He’s sniped, roasted, trolled and dragged countless golfers on his climb from Twitter jokester to PGA Tour superstar. As of October, however, he’d still yet to bag golf’s biggest scalp, Tiger Woods That all changed at the Tiger Woods Invitational earlier this fall when Homa and Woods were tasked Read more…
Michael Baxter, Baxter Imaging LLC The “off-course” part of the golf business—think Topgolf, Popstroke and the like—is exploding, and that’s not even a joke at the expense of the TGL and its season-cancelling dome deflation. Topgolf is a billion-dollar business, and its revenue has increased by more than 15 percent so far this year. It’s Read more…
For golfers in cooler climates, the reality of not playing outdoors for months is setting in. For some, it’s unacceptable and playing a role in fueling the $1.49 billion global golf simulator market. That number is projected to double to over 3.2 billion by 2031. To meet the demand for a premium residential simulator that Read more…
These days — tech is all around us and each year there are upgraded gadgets that have us racing to our holiday wish lists. From shock-inducing GPS watches to dual headphone sunglasses, enhance your golf rounds with the latest and greatest tech to come out this year. These innovative golf products are sure to help Read more…
When I asked Blayne Barber if the word “retirement” was OK to use in this headline, he responded succintly. “Retirement is totally fine,” Barber said. “Although, it’s more like unemployment.” Point taken. Barber, who shot 82 in the opening round of the second stage of Korn Ferry Tour Q School, then bounced back with a Read more…
There were so many great stories in golf this year from Michael Block to George Bryan to Lilia Vu. Well, this article is not about any of those great stories. Instead, it’s time to give out some turkeys in our annual Thanksgiving tradition that dates back to 2012. Some names on this list are return Read more…
It’s a sad day for PGA Tour junkies—the curtains have been shut on the final event of the regular season, and now we must endure stoically through the endless offseason of [checks notes] five weeks. But before we ride off into the sunset, THE C.E.L.E.B.R.A.T.I.O.N. SCALE is here for one last hurrah. The season finale Read more…
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