NAPLES, Fla. — Anna Nordqvist in contention at the CME Group Tour Championship isn’t surprising. The Swede, who is seven-under par through the first round, is tracking for her fourth top-10 finish of her career at Tiburon Golf Club. What is surprising, however, is the resilience she displayed Thursday on the back end of one Read more…
Artifical Intellegence is a fascinating subject, and one that’s quickly seeping into industries all over the planet. Including the golf industry. It’s still early in the process — there’ll be plenty more breakthroughs to come — but there’s already lots of progress being made, and it’s a topic we tackle in a little more detail Read more…
Before a fella by the name of Connor Stalions burst onto the scene, Coach Prime—AKA the artist formerly known as Deion Sanders—was the main character of the 2023 college football season. In his first year as head coach of Colorado, the former NFL/MLB star ruffled feathers and racked up soundbites as he led one of Read more…
As the temperatures drop and the winter months rapidly approach, a golf lull is unfortunately almost here. At least if you live up north. That doesn’t mean you can’t begin to prep for what’s to come and use the holiday season to full effect, which is exactly what one incredibly smart husband did to showcase Read more…
We’ve seen it a bunch of times through the years, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome when it happens. A fan is plucked from the stands at a college basketball game to attempt a full-court putt and pulls off what seems like a miracle. Usually for a pile of cash—or even a bottle Read more…
Seven years ago this week, Blayne Barber was part of a five-man playoff at the 2016 RSM Classic that bled over into Monday morning on St. Simons Island. He was ultimately one of the “losers” of that tournament, with Mackenzie Hughes draining an 18-footer for par to claim his first of two PGA Tour wins. Read more…
Rory McIlroy hit a tee shot that wound up in a female fan’s lap on Thursday. Incredibly, that wasn’t even his wildest hole of the back nine. The four-time major champ needed a two-time reprieve from the water hazard on the 18th hole of Jumeirah Golf Estates’ Earth Course as he wound up making one Read more…
NAPLES, Fla. — While 60 LPGA players are in the field at this week’s CME Group Tour Championship, 62 will be walking the course during the LPGA Tour’s final event of the 2023 season. Maria Fassi and Jessica Korda, who are not playing at Tiburon Golf Club, will be on-air talents doing on-course reporting and Read more…
They are the stories that go mostly untold nearly every week on the PGA Tour. For every man who enters a Monday qualifying tournament, hoping to earn a spot in that week’s event, there is a fascinating tale about the road on which he’s traveled. Much of the time, there are tests and tribulations that Read more…
George Bryan IV, one half of legendary YouTube trick-shot artist duo known as the “Bryan Bros,” has played in countless high-level professional golf tournaments before. A three-time All-American at the University of South Carolina, big things were expected for Wesley’s older brother out of school. Collin Morikawa pulls out of Netflix Cup at last minute Read more…
Perhaps it’s just because I’ve spent a quarter of my life in Jewish delis around the Tri-state area, but there’s no better start to a meal than with a dill pickle or a half-sour pickle or a sweet pickle or a gherkin or maybe a few of each. Stack it on your burger, sit it Read more…
The final official PGA Tour event of 2023 is here with the RSM Classic. Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching—get ready for family time—and some pros are set to be truly thankful as the top 125 on the FedEx Cup points list come Sunday will secure full for the 2024 season. Also, those who finish between 51-60 Read more…
“A nun, a man with one arm and a midget” sounds like the beginning of a potentially off-color joke. That, or some sort of circus act. For Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema, however, that’s that group that rounded out one of his old golf foursomes. Wait, what? Angry cobra attacks tee box, time to Read more…
The final event of the PGA Tour’s fall campaign will be played over two familiar courses on the Sea Island Resort. Each golfer will play one round at both the Seaside and Plantation courses, a cut will be made, then the Seaside course will host the final two rounds. A 5-for-1 playoff took place under Read more…
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