It’s last-call time for LIV Golf members looking to capture the league’s season-ending points title and the $18 million bonus that comes with finishing first. This week’s LIV Golf tournament at Royal Greens G.& C.C. in Saudi Arabia is the last on the 2023 calendar before next week’s season-ending team championship in Miami. Entering the Read more…
The golf world was focused on Lexi Thompson’s first PGA Tour round on Thursday, but Beau Hossler took a big step toward winning his first PGA Tour title. It just might not be as big as you’d think. Hossler fired an opening 62 at TPC Summerlin to grab the Day 1 lead at nine under. Read more…
An old photograph of Pamela Liebman playing golf at Trump Bedminster shows her taking a phone call—while taking a swing. Keep in mind, this was no small task before the days of Bluetooth, and it required a playing partner to hold the long cord connecting Liebman’s phone to her headphones while she hit the shot. Read more…
There were a couple conditions working in Berkshire’s favour. For one, he was at 6,700 feet of elevation. And for another, he had a 22mph tailwind. But good luck to anyone trying to beat this guy.
Phil Mickelson was back at it on Thursday while in Saudi Arabia, prepping for the latest LIV Golf event in Jeddah. And by back at it, we mean throwing shade at the Official World Golf Ranking for announcing that it will not include events on his tour at least in the short term.
We’re five weeks into the 2023 NFL season. By now, you probably have a pretty good sense of your fantasy football roster. Maybe you’re a genuine title contender, maybe you’re already planning for next year. Or maybe just maybe your squad is finally starting to gel after a few early season injuries. Such is the Read more…
Course maintenance crews do make mistakes every now and then, and those mistakes can leave golfers frustrated and guessing what to do about it. Two instances occur on the teeing ground.
Playing public golf in New York City can be a moving target. Securing a tee time can be harder than ever—not to mention navigating to your course of choice—and yes, you’ll definitely meet some characters. Being a single golfer trying to play golf by myself this summer has given me some stories worth telling. Taking Read more…
The FedEx Cup Fall steamrolls on to Las Vegas for the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin. Tom Kim returns to defend his title, while fellow rising star Ludvig Aberg will also be back in the mix, fresh off his T-2 at the Sanderson Farms Championship. With all the sports commanding your attention right now, Read more…
32. Southern Hills Country Club Perry Maxwell (1936) A product of the Great Depression, funded by Phillips Petroleum money and constructed by hundreds of workers who stood at the gate each morning hoping for a 25-cents-per-hour job that day, Southern Hills is architect Perry Maxwell’s great achievement. Nearly every hole bends left or right, posing Read more…
It happens every year at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. PGA Tour players meet and interact with kids who are sometimes suffering grave or debilitating illnesses. This year, for the first time, the young girls among that group will see someone who most resembles them.
While Amazon’s Prime Day sale kicked off today and will continue for a flash of 48-hours, many retailers are holding their own sales to compete with the popular annual—or now biennial—sale. If you’re not a Prime member, or just like to shop around a little, here are the best counter sales and golf deals to Read more…
TPC Summerlin, site of this week’s Shriners Children’s Open, is in mint condition, a full year after every green and fairway was replaced. The course offers little resistance to scoring—you need birdie-makers here and players who routinely hit it within scoring range. Jimmy Rollins on his new set of irons, his potential “in” at Augusta Read more…
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we couldn’t be more excited to be growing the game. That’s right, my oldest daughter, Julia, recently started a town rec golf class. And it looks like we’ve got a future LPGA star on our hands: OK, so we’ve got a ways to go before we declare Read more…