Whenever I’m on site at a PGA Tour event, I become the embarrassing guy who mimics players’ takeaways after watching them swing. I wish I could help it, but I can’t. The professional in me gives way to the guy who just wants to hit the clubface square. The problem, though, is the oceanic gap Read more…
If you judge solely on the ubiquity of suburban mini-golf courses in America, it’s not complicated to slap some synthetic turf on a concrete pad and get a durable surface that handles foot traffic and offers a predictable roll. But comparing that $12-and-a-clown’s-mouth experience to the synthetic golf landscapes Weston Weber builds for clients is Read more…
Suzann Pettersen’s husband, Christian Ringvold, didn’t have ‘volunteer greenskeeper’ on his list of tasks for Solheim Cup week, but he stepped up when a sprinkler went off during Saturday morning foursomes on the 16th hole at Finca Cortesin. The greenside sprinkler was spewing water, so Ringvold ran up to it and stomped it with his Read more…
CASERAS, Spain — The latest Charley Hull sighting here at the 18th Solheim Cup seemed to indicate that the 27-year-old World No. 8 (second only to No. 5 Celine Boutier on the European team) would make an appearance in the second series four-balls. While eight of her teammates were busily contesting the second series of Read more…
With just more than 28 percent of the 28 games completed, maybe the only thing we know for sure is that the sides are, as many suspected, closely matched.
The U.S. has had a rough run of late at the Solheim Cup, having lost the 2019 contest to Europe when Suzann Pettersen made an unbelievably clutch putt on the 18th hole, in the final match, to win it. Then in 2021, though the favorite, Team USA lost 15-13 at Inverness to Europe. As it Read more…
And then there were two. As in two more tournaments left on the 2023 LIV Golf calendar before the season-ending team championship. The upstart golf league competes for the first time since early August this week at Rich Harvest Farms outside Chicago. Defending champion Cameron Smith will tee it up, trying to become the first Read more…
Sky Sports analyst and 2002 PGA Championship winner Rich Beem has made it to Europe ahead of next week’s Ryder Cup. He just might not be doing any more driving while he’s abroad. The man who famously beat Tiger Woods at a major had his rental car beat up at London Heathrow Airport. And he Read more…
America’s well-documented road woes in the Ryder Cup are worse than you might realize. It’s not just that the U.S. team has failed to win in Europe since 1993. Rewind the tape back to 1979, when European players were added to the biennial competition, and you can see that only twice has the U.S. triumphed Read more…
Unlike tour pros, we don’t have the benefit of knowing how many strokes we’re gaining or losing around the green compared to other golfers with similar handicaps. But here’s a good general rule: If you can consistently get down in three strokes inside 30 yards, you’re not going to lose ground on your competition. Chances Read more…
After firing a 58 to win the LIV Greenbrier event, Bryson DeChambeau revealed that he learned how to go low by going forward. The 2020 U.S. Open champ said that growing up he used to practice from the up tees to get used to being in position to post red numbers and that it’s “probably Read more…
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