The final of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball had less to do with women than with girls, an all-teenage pairing that might have warranted having a chaperone rather than a scorer. But the victory delivered by Oregon natives Natalie Yen, 18, and Asia Young, 16, over two 16-year-olds from Kentucky, Athena Singh and Keira Yung, Read more…
CHARLOTTE—The PGA of America made a bold statement Wednesday evening that will delight golf purists: despite days of drenching rain at Quail Hollow, Thursday’s opening round of the 107th PGA Championship will proceed without preferred lies. “We do not plan to play preferred lies,” read a message from PGA of America officials. “The playing surfaces Read more…
CHARLOTTE— Sahith Theegala has withdrawn from the PGA Championship due to injury. Theegala was announced as a late scratch Wednesday afternoon at Quail Hollow. According to the PGA of America, Theegala cited a neck issue as the reason for the WD. Alex Smalley will replace Theegala in the field. The news is not necessarily a Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Equipment superstitions exist at the highest level of professional golf. Just because a pro’s resume boasts a couple of tour wins and a major title doesn’t make them immune to bad juju. You do whatever it takes to keep the Golf Gods happy. Let’s use Sahith Theegala’s 7-iron as an example. During the Read more…
Rich Beem is one of a handful of past champions not teeing it up at this week’s PGA Championship. But no one gave a better explanation for the no-show than the 2002 winner. Actually, it was more of a demonstration. Beem is still at Quail Hollow this week handling his duties as an on-course reporter Read more…
There’s an easy explanation for why most of us media members ended up in the media, and that reason is that we were bad at math growing up. Professional golf tournaments know this, which is why they send out a list of stats (oftentimes compiled by Elias Sports Bureau) for us right-brained creative types who Read more…
Scottie Scheffler is a pretty mild-mannered fella, so it came as a shock to the sports world when we woke up on the morning of May 17th, 2024, to find a mugshot of the World No. 1 plastered across the Internet. As fans soon came to learn, Scheffler was arrested trying to enter Valhalla Golf Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Let it be known that Rory McIlroy did not care for the question I posed on Wednesday morning: If you had to trade one part of your game—driving, putting, approach, around the green—with another current player, what part would you change, and with who? A question like this depends on a player’s willingness Read more…
CHARLOTTE — A midday thunderstorm blew through Quail Hollow on Tuesday, with a bolt of lightning coming so close to the property that the boom had those in the vicinity ducking for cover. As it had for much of the previous day, a deluge flooded the course and confined players for a time to the Read more…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Thomas had his revelation during a friendly putting lesson from a fellow PGA Championship winner, Xander Schauffele. The revelation was that his putting practice had grown disorganized over the years—and his putting went downhill as a result. As he explained: “The more I was talking, I’m like, I don’t do any Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Critics of this week’s PGA Championship venue have found their perfect rallying cry, courtesy of Justin Thomas’s unguarded moment of brutal honesty. Quail Hollow commands the spotlight as it hosts the PGA of America’s flagship event, marking its second coronation as a major championship venue. The Charlotte mainstay has steadily climbed golf’s hosting Read more…
This might be the first time this sentence has ever been written, but it’d actually be inconsiderate of you not to try to play Winged Foot. The vaunted course is one of many impressive tee times being auctioned off in a fundraising event for First Tee-Metropolitan New York. There’s also Friar’s Head, Fishers Island, Tree Read more…
CHARLOTTE — This year at Quail Hollow, the questions were inevitable. Jordan Spieth has won the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, thus needing a PGA Championship victory to complete the career Grand Slam. This is the eighth year in a row that has been true, but what makes it feel so pressing Read more…
Sepp Straka’s normal caddie, Duane Bock, was not on the bag for his victory last week at the Truist Championship, the veteran looper tending to a back issue that flared up before the tournament started. However, Bock was still on hand at Philly Cricket to support his boss man, and he still managed to bestow Read more…
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