The PGA Tour heads to Charlotte for the second major of the year, the PGA Championship. The host venue this week will be Quail Hollow Club, host of the 2017 PGA Championship and the annual event now known as the Truist Championship (held last week in Philadelphia with Quail’s major hosting duties). Quail Hollow was Read more…
The 107th PGA Championship, set for May 15-18 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, promises to deliver high-stakes drama as the world’s top golfers vie for the coveted Wanamaker Trophy. With a field stacked with talent, picking the right players for your pool can be a daunting task. RELATED: PGA Championship picks 2025: 3 longshot Read more…
CHARLOTTE — Rupe Taylor awoke in a hospital room, immediately registering the restraints binding his arms and legs to the bed. In the chair beside him, his mother sat crumpled, her face hidden in her hands. He didn’t know what had happened as he asked the only question that might forever divide his life into Read more…
While the PGA Championship lacks the historical gravitas of the professional golf world’s other three major championships, it has provided some of the most entertaining finishes and storylines over the past few seasons. The 2024 edition at Valhalla gave us a late Sunday showdown between eventual champion Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau, along with World Read more…
Golf compliments don’t come around often for a player of my level, but last week at my home course, I got one after sending my drive to a perfect angle into the 12th green. “Smart play,” a playing partner said. But it wasn’t. I caught the ball on the heel, which produced a low, weak Read more…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the aftermath of his first win in three years at the RBC Heritage, Justin Thomas was asked to explain a sudden resurgence on the greens. Coming off a season where he ranked 174th in SG: Putting, literally anything would have been considered an improvement. However, this improvement felt different. It felt Read more…
As far as a summer sports sagas go, Aaron Rodgers’ will-he, won’t-he flirtation with the Pittsburgh Steelers has failed to move the needle. We’ve been here before with the Rodgers, who. much like his Green Bay predecessor Brett Favre, has cried “retirement!” one too many times for anyone to care. Plus, what we’re really talking Read more…
Two summers ago, we endeavored to rank all 40 courses that have hosted multiple major championships since 1920 (outside the Masters and its forever home, Augusta National) in a matrix weighing course prestige against actual tournament results. You can see the results here, and the chart just below this paragraph, followed by a few cliff Read more…
The statistic we care most about in golf, as fans and writers and players and sponsors and any other role you can imagine, is wins. It’s the broadest statistic of them all, and maybe not the best in determining history’s most talented golfers, but it’s the most important. So let’s start there: Rory McIlroy has Read more…
Golf Games Explained is exactly what it sounds like. You want to mix it up and try something new for once? Well, someone has to do the thankless work of playing different golf formats and telling you if it’s worth it. You can thank me later. If you’re a hardcore gambler on the golf course, Read more…
Every Mother’s Day, Patty Ehrhart’s three daughters would get their golf clothes on and tell their mom they wanted to go to the range with her. It was a fun tradition for Patty, a professional golfer from 1989 to 2006 who played on the LPGA Tour in the 1990s, because her girls had all become Read more…
There’s a famous stat in aviation that most airline accidents happen during takeoff or landing. The same is true for golfers. Amateur golfers are, put simply and bluntly, at their worst during their own takeoffs, which in golf terms, is getting in play safely off the tee. This was something reiterated by Arccos, who doubles Read more…
The mini driver remains a mystery for many weekend golfers. Is it a driver with a smaller profile? Is it a fairway wood with a larger profile? You’re bound to get a different answer depending on who you ask. The truth is, the club can be whatever you want it to be. For those who Read more…
The highest compliment to Brooks Koepka is that assertions which would be dismissed as false bravado from anyone else are accepted as stone-cold truth when they come from him. This was illustrated at the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black, where Koepka would ultimately claim his fourth major title. When questioned about his stance that Read more…
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