Of the absurd number of swing videos on my phone, I have one that I return to more than I should. It’s from a fall round a few years back, when for some mystical reason, I drove the ball better than ever. That a friend captured one of those swings on video would seem to Read more…
Medinah Country Club will do something no other course has done when its hosts the 16th Presidents Cup this week outside of Chicago. The No. 3 course will be the first venue to hold a U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, a Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup! The last event listed will have a unique Read more…
By lunchtime on Sunday, U.S. Presidents Cup captain Brandt Snedeker may have had a pit in his stomach. If that was the case, by the time dinner came around, that indigestion had likely subsided. J.J. Spaun talked all week from England about how he felt snubbed, that at No. 17 in the world and having Read more…
This was J.J. Spaun on Saturday: “I’m definitely carrying a bit of a chip on my shoulder this week. I’ll just do my best and try to win.” Well, he won. The major champion birdied four of his last five holes to jump up and capture the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Read more…
I’m lucky. I get to try out a lot of golf clothes. When I’m testing golf skirts, I’m looking for something that, first and foremost, is easy to move in. If it restricts my swing in any way, it’s a nonstarter. I also want materials that will work well in the heat. The design has Read more…
There are golf trips, and then there are golf trips where your transportation between rounds is the Orient Express. La Dolce Vita Orient Express has unveiled two golf-focused journeys through Italy, combining some of the country’s best courses with overnight rail travel, fine dining and stops through some fairly spectacular parts of the Italian countryside. Read more…
In the context of team match-play golf events like the Ryder Cup and the upcoming Presidents Cup, “loading the boat” means sending your best players out at the beginning of the lineup, and it’s mostly used in reference to a final singles session. Over time, collective team-golf strategy has evolved to a place where it’s Read more…
Medinah Country Club’s No. 3 course is one of American golf’s most storied tournament venues. It has hosted three U.S. Opens, a U.S. Senior Open, PGA Championships in 1999 and 2006 (both won by Tiger Woods) and was the stage for one of the most unlikely come-from-behind victories in the history of the Ryder Cup Read more…
We’ve seen countless golf scuffles, rumbles, dust-ups and brawls over the years. Most of the time we can point and laugh and say things like “honey come here, look at these idiots!” but every now and then a fight crosses the line from “stupid” to “criminal.” This is one of the latter.
The PGA Tour returns to Asheville for the first time since 1942 this week with the inaugural Biltmore Championship Asheville. The event begins the FedExCup Fall and is the first of a four year agreement that will keep the tournament in the area through 2029. RELATED: American team golf keeps losing twice The tournament will Read more…
Angela Stanford took off the red, white and blue and promptly donned purple and white. The U.S. Solheim Cup captain, whose team lost 15-13 to Europe last week, was named an assistant coach for her alma mater, TCU, less than 24 hours after the matches ended at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands. Stanford, 48, was Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Takomo, the Finland-based club company that’s built a following for its relatively low-cost better-player clubs in the direct-to-consumer space, is introducing its second driver, the Ignis D2. The D2 follows last year’s launch of the D1, a low-spin offering with multiple hosel settings and sole weighting adjustability. The D2’s approach Read more…
My grandfather got my dad into the game at a young age. Neither played competitively, but they both became single-digit handicaps and loved it. I had plastic clubs when I was 3. I grew up playing at Great River Golf Club, a semi-private course in Milford, Conn., where my grandfather worked as a starter. I’d Read more…
It’s a full-circle moment for architect Jeff Mingay. Over 20 years ago, he accompanied his long-time friend Ben Cowan-Dewar, the co-founder and CEO of Cabot’s golf portfolio, on their first visit to the site that would become Cabot Links at Cabot Cape Breton. Icicles were flying in their face, and the wind was blowing sideways Read more…
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