Davis Chatfield entered the Compliance Solutions Championship in the ninth position on the Korn Ferry Tour points list. With only the Tour Championship remaining after this week, he’s in a good position to earn PGA Tour status for next year, but still, it’s one he was hoping to improve. An opening 59 certainly helps his Read more…
If you were to poll 100 middle-to-high handicappers and ask them what their favorite iron is, I’m betting at least 80 of them would say their 7-iron or 8-iron. Why? These clubs have ample loft so they are easy to get up in the air. Plus, they are short enough to make consistently good contact Read more…
The golf ball aisle at your local shop likely has myriad options from which to choose. Boxes lined up in neat rows, flashy logos promising distance, feel, control and tour-level performance. For the average golfer, the choices can feel overwhelming. Do you go with a ball that maximizes distance? One that boasts “soft feel”? Or Read more…
Justin Rose put on an all-time putting performance at last week’s Ryder Cup that included an all-time walk-in putt on Saturday. The guy was making everything he looked at the first two days so it’s no surprise he just started assuming his putts would go in. From no matter where he putted from. Like this Read more…
Summer may finally be cooling off, but tempers are still running hot on the course. Don’t take our word for it, though. Just check out the police blotter of East Greenwich, Rhode Island’s finest, who arrested two golfers last month following an on-course altercation that ended with one man getting hit over the head with Read more…
Whether the 2025 Ryder Cup lived up to all the hype is certainly debatable, but it clearly didn’t meet expectations when it comes to TV ratings. As reported first by Sports Business Journal, Sunday’s coverage across NBC and Peacock (so, including streaming) averaged 3.22 million viewers. That’s the lowest viewership for a US based Ryder Read more…
One day before last week’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, one of the most legendary figures in golf, Annika Sorenstam, was hosting an outing to benefit her foundation just 60 miles away in Caldwell, N.J. We got a chance to chat with the 72-time LPGA Tour winner at Mountain Ridge Country Club and gave her Read more…
Like many of you, we’re still coming down from that absolutely wild Ryder Cup Sunday. But the PGA Tour’s FedEx Fall rolls on this week at the Sanderson Farms Championship. That’s right, folks, it’s time to hand out maybe the only more famous trophy in golf than the Ryder Cup – the Rooster trophy. The Read more…
On Sunday, video of Rory McIlroy’s wife being hit in the head with a drink the day before at the Ryder Cup surfaced on social media, where everyone immediately jumped to conclusions given all the vitriol spewed at McIlroy during the course of the day. Upon closer look, the situation does not appear nearly as Read more…
One of the best sports memes ever is “Chris Paul draining a huge three … to cut the lead to 42.” It sums up the oft-disposable nature of the highlight-verse while remaining painfully relatable: We’ve all been there, watching our loser team long after the game was functionally over, because of some misplaced sense of Read more…
If you’re the type who likes to wait until the very last minute to purchase a ticket for a sporting event, you’re looking like a genius right now. When prices were originally announced for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, golf fans were stunned to find out it would cost them $750 to attend Read more…
There were a lot of scenarios being predicted for what the 2025 Ryder Cup might look like heading into Sunday singles at Bethpage Black. A European blowout, however, wasn’t necessarily high among them. After all, the home teams in recent years were the ones who were taking command of the competition and the raucous New Read more…
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Two years ago in Rome, and two years before that in Whistling Straits, we justified running our Ryder Cup report card on Saturday, rather than after the event concluded Sunday, by saying that “the match is tipping toward a conclusion before anyone hits a shot in Sunday singles.” Well, folks, here we Read more…
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — “I don’t think there’s anyone else on our team that would have handled that round like that.” Those were the words of a member of the backroom European staffer to Mike Thomas, the father of Justin Thomas, on the back of the 18th green, after his son and Cameron Young lost a Read more…
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