Jack Nicklaus believes the PGA Tour’s increasingly crowded schedule could hurt both players and tournaments. Speaking ahead of the Memorial Tournament, the 18-time major champion warned that a run of signature events and major championships leaves little time for players to recover, increasing the risk of burnout and injury.
Very few people will ever know what the true relationship was between Arnold Palmer and O.J. Simpson. As two sporting icons, were they friends, or merely fellow “actors” shooting very corny Hertz commercials together in the mid-1980s? What we do know is that their lives became unintentionally tangled in the most bizarre way on a Friday in June nearly 31 years ago.
With LIV Golf’s globetrotting schedule, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson has not found time to make his annual scouting mission to Augusta National ahead of the tournament this spring.
In this pictorial, the Arnold Palmer Group generously offered permission for the tour to share a selection of rarely seen images with captions of Palmer’s office, which has remained the same as he left it.
Revered throughout the world of golf for not only the way he played but the daring and flair in which he did it, Palmer developed a special affinity with Australian golf.
What matters is whether Woods can walk again without a limp and live a normal life. If he can play golf for fun, that’s a bonus. If he can come back to play competitively, that’s a mega-bonus.
This then is an arbitrary list, in no particular order, of interesting, entertaining and informative golf books worth reading, most from this century, two of them recent.
A unique land such as Australia gives rise to an array of unique golf courses. Here is a selection of places you may never have been to (or even heard of).