Despite it being December—the closest thing to an off-month in professional golf—this week’s Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., could be one of the most important of the year for the LPGA Tour. For all the clamor of more co-ed professional golf, the co-sanctioned mixed-team tournament is a beta test for Read more…
You probably read the headline above and wondered how could it possibly not be a penalty when you’re opponent purposely stops your golf ball from rolling. Well, you’re mostly right. In almost every case, it is a penalty when your opponent does this. It’s loss of hole in match play, and in stroke play, the Read more…
Well, folks, golf ball rollback, whether you love it or loathe it, is coming. For real this time. On Wednesday, USGA officials confirmed that revised ball testing is set to go into effect for professionals in 2028 before, uh, rolling out to all golfers in 2030. The USGA are implementing the changes to “protect the Read more…
Normally, when we’re talking about “feeling old,” it’s the young person schooling the old head. Especially so when the topic is group chat names, which are created on one of them mobile devices. But in the case of Joel Dahmen, 36, and Lilia Vu, 27, it was the veteran who had to school the young-in Read more…
I consider myself a generous golfer—so generous, in fact, that when I conceded a clinching four-footer (five?) to a colleague during our company match-play event earlier this year, he responded, “Are you sure?” No, I wasn’t, but I couldn’t stand the awkwardness of being that guy. I’ll take the 2&1 loss. Creating that little bit Read more…
Australia’s Robyn Choi, who has not played on the LPGA full-time since 2019, won the qualifying marathon by three strokes at 29-under par. Here’s more on her and six other notable players who earned LPGA Tour status for 2024.
For the first time this millennium, PGA Tour and LPGA Tour players will tee it up together in a co-sanctioned mixed-team event at this week’s Grant Thornton Invitational.
When trying to improve your technique, oftentimes the best place to start is to observe how the best players in the world hit various shots. Sure, the exact movements will vary from player to player, but there are plenty of fundamentals that you can incorporate into your game. Yet, it can be overwhelming to analyze Read more…
Though McIlroy’s opinions are often lauded by industry people, Brad Faxon, long-time tour pro and now a golf commentator, took issue with part of McIlroy’s tweet.
As ridiculous as the day-old, two-stroke penalty was for Collin Morikawa last Sunday at the Hero World Challenge, it was exactly the type of ruling we’ve come to expect in golf, which made it hardly surprising. The surprising bit came later on in the story, when it was revealed that Morikawa’s playing partner, Matt Fitzpatrick, Read more…
Tom Mase and Martin Brouilette have spent hundreds of hours studying various scientific areas in golf, but neither can yet say with certainty how the rule change announced overnight by the R&A and USGA will affect golfers, especially those on the recreational side.
SAN DIEGO — Even in early December, the sun shines most of the time, and this week the temperature has been in the high 60s at the Torrey Pines municipal golf courses. No one living east of Arizona is going to feel sorry for members of the Torrey Pines Men’s Club, but the group’s golfers Read more…
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