The PGA Tour and its constituents know the league has lost its way, although just as important is recognising what brought them here in the first place. In Rory McIlroy’s opinion, that starts with questioning who’s behind the wheel.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Rory McIlroy was one of the first players on the course on Tuesday this week at TPC Sawgrass. The sun had barely appeared over the horizon when I caught Rory, playing alone, as he teed off on the fifth hole of his first practice round of the 2024 Players Championship. I Read more…
How do you sum up a professional career of 20 years that has approached but never quite reached the top? How do you describe the long journeyman’s path, littered with the memory of those who were just like you in every way except one: you never quit? The path that brings to the front lawn Read more…
Wow. Owen Wilson has been on a tear over the last few years from his Marvel hit “Loki” to venturing into “The Haunted Mansion” to romancing Jennifer Lopez in “Marry Me” to continuing his Oscar-nominated collaborations with Wes Anderson in “The French Dispatch.” Now, he has two new roles coming to the fore. The first Read more…
While the PGA Tour’s best and brightest get ready attack pins at the Players Championship this week, residents of Leesburg, Florida are still reeling from a different kind of attack on a local golf course. That’s where a man was ravaged by a nine-foot male alligator while fishing on a pond at Pennbrooke Fairways. The Read more…
Sometimes it would get to me: These guys who are my age, like Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, who I played against in junior golf, who I’d even beaten, were winning majors—and I was stuck fighting to keep my card each season. There were times I doubted myself. When I arrive at Augusta National for Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The pitch was simple as I approached people individually and in groups on a sunny Tuesday afternoon at the Players Championship: This is a quick survey, I only have one question, and I don’t need your name—just your opinion. In fact, I had two questions, the second of which was more Read more…
Speaking ahead of his tour’s flagship event, the Players Championship, there were two things of substance from his remarks, and those comments were notable in who and what they addressed.
It was the combination of scrapping using an alignment line, and adopting a putter with enhanced alignment features, that landed Scheffler in the sweet spot.
While not a major itself, since its move to March several years ago, the Players Championship has heralded the unofficial start of golf’s slam season. Each spring, the sport’s best players gather at TPC Sawgrass to knock off the competitive cobwebs and the cauldron-like crowds have responded in kind, packing the Pete Dye design throughout Read more…
In a performance that was alternately confident and cautious, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke in front of the gathered media for the first time since last August at the Tour Championship.
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