According to Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard, captain Luke Donald will be taking his squad to the “People’s Country Club” for a recon mission ahead of this month’s match between America and Europe.
This weekend, the Walker Cup returns to the hallowed bluffs of Cypress Point Golf Club for the first time in 44 years. In that time, the competition, which pits the best men’s amateurs from the United States against the best from the United Kingdom and Ireland, has visited many iconic tracks. Pine Valley in 1985, Read more…
Kawhi Leonard became one of Twitter’s favorite targets on Wednesday following a controversial report by Pablo Torre that the NBA star and his team, the Los Angeles Clippers, may have circumvented the salary cap. At the root of this report is a “no-show job” that pays Leonard $28 million over four years as long as Read more…
He’s a living golf legend, one of the game’s great folk heroes. To golf fans, he might be more recognizable than some recent PGA Tour winners. Yet he’s never even played a round of golf. It’s been nearly three decades since Jared Van Snellenberg played the role of Happy Gilmore’s first caddie in the original Read more…
Back before every famous athlete and entertainer played golf, Michael Jordan carried the torch for celebrity golfers everywhere. The NBA legend was never the best of the bunch, but he held a low handicap and he played more than most tour pros. He also played with plenty of tour pros, including, of course, Tiger Woods. Read more…
American hero T.J. Oshie has started an incredible American tradition at the American Century Championship – a “beer pong / flip cup / baseball” drinking game. One that got so out of hand last year in Tahoe that the fire marshal showed up and began kickng people out. That sound you hear in the distance Read more…
Named for a 17th-century English clergyman poet, but perhaps better remembered as the founder of the Walker Cup, George Herbert Walker led a colorful life. The eventual grandfather of President George H.W. Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush bucked familial expectations at nearly every turn and found success by doggedly pursuing his own Read more…
After a final-round 67 that left him two shots behind winner Thriston Lawrence in Switzerland, Wallace was extra-emotional. In particular, when asked about playing with a potential Ryder Cup spot on the line.
The tournament is only in its second year, yet the LPGA’s FM Championship has already become popular among the LPGA’s marquee-ranked players. Of the top 25 players in the Rolex Women’s Rankings, 21 are competing this week at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., including World No. 1 Jeena Thitikul and World No. 2 Nelly Korda. Read more…
Most players using short putters tend to have one thing in common with players who use long putters: both types want to get their eyes directly over the ball.
Australian Golf Digest
