CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — American tourists tend to stand out in Europe, especially when one is shaking off the rust of not riding an e-bike for a year. But there I was on Tuesday morning, getting ready for a six-mile bike excursion, starting from the city of Den Bosch to Bernardus Golf Club, where the Solheim Read more…
While the players will deliberate in a few months on their vote for PGA Tour Player of the Year, we aren’t waiting. It’s time to hand out some awards of our own, from the serious to the tragic to the comical.
Scottie Scheffler came from behind to win the Tour Championship and claim a second FedEx Cup title, capping a season he called “a big battle” and surpassing Tiger Woods on the career money list.
The idea is simple yet novel: identify the top junior golfers within a state and bring them together to expose them to creative training techniques from around the country while forming future friendships. Add some competition, and even a little bit of swag, and you’ve created something for up-and-coming boys and girls for which to Read more…
Last summer, on a magical day at a course here in Durham, NC, I shot a personal best 74 and ascended to the heavens on a white cloud, surrounded a choir of glowing angels. It may sound strange, but if you play golf, you know exactly what I mean. I was truly happy. I had Read more…
PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp pushed some serious chips on the table overnight with the unveiling of a thorough remaking of the Tour Championship.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The first piece of content with any real traction from the 2026 U.S. Open was posted by the championship’s X account at 6:56 a.m., and concerned an approach Harry Higgs attempted on Shinnecock Hills’ 10th hole—his first of the day: What looked in the air like a prelude to a reasonable birdie Read more…
My dad always said, “The Rules of Golf are the rules of life.” He learned this early. As a self-described “ornery kid” growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in small-town Iowa, Bob Longman was athletic, even if he was “kind of a little guy.” He quickly learned that golf was a sport he could Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — When Jake Amos first saw Arni Sveinsson, it was in the spring, and the high school junior was coming off a long Icelandic winter. Amos was the head coach at East Tennessee State University then, and although he’d never coached anyone from the small island nation, a few Icelandic alumni had vouched Read more…
The former USGA chief executive returns to Shinnecock Hills Golf Club this week for the 2026 US Open, as interested as ever in the championship and how it plays out on one of the most storied courses in America but no longer invested in the outcome.
Bud Cauley’s long road back from life-threatening injury and years of surgeries ended in emotional triumph at the RBC Canadian Open, where he claimed his first PGA Tour win after 239 starts and a remarkable final-round charge.
This year marks the 126th playing of the U.S. Open and the sixth time Shinnecock Hills has served as host. The championship has outlasted empires, survived two world wars and produced the most consequential leaderboards in American golf. But its history was nearly erased before it began. Here, at Shinnecock, in the summer of 1896, Read more…
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