The press conference at the PGA Tour’s Myrtle Beach Classic in May looked like any of the hundreds the tour conducts over a long season. A composed player in a Callaway hat gave polished answers at the podium, even tossing in a chestnut about no tournament really starting until the back nine on Sunday. However, Read more…
Well before I was a senior, I was captured early on by the senior tour for its cavalcade of living golf history and for the artful swings and the shots. That affinity has grown deeper with the years.
It’s no exaggeration to say that what the tour Policy Board will be voting on when it convenes on November 18 is the most sweeping overhaul since the creation of the all-exempt initiative in 1983.
On Tuesday, in a memo to PGA Tour members, the PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council, in conjunction with the player directors on the Policy Board, proposed major changes to tour operations. They included a significant reduction in the overall tour membership (dropping, among other categories, how many players keep their cards each year based on Read more…
At the moment, it seems negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, are enmeshed in anti-trust regulation hell, forcing a harrowing holding pattern in which all of golf’s lawyers and all the kingdom’s men can’t seem to put what’s left of the tour back together again.
It’s a milestone you probably didn’t know was coming—this week marks the 2,000th edition of the Official World Golf Ranking. On April 6, 1986—seven days prior, coincidentally, to Jack Nicklaus’ historic sixth Masters triumph—the then Sony Ranking circulated throughout the golf world, listing the top 100 male professional golfers based on a brand-new ranking system. Read more…
Tarps off. Bet paid off. When Alison Lee holed out a shot two weeks ago at the Solheim Cup her caddie and partner Megan Khang’s caddie both took their shirts off in the middle of the fairway. The group had a bet to start the match that if any player holed out a shot the Read more…
MONTREAL — The outcome was never in doubt, just delayed. Even that is injecting drama that existed mostly in the abstract, for the sun was not dancing over the horizon as Sunday’s proceedings came to a close. Instead, the Presidents Cup was settled by the sixth match of Sunday singles when Si Woo Kim missed Read more…
MONTREAL — For fans of team match-play golf, it’s always a little sad when an event like the Presidents Cup comes to an end. What better way, then, to stifle that sadness—or pretend it doesn’t exist—than turning our attention immediately to the next one? With that in mind, before the body of the 2024 Presidents Read more…
Woody Austin wanted so desperately to be at Royal Montreal Golf Club this week for the 2024 Presidents Cup that he begged U.S. captain Jim Furyk continuously for more than a year to add him to his roster of captain’s assistants. Glutton for punishment? Not at all. To provide entertainment value? Well, you be the Read more…
MONTREAL — Heading into this week’s Presidents Cup, the Americans had a Scottie Scheffler problem. In 2023 at the Ryder Cup, and a year earlier at the 2022 Presidents Cup, Scheffler was the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world and, in theory, the greatest weapon on either team. Nevertheless, he went 0-4-2 in the Read more…
Furyk’s service this week at Royal Montreal as US captain is likely to be his closing chapter in team events and he does not want to go out with a loss.
Australian Golf Digest
