On Wednesday, golf fans were greeted with the announcement that Luke Donald will return as European Ryder Cup captain, leading his team to Bethpage Black in 2025 in an attempt to reprise his winning campaign at Marco Simone this fall. It was a move teased as early as the post-match European press conference in Italy, Read more…
The men who have gained their PGA Tour cards through season-long play on the DP World Tour in 2023 – a Pole, a New Zealander, two Frenchmen, a Dane, a Swede, a Scotsman, a Spaniard, a Japanese and a Finn – are definitely the first of their kind.
Depending on your point of view, the announcement Sunday morning that Paul Azinger would no longer be the lead golf analyst at NBC Sports was either a surprising development or a long time coming. Opinions about the job that Azinger, 63, has done since joining Dan Hicks in the booth after the retirement of Johnny Read more…
Chief executive Keith Pelley was firmly circumspect and almost entirely non-specific in his responses to queries about where the DP World Tour is likely to sit within golf’s eco-system when the current discussions eventually come to an end.
This week’s Annika driven by Gainbridge tournament serves as the LPGA’s last call for players vying to earn their way into the CME Group Tour Championship as well as save their cards for the 2024 season.
If U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis stepped into Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., today for the rematch against Europe after it retained the Solheim Cup in Spain, her roster would look similar to the one she had last week. With a season of points already being earned, Lewis’ nine automatic qualifiers Read more…
In just a few days, we’ll be into the thick of the Ryder Cup at long last, and both Luke Donald and Zach Johnson, the captains of their respective teams, will be under the microscope. They’ll be judged on several factors, but the easiest is also the most obvious: captain’s picks. Each captain added six Read more…
“At this instant, a cool, cloudy English autumn Sunday afternoon in September of 1993, Love wasn’t thinking about throwing up in a golf sense. That would come later. Right now, standing in the middle of the 18th fairway at the Belfry, a golf course that looked and felt like a Florida resort but happened to Read more…
For the third time in succession (after Europe’s narrow wins in 2019 and 2021), the Solheim Cup provided the sort of excitement that puts the recently predictable and rather pedestrian Ryder Cup to shame.
By name it is an exhibition, for there is no money or ranking points to be had, and it’s intended to be a showcase of the game and, by extension, a match of goodwill. But anyone who’s played in it, been around it, experienced it, understands the Ryder Cup transcends such simple constraints, because players Read more…
America’s well-documented road woes in the Ryder Cup are worse than you might realize. It’s not just that the U.S. team has failed to win in Europe since 1993. Rewind the tape back to 1979, when European players were added to the biennial competition, and you can see that only twice has the U.S. triumphed Read more…
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