Smith comes into Masters month after a three-week break from tournament golf following his runner-up finish in the LIV Golf event in Hong Kong where he was beaten in a playoff by Abraham Ancer.
Two former winners of the Open Championship at St Andrews are providing secret tips to the Walker Cup team for this weekends’ amateur biennial contest between Great Britain/Ireland and the US.
The PGA Tour has reversed course on its plan to alter the makeup of its three invitational tournaments in 2024. Much of that is the doing of Tiger Woods—who only on Tuesday was given a seat on the tour’s policy board.
Viktor Hovland, who has come up short in several big events this year, including runner-up two weeks ago in the PGA Championship, finally cashed in on Sunday at the Memorial Tournament by defeating Denny McCarthy with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
The Memorial Tournament’s traditional spot on the PGA Tour schedule has for decades been two weeks prior to the US Open. Jack Nicklaus sounded pretty sure that was changing, being bumped back a week later, just before the year’s third men’s major in 2024.
Golf great Jack Nicklaus voiced concerns with the PGA Tour’s new schedule, despite hosting an elite tournament, and is worried recent changes could create two tours within the tour.
Nicklaus first saw the most historic course on the planet in 1964, when he finished runner-up behind the late Tony Lema in what was his third Open appearance. He loved it then and he loves it still.
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