With baby No.5 on the way, Jason Day has signed off on a triumphant PGA Tour season despite a disappointing result at the Tour Championship finale in Atlanta, Georgia.
For all the jockeying for position over 72 holes at Olympia Fields Country Club, for all the drama as players moved in and out of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup points standings, only one player – Matt Fitzpatrick – was able to play his way into the Tour Championship.
Adam Scott’s remarkable run of appearances in the PGA Tour’s season-ending playoffs has come to an end but two Australians – Cam Davis and Jason Day – are into the big-money tournaments beginning this week in Memphis.
Adam Scott has come out guns blazing in his fight to keep his PGA Tour season alive, taking the clubhouse lead on day one at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Scott posted a five-under-par 65 on day one at Sedgefield Country Club, two years after he finished tied second at the Donald Ross-designed Read more…
Despite four majors and 24 PGA Tour wins, the incessant nitpicking and scrutiny of Rory McIlroy’s game has arguably never been higher. His putting coach, eight-time PGA Tour winner Brad Faxon, has reached the point that he’s ready to start pushing back on the negative narrative.
Adam Scott will need a hot result at this week’s regular season-ending Wyndham Championship in North Carolina if he wants to keep a 17-year FedEx Cup playoffs streak alive.
The connection between golf and the Olympics is growing as the sport prepares to be part of a third straight Summer Games next year in Paris. One year from today, the first round of the 72-hole men’s competition gets underway at the Albatros course at Le Golf National (August 1-4), site of the 2018 Ryder Read more…
Jason Day leads the Australian hopes of winning a second Open Championship in a row by a golfer from Down Under having clung to contention on day three at Royal Liverpool.
With Brian Harman sitting five strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard early Saturday morning, many UK golf fans were finally forced to learn who the hell Brian Harman is. He’s a lefty. He looks like a former Australian cricket captain.
Royal Liverpool has been defenceless in the early going of Round 3, the byproduct of wet confines and little rain. But the course does have one curveball to throw at the field:
In football terms, the language of the Liverpool galleries, Tommy Fleetwood’s five-shot deficit through 36 holes to Brian Harman at the Open Championship is not unlike his beloved Everton FC being a few goals down at halftime in a home game at Goodison Park. It’s not ideal, but it’s not ever either.
Australian Golf Digest
