The contenders from the 2017 US PGA – Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Hideki Matsuyama and Louis Oosthuizen – are among the favourites this week, and one of them will likely flourish. But, on the whole, history paints an ominous forecast.
Hoffman has had a penchant for making noise at Augusta on Thursdays and Fridays the past couple of years. Now he’ll have a moment to remember on Sunday at one of golf’s most famous one-shotters.
According to Sasho J. MacKenzie (St Francis Xavier University) and Neil R. MacInnis (McGill), golfers achieve better results when looking at the line of a breaking putt rather than the ball.
A retired rugby league premiership hero on picking up his first golf club in Wee Waa, playing Kerry Packer’s exclusive Ellerston course, sympathising with Tiger Woods and landing his dream job on the fairways.