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…
After firing a 58 to win the LIV Greenbrier event, Bryson DeChambeau revealed that he learned how to go low by going forward. The 2020 U.S. Open champ said that growing up he used to practice from the up tees to get used to being in position to post red numbers and that it’s “probably Read more…
CASERAS, Spain — To be fair, she arrived on the first tee in time to give her partner, Emily Kristine Pedersen some encouragement before the Dane hit Europe’s first shot in Game 4 of the 18th Solheim Cup. But she certainly wasn’t early. Let’s just say Charley Hull was fashionably late, to a point where Read more…
When Jim Gallagher Jr. returned home from his only appearance in the Ryder Cup in 1993, he was greeted by his 2-year-old daughter Mary Langdon, who was wearing a shirt that read, “My daddy beat Seve.” Gallagher, who will serve as a hole announcer for NBC Sports’ coverage of next week’s Ryder Cup at Marco Read more…
During a conference call leading up to coverage of the 44th Ryder Cup at Marco Simone in Rome, NBC’s lead golf analyst Paul Azinger declined to speculate whether or not Mickelson could one day be a Ryder Cup captain.
Golfers around the world will tune in to watch the best female players from the United States and Europe compete in the 18th edition of the Solheim Cup this weekend at beautiful Finca Corestin in Andalucia, Spain. It will be a sight to see. It really can’t compare to being at the Solheim Cup in Read more…
The U.S. and European teams have settled in at Spain’s Finca Cortesin, both sides well aware of the history that could be made this week during the 18th playing of the Solheim Cup. A victory for the home team, led by captain Suzann Pettersen, would give Europe an unprecedented third straight win in the biennial Read more…
CASERAS, Spain — She was sitting quietly, as this unassuming soul tends to do, at the back of the Solheim Cup media center focused on the pre-match interviews here at Finca Cortesin. Which is ironic. Because Mickey Walker, Europe’s captain in the first four editions of the biennial encounter with the United States (1990-92-94-96), is Read more…
The LPGA Tour has another mother amongst its ranks: Amy Olson, along with husband Grant, announced the arrival of their baby girl, Carly Gray, born Sept. 15. Olson becomes the fifth LPGA player to have a child in 2023. Back in March, Olson announced her pregnancy. Fast forward to July, and Olson was at Pebble Read more…
It’s amazing in the equipment world how a “sky is falling” moment can sometimes become not so big a deal as time moves on. One such instance is the rainsuit debacle that befell the U.S. Ryder Cup team during the 2010 matches at Celtic Manor in Wales. You remember that, don’t you? Those black Sun Read more…
We spend so much time talking about the Ryder Cup that it’s almost a shock when it actually arrives. Wait, you mean they’re actually going to play this thing? That time has come at last, in one week, the players and captains and media will all be in Italy preparing for the start of the Read more…