As Timothee Chalamet playing Bob Dylan once sang, the times they are a-changin’. Cars drive themselves, computers outsmart college grads and golfers watch more golf on YouTube than CBS. It’s a brave, scary new world out there. The revolution isn’t televised, it’s steaming, leaving anyone over the age of 35 fumbling with the remote (those Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — When Wyndham Clark took a drop after finding his ball embedded in the third fairway at Bay Hill last week, social media wasted absolutely no time in labeling him a cheater. Part of the reason for that was that a year earlier at Bay Hill, cameras captured Clark aggressively patting down Read more…
As we saw at the recent Cognizant Classic, Joe Highsmith can close out a golf tournament. Turns out, he also knows his PGA Tour history. Well, recent PGA Tour history, at least. On Wednesday, Highsmith received a pair of Tiffany cufflinks for qualifying to play in his first Players Championship. And he got the fancy Read more…
It’s not even Thursday and we might already have a new fan favorite at the Players Championship. Who needs Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth when you have Rob Gronkowski running around like a chicken with his head cut off trying out everything he can at TPC Sawgrass? Despite it being Gronk’s “first time Read more…
Seven key changes are coming – some imminent, some potential and others, for now, mostly theoretical – that senior PGA Tour staff believe will usher in a new and permanent era of faster play on the circuit.
Always a relatively aloof character, Brooks Koepka neither confirmed nor dispelled rumours that he is seeking to leave the LIV Golf League in favour of a return to the PGA Tour. Which in and of itself might be telling.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Rory McIlroy remains in the prime of his career. Nevertheless, despite being far from the end, the four-time major winner insists he has no intention of becoming someone pursuing past glory that has already slipped beyond reach. Speaking to the media Wednesday morning at TPC Sawgrass ahead of the Players Championship, Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — As Scottie Scheffler arrives at this year’s Players Championship, he boasts a first-of-its-kind accolade: No one has ever been able to call himself a two-time defending champion in the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Yet while it sounds like an impressive accomplishment, the man who did the accomplishing was quick to downplay Read more…
In 1934, when the first Masters was held—at that time, it was called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament—if you mentioned the “four majors” of golf to anyone, they would likely think you were referring to the four that Bobby Jones swept in 1930: The U.S. Open, the Open Championship, the British Amateur and U.S. Amateur. Read more…
The PGA Tour is readying to debut its World Feed at this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass and Australian fans are likely wondering what this will mean for the viewing experience Down Under.
The experimental period will begin at the RBC Heritage just after the Masters, and concluding the week before the PGA Championship at the Truist Championship and the OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan preached optimism regarding the ongoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, but stressed that the tour will only do a deal on its terms.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan stated that the tour will begin publishing “speed-of-play-related statistics” later this year. These will include listing names and data on individual players, both fast and slow.
Australian Golf Digest
