Charlie Woods has qualified for his first USGA championship. The 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods shot one-under 71 Wednesday at Eagle Trace Golf Club in Coral Springs, Fla., to qualify for the U.S. Junior Amateur, an event his father won three straight times from 1991-93. The championship is July 22-27 at Oakland Hills Country Club Read more…
Policy board members approved the creation of a separate exemption for Woods into the tour’s eight signature events based on his “exceptional lifetime achievement”.
Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 thanks to a stunning bunker shot Sunday on the 18th hole from 55 yards, knocking it to four feet for the par putt that gave him a one-shot victory. The bunker shot was remarkable, statistician Lou Stagner noting Sunday night that tour pros hit it Read more…
The PGA Tour commissioner continued to assert progress is being made in discussions with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment towards unification in professional golf, but stressed negotiations remain complex regarding an ultimate deal.
The 2022 Travelers winner called TPC River Highlands “outstanding” and that the small improvements were smartly done. But he used the opportunity to talk more generally about course redesigns at other courses the tour visits, and he didn’t hold back.
Since the Olympics’ reintroduction of golf at the 2016 Games, the women’s tournament has been a reflection of the dominant country’s success at the time on the LPGA Tour. The two gold medalists, Inbee Park (2016) and Nelly Korda (2020), came from nations that sent four players to the Olympics, an opportunity only allowed if Read more…
Dare we say everything in the golf world is starting to make sense? A horse named Dornoch won the Belmont Stakes, and a week later a hoss named DeChambeau wins by a nose over another favorite down the stretch at Pinehurst. We felt this was coming. Four weeks ago, 36 hours after Bryson DeChambeau left Read more…
TGL expanded and strengthened its global reach on Tuesday when Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama was added to the roster for Boston Common Golf, one of six inaugural teams in the new technology-based golf league that will debut in January. Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion, replaces Tyrrell Hatton, who left TGL to join the LIV Golf League. Read more…
Rory McIlroy has pulled out of this week’s Travelers Championship, a $US20 million PGA Tour signature event, saying on social media that he will take time away from the game before the Genesis Scottish Open next month.
To the victor goes the spoils, and never has that been more true for a major championship than at the 2024 U.S. Open. Not only did Bryson DeChambeau win that shiny silver trophy, but he left Pinehurst with a record-breaking first-place check for $4.3 million. That is, if he’s actually left Pinehurst yet. He was Read more…