For the first time, the Wells Fargo Championship won’t be held at Quail Hollow Club. The Charlotte course, a popular track among US Tour pros since the tournament’s inception in 2003, is hosting this year’s US PGA Championship instead. But based on some early returns, it looks like golfers – and fans – are going to love its replacement.
Anthony Quayle will be driven by last year’s playoff heartbreak in an effort to capture his maiden PGA Tour of Australasia win at this week’s SP Brewery Papua New Guinea Open at Royal Port Moresby Golf Club.
A routine four-footer did it, the kind of putt Charlie Wi had sized up thousands of times and regularly converted without much fuss in his 20-plus years in professional golf. But he missed it this time, and as the ball broke away from the hole, something broke inside him.
A week ago, we saw Kevin Chappell let out some primal screams upon claiming his first US PGA Tour title. But in a similar situation overnight, Australia’s Cameron Smith almost couldn’t have made less noise.
By Evin Priest – US-based PGA Tour editor Former Australian Open champion John Senden will take an indefinite break from professional golf, announcing son Jacob has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Aussie veteran Senden, a two-time winner on the US PGA Tour, revealed the news after withdrawing from this weeks’ Zurich Classic of New Read more…
The R&A and USGA announced a new rule this week that will limit the use of video review. New decision 34-3/10 is effective immediately – although there are plenty of players who probably wish it could be implemented retroactively.
Kevin Chappell can scratch his name off the winless list on the US PGA Tour after breaking through on his 180th start, beating Brooks Koepka with a 72nd-hole birdie at the Valero Texas Open.
As Australia’s Curtis Luck, the 2016 US Amateur champion, plays the Valero Texas Open in his first start as a professional, he’ll be cashing a cheque this week regardless of whether he makes the cut.
About a month has passed since Henry Fairweather, the captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers stood a few steps from Muirfield’s 18th green and announced that, after 273 years of exclusion, women are now eligible for membership of the world’s oldest golf club.
How Jordan Spieth came to partner Ryan Palmer at next week’s two-man Zurich Classic of New Orleans; how Wesley Bryan celebrated his US PGA Tour breakthrough; Ian Poulter’s malaise; a rare Tiger Woods sighting; the online furore over Jason Dufner’s ‘putter drop’; and is it time for a Ryan to win again?
TrackMan and motion-capture systems offer a new, data-driven way for instructors to work with golfers. But are they the best way to teach somebody how to play golf?