The PGA of America announced its field for next week’s PGA Championship, a field of 155 (with one spot saved for the winner of the AT&T Byron Nelson Winner) that features 18 LIV Golf members. But there’s one LIV Golf player who won’t be there, and his absence breaks an impressive streak.
When the 2022 PGA Championship played out last May at Southern Hills in Oklahoma, the idea of a “LIV Golf” as a formidable, viable threat to the PGA Tour and the ways of the professional game seemed a bit fantastical.
This is the time of the year where the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) of America vs PGA Tour confusion reaches its peak. Confusion reigns about what golf’s other main bodies do, too.
Calvin Johnson shocked the world when he retired from the NFL in 2015 at the peak of his powers. The Detroit Lions wide receiver was 30 years old and coming off a sixth straight Pro Bowl selection, but had grown frustrated with losses—and injuries—piling up.
According to Columbia University student Will Knauth, who is on a path to earn his PhD in statistics, a 24-year-old amateur who played Division III golf and is probably more accomplished as a violinist than he is a golfer has a 4-in-1 chance of making the cut in his PGA Tour debut at this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson.
Joe LaCava must have been really anxious to get back out caddieing again. After starting last week working fulltime for Patrick Cantlay on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods’ former caddie is making a one week cameo on another top-ranked player’s bag: Nelly Korda.
K.H. Lee isn’t the only golfer going for a three-peat this week. Howard University’s Greg Odom Jr. is in position to make it three in a row at the PGA Works Collegiate Championship. But regardless if he pulls off a come-from-behind victory on Wednesday, he’s already a big winner on Golf Twitter this week.
The 11th and 12th greens of Detroit Golf Club’s North course were believed to have been hit with Glyphosate, which is an ingredient in the herbicide product Round-Up.
A first-hand look during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship gave our writer a snapshot of the PGA Tour’s pace-of-play issues… but no clear solution.
As a high school senior, Molly Smith has one last round of finals before heading off to college. In the meantime, the 18-year-old nearly aced a much different kind of test.
Australian Golf Digest
