The chief executive of the PGA of America outlines why his organisation is moving the US PGA Championship to a spot three months earlier on the golf calendar.
Regular golfers always feel just a little bit better about their own games after seeing top golfers struggle. So delight in watching every single one of the 11 shots that wound up wet on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in the final round of the 2017 Players Championship this morning.
Si Woo Kim’s three-stroke victory over Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen this morning at TPC Sawgrass was the second of his career and easily the biggest.
Si Woo Kim’s victory in the Players Championship should not be considered a fluke given that, at 21, he now has won twice on the US PGA Tour and qualified to play the tour at 17 and won on the Web.com Tour at 20.
The latest evidence that Dustin Johnson is really, really good: the world No.1 put his approach on Sawgrass’ 11th hole in the water in round two of the Players Championship overnight, and still made birdie.
How would officials in charge of the top men’s tournaments react to the USGA’s decision to up the ante at the US Open, increasing the championship’s purse by $US2 million to $US12 million total, with the winner receiving more than $2 million?
Jordan Spieth hit a so-so bunker shot from a greenside bunker on TPC Sawgrass’ first hole, grabbed a mobile phone, and took a photo of the spot he’d just hit from. Even on a golf course where we’ve come to expect the unusual, this was an odd sight.
Playing for the first time since the Masters a month ago, getting married and switching equipment, Rory McIlroy said he felt “rusty” in his opening-round one-over 73 at the Players Championship.
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