There is no money at stake when it comes to the Ryder Cup, but you don’t tell that to the designers and interior decorators for Team Europe at Marco Simone. Captain Luke Donald, who has a future in HGTV presenting, walked us through the squad’s digs and they aren’t just a perfect home-away-from-home, but perhaps Read more…
For the United States side to pull off something it hasn’t done in 30 years, its fate will probably rest on the Thomas of now remembering how to be the Thomas of old.
One of the saddest parts of the LIV Golf split, at least if you’re a Ryder Cup fan, is that we’ll be missing some of the biggest names in European Ryder Cup history for the first time in years. Players like Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia, mainstays of the European side and two of the Read more…
It’s only Tuesday at the Ryder Cup, which doesn’t start until Friday, and already this week Shane Lowry has cried and thrown a golf ball in the water. The two aren’t related at all but are an indication of the emotional wave the Irishman is prepared to ride in Rome. OK, so the crying. Lowry, Read more…
Golf has many different rules, but really only two different kinds of rules. Permanent rules, which exist for everyone everywhere, like that you’re only allowed 14 clubs in your bag. And local rules, which are specific rules for specific courses that don’t apply everywhere.
The key thing Hovland has worked on is focusing on hitting really steeply down on the ball. He does this by shifting his body towards the target during his move.
Because he joined the LIV Golf League, Johnson reminded the media in Rome that DeChambeau was not eligible to compete on the PGA Tour and so collected points in the U.S. team standings in just four events: the four major championships.
During a conference call leading up to coverage of the 44th Ryder Cup at Marco Simone in Rome, NBC’s lead golf analyst Paul Azinger declined to speculate whether or not Mickelson could one day be a Ryder Cup captain.
It’s shocking we’ve made it this long without ever asking Woods his opinion on the matter, but the good people at TaylorMade righted that wrong this week, asking the 15-time major winner what he believes is the greatest golf shot he’s ever hit.
More than even the major championships, the biennial contest between Europe and the United States takes the game born in Scotland into the hearts and minds of those who elsewhere go about their business blissfully ignorant of all things golf.
Bucking the normal tediousness that typically tends to mark pre-match press conferences at team contests, the US Solheim Cup captain managed to be both thought-provoking and interesting during a 20-minute media session.