How did Babe get so good at golf, so quickly? Her unfathomable athleticism obviously plays a huge role, but a great book called “Wonder Girl” by Don Van Natta shared some other clues which the rest of us may learn from.
On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler surged from six shots back to capture Olympic Golf gold for Team USA. This week, Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang will hope to bring another golf medal home to the States. In a very roundabout way, there could also be a third. Hold on, let us explain. On Wednesday, Read more…
The Olympics could be the return to the form the top player in the women’s game has been looking for, and two weeks of hard work has her pointing to a second gold medal.
Ko is one of 15 women this week competing in the Olympics for the third time. Despite all her achievements, she now feels the Olympics is in a different place for her.
Jason Day fell short in his quest for an Olympic medal in Paris but in the US, young Australian Karl Vilips claimed his first Korn Ferry Tour victory in just his fourth start as a professional at the Utah Championship.
Fleetwood made the point that an Olympic medal wasn’t something he ever had a reason to think of because it wasn’t part of golf. Now, it resides in a fundamentally special place.
Jason Day threw his hat into the ring for a shot at an Olympic medal, with a third-round 67 that lifted his score to nine-under and just five behind leaders Jon Rahm and Xander Schauffele.
Xander Schauffele, the defending Olympic champion, Hideki Matsuyama and Tommy Fleetwood each finished at 11 under par for 36 holes to share the halfway lead in the race for the medal stand.
What happens when you get exactly what you’ve asked for and then it turns out it isn’t what you really needed? This is the particularly knotty conundrum golf finds itself in at the halfway point of Olympic men’s tournament at Le Golf National.
These Paris Games are actually the second time France has hosted Olympic golf; the first came in 1900, although nobody in the field seems to have known they were competing for history; not then, and not for the rest of their lives.
Australian Golf Digest
