It’s been an incredible year for Min Woo Lee, who earned a special temporary PGA Tour membership last month, and has really enjoyed the support of American crowds. But the 24-year-old Aussie is back on the DP World Tour this week, and he finally caught a bad break. Fortunately, it came playing mini golf.
The severe and dangerous storms that have hit America’s Midwest and are now arriving on its east coast caused damage to the golf course that will host this week’s PGA Tour event.
It marked Yin’s first major win, and the first major victory for a Chinese golfer since Shanshan Feng became the first golfer to accomplish that feat at this tournament 11 years ago.
Rory McIlroy was understandably disappointed to not claim a fifth major championship on Sunday at the US Open. In the meantime, he’ll have to settle for accomplishing a career-first on Thursday at the Travelers Championship.
Adam Scott has shot to near the top of the leaderboard at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut after a wild 62 that featured a bogey and a double bogey.
Watch this useful chipping tip from Phil Mickelson, who hilariously urged golf fans to “put personal feelings aside” in reference to LIV Golf tensions.
After a week of crazy (potential) merger news, Golf Twitter is back to focusing on actual golf this week. And its eye is squarely on Los Angeles. It just wandered, momentarily, to a different LA course on Wednesday.
That’s a nice, quick job by the USGA. Although we’re pretty sure Hadwin won’t wear the construction vest and hard hat – in part because someone at LACC would probably have him removed from the grounds.
There’s rough off the tee. There’s rough around the greens. There’s rough coming out of your ears and eyes. Is it “Abandon Hope All Ye’ Who Enter Here” levels? Not quite, but it looks like a stern test and that is exactly the point.
It was the outcome everyone in the rain-soaked gallery at Oakdale Golf & Country Club wanted to see on Sunday, Canada’s own Nick Taylor walking away the winner at the RBC Canadian Open, becoming the first local in 69 years to win his country’s national title.
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