Articles by Dave Shedloski

January 22nd, 2025

Jim Nantz is starting his 40th (!) year broadcasting golf at CBS with this bold prediction for the 2025 PGA Tour season

CBS Sports begins its 68th consecutive year broadcasting the PGA Tour this weekend with the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, which, in itself, is an “Eye”-popping figure, to borrow some network terminology. For nearly two-thirds of that run, Jim Nantz has been a mainstay in the network’s golf coverage. Nantz, 65, will embark on Read more…

January 13th, 2025

Nick Taylor emerges an unlikely playoff winner in the Sony Open in Hawaii

Throughout the final round Sunday at Waialae Country Club it appeared that the Sony Open in Hawaii would be decided by a head-to-head duel between two men. And it did. Just not the two men anyone expected. Your winner of the year’s first full-field event on the PGA Tour is Canada’s Nick Taylor, who has Read more…

January 9th, 2025

What’s next for TGL: 5 takeaways from a successful opening night

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — If success can be measured by the amount of joy someone derives from a given enterprise, then Shane Lowry would have to say that the premiere edition of TGL went exceedingly well. After his Bay Golf Club team had completed a practice rehearsal match on Monday at SoFi Center against Read more…

January 8th, 2025

TGL indoor golf debuts with smoke, music and a buzz-killing blowout

Opening night of TGL was a blowout. On the scoreboard. To the eardrums. It was golf but louder than another tour that claims to be louder.

January 7th, 2025

Five things you should watch for during the TGL’s debut event tomorrow

The league features six teams of four players from the PGA Tour, though only three men compete in each 15-hole match scheduled to fit in a two-hour broadcast window.

January 1st, 2025

TGL 101: What you need to know about Tiger Woods’ high-tech golf league

After a one-year delay, arguably the greatest experiment in professional golf premieres Jan. 7 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. That experiment is TGL, an indoor team match-play golf league that meshes simulator, synthetic and authentic elements of the game. On first look, TGL setup is way cooler than we imagined TGL is the creation of Read more…

December 27th, 2024

As big changes come to the PGA Tour, a look back at the complicated path to all-exempt era

In 1989, Ray Floyd expressed hope that the PGA Tour might shave 25 spots from its annual all-exempt structure that it had instituted seven years earlier. Floyd argued that the all-exempt tour, in which the top 125 money winners retained their tour cards for the next season, had facilitated mediocrity. Too many players could make Read more…

December 23rd, 2024

Sorry, Charlie. Son of Tiger makes his first career ace, but Team Woods loses to Team Langer on first playoff hole

Tiger Woods and his son Charlie shot 15-under 57 and posted a record 28 under par Sunday in the PNC Championship, a performance highlighted by Charlie’s first career hole-in-one. Tiger didn’t look like a man who had undergone his sixth back surgery three months ago, swinging smoothly and walking without a limp. Charlie made about Read more…

December 21st, 2024

In updating health, Tiger Woods admits this year was touch-and-go for family event

Maybe the surest sign that Tiger Woods is making strides towards being ready to compete in 2025 was the strides he made Friday at the PNC Championship.

December 21st, 2024

Only a couple of years ago, Fred Couples’ PNC partner had no clue who he was

ORLANDO — Fred Couples heard for years what a great experience the PNC Championship is for fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, but without children of his own, the former Masters champion had to be content to live vicariously through friends like Ray Floyd and Davis Love III. MORE: Watching Tiger Woods and Fred Couples ‘bro’ Read more…

December 21st, 2024

At 89, Gary Player is loving life with his new girlfriend

Keeping himself in shape all these years has its purpose beyond breaking his age continually on the golf course or outdriving his best friend Jack Nicklaus at the Masters every year as honourary starters.

December 19th, 2024

Here’s a first in-person look at arena and technology for TGL, and it’s way cooler than we imagined

First impressions of the custom-built SoFi Center that serves as the home of TGL, the new simulator-based team golf circuit that debuts in January, is that no expense appears to have been spared. It is singularly impressive, operationally functional and groundbreaking in the technical sense for which it was created.

December 12th, 2024

Tiger, Verne and the most emotional handshake of 2024

There isn’t much of consequence that occurs among the early groups that venture out for the final round of a PGA Tour event—and that goes for the Masters Tournament, too. In fact, that is especially true at the year’s first major considering how often we are reminded that the Masters doesn’t begin until the back Read more…

December 11th, 2024

Scottie Scheffler matches Tiger Woods with third straight PGA Tour Player of the Year award

Scheffler was a near-unanimous selection for Player of the Year among a tally of his peers, receiving 91 percent of the vote over two-time major winner Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy.

December 4th, 2024

Tiger Woods admits he has no timetable for return to competition after back surgery

What his prospects are for playing in PGA Tour events or major championship in 2025 remain unclear, but Woods knows that his recovery from micro-decompression surgery of the lumbar spine on September 13, his sixth back operation since 2004, hasn’t progressed enough to compete in this week’s Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.

November 18th, 2024

With a 7-day-old daughter at home and no expectations, Rafael Campos wins in Bermuda to secure status for 2025

Campos had missed the cut in 13 of his past 14 starts and stood 147th in the FedEx Cup points standings, well outside the top 125 cut-off for retaining his exempt status.

November 16th, 2024

The TGL is using real grass for its indoor golf league. Here’s how they’re making it work

This is a report on golf that is going to be played on a new type of grass, and you’re probably thinking that unless we’re referring to the famed strain of “Carl Spackler Bent,” then what’s the big deal? Fair enough. But this story has its roots, so to speak, in the formation of TGL, Read more…

November 11th, 2024

Austin Eckroat ‘validates’ earlier victory, makes 11 birdies in a 63 to slam door on World Wide Technology title

A winner earlier this year at the Cognizant Classic in Florida, Eckroat was determined to show that his three-stroke victory at PGA National, his maiden PGA Tour title, was not of the fluke variety.

November 8th, 2024

Don Rea Jr. elected 44th president of the PGA of America

It’s been a big year for Don Rea, Jr. In July, he earned his PGA Master Professional status, the highest educational designation a PGA of America member can obtain. And on Thursday he was elected the organization’s top officer as its 44th president. Rea, 57, was elected at the PGA’s 108th Annual Meeting at the Read more…

October 31st, 2024

The PGA Tour’s proposed membership changes, explained

It’s no exaggeration to say that what the tour Policy Board will be voting on when it convenes on November 18 is the most sweeping overhaul since the creation of the all-exempt initiative in 1983.

October 23rd, 2024

Scottie Scheffler leads Hero World Challenge commitments; Tiger Woods not yet in field, nor any Australians

The tournament announced overnight that world No.1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler leads the initial commitment list of 17 players while three spots in the 20-player field remain open for exemptions – one of which Woods filled a year ago.

October 22nd, 2024

Tiger and Rory’s TGL indoor golf league reveals schedule for inaugural 2025 season

After its inaugural season was postponed for a full year, TGL, the tech-infused team golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy and their TMRW Sports business venture, released its 2025 schedule, which begins on January 8 and culminates in a best-of-three playoff series on March 25-26.

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The American Express - 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Sepp Straka	-25	F	4
2	Justin Thomas	-23	F	4
T3	Jason Day	-22	F	4
T3	Justin Lower	-22	F	4
T5	Patrick Cantlay	-20	F	4
T5	Charley Hoffman	-20	F	4
T7	Max Greyserman	-19	F	4
T7	Ben Griffin	-19	F	4
T7	Taylor Moore	-19	F	4
T7	Camilo Villegas	-19	F	4
11	Alex Smalley	-18	F	4
T12	Frankie Capan III	-17	F	4
T12	Beau Hossler	-17	F	4
T12	Mark Hubbard	-17	F	4
T12	J.T. Poston	-17	F	4
T12	Nick Taylor	-17	F	4
T12	Will Zalatoris	-17	F	4
T18	Cam Davis	-16	F	4
T18	Trey Mullinax	-16	F	4
T18	Kevin Roy	-16	F	4
T21	Daniel Berger	-15	F	4
T21	Jacob Bridgeman	-15	F	4
T21	Rickie Fowler	-15	F	4
T21	Doug Ghim	-15	F	4
T21	Harry Hall	-15	F	4
T21	Billy Horschel	-15	F	4
T21	Ben Kohles	-15	F	4
T21	Keith Mitchell	-15	F	4
T29	Sam Burns	-14	F	4
T29	Tom Hoge	-14	F	4
T29	Vincent Norrman	-14	F	4
T29	J.J. Spaun	-14	F	4
T29	Car Young	-14	F	4
T34	Quade Cummins	-13	F	4
T34	Nick Dunlap	-13	F	4
T34	Brice Garnett	-13	F	4
T34	Lanto Griffin	-13	F	4
T34	Harry Higgs	-13	F	4
T34	Lee Hodges	-13	F	4
T34	Chris Kirk	-13	F	4
T34	Ryan Palmer	-13	F	4
T34	Victor Perez	-13	F	4
T43	Ricky Castillo	-12	F	4
T43	Harris English	-12	F	4
T43	Ryo Hisatsune	-12	F	4
T43	Rikuya Hoshino	-12	F	4
T43	Michael Kim	-12	F	4
T43	Matt Kuchar	-12	F	4
T43	Matteo Manassero	-12	F	4
T43	Sam Ryder	-12	F	4
T51	Brian Campbell	-11	F	4
T51	Ryan Gerard	-11	F	4
T51	S.W. Kim	-11	F	4
T51	Matthew Riedel	-11	F	4
T51	Brandt Snedeker	-11	F	4
T51	Sam Stevens	-11	F	4
T51	Davis Thompson	-11	F	4
T58	Rico Hoey	-10	F	4
T58	Mackenzie Hughes	-10	F	4
T58	Kurt Kitayama	-10	F	4
T58	Taylor Montgomery	-10	F	4
T58	Alejandro Tosti	-10	F	4
T58	Kris Ventura	-10	F	4
T64	Jeremy Paul	-9	F	4
T64	Vince Whaley	-9	F	4
T66	Will Gordon	-8	F	4
T66	Joe Highsmith	-8	F	4
T68	Eric Cole	-7	F	4
T68	Mac Meissner	-7	F	4
70	Patrick Rodgers	-6	F	4
71	Chez Reavie	-5	F	4
CUT	Joel Dahmen	-8	F	3
CUT	Nate Lashley	-8	F	3
CUT	Luke List	-8	F	3
CUT	Chandler Phillips	-8	F	3
CUT	Chad Ramey	-8	F	3
CUT	Michael Thorbjornsen	-8	F	3
CUT	Norman Xiong	-8	F	3
CUT	Kevin Yu	-8	F	3
CUT	Tony Finau	-7	F	3
CUT	Chris Gotterup	-7	F	3
CUT	Zach Johnson	-7	F	3
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-7	F	3
CUT	Patton Kizzire	-7	F	3
CUT	Jake Knapp	-7	F	3
CUT	K.H. Lee	-7	F	3
CUT	Francesco Molinari	-7	F	3
CUT	Andrew Putnam	-7	F	3
CUT	Isaiah Salinda	-7	F	3
CUT	Tim Widing	-7	F	3
CUT	Blades Brown	-6	F	3
CUT	Nico Echavarria	-6	F	3
CUT	Noah Goodwin	-6	F	3
CUT	Adam Hadwin	-6	F	3
CUT	Sungjae Im	-6	F	3
CUT	Chan Kim	-6	F	3
CUT	Tom Kim	-6	F	3
CUT	Peter Malnati	-6	F	3
CUT	Ben Martin	-6	F	3
CUT	Matt McCarty	-6	F	3
CUT	Henrik Norlander	-6	F	3
CUT	John Pak	-6	F	3
CUT	Jesper Svensson	-6	F	3
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	-6	F	3
CUT	Aaron Baddeley	-5	F	3
CUT	Zac Blair	-5	F	3
CUT	Wyndham Clark	-5	F	3
CUT	Greyson Sigg	-5	F	3
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-4	F	3
CUT	Nick Hardy	-4	F	3
CUT	Brian Harman	-4	F	3
CUT	Max McGreevy	-4	F	3
CUT	Paul Peterson	-4	F	3
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	-4	F	3
CUT	Matti Schmid	-4	F	3
CUT	Adam Svensson	-4	F	3
CUT	Danny Walker	-4	F	3
CUT	Anders Albertson	-3	F	3
CUT	Mason Andersen	-3	F	3
CUT	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-3	F	3
CUT	Lucas Glover	-3	F	3
CUT	David Lipsky	-3	F	3
CUT	Jackson Suber	-3	F	3
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	-3	F	3
CUT	Hayden Buckley	-2	F	3
CUT	Bronson Burgoon	-2	F	3
CUT	Rafael Campos	-2	F	3
CUT	Jason Dufner	-2	F	3
CUT	Steven Fisk	-2	F	3
CUT	Kaito Onishi	-2	F	3
CUT	David Skinns	-2	F	3
CUT	Braden Thornberry	-2	F	3
CUT	Will Chandler	-1	F	3
CUT	Trevor Cone	-1	F	3
CUT	Patrick Fishburn	-1	F	3
CUT	Thomas Rosenmueller	-1	F	3
CUT	Sami Valimaki	-1	F	3
CUT	Kevin Velo	-1	F	3
CUT	Taylor Dickson	E	F	3
CUT	William Mouw	E	F	3
CUT	Antoine Rozner	E	F	3
CUT	Wesley Bryan	+1	F	3
CUT	Chesson Hadley	+1	F	3
CUT	Kyle Mendoza	+1	F	3
CUT	Kevin Streelman	+1	F	3
CUT	Danny Willett	+1	F	3
CUT	Bill Haas	+2	F	3
CUT	Kevin Kisner	+2	F	3
CUT	Ben Silverman	+2	F	3
CUT	Cam Young	+2	F	3
CUT	Philip Knowles	+4	F	3
CUT	Davis Riley	+4	F	3
CUT	Andrew Novak	+5	F	3
CUT	Cristobal Del Solar	+13	F	3
WD	Adam Schenk	-	-
WD	Brendon Todd	-	-

Team Finals 2024

Rank	Team Name	Total	Score
1	RIPPER GC	-11	277
T2	4ACES GC	-8	280
T2	IRON HEADS GC	-8	280
4	LEGION XIII	-6	282
5	STINGER GC	-15	273
6	FIREBALLS GC	-14	274
T7	CRUSHERS GC	-2	286
T7	HYFLYERS GC	-2	286
9	MAJESTICKS GC	-5	283
10	TORQUE GC	-4	284
11	CLEEKS GC	-1	287
12	RANGEGOATS GC	+4	292
13	SMASH GC	+12	300

Articles by Dave Shedloski

Jim Nantz is starting his 40th (!) year broadcasting golf at CBS with this bold prediction for the 2025 PGA Tour season

Nick Taylor emerges an unlikely playoff winner in the Sony Open in Hawaii

What’s next for TGL: 5 takeaways from a successful opening night

TGL indoor golf debuts with smoke, music and a buzz-killing blowout

Five things you should watch for during the TGL’s debut event tomorrow

TGL 101: What you need to know about Tiger Woods’ high-tech golf league

As big changes come to the PGA Tour, a look back at the complicated path to all-exempt era

Sorry, Charlie. Son of Tiger makes his first career ace, but Team Woods loses to Team Langer on first playoff hole

In updating health, Tiger Woods admits this year was touch-and-go for family event

Only a couple of years ago, Fred Couples’ PNC partner had no clue who he was

At 89, Gary Player is loving life with his new girlfriend

Here’s a first in-person look at arena and technology for TGL, and it’s way cooler than we imagined

Tiger, Verne and the most emotional handshake of 2024

Scottie Scheffler matches Tiger Woods with third straight PGA Tour Player of the Year award

Tiger Woods admits he has no timetable for return to competition after back surgery

With a 7-day-old daughter at home and no expectations, Rafael Campos wins in Bermuda to secure status for 2025

The TGL is using real grass for its indoor golf league. Here’s how they’re making it work

Austin Eckroat ‘validates’ earlier victory, makes 11 birdies in a 63 to slam door on World Wide Technology title

Don Rea Jr. elected 44th president of the PGA of America

The PGA Tour’s proposed membership changes, explained

Scottie Scheffler leads Hero World Challenge commitments; Tiger Woods not yet in field, nor any Australians

Tiger and Rory’s TGL indoor golf league reveals schedule for inaugural 2025 season

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