Articles by Dave Shedloski

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.

October 21st, 2024

J.T. Poston’s victory is a bonus for him, but for others is a dagger of sorts

Poston was one of nine players in the Shriners Children’s Open field who finished among the top 50 during the FedEx Cup regular season, so heading to Vegas for his first start since the BMW Championship was a chance to add a little gravy to a season that wasn’t exactly a feast but also didn’t leave him hungry.

October 14th, 2024

Matt McCarty keeps up his heater in Black Desert

Matt McCarty’s maiden PGA TOUR victory at the inaugural Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah, summed up in one paragraph: Arriving at the short par-4 14th hole at Black Desert Resort nursing a one-stroke lead, McCarty unsheathed a fairway metal and unleashed a bullet draw that made a beeline for the flagstick. The 297-yard tee Read more…

October 10th, 2024

Captain Jim Furyk reveals the ‘dog’ strategy he used in America’s Presidents Cup win

Furyk sought to instil an attitude of grittiness in his US players at the 15th Presidents Cup, asking them to, essentially, fight like dogs.

October 9th, 2024

Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley is keen on replicating the culture Jim Furyk created in Presidents Cup win

After Bradley helped the American team to its 10th straight win over the International team in the Presidents Cup, he is now on the hot seat as the leader of a US team that was beaten handily by the Luke Donald-led European squad in Rome.

October 4th, 2024

Here’s how a 71-year-old qualified for a PGA Tour event and here’s how he played in the first round

Having not played in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event in 12 years and in a PGA Tour tournament in 17 years, Reed Hughes didn’t have much in the way of expectations Thursday in the opening round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. That and the fact that he is 71 years old relegated him to just enjoying Read more…

September 30th, 2024

Presidents Cup 2024: US marches to victory (for the 10th time in a row!) at Royal Montreal

Despite unleashing an early scoring barrage, the US found securing its 10th straight victory in the Presidents Cup an arduous task on Sunday but got it done with a result that seemed like destiny.

September 29th, 2024

The legend of ‘Aquaman’: Woody Austin embraces his fateful Presidents Cup plunge

Woody Austin wanted so desperately to be at Royal Montreal Golf Club this week for the 2024 Presidents Cup that he begged U.S. captain Jim Furyk continuously for more than a year to add him to his roster of captain’s assistants. Glutton for punishment? Not at all. To provide entertainment value? Well, you be the Read more…

September 29th, 2024

Presidents Cup 2024: 5 players with the most to play for Sunday at Royal Montreal

Singles matches Sunday. Last call. Who will do the shot and chaser and who will get chased out? The International team trails the U.S. in the 15th Presidents Cup by the same four-point deficit that it faced heading into singles matches two years ago at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The Internationals face a tall Read more…

September 27th, 2024

Presidents Cup 2024: Internationals captain Mike Weir blew his first assignment by not featuring Canadians

The sweep marked the fifth time that one team shut out the other in a session and the result each time has been the Americans wielding the brooms. The last time it happened also came at Royal Montreal in 2007. So much for hostile.

September 26th, 2024

When tour pros need to murder their golf clubs

“I never lost my temper with my opponent. I was only angry with myself. It always seemed… such an utterly useless and idiotic thing to stand up to a perfectly simple shot, one that I know I can make a hundred times running without a miss—and then mess up the blamed thing, the one time Read more…

September 24th, 2024

Presidents Cup 2024: US captain Jim Furyk feels the weight of keeping long winning streak alive

Furyk’s service this week at Royal Montreal as US captain is likely to be his closing chapter in team events and he does not want to go out with a loss.

September 23rd, 2024

Four keys to the Internationals winning the Presidents Cup

Some things have to fall in place. Some things they have to make happen. Here is how an International upset victory could possibly unfold.

September 16th, 2024

Patton Kizzire wins Procore Championship for third PGA Tour title, ends 6-year drought

Patton Kizzire earned no points for originality, but his newfound appreciation for embracing the power of positive thinking earned him those all-too-valuable FedEx Cup points and his third career victory on the PGA Tour.

September 4th, 2024

Presidents Cup roundtable: What are the hits and misses in the captains’ picks, and is there already a Canadian crisis?

With the teams finalised, Golf Digest writers Joel Beall, Dave Shedloski and Shane Ryan joined Australian Golf Digest editor Steve Keipert to chew on some questions ahead of the competition that’s only three weeks away.

September 3rd, 2024

Scottie Scheffler has a huge fan in Adam Scott, who marvels at his Tiger-esque season

Winner of 13 tour titles in the past three years and ranking first in 40 statistical categories in 2024, Scheffler, 28, is by every measure the game’s finest talent and well on his way to taking a place among the best of all-time, if he can maintain his current level of excellence. There is no evidence to believe he can’t.