Articles by Ryan Herrington

November 19th, 2024

NCAA women’s champ changes mind, turns pro ahead of LPGA Q Series

The lure of trying to earn an LPGA Tour card was too much for Texas A&M’s Adela Cernousek, the reigning NCAA women’s individual champ, to pass up after all. While initially saying she would forgo competing in next month’s LPGA Q Series and finish her senior year at Texas A&M, Cernousek changed her mind and Read more…

November 18th, 2024

Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 DP World Tour Championship

Mission accomplished. Rory McIlroy’s chase for a sixth career Race to Dubai title, matching Seve Ballesteros for second most in the history of the DP World Tour, was a virtual certainty heading into the Old World circuit’s season finale. But what the 35-year-old Northern Irishman really wanted was victory in the DP World Tour Championship Read more…

November 10th, 2024

‘Just mindless’: Vandals believed to have damaged newly dedicated Old Tom Morris statue in St Andrews

St Andrews historian Roger McStravick reported the disappointing news on Saturday morning via social media.

November 9th, 2024

The sentimental reason why a two-time Masters champion is back at DP World Tour Q-School

The goal for Joseba Torres is simple: finish in the top 20 at the final stage of the DP World Tour Qualifying School and earn a card, just like his uncle, Jose Maria Olazabal, did in 1985.

November 2nd, 2024

Brittany Lincicome becomes latest LPGA major winner to announce she’s cutting back her schedule after 2024

Lincicome won eight LPGA titles, including the 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship and the 2015 ANA Inspiration, the LPGA major that’s now called the Chevron Championship.

November 2nd, 2024

Seven easy ways to use the Rules of Golf to lower your scores, according to a rules expert

While most people see the rules as limiting what golfers can do on the course, a broader understanding of golf’s dos and don’ts allows players to take advantage of opportunities the rules also present – and keep your scorecard from blowing up in the process.

November 1st, 2024

Did Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan meet again? Both attended the same conference in Saudi Arabia

Golf Digest has confirmed what was first reported by Bunkered.co.uk, that Monahan, along with a few other PGA Tour “team members”, has been in attendance at the Future Investment Initiative (FII), an annual conference run by the PIF in Riyadh.

October 25th, 2024

New York governor’s office nixes idea it can convince Ryder Cup officials to lower Bethpage ticket prices

New Yorkers are experts in outrage, so it’s no surprise their vitriol upon hearing of the high price of tickets for the Ryder Cup when it comes to Long Island’s Bethpage Black next September. To attend a practice round will cost $255 per person, a competition day jumping to $750. Tickets include all-you-can-eat food and Read more…

October 24th, 2024

Transgender golfer plays in LPGA Q-School amid questions surrounding tour’s playing policy

Since 2010, the LPGA has not required that players be “female at birth” to compete on its tour or the developmental Epson Tour.

October 21st, 2024

There’s a new challenger for feel-good golf story of 2024 with Tim O’Neal’s triumph on the PGA Tour Champions

The reputation of the PGA Tour Champions as the second-chance circuit has quieted in recent years, with several PGA Tour standouts continuing their winning ways after turning 50. Which is why Tim O’Neal’s triumph on Sunday at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic has special meaning. The 52-year-old journeyman pro from Savannah, Ga., found heartache trying Read more…

October 20th, 2024

50-mph winds! No fans! A 5-putt! Friday at the Shriners in Las Vegas was no ordinary PGA Tour round

An October day in Las Vegas resembled more of a July day in Scotland, sans the rain, which wouldn’t have mattered much if that day didn’t also happen to be when the second round of the PGA Tour’s Shriners Children’s Open was schedule for TPC Summerlin. The first sign as to just how out of Read more…

October 12th, 2024

Tour pro making his 500th(!) PGA Tour start has sentimental reason for playing with a 50-year-old putter

The confluence of the PGA Tour playing for the first time in Utah in more than 60 years and a native son needing one more start to have teed it up in 500 career PGA Tour events made a sponsor’s exemption for Jay Don Blake into the Black Desert Championship an easy decision. Yes, the Read more…

October 4th, 2024

Susie Maxwell Berning, four-time major winner and World Golf Hall of Famer, dies at 83

Berning died on Wednesday at age 83 after a two-year fight with lung cancer.

September 29th, 2024

Michael Block can’t stop doing Michael Block things, makes hole-in-one in head-to-head challenge with Wayne Gretzky

Michael Block’s 15 minutes of fame—which actually lingered far longer than that thanks to the man’s penchant for being in the right place at the right time—finally appeared to time out in May. The darling California teaching professional, after charming the golf world at Oak Hill during the 2023 PGA Championship and riding that the Read more…

September 28th, 2024

Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red logo involved in trademark dispute

Tigeraire officials contend the Sun Day Red logo “unlawfully hijacked” the design of its branding.

September 26th, 2024

Wife has baby, clearing the way for Jon Rahm to make DP World Tour return

Rahm is set to tee off in his national Open today, as scheduled, assuaging concerns that he might miss the event after having to withdraw from Wednesday’s pro-am while waiting on his wife Kelley’s delivery.

September 26th, 2024

This course is now in line to claim a share of a unique USGA record

On Tuesday, the USGA continued its strategy of identifying courses it wants to host its championships and locking them in for multiple visits. The governing body’s latest target: Wisconsin’s Erin Hill. Already set hold next year’s U.S. Women’s Open, the daily-fee course located 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee was named site for five future USGA Read more…

September 8th, 2024

Six months pregnant, Alexandra Austin makes an ace to take early U.S. Women’s Mid-Am lead

Success in USGA championships is nothing new for Alexandra Austin, competing in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur for the fourth time. The 31-year-old insurance agent from Fairfax, Va., reached the quarterfinals a year ago. And while playing in the 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, Austin and Lauren Greenlief got to the semifinals. But the type of Read more…

September 6th, 2024

Jordan Spieth’s season almost ended days before the Open Championship because of his injured wrist

Spieth was a guest on Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz’s SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio program on Wednesday and discussed the procedure he underwent as well as the rehabilitation process in his future.

September 5th, 2024

LIV Golf isn’t backing down from the PGA Tour in how it’s scheduled its first four events of 2025

Most notable about the release of the early schedule is what events the LIV tournaments will be going up against on the PGA Tour.

September 3rd, 2024

Masters 2025: Here’s everybody who is in the field (so far) at Augusta

We began our lament just after the end of the Open Championship. What began 101 days earlier had sadly come to an end, the 2024 men’s major season giving us Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Xander Schauffele twice memorably walking off with the hardware. There were endless storylines in their wake (did the world’s No. Read more…

August 31st, 2024

‘It’s gone on long enough’: A frustrated Rory McIlroy asks what’s next if the PGA Tour and PIF can’t reach a deal

Given that the PGA Tour and the PIF had set a December 31, 2023, deadline to try to finalise a deal, the slow pace of the discussions has not only fans wondering what’s taking so long, but some players, too.