Golfpocalypse is a collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. First off, I have to tell you about Read more…
The history of Northern Ireland’s troubles goes back basically as far as you want it to, but its origins hundreds of years ago shouldn’t overshadow the fact that it’s an intensely modern conflict that still rages even 27 years after the signing of the Good Friday peace accords in 1998. Anyone who’s visited Belfast, for Read more…
When the dust had settled on his win at the RBC Heritage Sunday, Justin Thomas rose to No.5 in the world for the first time since 2022, and also bagged his first trophy since the PGA Championship that year.
The headline here, beyond the putt itself, is that Thomas has his first victory after a drought that started after he won his second PGA Championship at Southern Hills in 2022, and lasted nearly three years.
Golfpocalypse is a collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. On Wednesday, I came across this Instagram post Read more…
“May you get what you wish for.”—The third Chinese curse When Rory settled down in front of the media in the aftermath of his great, chaotic, cathartic victory at the Masters, he began his opening statement with a joke: “What are we all going to talk about next year?” It landed. Everyone laughed, and he Read more…
When my editors had the idea of writing about the trend of men getting vasectomies around the Masters, there was an initial suggestion—I’m almost positive it was a joke—that it should be a first-person immersive piece. As in, “Hey Shane, go get a vasectomy for the story.” “Ha, ha!” I replied. “What if, instead, I Read more…
Have you failed to watch any golf this year, but can’t resist the sweet siren song of the Masters, and need a quick catch-up? Have you watched literally every minute from Pebble to Puerto Rico, but you’re sick of reading player guides that run the risk of giving you too much useful information? Are you Read more…
In the late 1960s, after Charlie Sifford integrated the PGA Tour but before the Masters had seen a black player in its field, there weren’t many white voices antagonizing for integration inside the sport itself. Even more than today, it didn’t pay to be on the wrong side of Augusta National, and golf has always Read more…
Golfpocalypse is a weekly collection of words about golf (professional and otherwise) with very little in the way of a point, and the Surgeon General says it will make you a worse person. Reach out to The Golfpocalypse with your questions or comments on absolutely anything at [email protected]. Tuesday, I released this tweet into the Read more…
There’s an excruciating video you can watch on YouTube right now from the 1979 Masters. It features Ed Sneed in Butler Cabin, but he’s not there to put on the green jacket. In fact, Sneed led by three shots with three holes to play, but made bogey on 16, 17, and 18 to stumble into Read more…
The question of whether a professional golfer “owes” something to the media puts a writer like me in a tough spot. If I say yes, they do owe us something, I sound entitled. But if I agree that they don’t, I’m arguing for my own obsolescence, because if there’s no need for any relationship, what’s Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — It was impossible, at least from afar, not to think of Pinehurst. Rory McIlroy stood framed against the water on the 18th hole at TPC Sawgrass, waiting for the moment when he would stand over a four-foot, four-inch par putt that would likely mean the difference between winning and losing the Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The best thing Rory McIlroy can say about his Saturday 73 at the Players Championship, leaving him four shots off JJ Spaun’s lead at eight under, is that he didn’t lose the tournament. That’s not insignificant—Will Zalatoris and Min Woo Lee were two of the Saturday Sawgrass victims, posting a pair Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The fact that he’s likely to make the cut at the Players Championship is emphatically not making Xander Schauffele feel better about his start to the season. A birdie at the par-5 ninth hole, his last of the day, secured a 71 and a one-under total that will likely see him Read more…
I was young and angry and stupid on March 12, 2011, when I came home boiling from covering the ACC basketball tournament as a grad student and laid waste in my personal blog to the entire institution of sports media. These were the first games I had ever covered, but that total lack of experience Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Here are three possible lead paragraphs for this story about Jordan Spieth, who on Thursday at the Players Championship lived up to (and perhaps beyond) his reputation for chaotic stretches of golf, with two chip-ins for eagle, a water-logged double bogey, and a heady admixture of golf that you might call Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Kelsi McKee, Brian Campbell’s girlfriend of five years, had one of the most human reactions we’ve seen in golf when she watched Campbell earn his first PGA Tour victory at the Mexico Open last month. As he holed the winning putt on the second playoff hole with the silver molded Ping Read more…
Seven key changes are coming – some imminent, some potential and others, for now, mostly theoretical – that senior PGA Tour staff believe will usher in a new and permanent era of faster play on the circuit.
Australian Golf Digest
