As if there hasn’t been enough upheaval in professional golf, news emerged last week about the possibility of a future 20-odd tournament schedule for the PGA Tour – a model that could cut the current number of events the tour holds roughly in half. You have questions, we have… well, we have a lot of questions, too, but also some answers. We do our best to explain what exactly is going on.
There are shots worth millions of dollars, shots that build legacies and shots that spark careers. But away from the tours, far from the big money and the cameras, there are shots that carry a different kind of pressure. Those are the shots that nobody will ever know about, but that define entire lives. And Read more…
The 2020 Masters will forever be a visual anomaly, the typically sparkling green fairways of Augusta National Golf Club still present, but framed not amid blooming white and pink spring azaleas but orange and brown autumn foliage.
The idea of a “triple crown” isn’t really something associated with golf. We have tournament titles, scoring leaders, major champions and grand slam winners. But what if it did exist golf? In other sports, the designation is typically used to highlight a player’s all-around game, mostly within a single season. In baseball, winning the hitters’ Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
When she tees off today in the opening round of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, Stephanie Kono will be playing in her 23rd USGA championship. It’s an impressive total made even more notable given her last USGA start came more than 14 years ago at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur. How long ago was that? Consider Read more…
There is a reason Europe held a seven-point lead going into singles, just as there’s a reason that when the captains’ influence waned on Sunday, the tide reversed to such a shocking degree that it almost bailed out Keegan Bradley.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Two years ago in Rome, and two years before that in Whistling Straits, we justified running our Ryder Cup report card on Saturday, rather than after the event concluded Sunday, by saying that “the match is tipping toward a conclusion before anyone hits a shot in Sunday singles.” Well, folks, here we Read more…
Where the US players may only see PGA of America personnel at the PGA Championship or Ryder Cup, the European crew see most of the top name players on their team 10 to 15 times each year.