The PGA Tour calls them additional events, but they’re more widely known as opposite field events. As the best on the tour play at the RBC Heritage in South Carolina, there are another 132 players in the Dominican Republic playing at the Corales Puntacana Championship. The field is playing for a $4 million purse at Read more…
On the heels of watching Rory McIlroy make golf history on Sunday, golf fans got news on Tuesday that another one of the game’s legends is making a return. Club Pro Guy is back. And C-flight club championships all around the country will be better for it. CPG announced his comeback with a video narrated Read more…
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…
The PGA Tour officially closes the book on the 2025 Masters on Thursday at the RBC Heritage, but the reverberations of Rory McIlroy’s career-Grand-Slam-clinching victory continue to reverberate across the world. Nowhere more so than the United Kingdom, where McIlroy’s triumph was honored on each and every piece of mail sent between Tuesday and Thursday. Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — Liz Moore is at one of the LPGA’s revered events just north of Los Angeles for a couple of days, and it’s certainly a happy place for golfers. The JM Eagle LA Championship is one of the tour’s beloved events—named event of the year in 2024—in the second-largest TV market in the Read more…
Golf fans don’t need any numbers to know Rory McIlroy hit an absurdly high number of memorable shots over the weekend at Augusta National on his way to winning his first Masters and completing the career Grand Slam. It had to be one of the most jaw-dropping highlight reels ever put together at a major. Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — How does Nelly Korda relax from the pressures of being the No. 1 golfer in the world and contending in LPGA events? Building Legos, of course. Korda posted about her new hobby from Arizona, where she played in the T-Mobile Match Play Championship but didn’t make the weekend Round of 16. She Read more…
Perhaps you’ve heard that Augusta National doesn’t allow phones. It’s only one of the longest-lasting traditions in sports, and something that separates it from every other professional athletic endeavor in the world. Ultimately, it’s a good thing because it forces everyone to pay attention for a minute or two and leads to unbelievable photos that Read more…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Rory McIlroy pulled out his driver on the third hole in Sunday’s final round of the Masters, Jack Nicklaus figured that either anger or desperation already had overcome the Northern Irishman and that he had discarded his carefully conceived pre-tournament plan. Nicklaus was leaning toward the former. “Rory got away from Read more…
Over 18 holes of Rory McIlroy’s ball-striking, on a Sunday evening that seemed to stretch on forever, I fell in love with golf. When I applied for an internship at Golf Digest in America, I skirted furtively around my own limited experience playing the game. Though I had played only five or six times, I Read more…
Like we predicted last week, our betting panel stayed hot with our anonymous swing coach, reporting from the grounds of Augusta National, nailing Rory McIlroy (+650) at the Masters! He’s now predicted Rory’s wins at the Players and the Masters. We’ll be paying close attention to the rest of his major picks this year. There’s Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — Asterisk Talley is becoming a household name in golf, yet she believes she has a lot to prove. The 16-year-old rising star enters the JM Eagle LA Championship on the heels of a second-place finish in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. She’s had such a great last year of golf that tournament Read more…
Rory McIlroy will be too busy (understandably) celebrating his Masters victory to make it to the RBC Heritage, but four of the remaining five top-ranked golfers in the world are set to tee off at Harbour Town for the PGA Tour’s latest signature event. Most notably, defending champion Scottie Scheffler will return, with $20 million Read more…
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