How many times have you been watching golf on television, see a name pop up on the leaderboard and think to yourself, ”Where did that person come from?!” The beauty of elite-level amateur golf is that …
There are innumerable things that can derail a round of golf — penalties, three-putts, a driver that won’t cooperate — but perhaps most off-putting would be an SUV barreling down the fairway towards your group. That’s …
Just under 10 months ago, Tiger Woods was lying in a Los Angeles hospital, his right leg pulverized after rolling a courtesy car from the prior week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera down an embankment on his …
There’s not a lot of places to hide in a 20-man field that features some of the best players on the planet, so when Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson saw things going sideways over the first …
Jordan Spieth’s opening round of the Hero World Challenge wasn’t going as well as he would have liked when he reached the 18th tee box at Albany Golf Course. Coming off a bogey on the par-3 …
SwingU, the golf technology and media company, has signed J.M. Butler, the No. 4-ranked player in Golfweek’s Men’s Collegiate Individual Rankings, as a SwingU Collegiate Ambassador. Butler is the top-ranked sophomore in the country and was …
He’s not playing this week. We don’t know when (or if) he can be reasonably expected to compete again on the PGA Tour. But alas, the friendly environs of the Hero World Championship are once again …
The Match V between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau always seemed just a little… off. While it’s clear — and became more so in the build-up — that the two aren’t very fond of one another, the …
Anybody can dream up future iterations of The Match involving quarterbacks and point guards and various other celebrity hackers who — let’s face it — need to be carried by their playing partners. Where’s the fun …
Watch a pro warm up and you might notice a little takeaway move they like to rehearse. They’re watching for positioning in a few key places in order to produce the most powerful and accurate ball …
Perhaps one of the most important rules to understand how the game of golf starts is Rule 11. Most golfers know to tee their ball up between the tee markers, but you may not know all …
For a lot of golf fans, the announcement of The Match V, the made-for-TV match between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, which will tee off on Black Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, at 4 p.m. EST, was …
The Rules of Golf can be cruel sometimes as Rory Sabbatini found out this past week at the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic at the Sea Island Resort. The reigning Olympic silver medalist shot a 4-under par …
Upon arriving in his native New Zealand after wrapping the Korn Ferry Tour season, Nick Voke faced a week of government-mandated quarantine in a hotel room — a sterner test of his sanity than the busted …
For most college golfers, the PGA Tour is a destination, not a stop along the way. However, Cameron Sisk isn’t “most college golfers.” A senior at Arizona State University by way of San Diego and a …
Rule 4 in the USGA Rules of Golf establishes a limit to the number of clubs a player can carry into competition. That magic number, as most golfers know, is 14, a figure that was agreed …
When you hit your ball into a red-lined or staked penalty area, you have four options at your disposal. First and foremost, you can play the ball as it lies without a penalty, and you can …
Golf has reckoned with its rigidity in recent years, lightening up on rules and restrictions in the spirit of making the sport more inclusive. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as the ultimate accelerant for this initiative, introducing …
