For the first time since “Covid” or “coronavirus” entered the lexicon of the broader population, the Wednesday tradition of the Par-3 Contest at the Masters Tournament will return. Augusta National Golf Club released its annual media …
Up until now, there was a good chance you were more familiar with Mark Lye, the fictional Tour Championship winner, than the Mark Lye who collected his lone PGA Tour victory at the 1983 Bank of …
A massive part of the allure of Jordan Spieth is that the 28-year-old Texan always seems to make you feel something when you watch him play. On Saturday during the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, …
Another day in Saudi Arabia meant more news conferences with top-ranked players, and on Wednesday, they did not disappoint. Between Phil Mickelson taking a flamethrower to the PGA Tour’s media rights policy and the dancing around …
As has been the case with a lot of things over the past two years, nothing can halt growing momentum like Covid. Covid’s victim this week? Will Zalatoris, fresh off a T6 finish at the American …
There’s no such thing as a good penalty, but what befell Mackenzie Hughes this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, ultimately costing him a tee time on the weekend, was, as college basketball analyst Jon Rothstein …
Forget about golf courses becoming obsolete due to the distance the pros are hitting it; the ranges they warm up on already are. We’ve detailed in recent months the lengths to which courses have gone in order to …
After 15 years as a pro, 135 starts on the Korn Ferry Tour and another 206 on the PGA Tour, Luke List finally had his moment in the (setting) sun at the Farmers Insurance Open at …
Golfers are master excuse-makers. Whether it’s ego or delusion, poor shots are often reflexively blamed on something outside of the golfer’s control. And while this practice is not seasonal, there are real effects that can impact …
Greg Norman’s Saudi-backed LIV Golf Investments isn’t so much a rumored splinter Tour at this point as it seems to be an inevitability. And further cementing that certainty is Norman’s penchant for hiring impressive C-Suite types …
Patrick Reed and controversy seem to go hand-in-hand, so naturally as the PGA Tour returns to the scene of Reed’s most recent rules run-in — last year’s Farmers Insurance Open and the embedded ball fiasco — …
The Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour is ready for its close-up, and it’s coming this weekend on the same course, in the same conditions and with the same pin positions the stars of the PGA Tour …
The first day of the American Express had a little bit of everything: eight birdies and an eagle from each of our co-leaders, Patrick Cantlay and Lee Hodges; three bogeys, two birdies, one eagle, one double …
A rough estimate of an average Tour pro’s handicap is +5.4, but the hottest player in the world may very likely be a 2.5-handicap 40-year-old from southwest England. Neil Watts is a lifelong golfer who went …
Akshay Bhatia had plenty of skeptics when, at 17 years old, he opted to skip college and headed straight to the pros. A “can’t-miss kid,” Bhatia missed 14 of his first 18 cuts on the PGA …
Tragedy has struck at a golf course less than 11 miles away from the host course of this week’s PGA Tour event. An employee at the Golf Course at Terra Lago in Indio, Calif. is dead …
If there’s been one bugaboo for Hideki Matsuyama over the course of his career, it’s been a bit of a balky putter. One of the preeminent ball strikers on the planet, analysts would bemoan that even …
