Real Madrid superstar Gareth Bale is a certified golf nut. Not only has the Welsh national played in and won international competitions on the links, he has gone so far as to commission the building of …
Take a picture of the course you’re playing using the Swing by Swing app and win big! Every week, one (1) SxS user who uses the app on a course and uploads a photo of the course to the app will …
We knew Henrik Stenson was a jokester, but we thought the big gambler in the final pairing on Sunday at Royal Troon was Phil Mickelson. Turns out, Stenson enjoys himself a wager or two as well. Stenson …
Bubba Watson has always danced to the beat of his own drum. This is just the latest example of it. Bubba teamed up with one of his biggest sponsors, Oakley, to help bring jet packs to …
The 145th Open Championship could have gone a few ways on Sunday with two guys leading the pack by a comfortable margin. We could have gotten a dud — either of the frontrunners, Henrik Stenson or Phil …
If your name wasn’t Henrik Stenson or Phil Mickelson, then chances are you had a tough time around Royal Troon this past week. We saw what Rory McIlroy did to his 3-wood on Saturday and on …
The 145th Open Championship has turned into a two-horse race with Henrik Stenson holding the 54-hole lead by a stroke over Phil Mickelson. The pair are five shots ahead of Bill Haas who is in third …
Rory McIlroy can run a little hot from time to time. Saturday at The Open was another one of those times. Getting aggressive on the par-5 16th hole, McIlroy pulled his 3-wood and proceeded to fan …
“Bad day at the course,” a guy tells his wife. “Charlie had a heart attack on the third hole.” “That’s terrible!” she says. “You’re telling me,” the husband replies. “All day long, it was hit the …
Early Thursday morning, 156 men will tee off at Royal Troon with hopes of hoisting the Claret Jug and being crowned Champion Golfer of the Year 72 holes later. With all due respect to the 147 …
Golf can be a humbling game, so it’s nice for the rest of us to see the best players in the world have some trouble with the aspects of the game they so often make look …
An avid golfer found himself in Africa with time to play. He asked at his hotel for the nearest golf course, was put in a cab, and spent two hours being driven deeper and deeper into …
So, you think you can putt? A new putting contest hosted — where else? — in Las Vegas can make you rich if you can find the bottom of the cup with regularity. Golf News Net …
For 73 holes of the U.S. Women’s Open, the USGA did a good job of not inserting themselves into the proceedings. That ended on the second hole of the three-hole aggregate playoff between Brittany Lang and …
After Dustin Johnson withdrew from Olympic consideration late Friday night, there were fears that the rest of the United States’ young stars would follow suit. Through last week, 37-year-old Bubba Watson was the only American to definitively confirm that …
Have you ever wondered how close you are to being able to play professionally? Peter Sanders, a golf statistician and consultant to the best players in the world, took data from his strokes gained website, ShotByShot.com, …
If you sign up for 1-year of SxS’s premium Looper by Sunday at midnight ET, you’ll be entered to win a TaylorMade M1/M2 driver. All active 1-year Looper subscribers are also eligible for giveaway on Monday. …
Four retired men play golf together once a week for many years. One day on 16th hole that runs alongside the highway, a funeral procession drives by. One man says to the others, “Stop and remove …
An 80-year-old man moved to a new city and joined a new country club. When he first showed up at the club, a lot of its members looked at him eagerly: an old man, someone we …
As you get older, you start to lose some of your skills. In golf, the trade of age for experience doesn’t need to be a dramatic drop off because of the “thinking man” nature of the game. That’s …
