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 …
You can only win your first PGA Tour event once. Unfortunately for Danny Lee, he’s not able to defend his maiden title at this year’s Greenbrier Classic due to the catastrophic floods that forced the 2016 …
The LPGA Tour is San Martin, Calif. this week for the U.S. Women’s Open, the tour’s third major championship of the season. Halfway through the proceedings there are 16 players within five shots of the lead …
It wouldn’t be uncommon to hear someone in the grille room say that a round of golf is a marathon, not a sprint, but in marathon golf, the sport transforms into a combination of the two. …
Bill Simmons is one of the most popular media brands on the planet. From his original Sports Guy columns, to Page 2 at ESPN.com all the way through Grantland, The Ringer and HBO, the original sports …
Every year around this time, we get to see our favorite Tour pros walk in our shoes a little bit. Flying private from most players’ U.S. home base to Europe for their Open Championship preparation is …
