Name: Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg Claim to Fame: Actor, producer, businessman Handicap: Connections to Golf: – Didn’t play golf as a kid. “The only time I would hold a golf club would be to utilize it as a …
With the Masters less than 10 days away, the Rules Junkie has started to go over past and possible rules infractions that arise at Augusta National. Given some of the false fronts and slopes that lead back …
In honor of the PGA Tour’s annual one-on-one tournament, the WGC-Dell Match Play, we count down the five best match players of all time. 5. Gene Sarazen Playing in the golden age of match play, Sarazen had …
Jason Day claimed his eighth PGA Tour victory and fifth in the last eight months with a wire-to-wire victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Day shot rounds of 66-65-70-70 to take home the trophy and head …
Name: Williams James Murray Claim to Fame: Movie star, Cast member of Saturday Night Live Handicap: 7.2 Connections to Golf: – A regular at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, which he won in 2011 with partner DA Points – Grew …
Charl Schwartzel stormed back from five shots behind 54-hole leader Bill Haas to tie him through 72 holes and dispatched of the 2011 FedEx Cup champion on the first playoff hole. The win was only Schwartzel’s second …
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget all the great golf that John Daly has given us. From his Cinderella run at the 1991 PGA Championship to his first-round contention at tournament seemingly every week in 2014, he …
Golf is attracting more new players than at any other time since the early 2000s, but the game can’t keep those new golfers in the game, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week. Citing statistics from the …
J.B. Holmes didn’t have the showing at the WGC-Cadillac Championship last week that he or many others expected. The runner-up in 2015, Holmes shot rounds of 77-72-72 to sit at 5-over par and 17 shots back …
Multiple times on Sunday at Doral, the first World Golf Championship of the year looked to be a done deal — for Rory, for Bubba, even for Scott — until it wasn’t. It took a stroke of good fortune …
Jordan Spieth didn’t have a joke to tell the rules official he summoned on the third hole of the WGC-Cadillac Championship on Saturday, but he forced the referee to have a spit take. Spieth’s trusty rusty Scotty …
Kevin Harvick isn’t your typical golf junkie. He’s a golf junkie who also happens to be the driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Given his gig, Harvick …
To say athletes are a little superstitious would be a severe understatement. Athletes are notoriously interested in “things they don’t understand.” They range from the tame to the utterly insane. They involve eating particular foods and writing …
The first World Golf Championship of 2016 is upon us. 67 lucky players will fly in from across the globe to play a golf tournament with no cut and a guaranteed pay day of at least $47,000 just for …
If you’ve played golf in South Florida, you know that the grain of the grass has an unusually strong impact on the way you play your shots on and around the green. The way the grass …
Adam Scott outlasted Sergio Garcia to claim his 12th PGA Tour win and first since the 2014 Colonial, a drought that spanned 36 tournaments over 21 months. It also marked Scott’s first win since the enactment …
Name: John Andrew Smoltz Claim to Fame: Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the Atlanta Braves Handicap: Connections to Golf: – Took up the game to kill time while pitching in Class A ball in Lakeland, Fla. as …
You probably know that there are innumerable ways to incur a one- or two-stroke penalty during a round of golf, but a four-stroke penalty? Now, that’s something different, but that’s exactly what Zimbabwean Brendon de Jonge incurred …
Bubba Watson emerged from a stacked leaderboard on Sunday outside of Hollywood to win the Northern Trust Open for the second time in three years. Watson shot a final-round, 3-under par 68 to edge joint runners-up …
Riviera Country Club is one of the most popular courses year in and year out on the PGA Tour. The George C. Thomas, Jr. layout was opened in 1926 and has played host to three major …
