The crowning of Justin Rose and the overall success of the men’s Olympic golf competition — if only for a moment — allowed us to forget about the top male golfers who weren’t in Rio this past week. …
Justin Rose outlasted Henrik Stenson down the stretch of the 2016 Olympic golf competition, birdieing the 72nd hole to guarantee Olympic gold. The Englishman representing Great Britain fired rounds of 67-69-65-67 to win by two strokes. …
Steve, Bob and Jeff are out golfing on a cloudy day when it starts raining furiously. Suddenly, Steve is struck by lightning and is killed instantaneously. After the ambulance leaves with Steve’s body, Bob and Jeff …
Golf is hard, even for professionals. Exhibit A: Bubba Watson. On Saturday afternoon during the third round of the Olympics, Bubba had a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-3 14th hole that seemed fairly routine. He stalked …
Olympic golf made its first appearance since 1904 without the game’s biggest name, Tiger Woods. After the conclusion, Tiger took to Twitter to congratulate not only the medalists, but everybody who participated in the historic event: …
Everything that glitters is not gold and everything that smells fishy isn’t dead. The golf industry is somewhere between those two extremes. With Nike Golf announcing earlier this month that they would be getting out of …
For the first time in 112 years, Canada’s George Lyon is no longer the defending Olympic golf gold medal winner; that honor has been taken over by Great Britain’s Justin Rose who bested Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar …
One evening a man and wife were lying in bed. He was reading and she was watching television and brooding. “Darling,” she started. “Um,” he replied. “If I died would you get married again?” she continued. …
The internet has given us many things, one being the ability to watch millennials do absurd things on a golf course. Granted most of the good ones have to do with drinking, driving golf carts, or …
Robert Allenby and his crazy antics were at it again early Saturday morning in the Quad Cities. In what has become a mix between a terrible joke and someone who may need legitimate help, Allenby was …
A big and rightful concern heading into the 2016 Rio Games was that golf was going to have an uneventful return to the Olympics. And while the format didn’t lend itself to great team drama, the …
Open Champion Henrik Stenson isn’t afraid of much and he proved that again on Saturday in Rio during the Olympic men’s golf competition. While putting himself in position to compete for a gold medal, Stenson decided …
Two men walk up to a relatively long par three. The golfer says to his caddy, “Looks like a 4-wood and a putter.” The caddy hands him the 4-wood and he tops it about five feet …
The golf trick shot game has become its own cottage industry. People who have started out as trick shot artists have gone on to do some pretty big things — from getting their own TV show to …
A fellow caddy and I recently helped two aged Germans around our course. Failing yet again to get the ball in the air, the worst golfer of the pair exclaimed, “I suppose you have never seen …
Patrick Reed came into Rio as many people’s (including ours) pick to be the low American and take home a medal. An opening-round 1-over par 72 put him behind the 8-ball in terms of finding the …
John Daly may be a legend, but even superman isn’t prone to flight cancellations. Daly, who normally lives the dream by traveling by bus with a portable jacuzzi from Champion’s Tour event to event, was scheduled to fly Delta …
Golf is by far the hardest sport in the world to broadcast. As opposed to basketball, baseball or football (either iteration), golf is played across a sprawling expanse of land with 18 “courts” or “fields” with …
Sponsorships have been part of professional golf for decades. Some deals have made sense in the past and others make you scratch your head (see: Jim Furyk). This latest one is a perfect fit. Pro golfer, proud …
