As part of a a New York media tour to promote the Ryder Cup, U.S. captain Jim Furyk threw out the first pitch at Monday evening’s game between the Yankees and Mets at Yankee Stadium. With the Ryder Cup very close by, Captain @jimfuryk just threw out the first pitch at the @Yankees @Mets game. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
The Masters is 237 days away, which means these definitive major grades will hang on players like a scarlet letter for nearly eight months. OK, maybe not. Brooks Koepka, obviously, gets an A+. He won two majors, and became just the fourth player to take the U.S. Open and PGA in the same season, and […]
Tiger Woods is adding a trip to Philadelphia to his growing playoff itinerary. Having already committed to both The Northern Trust and the Dell Technologies Championship, Woods’ agent confirmed to GolfChannel.com that the 14-time major champ will also make an appearance next month at the BMW Championship. It will mark Woods’ first start in the […]
The PGA Tour’s regular season ended with another tally for the Monday King. While Monday qualifiers are a notoriously difficult puzzle to solve, with dozens of decorated professionals vying for no more than four spots in a given tournament field, T.J. Vogel has turned them into his personal playground this season. That trend continued this […]
For the first time in nearly three years, Graeme McDowell heads into an event with his PGA Tour status hanging in the balance. The Ulsterman joined the Tour in 2006, and he has had nearly uninterrupted status since winning the 2010 U.S. Open. But McDowell’s two-season exemption for winning the 2015 OHL Classic at Mayakoba […]
Your browser does not support iframes. Fresh off his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship, it’s easy to get caught up in the recent success and ebullient optimism surrounding Tiger Woods. But it was not that long ago that Woods even hitting another competitive shot was very much in doubt. Six-time major champ Sir Nick […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Cole Hammer is in position to go for a rare sweep in this summer’s biggest events. Two weeks ago, Hammer, an incoming freshman at Texas, was the co-medalist at the Western Amateur and went on to take the match-play portion, as well. Here at the U.S. Amateur, Hammer shot rounds of […]
It’s the last tournament of the PGA Tour’s regular season as the top 125 in the FedExCup points list advance to next week’s playoff event. Here’s the key info for the Wyndham Championship. (Click here for tee times) How to watch: Thursday, Rd. 1: Golf Channel, 3-6PM ET; live stream: http://www.golfchannel.com/pgastream Friday, Rd. 2: Golf Channel, […]
Even the greatest athletes in the world were captivated by Tiger Woods’ Sunday run at the PGA Championship. After winning his match on Sunday to capture the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Rafa Nadal turned his attention to Woods. Cameras focused on Nadal scrolling through and surveying his phone. He then revealed that he was trying […]
It was New Jersey and then-Gov. Chris Christie who began the crusade to make sports betting legal beyond the confines of Las Vegas, so it’s no surprise that the Garden State would be the pointy end of the gaming spear. In May, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection […]