PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – It wasn’t just that Jacob Bergeron prevailed in an unprecedented 24-for-1 playoff Wednesday at the U.S. Amateur. It was how he did it – with a bogey-6, on Pebble Beach’s famous 18th hole. “Fortunate is the first word that comes to mind,” Bergeron said afterward. There have been larger playoffs to […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Lexi Thompson says her month-long “mental break” from golf was not triggered by any new event, but it was a respite she needed to deal with the cumulative struggle that came from trying to show strength and “hide” the emotional pain she felt in the challenges she faced last year. Thompson opened up in a […]
We’ve seen it before. Especially in the late summer, at PGA Championships in humid Middle American locales like Chicago, Louisville and Tulsa. Last Sunday in St. Louis, there was Tiger Woods glistening with sweat, his mental gears meshing, the body flowing. In the hunt, and in the zone. Amid the steam rising from Bellerive’s zoysia […]
Tiger Woods on Sunday at Bellerive recorded his seventh runner-up finish in a major and his first in nine years. A favorite guest of the Golf Channel Podcast, Brandel Chamblee joins host Will Gray to compare and contrast Tiger’s return to competitive golf with that of Ben Hogan and Babe Didrikson Zaharias in the 1950s. Chamblee […]
Commercial airlines losing the golf clubs of a professional golfer is not exactly a groundbreaking story. It happens. But European Tour pro Thorbjorn Olesen is on quite the roll, losing two sets of clubs and five suitcases in the span of 10 days. Olesen, the reigning Italian Open champ, claimed his primary set of golf […]
Since the advent of the FedExCup in 2007, only 13 players have managed to make the playoffs each and every year. But two of the PGA Tour’s stalwarts head into the regular-season finale with work to do in order to remain a part of that select fraternity. Sergio Garcia has rarely had to sweat the […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Around the Vanderbilt golf team John Augenstein’s nickname is “Flash,” and it’s easy to see why. The swing loaded with speed. The on-course charisma. The big shot in the big moment. The Commodores junior added another highlight to his growing collection Wednesday, when he defeated world No. 3 Collin Morikawa in […]
The injury that slowed Rickie Fowler at last week’s PGA Championship will keep him out of the first event of the PGA Tour’s postseason. Fowler was reportedly hampered by an oblique injury at Bellerive Country Club, where he started the third round two shots off the lead but faded to a tie for 12th. He […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The top three players in the world had a tough afternoon Wednesday at Pebble Beach. Braden Thornberry, Justin Suh and Collin Morikawa – Nos. 1-3, respectively, in the World Amateur Golf Ranking – all lost their Round of 64 matches at the U.S. Amateur. Thornberry lost, 2 and 1, to Jesus […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – One of the hottest players in amateur golf had his U.S. Amateur run end Wednesday under unusual circumstances. Akshay Bhatia, the 16-year-old left-hander who has been dominating the junior golf circuit over the past year, squandered a late lead in his eventual 19-hole loss to Bradford Tilley in the Round of […]