PARAMUS, N.J. – Brooks Koepka showed some muscle and unleashed a monstrous finish Friday to share the lead in The Northern Trust. Tiger Woods missed yet another putt and was relieved to still be playing. Koepka spent most of the second round trading birdies and bogeys, going nowhere. One swing changed everything on the 631-yard […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
The CP Women’s Open used to be designated as one of the LPGA’s major championships, back when it was called the du Maurier Classic. For Brooke Henderson and the 15 other Canadians teeing it up this week, it still feels like a major, their sixth major. Henderson electrified Wascana Country Club in Saskatchewan on Friday. […]
A look at the projected FedExCup standings based on where things stand through two rounds of The Northern Trust. FedExCup Rank PLAYER NAME FedExCup Points PROJ. CURRENT PROJ. TOTAL 1 3 Brooks Koepka 4012 2 1 Dustin Johnson 3207 3 2 Justin Thomas 2874 4 86 Jamie Lovemark 2576 5 9 Bryson DeChambeau 2107 6 […]
Tiger Woods’ 3-under 68 on Saturday morning looked better on paper than it did in person. While Woods didn’t drop a shot, he also let a number of quality birdie chances slip away as he struggled with his putting. That said, here are the three times he managed to convert for birdie. After five straight […]
PARAMUS, N.J. – Here are some things I think I think after a third-round 3-under 68 at The Northern Trust Saturday at Ridgewood Country Club: • Let’s start with the good. This was Tiger’s first bogey-free round on the PGA Tour in 1,148 days. Yup, since The Greenbrier in 2015. • Driving, for the second […]
PARAMUS, N.J. – Tiger Woods began this season with a list of goals, from the more general plan of physically withstanding the rigors of a full year to more specific targets like qualifying for the final WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. It wasn’t until he was deep into the summer that he began to envision advancing all the […]
Leave it to Phil Mickelson to admire his own shot and talk trash all at once. As you’ll see and hear in the video below from the par-3 second on Saturday, Mickelson flushes an 8-iron from 169 yards, and while the ball is in the air, it sounds like someone says, “Better be better than […]
PARAMUS, N.J. – Keegan Bradley went to college at St. Johns University, which is about 20 miles from Ridgewood Country Club, and still has friends in the area. But that doesn’t mean The Northern Trust is a friendly-confines deal for the lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. “A lot of Yankee fans. I hear a lot […]
PARAMUS, N.J. – Jordan Spieth missed the green right of the par-3 sixth hole, chipped to 7 feet and calmly rolled in the par putt. What was routine by any measure was actually a eureka moment. “I wrote it down so that I wouldn’t forget. I’ll take a picture and put it in the notes,” […]
Bryson DeChambeau, the second-year PGA Tour pro known for his Hogan cap, his all-one-length irons and his scientific approach to golf, fired an 8-under 63 to take a four-stroke lead after three rounds of The Northern Trust, the first event in the FedExCup Playoffs. Here’s what happened on Saturday at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, […]