CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – The last Ryder Cup captain may have had an inkling that Bryson DeChambeau was going to be a member of the U.S. team one day. U.S. captain Jim Furyk announced DeChambeau as one of his three picks on Tuesday night, but once DeChambeau took the stage, he started telling a story about […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Maybe the canned video message should have tipped us off. In the 20-second clip that was aired during a Ryder Cup news conference inside the PGA of America headquarters on Feb. 20, Woods read from a teleprompter that he was “thankful” to be named a U.S. vice captain and “excited about the […]
The latest first-time winner as a pro is Linnea Strom, whose initial professional victory happened in the 2018 Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge, a Symetra Tour tournament in South Dakota. Strom scored an eagle and four birdies in her final round and finished at 11-under 269. That was one stroke ahead of runner-up Charlotte Thomas of […]
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – The last time a United States team competed for the Ryder Cup without Phil Mickelson – at the Belfrey in 1993 – Bryson DeChambeau was born eight days later. On Tuesday night outside Philadelphia, 25 years later, Mickelson and DeChambeau were seated next to each other as two of Jim Furyk’s captain’s […]
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk is down to one final wild-card pick, and he said Tuesday that he’s narrowed down his list of contenders to fewer than a half-dozen players. This week’s BMW Championship outside Philadelphia is the final chance for players to audition for a spot on Furyk’s U.S. team, […]
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – There was little doubt Jim Furyk was going to select Tiger Woods with one of his four Ryder Cup captain’s picks. But just in case there was any doubt in the 14-time major winner’s mind, he sounds as though he was able to leak a little info to himself. Asked when exactly […]
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – David Duval was answering questions in the back of a hotel conference room, and Zach Johnson couldn’t help but point out the irony. “What is this? Media interviewing media?” he asked. Duval, Johnson and Matt Kuchar were announced as U.S. Ryder Cup vice captains Tuesday night by Jim Furyk, who also named […]
The men’s Open Division was whittled down to eight, while four women remain at the Volvik World Long Drive Championship. Sixteen men battled on Tuesday night for a spot in the quarterfinals at WinStar Resort and Casino in Thackerville, Okla., where an inch-and-a-half of overnight rain created a very slow grid [460 yards long, 50 […]
European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn finalized his team on Wednesday announcing Paul Casey, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson as his four wild-card selections. This quartet joins the eight European qualifiers: Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Alex Noren and Thorbjorn Olesen. “If I had written down […]
After revealing his four picks to solidify the roster he’ll lean on later this month outside Paris, Thomas Bjorn put a confident cap on what in recent days looked like a delicate and difficult process. “If I had written down 12 names before I started my captaincy journey,” Bjorn said, “it wouldn’t have been far […]