Amy Olson wasn’t devastated losing Sunday at the Evian Championship. The self-described small town girl from Oxbow, N.D., told us she wouldn’t be. “If my moment is going to come, it will come,” she said before sleeping on a two-shot lead on Saturday night. “If it doesn’t, I’ll be OK. I’m very content with my […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
The Web.com Tour will hand out 25 PGA Tour cards for the 2018-19 season based on how players fare in the Finals series. Here are the standings through Week 3 of four. 1. Sangmoon Bae, $218,156 2. Robert Streb, $184,750 3. Peter Malnati, $154,586 4. Matt Jones, $112,000 5. Hunter Mahan, $107,505 6. Adam Schenk, […]
Each week, GolfChannel.com takes a look back at the week in golf. Here’s what’s weighing on our writers’ minds. On the Sunday drama at the Evian … The Evian Championship gave us a glorious glimpse Sunday of what it can be. The weather was finally right all week. The course was set up beautifully, with […]
For two days, players in the Ryder Cup will compete in foursomes and fourball formats. In case you’re not familiar with the intricacies of those two, here’s a primer: • Fourball format: In the fourball format, two players make up a team and play a better-ball against the other team. When playing this format, it […]
U.S. fans can expect Dustin Johnson to rack up plenty of points next week in Paris – at least, according to Las Vegas bookmakers. The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook has published odds on each of the 12 U.S. Ryder Cup participants to be the top point earner on the American squad. Johnson fell behind Brooks […]
Angela Stanford cries tears of joy, the PGA Tour season comes to a close, Tadd Fujikawa comes out, Sang-Moon Bae finds his form and more in this week’s edition of the Monday Scramble: Even Angela Stanford was surprised Sunday. On tour since 2001, the 40-year-old Stanford hadn’t won in six years or really contended in […]
There was a surreal moment accompanying Keegan Bradley’s victory at the BMW Championship on Sept. 10 when he didn’t know what to think. That moment occurred when Bradley looked at his cell phone and noticed that U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk sent him a text. For a split second Bradley thought, “Is he?” As […]
Brooks Koepka inched closer to the world No. 1 ranking without hitting a shot. The PGA Tour was off last week, but that didn’t prevent some slight shuffling in the Official World Golf Rankings because of the divisor math that supplies a point average for each player. Chief among those changes was Koepka inching past […]
The PGA Tour announced Monday that it will provide free Tour Championship tickets for individuals from North Carolina and South Carolina who were impacted by Hurricane Florence. Residents can receive a complimentary grounds ticket to Wednesday’s practice round by presenting a valid driver’s license from either state at the main tournament entrance. The top 30 […]
Major championships are too important to contrive. There’s more to creating major-championship tradition than jacking up the purse, renovating a course and draping the winner in her country’s flag after it came flapping from the heavens under a skydiver’s parachute. It takes Sundays like the one Angela Stanford delivered at Evian this past week. It […]