Arhive lunare: aprilie 2019

Eight Men, Four Women Vying for Volvik World Long Drive Championship, Live on Golf Channel

World No. 2 Will Hogue (Three-time Tour Event winner in 2018) & Two-Time World Champion Tim Burke Lead Open (Men’s) Division Field; Two-time World Champion Phillis Meti Aiming for Third Women’s Title  Eddie Fernandes Wins Masters Division World Championship Eight men and four women tonight will be vying for the coveted championship belt and the […]

Finau on having to wait for pick: 'No hard feelings'

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Tony Finau has already received one phone call from Jim Furyk. He’s hoping for another one later this week – with a different message. Finau was one of “several” players that Furyk phoned on Monday night to inform them that they wouldn’t be chosen in the first wave of captain’s pick […]

Spieth: Qualifying for East Lake 'not do or die'

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – So, Jordan, when is the last time you were on a bubble, for, like, anything? “I’m not sure,” he said Wednesday. This is a most unfamiliar position for Spieth, for whom so much has come easily in his career. Entering this week’s BMW Championship, he is ranked 27th in the FedExCup […]

Americans listed as Ryder Cup betting favorites

With the Ryder Cup rosters coming into focus this week, the U.S. squad is looking like the team to beat – both on paper and at the betting window. Two years after a convincing 17-11 victory at Hazeltine, the Americans will head to Paris as the betting favorites as they look to lift the trophy […]

Experience is overrated in Ryder Cup

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Golf is skewing younger than ever before, but for some reason Ryder Cup team captains continue to rely on aging warriors in the game’s biggest pressure-cooker. Experience is the most overused word in a Ryder Cup year, and European captain Thomas Bjorn hammered home its importance again and again Wednesday when […]

Bryson is measuring his brain waves; read about it

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Bryson DeChambeau has been registering his brain waves. That much is clear. For most of the rest of this you’re going to need some sort of degree in neuroscience and maybe German philosophy. I don’t know why, but it couldn’t hurt. Per usual, it’s best to let Bryson explain himself. On […]

Tour Champ. projections: What players need to do at BMW

The top 70 players in the FedExCup standings are in the field for this week’s BMW Championship, with the top 30 upon conclusion advancing to the Tour Championship. The PGA Tour projects 1,418 points as the mark to reach in order to secure a spot at East Lake. Given that estimate, here is what players […]

Could be all or nothing for these four stars

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Considering all the East Lake-related questions asked during his Wednesday news conference, Jordan Spieth felt compelled to issue a reminder: “I’m actually inside the number right now,” he said. “You might forget.” Spieth enters the week 27th on the FedExCup standings, having never missed the Tour Championship in his PGA Tour […]

Bjorn takes Casey, Garcia, Poulter and Stenson as picks

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 […]

Bjorn takes no chance, sticks with the old guard

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 […]