In the first week of the new year, Brooks Koepka played tournament golf while Justin Rose stayed home. As it turned out, that was all it took to reverse the top two spots in the Official World Golf Ranking. Koepka ended the year ranked No. 1 in the world, but he needed a top-8 finish […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Kapalua’s Plantation Course not only offers picturesque views, it also serves as a playground for the PGA Tour’s longest drivers of the golf ball. Eighteen 400-plus-yard drives were sent into the Hawaiian air this week in Maui with Jon Rahm’s 421-yard tee ball on the 17th hole Friday ranking as the longest of the tournament. […]
KAPALUA, Hawaii – Rarely can a player point with complete conviction to a singular moment that proved pivotal to victory. In Xander Schauffele’s case Sunday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, there were actually two moments. Following a bogey at the first hole that dropped him six strokes off the lead, Schauffele rebounded with four birdies […]
KAPALUA, Hawaii – Rory McIlroy added the Sentry Tournament of Champions to his schedule this season for the first time in his career because he wanted to get his year off to a fast start and test his game after an intense offseason. To varying degrees he checked both items off his to-do list. Although he […]
KAPALUA, Hawaii – In Maui, it’s all about the winds. The Plantation Course has some the widest fairways and largest greens on the PGA Tour primarily because of the winds that buffet the layout, like those that gusted to 35 mph for the first three days at this year’s Sentry Tournament of Champions. Sunday was […]
If Woodland can hold off McIlroy at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, it will be quite the early season statement. The post Why a Gary Woodland win would mean a lot more this weekend appeared first on Golf.
Jim “Bones” Mackay has been an on-course reporter for NBC and Golf Channel ever since he left Phil Mickelson’s bag in 2017. The post Bones reveals Phil Mickelson’s ‘big spot’ good-luck charm appeared first on Golf.
Golf Channel’s Jim Mackay on how Phil Mickelson’s superstition changed numbers
Xander Schauffele is making an impressive run during the final round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions, despite this ugly drive on No. 13
Brooks Koepka needed to finish T-8 or better at the Sentry Tournament of Champions to hold on to the No. 1, but finishing 24th means Justin Rose is No. 1