What do Jordan Spieth, Graeme McDowell and all-but-forgotten Roland Thatcher have in common at the Valero Texas Open? They’re searching for their games. Our Sean Fairholm explores their situations. The post Long Way Home appeared first on Global Golf Post.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Ally McDonald would love to follow in Pernilla Lindberg’s footsteps. She would love to pull a giant upset and win the ANA Inspiration. Yes, McDonald says it’s way too early to start thinking about that, but she is the first-round leader at Mission Hills after an opening 68. Like Lindberg, she’s bidding […]
SAN ANTONIO – Si Woo Kim birdied five of his final eight holes Thursday for a 6-under 66 and the first-round lead at the Valero Texas Open. Kim, the 2017 Players Championship winner, leads by a shot over Abraham Ancer, J.T. Poston, Brian Stuard and Jhonattan Vegas. He’s two ahead of a group that includes Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth at the PGA Tour’s last stop […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Nobody experienced the range of emotions Annie Park felt in Thursday’s first round of the ANA Inspiration. She awakened excited to play the year’s first major, only to discover the back window of her car was smashed and her golf clubs were stolen from the parking lot of her Palm Desert […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Michelle Wie looked as if she might be staggering to another disappointing start Thursday at the ANA Inspiration. Maybe another short-lived one. At 5 over through eight holes, she looked as if she were quickly playing herself out of the year’s first major championship, a development sure to ignite new questions […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Cristie Kerr’s growing family and wine business raised questions last year about how much she could continue pouring herself into golf. She’s delivering some feisty answers with her clubs again. At 41, she doesn’t look as if she’s ready to fade away anytime soon. With a 2-under-par 70 Thursday at the […]
Jordan Spieth’s efforts to get his game back on track before the season’s first major continue. Struggling for much of the season, Spieth showed brief signs of his former self last week in Austin before failing to advance from group play. Thursday at the Valero Texas Open, he put together a solid round of 4-under […]
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lexi Thompson hit just half her fairways in Thursday’s start of the ANA Inspiration. She missed seven greens. Forget those numbers. She opened with a 69. That’s the number that counts. A round of 3-under par gave her a share of the lead through the morning wave. Welcome back to Lexi’s […]
EVANS, Ga. – Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi have crossed paths many times in their decorated golf careers. But nothing should compare to what will happen Saturday, when both players will converge at the historic Augusta National Golf Club in the final pairing of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Kupcho, the world’s top-ranked women’s […]