On the eve of the final round at The Greenbrier, Harold Varner III said that no matter what happened Sunday, not much in his life was going to change. Even if he captured his first PGA Tour title, he was still going to wake up early Monday morning to cut his parents’ lawn in North […]
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Kevin Na ends his drought, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson team up, some other matches we’d love to see, Russell Knox drains bombs, a new LPGA scoring queen is crowned and more in this week’s edition of Monday Scramble: For those of us not in the arena, we tend to take winning for granted. Multiple-win […]
The R&A released prize information for The Open at Carnoustie, where the Champion Golfer of the Year will take home $1.89 million from a $10.5 million purse. The purse and winner’s share are equal to those offered at last year’s PGA Championship, and it’s a slight increase from last year’s Open when Jordan Spieth took […]
After rallying to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in a playoff, Russell Knox is back inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in nearly a year. Knox fired a closing 66 at Ballyliffin, then beat Ryan Fox with a birdie on the first playoff hole for […]
After getting his first win in nearly seven years, Kevin Na has suddenly moved onto the bubble in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings. Na was 36th on the U.S. points list entering last week, but after winning at The Greenbrier he moved all the way up to 13th, with the top eight after the PGA […]
PGA Tour and LPGA pros will be chasing new $1 million prizes with the introduction of the Aon Risk Reward Challenge. Players will try to win the season-long competition based on scores recorded on their respective tour’s most challenging holes as part of a multi-year deal with Aon. The man and woman at the top […]
Kevin Na collected his second career PGA Tour victory at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Here’s a look inside his bag: Driver: Callaway GBB Epic (9 degrees, with Graphite Design Tour AD-GP 6S shaft) Fairway wood: TaylorMade M3 (15 degrees), with Project X EvenFlow Black 6.5 70X shaft, Titleist 915F (18 degrees), with Matrix Ozik Code 7 shaft Hybrid: Titleist 818H2 (21 […]
Kevin Na rallied on Sunday to win his second PGA Tour event at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Here’s how the purse was paid out in West Virginia. 1 Kevin Na -19 $1,314,000 2 Kelly Kraft -14 $788,400 T3 Jason Kokrak -13 $423,400 T3 Brandt Snedeker -13 $423,400 T5 Austin Cook -12 $247,470 T5 […]
On his first day of retirement, John Peterson drove an hour and a half from The Greenbrier to Roanoke, Va., flew to New York City, waited out a three-hour delay at LaGuardia, stomached some greasy airport food, tried to soothe his howling 8-month-old son on the entire flight home to Fort Worth (while apologizing to […]
Many of the game’s biggest stars will be tuning up for Carnoustie this week at the Scottish Open. Here is the key info for this week’s European Tour event. How to watch: Thursday, Rd. 1: Golf Channel, 5:30AM-1:30PM ET; live stream: http://www.golfchannel.com/eurostream Friday, Rd. 2: Golf Channel, 5:30AM-1:30PM ET; live stream: http://www.golfchannel.com/eurostream Saturday, Rd. 3: Golf Channel, […]