ST. LOUIS – Players donned yellow ribbons on Thursday at the PGA Championship to remember Jarrod Lyle, who died on Wednesday following his third bout with acute myeloid leukemia. Rickie Fowler took it a step further. Fowler’s scripting for this week’s championship called for him to wear a blue shirt for the first round. Instead, […]
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ST. LOUIS – It’s like Grand Slam clockwork. Rickie Fowler goes out and does Rickie Fowler things, moves into the hunt at a major, and then waits patiently for the inevitable. Question: Are you aware of how many majors it took Phil Mickelson to win [his first] major and, if so, does that inspire you […]
ST. LOUIS – Rory McIlroy had a new accessory for the first round of the PGA Championship. An anti-inflammatory patch on his right forearm. McIlroy said that he began feeling forearm tightness and discomfort in the crook of his right wrist last weekend at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He said he’d hit a lot of balls […]
ST. LOUIS – Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau had an opportunity to impress U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk on Thursday, but neither player made much of it. More to the point, neither player beat him. The two Paris hopefuls played their opening nine a combined 8 over. While Schauffele rebounded on his inward half […]
ST. LOUIS – Even though he’s hanging on to the eighth and final automatic spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team by the slimmest of margins, Webb Simpson won’t do much leaderboard-watching this week at the PGA Championship. “I think everybody is thinking about it more than I am,” he said Thursday. “I want to […]
ST. LOUIS – As Ian Poulter proved on Day 1 at the PGA Championship – and as multiple players have been quick to point out – there’s little local knowledge to be learned at Bellerive. The golf course is right in front of you, and you’re either going to hit the fairway, or you’re going […]
ST. LOUIS – Dripping sweat on his third hole of the day Thursday morning, Tiger Woods ducked into a port-a-potty and swapped out his navy Nike polo for a fresh one. The wardrobe change wasn’t the immediate cause for his turnaround, of course, but Woods just so happened to shake off an early 3-over start […]
ST. LOUIS – Here are some things I think I think after Tiger Woods collected an opening-round even-par 70 at Bellerive for the 100th PGA Championship, a round that really never looked like it had a chance to be even par: • Well, that was interesting. And I’m not entirely sure where to begin. The first […]
PREVIEW: Fleetwood ‘sensed’ he would shoot 63 in final round at U.S. Open Reigning Race to Dubai champion and four-time European Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood will join David Feherty on his self-titled, Emmy-nominated series Feherty presented by Farmers Insurance®, Monday at 9 p.m. ET on Golf Channel. Filmed in Ontario, Canada last month prior to […]
You don’t get to see Jon Rahm’s tee shot in the below video, and maybe that’s for the best. Rahm’s opening swing in Round 2 of the PGA Championship went Fore! right and caught a spectator in the head, upon which the ball nearly caromed into the fairway. Jon Rahm gets a little help from […]