Since the advent of the FedExCup in 2007, only 13 players have managed to make the playoffs each and every year. But two of the PGA Tour’s stalwarts head into the regular-season finale with work to do in order to remain a part of that select fraternity. Sergio Garcia has rarely had to sweat the […]
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Commercial airlines losing the golf clubs of a professional golfer is not exactly a groundbreaking story. It happens. But European Tour pro Thorbjorn Olesen is on quite the roll, losing two sets of clubs and five suitcases in the span of 10 days. Olesen, the reigning Italian Open champ, claimed his primary set of golf […]
Tiger Woods on Sunday at Bellerive recorded his seventh runner-up finish in a major and his first in nine years. A favorite guest of the Golf Channel Podcast, Brandel Chamblee joins host Will Gray to compare and contrast Tiger’s return to competitive golf with that of Ben Hogan and Babe Didrikson Zaharias in the 1950s. Chamblee […]
We’ve seen it before. Especially in the late summer, at PGA Championships in humid Middle American locales like Chicago, Louisville and Tulsa. Last Sunday in St. Louis, there was Tiger Woods glistening with sweat, his mental gears meshing, the body flowing. In the hunt, and in the zone. Amid the steam rising from Bellerive’s zoysia […]
Lexi Thompson says her month-long “mental break” from golf was not triggered by any new event, but it was a respite she needed to deal with the cumulative struggle that came from trying to show strength and “hide” the emotional pain she felt in the challenges she faced last year. Thompson opened up in a […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – It wasn’t just that Jacob Bergeron prevailed in an unprecedented 24-for-1 playoff Wednesday at the U.S. Amateur. It was how he did it – with a bogey-6, on Pebble Beach’s famous 18th hole. “Fortunate is the first word that comes to mind,” Bergeron said afterward. There have been larger playoffs to […]
It was New Jersey and then-Gov. Chris Christie who began the crusade to make sports betting legal beyond the confines of Las Vegas, so it’s no surprise that the Garden State would be the pointy end of the gaming spear. In May, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection […]
Even the greatest athletes in the world were captivated by Tiger Woods’ Sunday run at the PGA Championship. After winning his match on Sunday to capture the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Rafa Nadal turned his attention to Woods. Cameras focused on Nadal scrolling through and surveying his phone. He then revealed that he was trying […]
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Standing to the left of the 16th green Thursday, Jackson Van Paris clasped his hands behind his head and grimaced as Mason Overstreet ended his historic week at Pebble Beach. It was little consolation to him afterward, of course, but earlier this week Van Paris, 14, became the second-youngest competitor to […]
Lexi Thompson looked at ease, smiling and laughing in a solid start in her return to the tour Thursday at the Indy Women in Tech Championship, where she felt the benefit of her month-long break. “It was very relaxing out there,” Thompson said. “I felt very comfortable where my game was at. I just tried […]