NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Golf is skewing younger than ever before, but for some reason Ryder Cup team captains continue to rely on aging warriors in the game’s biggest pressure-cooker. Experience is the most overused word in a Ryder Cup year, and European captain Thomas Bjorn hammered home its importance again and again Wednesday when […]
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With the Ryder Cup rosters coming into focus this week, the U.S. squad is looking like the team to beat – both on paper and at the betting window. Two years after a convincing 17-11 victory at Hazeltine, the Americans will head to Paris as the betting favorites as they look to lift the trophy […]
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – So, Jordan, when is the last time you were on a bubble, for, like, anything? “I’m not sure,” he said Wednesday. This is a most unfamiliar position for Spieth, for whom so much has come easily in his career. Entering this week’s BMW Championship, he is ranked 27th in the FedExCup […]
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Tony Finau has already received one phone call from Jim Furyk. He’s hoping for another one later this week – with a different message. Finau was one of “several” players that Furyk phoned on Monday night to inform them that they wouldn’t be chosen in the first wave of captain’s pick […]
World No. 2 Will Hogue (Three-time Tour Event winner in 2018) & Two-Time World Champion Tim Burke Lead Open (Men’s) Division Field; Two-time World Champion Phillis Meti Aiming for Third Women’s Title Eddie Fernandes Wins Masters Division World Championship Eight men and four women tonight will be vying for the coveted championship belt and the […]
Hunter Mahan has won six times on the PGA Tour, played 15 full seasons against the game’s best and is a seven-time Ryder/Presidents Cup player, but this was different. “If feels almost weird to secure my [Tour] card,” he said on Tuesday from his home in Dallas. Two days after finishing runner-up at the DAP […]
After revealing his four picks to solidify the roster he’ll lean on later this month outside Paris, Thomas Bjorn put a confident cap on what in recent days looked like a delicate and difficult process. “If I had written down 12 names before I started my captaincy journey,” Bjorn said, “it wouldn’t have been far […]
European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn finalized his team on Wednesday announcing Paul Casey, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson as his four wild-card selections. This quartet joins the eight European qualifiers: Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Alex Noren and Thorbjorn Olesen. “If I had written down […]
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Tiger Woods said he’s never skipped a Wednesday pro-am, but at the tail end of a long season, at the final stop on a stressful three-week stretch, he finally decided to sit one out. “I needed it,” he said Thursday. “I really did. I’ve played a lot of golf in the […]
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – It’s a new body trying to recapture old feelings. Tiger Woods began this comeback by eschewing a swing coach and watching tape of his old action. He’s tinkered with driver shafts and lofts, trying to rediscover what used to feel comfortable. And he’s rekindled his love affair with his Scotty Cameron […]