We’re marveling again. This time over the essence of the man as much as the athlete, over what Tiger Woods summoned to repair, rebuild and redeem himself, after scandal and injury so ruinously rocked his career. We watched in wonder Sunday as Woods completed the greatest comeback in the history of sport. That’s how we’re […]
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We’ve heard it a million times: Tiger Woods doesn’t just move the needle, he IS the needle. Here’s more proof. NBC Sports Group’s final-round coverage of Woods claiming his 80th career victory in the Tour Championship earned a 5.21 overnight rating, making it the highest-rated telecast in the history of the FedExCup Playoffs and the […]
After months of anticipation, the Ryder Cup is finally here. And while the United States is favored to take home the trophy in Europe for the first time in 25 years, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee believes it’s not quite that simple. Appearing on a recent edition of the Golf Channel podcast, Chamblee laid out […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – As he’s proven in the past Dustin Johnson isn’t averse to switching things up when it comes to his putting, but this was extreme even for him. Johnson switched to a cross-handed grip on the sixth hole during Saturday’s third round at the Tour Championship and continued to use the same grip […]
Seve Ballesteros might have been a magician with a sand wedge, but he was truly hell on wheels. As Europe’s captain at the 1997 Ryder Cup in his native Spain, Ballesteros led his team with a heavy foot, racing across the emerald landscape in a souped-up Club Car festooned with blue flags. “All week long […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. Ryder Cup team was waiting to catch a charter flight to Paris late Sunday in Atlanta when the man everyone was waiting for arrived. “We had a major victory for the team and we had a whole group of guys waiting in the team room, and then a giant roar […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. Ryder Cup team landed in Paris just before 1 p.m. (local time) on Monday and most players headed to the hotel to rest following a long week at the Tour Championship. “I’m not going to be at the golf course tomorrow,” Justin Thomas said on Sunday following his final round […]
ATLANTA – As Tiger Woods made his way to East Lake’s 18th green and a victory that was five years and four back surgeries in the making the masses that had tracked his every move crested the gallery ropes and began rushing down the fairway behind the day’s final group. The decorum of golf was […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – In December 2016, in one of his lowest moments as a pro, Ian Poulter sat on stage at a PGA of America dinner and fielded questions from the audience. One of the queries was this: What’s left for you in golf? “I feel I’ve got more wins in me,” he replied that […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Practice-round groups at the Ryder Cup typically give fans a sense of what to expect when the Day 1 pairings are announced on Thursday afternoon. Though European captain Thomas Bjorn said that “not too much” should be gleaned from his groupings during the first official practice round on Tuesday, he also doesn’t […]