It was an adventurous first round for Tiger Woods at Bellerive Country Club. Woods began the 100th PGA Championship on the 10th tee and made a bogey. He then made double bogey on the par-4 11th, where he hit his approach shot into the greenside water hazard. Three over through two holes, Woods got one […]
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ST. LOUIS – Kansas-bred Gary Woodland felt right at home in enemy territory and delivered his best performance in a major on Thursday at the PGA Championship. Woodland used his power to birdie the two par 5s on the soft turf of Bellerive, and he relied on a new grip and new confidence in his […]
ST. LOUIS – Justin Rose’s first official trip around Bellerive went about as smooth as possible. After only walking, not playing, a practice round this week to preserve his achy back, Rose opened with a 3-under 67 Thursday to sit just three shots off the lead at the PGA Championship. “Today I had a bit […]
ST. LOUIS – Gary Woodland was sharing a rental house with his manager, Excel Sports’ Mark Steinberg, and the long-time agent had heard enough. “I hit it so good on Friday and Saturday at The Open Championship and I think I shot over par,” Woodland said on Thursday at the PGA Championship. “I was having […]
ST. LOUIS – There’s a lot of idle time during a major round, and so Marc Leishman felt his mind wandering on Thursday, less than 24 hours after the expected but nonetheless devastating news that Jarrod Lyle had lost his third battle with leukemia. Standing on the tees and in the fairways and on the […]
ST. LOUIS – Jon Rahm spent less time Thursday night discussing his opening-round 68 at the PGA Championship than he did his recent engagement to his longtime girlfriend Kelley Cahill. Rahm said he proposed prior to this year’s U.S. Open. And apparently, he saves all his sweating for the golf course. “If there’s ever a doubt […]
ST. LOUIS – Defending champion Justin Thomas looked as though he was going pick up where he left off at the PGA Championship – on top of the leaderboard. Starting on Bellerive’s back nine, Thomas went out in 32 and for a time shared the lead with his good friend Rickie Fowler at 3 under […]
ST. LOUIS – A long, soft golf course with generous fairways sounds like the perfect layout for Dustin Johnson. And for a lengthy stretch Thursday, it was. The world No. 1 ripped off six birdies in an eight-hole stretch from Nos. 6-13 to reach 5 under par and, for a few minutes, a share of […]
ST. LOUIS – Troy Merritt arrived on the range for the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday about an hour before his tee time and slowly began something approaching his normal warm-up. Less than a week removed from emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his left arm, Merritt still wasn’t sure […]
Tiger Woods would have smashed Jack Nicklaus’ major record if he hadn’t been obsessed with transforming his physique, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee said Thursday on “The Dan Patrick Show.” Woods has 14 major championship victories compared to Nicklaus’ 18. Woods was considered by many a lock to capture the crown jewel of golf records, […]