Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING Francesco Molinari (+9%): His three-month heater culminated with a bogey-free weekend and gritty win at Carnoustie. The top Europeans are going to line up to play foursomes with Frankie at the Ryder Cup. Tiger […]
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Sean Foley has been saying all along that Tiger Woods will win more majors. What Tiger’s former swing coach saw at The Open last week only bolstered his belief. “How can we all forget so quickly what we watched for two decades?” Foley said Monday on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive. Foley’s right. How can we? […]
PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua is leaving the company to become the president of NBC Sports Group, it was announced Tuesday. Bevacqua, who has been the PGA’s top executive since late 2012, will oversee several aspects of NBC’s business, including programming, marketing, digital, NBC Sports Regional Networks and all of the golf businesses. “The […]
Suzann Pettersen is looking forward to returning to golf next year as a mom and a European Solheim Cup vice captain. Pettersen joined Scotland’s Kathryn Imrie as one of two vice captains named Tuesday by Euro skipper Catriona Matthew. Pettersen, the 15-time LPGA winner from Norway, called in to the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish […]
Two of the biggest names in women’s golf may have to go the extra mile to qualify for the Ricoh Women’s British Open next week. Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel aren’t yet qualified for the Women’s British Open Aug. 2-5 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in England, but they are among entries on the […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, (July 24, 2018) – Sunday’s Final Round of The 147TH Open on NBC delivered 6.48 million average viewers (9a-2:07p ET; P2+), which saw Francesco Molinari become the Champion Golfer of the Year with a two-shot victory at Carnoustie Golf Links over a star-studded leaderboard of world-class golfers. This makes The 147TH Open the […]
Jim Furyk is officially on the clock. All of those vague, circumspect answers he’s given in recent months about the U.S. Ryder Cup team – you know the lines: it’s still early; there’s a lot of golf to play; we’ll see in a few months – now give way to a quickly approaching deadline. The […]
This is the final year that the RBC Canadian Open will be sandwiched between the Open Championship and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Next year, with the PGA Tour dramatically reshaping its schedule, the Canadian Open will shift to the week prior to the U.S. Open. The event will also move away from Glen Abbey and be staged […]
Colin Montgomerie said Wednesday that European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn should feel “very confident” about his team’s chances in Paris. Francesco Molinari broke through at Carnoustie to snap the Americans’ five-major winning streak, dating to Brooks Koepka’s U.S. Open title in 2017. “Amazing what an Open victory does to a team mentality, and not […]
Jhonattan Vegas has an opportunity this week to become just the fourth player in the past 30 years to win a PGA Tour event in three consecutive seasons. Vegas is a two-time winner of the RBC Canadian Open. He’s the fourth player to defend his Canadian title since 1930, and the first since Jim Furyk […]