PGA Tour and LPGA pros will be chasing new $1 million prizes with the introduction of the Aon Risk Reward Challenge. Players will try to win the season-long competition based on scores recorded on their respective tour’s most challenging holes as part of a multi-year deal with Aon. The man and woman at the top […]
After getting his first win in nearly seven years, Kevin Na has suddenly moved onto the bubble in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings. Na was 36th on the U.S. points list entering last week, but after winning at The Greenbrier he moved all the way up to 13th, with the top eight after the PGA […]
After rallying to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in a playoff, Russell Knox is back inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in nearly a year. Knox fired a closing 66 at Ballyliffin, then beat Ryan Fox with a birdie on the first playoff hole for […]
The R&A released prize information for The Open at Carnoustie, where the Champion Golfer of the Year will take home $1.89 million from a $10.5 million purse. The purse and winner’s share are equal to those offered at last year’s PGA Championship, and it’s a slight increase from last year’s Open when Jordan Spieth took […]
Kevin Na ends his drought, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson team up, some other matches we’d love to see, Russell Knox drains bombs, a new LPGA scoring queen is crowned and more in this week’s edition of Monday Scramble: For those of us not in the arena, we tend to take winning for granted. Multiple-win […]
On the eve of the final round at The Greenbrier, Harold Varner III said that no matter what happened Sunday, not much in his life was going to change. Even if he captured his first PGA Tour title, he was still going to wake up early Monday morning to cut his parents’ lawn in North […]
U.S. Open runner-up Tommy Fleetwood has withdrawn from this week’s Scottish Open, opting to rest up in advance of The Open at Carnoustie that starts in 10 days. Fleetwood shot a 63 last month at Shinnecock Hills to finish one shot behind Brooks Koepka, and he missed the cut earlier this month in defense of […]
Field of 92 Players – MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL Hall of Famers Join Entertainment Personalities Competing for a $600,000 Purse NBC Sports Group to Provide Weeklong Comprehensive Coverage of the Nation’s Premier Celebrity Golf Tournament across NBCUniversal Television and Digital Platforms ORLANDO, Fla., July 9, 2018 — NBC Sports Group this week will […]
Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson is meaningless as an exhibition. The outcome won’t matter, and the competition won’t be remembered in any meaningful sense, unless the $10 million they’re reportedly going to play for is their own money, and that won’t happen. At its best, as merely an exhibition match, Tiger vs. Phil shapes up […]
Jimmy Buffett has worn many hats in his career – musician, best-selling author, businessman, and now … caddie. Buffett was at Chicago Golf Club Monday to caddie for Patricia Ehrhart during a practice round at the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. Ehrhart was a semifinalist at the 2017 U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur, and she also works […]