Take a look at some answers to frequently asked questions about the PGA Championship: So, this is the championship of the PGA Tour, huh? Sigh. You don’t beat around the bush, do you? No, this is not the championship of the PGA Tour. That would be considered The Players Championship. This is the championship of […]
Justin Thomas added another PGA Tour title to his collection and a bunch more cash to his bank account. Here’s how the purse was paid out at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. 1 Justin Thomas -15 $1,700,000 2 Kyle Stanley -11 $1,072,000 T3 Thorbjorn Olesen -10 $510,000 T3 Dustin Johnson -10 $510,000 5 Brooks Koepka -9 $357,000 […]
The top 12 in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings remain unchanged after the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. With just one week left in automatic qualifying, only Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Patrick Reed have secured their spots in Paris. Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth are all but guaranteed to be there, too. But the positions […]
Justin Thomas set himself up for another run at world No. 1. Thomas returned to the No. 2 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking following his impressive victory Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. The exact scenarios will be known later this week, but it appears that Thomas will be able to reclaim the No. […]
It’s the home stretch of the season, and over the next two months Tiger Woods might battle his body as much as his competition. With 13 starts this season, he has already played his busiest schedule in five years. His upcoming slate is even more jam-packed, and he’s on pace to play as many as […]
Justin Thomas dominates, Tiger Woods looks lethargic, Georgia Hall wins her first event, Phil Mickelson puts on his dancing shoes and more in this week’s edition of Monday Scramble: Remember that ridiculous storyline that Justin Thomas was stuck in Jordan Spieth’s shadow? Now it’s worth debating whether it’ll be Thomas or Spieth, both 25, who […]
Two other players have a chance this week to overtake Dustin Johnson for world No. 1. Johnson heads into the year’s final major as the top-ranked player in the world, but both Justin Thomas and Justin Rose can take over the No. 1 spot with a win and some help from Johnson, according to Golf […]
ST. LOUIS – Gary Woodland was born in Topeka, Kan., and went to school in Lawrence, Kan., which makes this week’s PGA Championship as close to a home game as he’s probably ever going to have. “By far. It’s nice. They were nice enough to give me a whole bunch of extra tickets,” Woodland said. […]
Nobody ever imagined that Paolo Molinari and his wife, Micaela, would one day raise a U.S. Amateur champion and an Open champion under the same roof. “It’s incredible where they led us,” says Francesco, the Champion Golfer of the Year. Incredible in the sense that Italy had never produced a major champion until Francesco came […]
ST. LOUIS – The PGA of America is always intentionally vague when it comes to how fast they make the greens for their annual championship, with the standard line being “tournament speeds.” If early practice rounds at Bellerive are any indication, that speed would be slow. A notice posted in the locker room likely set […]