ST. LOUIS – Tommy Fleetwood received a surprise this week when noticed that a $154,480 check from the European Tour had been deposited into his bank account. Because he wasn’t that Tommy Fleetwood. Turns out the European Tour made a clerical error and sent out the winnings from last month’s Open Championship to the wrong […]
Jarrod Lyle died on Wednesday night at home in Torquay, Australia, following his third bout with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 36. Lyle, who played three full seasons on the PGA Tour, was placed in “palliative care” last week because “his body is no longer able to fight [leukemia],” and his wife, Briony, released a […]
1981 – Born on Aug. 21 in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. 1987 – Introduced to golf at age 6 when he caddied for his father. 1998 – At age 17 is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Is confined to his bed for nine months while undergoing chemotherapy treatments. 2004 – Turns professional. 2006 – Finishes 18th […]
Jarrod Lyle died on Wednesday after multiple battles with cancer. His peers reacted on social media with grief, and also support for Lyle’s family. Revelation 21:4He’ll will wipe away every tearfrom their eyes, and death shallbe no more,neither shallthere be mourning,nor crying, nor pain anymore for theformer things have passed away#jarrodlyle pic.twitter.com/c3TSzMqtkD — Steve Elkington […]
ST. LOUIS – The final major of the year gets underway Thursday at Bellerive Country Club, and we assembled our team on the ground – senior writers Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner, and associate editor Nick Menta – to tackle some of the biggest questions heading into the 100th PGA Championship: THE MONDAY MORNING HEADLINE […]
On this heartbreaking night when we lost Jarrod Lyle, I can’t help but think of when I first met him. It was June 2011, and I’d flown to Memphis, Tenn., to write a magazine cover story on him. He was 29 at the time, cancer-free, and he’d agreed to visit the world-renowned St. Jude Children’s […]
In November 2013, GolfChannel.com senior writer Rex Hoggard traveled to Australia to document a remarkable story about a remarkable man – Jarrod Lyle. Lyle, then 32, was attempting a comeback in professional golf after having beaten cancer not just once, but twice. Lyle allowed Hoggard total access as he prepared to make his emotional return […]
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 […]
ST. LOUIS – Here are some things I think I think after Tiger Woods collected an opening-round even-par 70 at Bellerive for the 100th PGA Championship, a round that really never looked like it had a chance to be even par: • Well, that was interesting. And I’m not entirely sure where to begin. The first […]
ST. LOUIS – Dripping sweat on his third hole of the day Thursday morning, Tiger Woods ducked into a port-a-potty and swapped out his navy Nike polo for a fresh one. The wardrobe change wasn’t the immediate cause for his turnaround, of course, but Woods just so happened to shake off an early 3-over start […]