Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING Keegan (+8%): How satisfying it must feel, to get his first victory since the anchor ban while pacing the field in putting for much of the BMW. Like Webb Simpson before him, Bradley’s drought-busting […]
Georgia Hall was inspired seeing fellow Brit Justin Rose rise to world No. 1 in men’s golf on Monday. Hall will tee it up at the Evian Championship this week No. 8 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings. After winning the Ricoh Women’s British Open last month, she became the first English woman to crack […]
The Rolex world No. 1 ranking is up for grabs yet again at the Evian Championship this week. The top five in the world all have a chance to leave France with the top ranking. With so many world-ranking points up for grabs, Sung Hyun Park has some work to do to extend her reign […]
Rory McIlroy will kick off the new year in Hawaii for the first time in his career. The four-time major champion has officially committed to make his tournament debut in the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions, held Jan. 3-6 in Maui. He qualified by virtue of his three-shot victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in […]
Maybe this is the year the jewel regains its sparkle. The Evian Championship has the makings of something spectacular as the LPGA’s fifth major, with its picturesque backdrops on the mountainside above Lake Geneva in the shadow of the French Alps. The setting is majestic, the views breathtaking. LPGA commissioner Mike Whan imagines Evian with […]
The last three major championship winners will play together in the first two rounds of the Evian Championship. Rolex world No. 1 Sung Hyun Park, No. 2 Ariya Jutanugarn and No. 8 Georgia Hall will go off together on the first tee at 6:59 a.m. ET on Thursday and on the first tee at 2:14 […]
Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky have been one of golf’s most recognizable power couples since their engagement in 2013, but rumors are swirling after Gretzky recently scrubbed any sign of her fiancé from her wildly popular Instagram page. Multiple reports have suggested that the couple could be on the verge of a breakup, which the […]
The inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur will be broadcast next April on NBC Sports, it was announced Wednesday. NBC will provide live broadcast and digital tournament coverage of the final round on Saturday, April 6 (noon-3 p.m. ET), while Golf Channel will cover the championship on its news and digital platforms. Held the week before […]
Thomas Pieters won’t be a part of the European squad that will look to win back the Ryder Cup later this month, but he had plenty of thoughts to share from his time in the arena two years ago at Hazeltine. The Belgian was a Ryder Cup rookie for the 2016 matches in Minnesota, where […]
Golf’s new rulebook has been published and will take effect on Jan. 1. The changes – more than 30 in all – were originally announced in March 2017, and the USGA and R&A received more than 30,000 pieces of feedback. It’s being billed as the most significant rules modernization in generations, designed to make the […]