Brandt Snedeker’s first round at the Wyndham Championship began with a bogey and ended with a birdie for an 11-under 59. Snedeker made four consecutive birdies on his opening nine holes and then raced home in 27 strokes to become the ninth different player in PGA Tour history to break the 60 barrier. A very […]

Brandt Snedeker opened the Wyndham Championship with an 11-under 59, becoming just the ninth player in PGA Tour history to card a sub-60 score in a tournament round. Snedeker offered an excited fist pump after rolling in a 20-footer for birdie on the ninth hole at Sedgefield Country Club, his 18th hole of the day. […]

Tiger Woods is known for his ability to tune out hecklers while in the midst of a competitive round, but every now and then a fan is able to get under his skin – or, at least, his caddie’s. Joe LaCava has been on the bag for Woods since 2011, and on a recent appearance […]

Comeback (noun): A return by a well-known person, especially an entertainer or sports player, to the activity in which they have formerly been successful. Even by definition, the word comeback is subjective. There is no question that Brooks Koepka has completed his comeback. With two major championship victories that encompassed wins over Dustin Johnson and […]

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The top three players in the world had a tough afternoon Wednesday at Pebble Beach. Braden Thornberry, Justin Suh and Collin Morikawa – Nos. 1-3, respectively, in the World Amateur Golf Ranking – all lost their Round of 64 matches at the U.S. Amateur. Thornberry lost, 2 and 1, to Jesus […]

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – One of the hottest players in amateur golf had his U.S. Amateur run end Wednesday under unusual circumstances. Akshay Bhatia, the 16-year-old left-hander who has been dominating the junior golf circuit over the past year, squandered a late lead in his eventual 19-hole loss to Bradford Tilley in the Round of […]

Lexi Thompson says her month-long “mental break” from golf was not triggered by any new event, but it was a respite she needed to deal with the cumulative struggle that came from trying to show strength and “hide” the emotional pain she felt in the challenges she faced last year. Thompson opened up in a […]

We’ve seen it before. Especially in the late summer, at PGA Championships in humid Middle American locales like Chicago, Louisville and Tulsa. Last Sunday in St. Louis, there was Tiger Woods glistening with sweat, his mental gears meshing, the body flowing. In the hunt, and in the zone. Amid the steam rising from Bellerive’s zoysia […]

Tiger Woods on Sunday at Bellerive recorded his seventh runner-up finish in a major and his first in nine years. A favorite guest of the Golf Channel Podcast, Brandel Chamblee joins host Will Gray to compare and contrast Tiger’s return to competitive golf with that of Ben Hogan and Babe Didrikson Zaharias in the 1950s. Chamblee […]

Commercial airlines losing the golf clubs of a professional golfer is not exactly a groundbreaking story. It happens. But European Tour pro Thorbjorn Olesen is on quite the roll, losing two sets of clubs and five suitcases in the span of 10 days. Olesen, the reigning Italian Open champ, claimed his primary set of golf […]