INCHEON, South Korea – The HanaBank Championship offers more than a trophy this week for South Korea’s up-and-coming stars. It offers a golden ticket. A victory opens the door to the LPGA. The winner gets a two-year exemption to the LPGA, and while that pass is available to any non-member who wins this week, South […]
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Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING Kevin Tway (+9%): Out of his father’s shadow for the first time, the big-hitting Tway closed out his first Tour win in impressive fashion, making five straight birdies to finish regulation and the playoff […]
Brandt Snedeker lets one get away, Jim Furyk speaks up, the LPGA gets it right, the European Tour gets creative and more in this week’s edition of the Monday Scramble: Thanks to a pretty sizeable assist from Brandt Snedeker, Kevin Tway is officially out of his father’s shadow, Give credit where it’s due: Tway took […]
After wrapping up his busiest stretch of golf in more than a decade, Phil Mickelson is ready to dial it back. Mickelson had a resurgent 2018 season at age 48, breaking a five-year victory drought at the WGC-Mexico Championship in March. That win highlighted a hectic season that saw Lefty make 24 official starts, including […]
After leaving wine country with his first career PGA Tour title, Kevin Tway ascended to unprecedented heights in the Official World Golf Ranking. Tway beat Brandt Snedeker and Ryan Moore in a three-hole playoff at the season-opening Safeway Opening thanks to birdies on each of his final five holes. As a result he jumped from […]
It hasn’t been the best of days for Jim Furyk. In a wide-ranging interview with Golf Channel’s Tim Rosaforte on Sunday, the American Ryder Cup captain described how difficult the past week has been, although he did concede that criticism was always going to be a part of the gig. “In many ways it’s been […]
Kevin Tway earned $1.379 million in 31 events last season on the PGA Tour. In one event this season, he’s nearly equaled that amount. Here’s a look at how the purse paid out at the Safeway Open, where Tway won his first PGA Tour event. 1 Kevin Tway -14 $1,152,000.00 T2 Ryan Moore -14 563,200.00 […]
For the second time in less than three months, Jhonattan Vegas’ schedule has been impacted by a paperwork issue. The Venezuela native nearly missed The Open because of an expired visa, making it to Carnoustie via helicopter just minutes before his opening-round tee time. But there will be no last-minute theatrics this time around, as […]
Justin Rose has a lot on his plate this week at the British Masters. The tournament host also has a chance to return to world No. 1. Rose’s stay atop the world rankings lasted only two weeks, after Dustin Johnson supplanted him at the Tour Championship. To return to the top spot, the newly minted […]
After claiming a pair of majors in 2018, Brooks Koepka was a logical and deserving winner of the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year award, as announced by the Tour on Tuesday. He just didn’t benefit from a vote for himself. Koepka successfully defended his U.S. Open title in June, then added the PGA Championship […]