ATLANTA – Round numbers just feel better than the crooked ones. 80. It’s only one more than 79, but it’s prettier and more historically significant. “Eighty is a big number,” Tiger Woods said after winning the Tour Championship to reach that amazing tally in Tour wins. “I’ve been sitting on 79 for about five years […]
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Justin Rose did just enough to claim the FedExCup title Sunday at the Tour Championship, but Dustin Johnson’s late surge was enough to vault him back into the top spot in the World Ranking. Johnson shot a final-round 67 to finish in third place, while Rose stumbled with a 3-over 73 for a share of […]
After months of anticipation, the Ryder Cup is finally here. And while the United States is favored to take home the trophy in Europe for the first time in 25 years, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee believes it’s not quite that simple. Appearing on a recent edition of the Golf Channel podcast, Chamblee laid out […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – As he’s proven in the past Dustin Johnson isn’t averse to switching things up when it comes to his putting, but this was extreme even for him. Johnson switched to a cross-handed grip on the sixth hole during Saturday’s third round at the Tour Championship and continued to use the same grip […]
Seve Ballesteros might have been a magician with a sand wedge, but he was truly hell on wheels. As Europe’s captain at the 1997 Ryder Cup in his native Spain, Ballesteros led his team with a heavy foot, racing across the emerald landscape in a souped-up Club Car festooned with blue flags. “All week long […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. Ryder Cup team was waiting to catch a charter flight to Paris late Sunday in Atlanta when the man everyone was waiting for arrived. “We had a major victory for the team and we had a whole group of guys waiting in the team room, and then a giant roar […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. Ryder Cup team landed in Paris just before 1 p.m. (local time) on Monday and most players headed to the hotel to rest following a long week at the Tour Championship. “I’m not going to be at the golf course tomorrow,” Justin Thomas said on Sunday following his final round […]
ATLANTA – As Tiger Woods made his way to East Lake’s 18th green and a victory that was five years and four back surgeries in the making the masses that had tracked his every move crested the gallery ropes and began rushing down the fairway behind the day’s final group. The decorum of golf was […]
5.21 Overnight Rating Becomes Highest-Rated PGA TOUR Telecast of 2018 18.4 Million Minutes Streamed on Sunday (+561% YoY); Most-Streamed NBC Sports Sunday Golf Round Ever (Excluding Majors) NBC Sports Group’s final round coverage of the TOUR Championship on Sunday (3:00-6:15 p.m. ET) earned a 5.21 Overnight rating, as Tiger Woods claimed his 80th career victory, […]
In the annals of mistaken predictions, Wired magazine’s challenge to Apple in 1997 to “Admit it, you’re out of the hardware game” might be worth downloading on your iPhone to remind you the next time someone gives you a sure bet, or in this case a sure loser. In the past 17 NFL seasons exactly […]