Twenty years on, the glow remains for David Duval. In a confluence of fate, family and fortune, Duval and his father, Bob, won golf tournaments on the same early-spring Sunday, David capturing the Players Championship while his father won the PGA Tour Champion’s Emerald Coast Classic about 350 miles south. Ron Green Jr. recalls the […]
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Why has only one player from Great Britain and Ireland won the Players Championship since it began in 1974? Our John Hopkins looks into the possible reasons for the lack of success. The post A GB&I Drought At The Players appeared first on Global Golf Post.
“Be the right club, today,” Sutton said 19 years ago on the 18th fairway of the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course. His 6-iron approach was just that, but every shot on the often-overlooked final hole is fraught with danger. The Post’s Ron Green Jr. surveyed players about the final hole on the eve of the Players […]
Since finishing third at the Masters last April, Jordan Spieth’s only top-10 finish was a tie for ninth at the Open Championship, where he could have won last July at Carnoustie. Since then, Spieth’s golf has blurred further, a mash-up of inconsistencies of every form. Our Ron Green Jr. tries to answer the question of […]
Dan Jenkins’ story ended where it began, in Fort Worth, Texas, the once rough-and-tumble cow town that always has proudly lived in the shadow of Dallas. The Post’s Ron Sirak attended the funeral. The post Fitting Goodbye appeared first on Global Golf Post.
Today, there are those such as Jordan Spieth, Danny Willett and the aforementioned Fowler who use the first person plural pronoun – we – almost as much as the first person singular pronoun – I, when describing their golf exploits. John Hopkins, our man of letters, looks into this linguistic turn of events and its […]
Click here for the cover, or read about a couple of guys who showed what had made them winners in the past. Rory McIlroy broke a lengthy stretch of Sunday struggles to win the Players Championship. He was 3-under par on the inward nine to rally past Jim Furyk. McIlroy was one day short of […]
Through the years, competitive golf has had its share of fitness fanatics. One of the first was Frank Stranahan, also known as the “Toledo Strongman,” who won pair of British Amateurs in the 1940s and who was as devoted to his gym workouts as he was to his golf game. Then came nine-time major winner […]
For years, before the advent of the wrap-around season, the Masters was widely regarded as golf’s Rite of Spring. But not by a prominent group of British amateurs and professionals who elected instead to begin their seasons in what was, and still is, a quintessentially British tournament staged on arguably two of the finest inland […]
In the latest rendition of Green in Regulation, Ron Green Jr. writes – among other things – that Jon Rahm took one step forward and one step back at the Players Championship. The post Rahm’s Players Postmortem appeared first on Global Golf Post.