With a potential natural disaster such as Hurricane Dorian heading toward South Florida in the coming days, golf naturally becomes less of a focus for those in the storm’s path. For a club like Cypress Head Golf Club in Port Orange, Fla., a municipally owned public course outside Daytona Beach, the facility is actually prepared
Month: August 2019
There are crazy scorecards and then there’s whatever the heck Evan Grenus turned in on Friday. The young pro from Glastonbury, Conn., made a triple bogey, a double bogey, and four bogeys during pre-qualifying for Korn Ferry Tour Q School—and still advanced! How did Grenus cancel out all those blemishes on his card to shoot
Jetlag, shmetlag. Rory McIlroy rightfully should have been exhausted after his victory on Sunday at the Tour Championship, which capped a (lucrative) stretch of five starts in six weeks to close out the 2018-’19 PGA Tour season. But that didn’t keep him from flying to Switzerland and playing in the Omega European Masters, just his
Anirban Lahiri withdrew from the Korn Ferry Tour Championship on Thursday afternoon, citing concern for his family’s safety in the face of Hurricane Dorian. Lahiri, who resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., wrote on Twitter that he is returning home to help with evacuation procedures as the storm prepares to reach land this weekend. https://twitter.com/anirbangolf/status/1167475566452314114
There’s a popular debate among PGA Tour fans that stems from a hypothetical question: If everyone played their “A-game” at a tournament, who would win? It’s a fun conversation that elicits various responses, but, of course, it’s impossible to know the answer. These days on the World Long Drive Association, however, there’s no wondering about
Considering Tommy Fleetwood’s rise inside the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking over the past few years, this might surprise you: the five-under 65 he shot on Thursday at the Omega European Masters was his best opening round on the European Tour in more than four years. Even more surprising might be that
The USGA has held the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur since 1962, and used match play to determine a winner since 1997, but it has never seen the two finalists from one year return for a championship rematch the next. Never, that is, until Thursday at Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Country Club, when Lara Tennant and Sue
All’s well that ends well for Bob Royak, the new U.S. Senior Amateur champion. But after leading, albeit narrowly, much of the 18-hole championship match versus Roger Newsome on Thursday at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C., only to three-putt for bogey the 17th hole to fall back into a tie, well let’s just
Hard to believe, but summer is almost gone, and Labor Day weekend marks one of the busiest golf weekends of the year for amateurs. Whether you’re playing in a tournament, have a couple rounds lined up or an ambitious three-day holiday buddies trip, you need some solid advice to set you up to play your
The debate was over by January. He had a short-game prowess to match his prolific power, and his iron production was miles ahead of were it had been on the Web.com circuit. The results backed it up: Cam Champ, hailed as the “Future of Golf” by several publications—this one included—had a win, four top 11s
Matthew Fitzpatrick is a loyal Englishman, but he certainly seems to have an affinity for the mountains of Switzerland. Since turning professional in 2014, Fitzpatrick has played in the Omega European Masters on the Crans-sur-Sierre course five times. After a missed cut in his initial appearance, he subsequently has finished seventh, second, first and first.
Sandra Gal, a two-time member of the European Solheim Cup team, will not play the remainder of the 2019 LPGA season after being diagnosed with dormant Lyme disease, the LPGA.com reported on Wednesday. The native of Germany said that she’d been feeling run down since the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open. She would come into tournaments
No doubt you have a few holes on your course where another 10 or 15 yards off the tee would make all the difference. It could mean getting to the green in two or setting up a wedge approach to a tough hole location. Now imagine if a few simple adjustments could give you that
The Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH Neo is not merely a commemorative version of a long ago popular steel shaft. Yes, it was 20 years ago that the Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH hit the market as the first constant weight steel shaft less than 100 grams. But while there are now plenty of shafts that fit
The old swing tip, “down means up,” suggests that you should try to hit down on the ball for more height. That might work if you have speed, but for most golfers, down means down. In other words, line drives that don’t hold the green. To boost trajectory, you need a higher launch and more
We all want to hit the ball with extra oomph, but the way some golfers try to generate more power leads to mis-hits—with the ball usually being weakly struck off the toe of the club. So what’s going on? In golfspeak, you’re getting ahead of the ball. When you start the downswing, you lunge toward
On Tuesday afternoon Tiger Woods announced that he underwent surgery on his knee. Woods said he had arthroscopic procedure last week during the Tour Championship on his left knee to repair minor cartilage damage. “I’m walking now and hope to resume practice in the new few weeks,” Woods said. “I look forward to traveling and
ATLANTA — The PGA Tour season is over. The next one starts in two weeks. So much for the offseason. “I am tired, but we have the opportunity to play for $15 million [for the FedEx Cup], which is a ridiculous amount of money,” Bryson DeChambeau said ahead of last week’s Tour Championship. “It’s a
I just received the Bob Jones Award. It’s the biggest honor there is in golf. When you’re given an award by the USGA that goes out only once a year, you know it’s special. The presentation was during the week of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Accepting the award and speaking after Gary Player
Rory McIlroy got the best of Brooks Koepka on Sunday. A day later, Koepka returned the favor. The PGA of America announced Koepka as its Player of the Year Monday afternoon, edging McIlroy for the honors. The PGA uses a year-long points formula to determine its winner, with tournament victories, official money standings, and scoring
The PGA Tour season came to an end this past season with one of golf’s biggest boppers, Rory McIlroy, taking home the game’s biggest check. But when it comes to possessing pop off the tee, Rory has nothing on Kyle Berkshire. And Kyle isn’t afraid to say so. The 22-year-old is the new dominant force
In 1919, reigning PGA champion Jim Barnes put out the first “modern” golf-instruction book. It was called Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes, and it gave the average golfer a chance to see how the best players swung the club. In the hundred years since, almost everything about the game has changed—including how we learn from
It is a personal testament, really, that this argument is being had at all. We thought we grasped the magnetism Rory McIlroy holds over the sport, cultivating a rapport with fans and media unique among his peers. But perhaps we even underestimated that scope, because here we are. “Here” being the idea that McIlroy, fresh
After securing his first Korn Ferry Tour victory and earning a ticket to the PGA Tour, Matthew NeSmith struggled to maintain his composure as he thanked his family and his fiancée, Abigail, for their support. “It’s been a long road,” said the 25-year-old from North Augusta, S.C., his voice quivering after he shot a final-round
ATLANTA – A year ago at East Lake, Rory McIlroy was swallowed up by Tiger Woods and a sea of humanity. A month ago in Memphis, he was bludgeoned by the baddest man in golf, Brooks Koepka. Sunday at East Lake, he was simply magnificent, particularly given what was at stake, as much as the
The new Golf Pride Pro Only grip series, a reboot of the classic, understated all-rubber putter grip, is a reminder of something we forgot we knew. While there’s been a buzz in recent years over wider, polymer-based putter grips to steady balky strokes or better line up with non-traditional hand positions, the fact is the
ATLANTA—Justin Rose won the FedEx Cup last season. Though he won’t be going home with the title this year, he did submit a memorable moment at East Lake. Unfortunately for Rose, it wasn’t the good kind of memorable. In his final round at the Tour Championship, Rose pulled his approach shot left at the long
ATLANTA — Lightning strikes during Saturday’s Tour Championship have left multiple fans injured. Two lightning strikes happened at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta at 4:45 p.m. ET, one hitting a maintenance area and another striking a fan zone near the 16th tee box. Debris from that strike injured at least four people. NBC Sports
ATLANTA—You’re forgiven for thinking the hand on the “Don’t give a damn” meter was low Saturday morning. Even in the heat of Sunday afternoons, Dustin Johnson’s complexion exudes disinterest, so starting his Saturday 15 shots back of the lead—coupled with the last-day-of-school ambience that permeates this tournament—well, there was a question if Johnson would show
After making a quadruple-bogey 9 on Magna Golf Club’s 14th hole on Thursday at the CP Women’s Open, Lee-Anne Pace withdrew from the event, citing a back injury that’s been plaguing her throughout the season. This is news that would have gone completely unnoticed if not for one peculiar wrinkle involving the inaugural Aon Risk
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