Phil Mickelson will be getting an unusually early start to his competitive season in 2022. For the first time in 21 years, he will be playing in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Mickelson qualified for the winner’s only event with his historic victory at the PGA Championship last May, where he became the
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Karl Kimball, the Director of Golf at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, N.C., and a former PGA Tour professional, has been living the paradox of the COVID-era golf industry for almost two years now: It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times. He remembers one recent email that made him laugh in the
The last time Ole Hojgaard played golf with his identical twin sons at their home course of Gyttegaard in Denmark, they both gave their father eight shots. A typical parent-child arrangement, the lads hoped to bequeath their old man at least a fighting chance of ultimate victory. Ole played to his 1-handicap over the par-70
It’s long been said that Tiger Woods is the ultimate needle-mover in golf. He proved that with his return to the PNC Championship this past weekend, though his son Charlie—the potential next needle-mover—certainly played a role, too. According to NBC Sports, the PNC Championship drew its largest audience in over two decades. Its live two-day
3:42 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — Phil Mickelson is headed back to Hawai’i for golf, not a vacation, committing to play the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua for the first time in 21 years. Mickelson won the winners-only tournament at La Costa Resort in 1998, then has played only twice since it
The unique family atmosphere baked into the PNC Championship makes the two-day exhibition stand out in the minds of most participants. Yes, the 20 pros in the field this week are all highly competitive sorts—you don’t win a major title, a requirement for entry into the event, without having that club in your bag. And
Bryson DeChambeau has never been one for subtlety. So when it comes to the question of his physical transformation over the last two years—and whether steroids potentially played a part in that process—DeChambeau not surprisingly attempted to quell that notion in dramatic fashion. On Monday, DeChambeau announced on Twitter “I am releasing my medical information
Players switched companies, changed gear, ran low on gear, had too much gear. Yes, it was an insanely crazy—and entertaining—year to be an equipment writer covering the world of clubs, balls and contracts on the professional tours. Here’s eight equipment stories from the past 12 months that are worth repeating. Jon Rahm leaves TaylorMade, joins
The PGA Tour has granted conflicting-event releases to members who have petitioned to play in the Saudi International, an Asian Tour event whose Feb. 3-6, 2022 date coincides with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Xander Schauffele are among a number of PGA Tour players committed to playing in
The formal invitations to the 2022 Masters aren’t expected to go out for another week or so. And for 10 golfers who hadn’t yet locked up a spot in the first men’s major of the new year, well they should be keeping their eye on the mailbox. The Official World Golf Ranking for this week
3:04 PM ET Associated Press The top 50 from the final world ranking of the year was set on Sunday, adding 10 players to the field for the Masters in April. The list includes Matthew Wolff, Mackenzie Hughes of Canada and Ryan Palmer, who are exclusive members of the PGA Tour. The final ranking, along
ORLANDO — The switch flipped around the turn. Tiger Woods had been in hit-and-giggle mode for the previous two-plus days of the PNC Championship, content to play a few shots and crack a few jokes. Let us not forget that the man nearly lost his leg in February. But Tiger felt better from the moment
5:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods accomplished both of his goals this weekend at the PNC Championship — having fun with his son, Charlie, and managing to play the scramble format of the event without making a bogey. But along the way, the old competitive fire burned bright as Woods not only played
ORLANDO — A natural villain emerged on a balmy Sunday afternoon in Central Florida. Tiger and Charlie Woods were hard-charging toward the feel-goodest of feel-good victories at the PNC Championship. Their only obstacle: two large men with the same last name and the same preternatural speed. The Dalys. Golf fans found themselves in a tough
5:51 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Not quite sure exactly how this week would play out, Joe LaCava decided to get to Florida a few days early. After a year of virtual inactivity, the caddie for Tiger Woods wanted to get out of the house. Playing some golf with his son, Joe Jr., and soaking
Charlie Woods is only 12 years old. It’s important to just keep saying that to yourself every time you start to get overly excited about watching him hit impressive shot after impressive shot at the PNC Championship. It’s one of the few ways to protect against raising expectations too high on a kid who is
12:27 PM ET Tiger Woods has tried to temper expectations about this comeback. From the moment the 3-second Twitter video of him hitting wedges landed, he has been trying to keep everyone calm. He doesn’t have the endurance. His right leg, which was severely injured in that one-car, rollover crash in February, isn’t the same.
ORLANDO —This is Charlie Woods’ favorite week of the year. He’s the reason, it should be noted, that his dad is here. Tiger Woods cannot walk even a perfectly flat golf course right now. Tour-level competition is miles away. But he is here, wincing and carting and grimacing, because Charlie wants to be here. The
They’re all professional golfers. Many of them live in Florida. We know it’s a big state, but you figure that they cross paths at one time or another. So this is one that shocked us: Nelly Korda, the current No. 1 female player in the world, had never met Tiger Woods. The ensuing video posted
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods knows the challenges he faces, understands the physical limitations that will hamper him, realizes that this week at the PNC Championship is just one small step — however painful — on his way back from a serious car crash. All of that perspective served him well as he played his
The R&A has dropped an annual exemption into the Open Championship given to the winner of the Asian Tour’s Order of Merit, a spokesperson confirmed to Golf Digest. Wade Ormsby, a member of the DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour), currently sits at No. 1 on the Asian Tour’s money list with two events
4:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods did his best again Friday to downplay expectations surrounding his return to golf, but even he can’t help himself once in a while. So it was that he flashed a bit of anger at a tee shot he hit off the toe on the ninth hole during
5:05 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The focus is back where it always burned brightest, on the guy whose various injuries and comebacks have garnered the laser-like attention akin to all the golf records he set. Tiger Woods was on a golf course again, a crowd of thousands following him in a pro-am. It was
ORLANDO — Lee Trevino never passes up a good joke opportunity, and this one was a layup. Fifteen grown men and two grown women bordered a walkway, at 7:15 in the morning on Friday, at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, to watch a 45-year-old man walk into a building. “Tiger’ll be here in just a minute,”
2:12 PM ET All the attention at this year’s PNC Championship will be on Tiger Woods. Sure, there will be eyes on his 12-year-old son, Charlie, who took the golf world — and internet — by storm a year ago at this event. But the focus this year will, largely, be on father instead of
The transformation of Tiger Woods—real and perceived—began long before he lost control of an SUV on Feb. 23, 2021. The Woods of old—the singularly minded cyborg with an appetite for embarrassing his opponents—had already been replaced by Tiger 2.0, certainly in the minds of fellow tour pros if not the public at large. An earth-shattering
The PGA pro and father of 14-time PGA Tour winner Justin Thomas did a pre-tournament press conference with his son on Thursday. And he gave a glowing report of Tiger’s golf game. First, he volunteered that he’d played with the 15-time major champ twice last week. Then, when asked how he looked, here was his
4:13 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. – It is no surprise that Justin and Mike Thomas will be paired with Tiger Woods and his son, Charlie, during the opening round of the PNC Championship on Saturday. They did so during the first round a year ago, and are neighbors in South Florida. But what was interesting
It will happen this weekend. That is irrefutable. It will take one hole or one swing or maybe his mere appearance on the first tee at the PNC Championship in a dri-fit so tight it had to come from the Koepka Collection, but it will happen. “Tiger is BACK.” Fans will make the decree, and
The Rosetta Stone for 2021, and really this cash-infused, PIP-soaked moment in professional golf, came just seven days into the new year. Adam Scott, too old and too accomplished to trifle with Potemkin promotional facades, laid it out there at Kapalua. “I think you’ve got to identify that there’s probably 10 or 12 serious competition