Collin Morikawa missed out on moving to the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking earlier this month when he failed to convert the 54-hole lead at the Hero World Challenge. By making what many would argue to be a logical tweak to the ranking’s timeframe, however, the two-time major champ would already be
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It’s mid-December, and if you’re like some people typing this story we know, your holiday shopping list still has some items to cross off. You probably, then, weren’t planning on spending time this coming weekend watching a golf tournament, particularly an exhibition event consisting mostly of senior tour pros and their kids. That is until
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Historically destructive tornadoes ripped through 227 miles of Southern and Midwest states on Friday night, including Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas. Princeton, Kentucky was hit particularly hard by the tragic natural disaster — residents returned to an unrecognizable scene of uprooted homes and scattered debris on Saturday morning. One of those shocked Princeton natives happens to
Since news of its existence went public in April, the PGA Tour’s $40 million Player Impact Program has been something of a punching bag. Its detractors bemoan PIP, as it has come to be known, as concrete evidence of professional golf’s impending shift away from meritocracy and toward guaranteed money. It has been labeled a
12:17 PM ET Tiger Woods is returning to golf action this week. Perhaps you heard? Ten months since he rolled his SUV in a one-car crash in Los Angeles that could have cost him his leg, Woods is set to tee it up with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, at this week’s PNC Championship in Orlando.
To look at the PGA Tour from enough distance is to perceive a fairly idyllic existence—great money, beautiful locales and, on your worst days, you’re still playing golf. In two seasons of Local Knowledge, Golf Digest’s narrative podcast, the objective was never to disprove that life at the game’s highest level is pretty great. But
The story was buried deep in the New York Times sports section on Nov. 15, 1988. Jammed into the bottom corner of the page next to the college football scores, the short piece carried the headline, “Strange Wins Playoff.” With due respect, the editor whiffed on the headline. Yes, Strange beat Tom Kite with a
LPGA Q-Series is hard, there’s no getting around that. The two-week 144-hole tournament determines who gets LPGA Tour status for the following year, and who doesn’t. There were two players in the field who had each other to lean on throughout the tumult: 21-year-old Yu-Chiang (who goes by Vivian) and 22-year-old Yu-Sang Hou are sisters
There’s no shortage of end-of-year-lists. They’re an Internet rite of passage, it seems. This very website has recapped 2021 in golf through the lens of Newsmakers, memes, comebacks, controversies and things you forgot happened altogether. But as far as conveying meaning and significance, words remain the gold standard. This, then, is our opportunity to tell
4:53 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Jason Kokrak and Kevin Na birdied 12 of their last 13 holes Sunday in fourballs and closed with a 12-under 60 to rally from a three-shot deficit and win the QBE Shootout. Kokrak and Na were five shots behind after a bogey on the par-3 fifth hole
The two weeks of LPGA Tour Q-Series that ended on Sunday might be the two longest weeks in women’s golf. Players compete over eight tournament rounds to try to earn status on the LPGA Tour for the coming year, the top 45 and ties having that dream fulfilled (those outside the top 20 also get
The duo of Jason Day and Marc Leishman seemed a natural fit to play well at an event like the QBE Shootout, where they hold a three-shot lead entering the final round at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla. Fellow Aussies and good pals with a combined 18 PGA Tour wins, each has the ability
With its latest slate of nominees for the Executive Committee, the USGA is set to have its first Black president in the association’s 128-year history. For 2022, Fred Perpall has been nominated as president-elect, a position the USGA created in 2019 to help with the transition of leadership on the Executive Committee. He would then
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard basically called her shot. While playing a practice round for the LPGA Q-Series in Dothan, Ala., the 21-year-old from France got into a chat with her caddie, coach and physio about how long it had been since she had a hole-in-one. Ten years, in fact. She would have been in elementary school. “And
6:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Marc Leishman holed out for eagle for the second straight day as he and Jason Day posted an 8-under 64 in the modified alternate shot format Saturday to build a three-shot lead in the QBE Shootout. Leishman made eagle on the 10th hole during the scramble in
When tour pros are playing in the QBE Shootout, a two-person team event, if you’re not making birdies in bunches, you’re not going to have a chance. And if you can toss in an eagle every now and then, well even better. That’s what Bubba Watson did on Friday during the opening round when paired
The PGA of America announced a change to its PGA Professional Championship. A change that is essentially the “Omar Uresti Rule.” Uresti, you may recall, is a former PGA Tour player who has used a loophole in the PGA of America’s system—one that allows tour players to gain a PGA of America classification—to compete in
There are hundreds of PGA professionals around the world who grind on the range day after day and play in their section tournaments, dreaming that it seasons them for the big leagues once they turn 50 years old. The odds are incredibly long, considering the talent pool of proven tour pros and the miniscule number
5:21 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Jason Day and Marc Leishman had 12 birdies, two eagles and finished one shot short of the record for the scramble format, posting a 16-under 56 that gave the Australian duo a one-shot lead Friday in the QBE Shootout. Day is making his first start in the
With a special thanks to Morgan Johnson and the PGA Tour stats team for its help, let’s take a look at the seven stats from 2021 that tell us the most about the year we just watched—and a couple that might not tell us much at all, but are still pretty fun. We promise not
Cathryn Brown stood on the first tee, nervous, but she was not battling first-tee nerves, for what ran through her mind and body and soul was a current far more powerful than jitters. Brown, 16, one of the better amateur golfers in Kentucky, had hit ceremonial drives before, including three weeks prior at the PGA
Tiger Woods seems to be sending mixed signals. On one hand, he’s imploring people to temper expectations, that he’s a long way off from competing at the PGA Tour level and, if we take him at his word, that he’s not sure he’ll ever get to that point. But then he kept on hitting balls
Many celebrities and former professional athletes enjoy golf, but the precise reasons vary. On this week’s episode of Henni & Hally Can’t Quit Golf, hosts Henni Koyack and Hally Leadbetter welcome nine legendary guests to the podcast to hear their best golf stories. On Nov. 22nd, sports figures and VIPs gathered for the fourth annual
2:02 PM ET Associated Press Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen was cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight to the United Kingdom from a World Golf Championships event in Tennessee in 2019. Olesen, 31, wept and hugged his partner after being acquitted at a London court, on Wednesday, of sexual assault, assault by beating
You could say golf itself made quite a comeback in 2021 as things returned (more) to normal on the professional level after COVID wreaked havoc on the 2020 schedule. But there were plenty of inspiring—and unexpected—individual efforts as well from those battling back from slumps, overcoming injuries or breaking free from the grasp of Father
12:28 PM ET Tiger Woods said Wednesday he will play with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, next week in the PNC Championship. “Although it’s been a long and challenging year, I am very excited to close it out by competing in the PNC Championship with my son Charlie,” Woods tweeted. “I’m playing as a Dad and
Former European Ryder Cupper Thorbjorn Olesen was found not guilty Wednesday of charges of sexual assault, assault and being drunk on an aircraft. “I felt absolutely horrible and I was very sorry,” Olesen said. “I could not believe what they were saying what happened. I was just embarrassed and felt horrible.” Olesen explained he drank
I’m 33, not the youngest PGA Tour rookie. I can’t play as many weeks in a row as the younger guys. I applaud the heck out of them. They deserve everything they’ve got, but I don’t know if they’ve felt a lot of defeat. When I have a five- or six-week stretch where things don’t
3:20 AM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup winner Thorbjorn Olesen left court on Tuesday after giving evidence on the second day of a trial where he denies charges of sexual assault, assault by beating and being drunk on an aircraft from the US to the UK. Giving evidence earlier in the day, the Danish golfer