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
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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
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
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