Golf’s longest wait is finally over. We’re not just talking about the Ryder Cup opening ceremony—it’s been 1,089 days since the Europeans celebrated their 2018 win at Le Golf National. Finally, golf’s version of the Super Bowl is upon us. Betting the Ryder Cup is one of our favorite activities. And though we’re sure you’ve
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2:24 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The U.S. Ryder Cup team includes eight of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, an Olympic gold medalist and the reigning FedEx Cup champion. On paper, at least, the Americans are once again stacked, and they’re playing at home in front of a decidedly pro-U.S.
HAVEN, Wis. — It appears our wishes to have Bryson DeChambeau hit the ceremonial opening drive Friday morning at the Ryder Cup with fireworks and F-15 flyovers have gone unheeded by the powers that be, which frankly is a loss for us all. However, the beefy man showed he’s capable of creating plenty of pyrotechnics
11:22 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Europe has won four of five and nine of the past 12 Ryder Cups, but the Americans, with eight of the top 10 players in the world on their roster, are 2-1 favorites to win at Whistling Straits this week, according to Caesars Sportsbook. England’s Ian Poulter, a big
HAVEN, Wis. — They may be the nicest people in America. Wander the streets of virtually any town in Wisconsin and you’ll feel like the local folk took a friendly pledge as soon as they could speak. “It’s ingrained to be a good person,” Steve Cubinski, a Ryder Cup fan dressed in stars and stripes
12:53 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Collin Morikawa has clearly learned how the pro game works, winning two major championships by the age of 24 — and before qualifying for his first U.S. Ryder Cup team. He also picked up a tough lesson along the way: Don’t play through injury. Morikawa tweaked a muscle in
HAVEN, Wis. – While allowing for the obvious fact that every hole at Whistling Straits will be pivotal for this week’s 43rd Ryder Cup – an observation repeatedly expressed on both side of the aisle – we’d be remiss if we didn’t appropriate a thought, of sorts, from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” It goes something
HAVEN, Wis.—One of the big questions-slash-problems facing U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker this week is what to do with Bryson DeChambeau. That pertains to every single facet, but specifically, for our purposes, we’re referring to partnerships. The prevailing wisdom around Whistling Straits is that the most likely outcome is DeChambeau playing both afternoon four-ball
11:36 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — There probably won’t be many European fans at this week’s Ryder Cup because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. That didn’t stop the European team from trying to win over fans during practice rounds on Wednesday. The Europeans showed up at the first tee at Whistling Straits wearing Cheeseheads and shirts
7:43 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Tiger Woods won’t be playing in this week’s Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Neither will Phil Mickelson, though he is here and will serve as a non-playing assistant captain for the United States team. Six rookies are giving a face-lift to the American side, which has lost four of
HAVEN, Wis. — The most nervous moment at the 2018 Ryder Cup for the Twenty First Group, the statistical analysts assisting European captain Thomas Bjorn in Paris—and who are back this year helping Team Europe at Whistling Straits—came after the very first session on Friday morning, when the Americans took a 3-1 lead at Le
No more talk. No more drama. No more manufactured storylines. It’s time to get balls in the air and begin the 2020 2021 Ryder Cup. Well, actually, we still have a ways to go, as the leadup to the Ryder Cup remains the longest leadup to any major golf event on the schedule. Silver lining:
7:44 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — First-tee jitters are a thing. But at the Ryder Cup, they escalate to a level that makes for considerable discomfort among professional golfers. They have done this hundreds of times, stuck a tee in the ground to begin competition. The Ryder Cup, though, is different. Perhaps it is because
7:41 AM ET In 2004, when Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton paired Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods together at Oakland Hills, it was considered bold. Not because it was the No. 2- and No. 4-ranked players in the world playing together in one group, but because Mickelson and Woods had a rivalry that was considered
HAVEN, Wis.—These are the numbers: 557 people have ventured into space; 445 have won soccer’s World Cup; 225 men have captured a golf major. If that seems like a rather random collection of trivia, then you don’t know how the mind of Irishman Padraig Harrington works. Let’s just say the European Ryder Cup captain thinks
6:57 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — If Brooks Koepka is indifferent about the Ryder Cup, as some of his recent comments might suggest, it is not something that Steve Stricker has seen in his dealings with the golfer. Stricker, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, said Monday during an introductory news conference at Whistling Straits that
The feud between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau has been one of golf’s biggest storylines all year—not to mention one of the most interesting subplots entering this week’s Ryder Cup. But Bryson wants to put it behind him once and for all, according to his longtime coach. “Whether or not they are both doing it
7:33 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Rory McIlroy chuckles, somewhat sheepishly, as words from part of his past are played out before him. Call it the naivete of youth, an understandably uninformed take on a subject that he had yet to have the opportunity to fully experience. McIlroy was barely 20 years old when he
HAVEN, Wis. — In his first press conference of Ryder Cup week, U.S. Captain Steve Stricker addressed what has become the most incendiary off-course story in golf in 2021. It’s Brooks-Bryson, the inescapable feud, and it feels particularly relevant for an American team that has suffered from what can charitably be called “chemistry issues” in
7:37 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. — Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are unlikely to sit together, eat together or chit-chat together this week at the Ryder Cup. But what if they played together? Would the previously derisive “Brooksy” chants from the gallery then be considered complimentary? As silly as all that sounds, that is where
As a few of us on the Golf Digest staff know all too well, the quest for a player’s first hole-in-one can take years, decades, an entire golf lifetime. But it turns out, some players don’t have to wait very long at all for their first ace. Or their second. Jake Martinez, an 11-year-old from
Max Homa was looking to have what he called “a Tiger Woods moment.” Yeah, well, so does most of the known world—and certainly, all of the known golf world. Do you know how many people try to have a Tiger Woods moment, try to wish for one, try to force one, and end up requiring
6:52 PM ET Associated Press WEST LINN, Ore. — Jin Young Ko won the rain-shortened Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her second victory in her past three LPGA Tour starts. Making her first start since the Tokyo Olympics, the second-round South Korean player closed with a bogey-free 3-under 69 at Oregon Golf Club for
10:07 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Max Homa holed out from the rough from 95 yards for eagle on the par-4 12th to start a back-nine comeback and added three birdies for a 7-under 65 and a 1-stroke victory Sunday in the season-opening Fortinet Championship. Three strokes behind Maverick McNealy with seven holes
PGA Tour Champions events are only 54 holes, often resulting in dramatic finishes, and Darren Clarke provided one in the Sanford International at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Sunday. Clarke holed a birdie putt of more than 60 feet on the 18th green that enabled him to join Steve Flesch and K.J.
12:01 PM ET Sweden’s Kristoffer Broberg held on for a three-shot victory at the KLM Open on Sunday after shooting a level-par 72 in the final round at the Bernardus Golf Course in Cromvoirt, Netherlands. Broberg’s victory had looked like a formality after he began the day eight shots clear of the field, but the
It looked all over, but it wasn’t. Leading by eight shots after three rounds of the 101st Dutch Open, Kristoffer Broberg’s second European Tour victory appeared to be a formality. The 35-year-old Swede had set a new course record over the Kyle Phillips-designed Bernardus Golf course two days in succession (64-61) en route to leaving
11:12 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Jim Knous shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday for a share of the lead with Maverick McNealy after three rounds in the Fortinet Championship. Knous had eight birdies, five on the front nine, then held on after a bogey on No. 12 to match McNealy at 14
Playing in front of a home crowd this week, California native Max Homa expected plenty of love. But on Saturday, even with his own mini cheering section following his every move, he was still second fiddle in his group. That’s part of the deal when you’re playing alongside fellow Cali native Phil Mickelson, who would
7:41 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — K.J. Choi shot a 4-under 66 in windy conditions Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Stanford International. “So far it’s a good feeling,” Choi said. “So, tomorrow look for fight from everybody.” Tied for the first-round lead