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
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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
The Europeans have it, the Americans don’t. That is the oversimplified, surface-level, talking-head take on Ryder Cup team chemistry, an opinion aired when trying to explain why the U.S. has underperformed for the better part of two decades while Europe’s sum is continually greater than its parts. Those in and around both teams will tell
1:09 PM ET Associated Press CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — Kristoffer Broberg of Sweden smashed the course record he set a day earlier with an 11-under 61 on Saturday to open an eight-shot lead after three rounds of the Dutch Open. The 772nd-ranked Broberg opened with four birdies and an eagle in his first six holes in
Well before that magical weekend in May, Phil Mickelson was beholden not so much to the competition but to a command known only to him. He wanted to win, wanted to compete, yes, but he would do so in a way others would only entertain if they were goofing around with friends or on the
11:22 PM ET Associated Press WEST LINN, Ore. — Jin Young Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take the second-round lead in the Cambia Portland Classic. The second-ranked South Korean star needed only 23 putts in her morning round, making six birdies and a bogey to reach 8-under 136 at hilly, windy and
Given that the grueling “super” season ended just two weeks ago, the frequency with which he played over the past month, and the looming Ryder Cup next week, it came as a mild surprise to see World No. 1 Jon Rahm in the field at this subdued season opener. This may be one of the
8:09 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — K.J. Choi closed eagle-birdie-birdie for a 7-under 63 on Friday and share of the first-round lead with Darren Clarke in the PGA Tour Champions’ Sanford International. Choi had a bogey-free round at Minnehaha Country Club. The 51-year-old South Korean player won eight times on the PGA
What is a “consequential moment?” Well, at the risk of sounding as irksome as Ian Poulter looked to American fans at the 2004 Ryder Cup—I mean, imagine watching this guy kick your butt on home soil—a consequential moment is a moment that has consequences. In other words, something big happened, and because it happened, things
9:51 AM ET The long-running feud between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau has the potential to inspire the American team instead of weighing them down at next week’s Ryder Cup, Team Europe captain Padraig Harrington said on Friday. Koepka and DeChambeau have been involved in public spats for more than a year, with U.S. Ryder
Thirteen years ago, in the months leading up to the 2008 Ryder Cup, Paul Azinger picked up the phone to call someone whose help he coveted. It wasn’t a player, or a caddie, or a swing coach. It wasn’t a celebrity guest speaker, either. It was Mark Wilson, the course superintendent at Valhalla Golf Club.
10:51 PM ET Associated Press WEST LINN, Ore. — Carlota Ciganda overcame an early double bogey in chilly morning conditions Thursday for a 4-under 68 and a share of the first-round lead in the Cambia Portland Classic. The only member of the winning European Solheim Cup team in the field, the Spaniard teed off with
Phil Mickelson said Wednesday that this week’s Fortnite, err, Fortinet Championship will be his final PGA Tour event of the year. This final event, which is actually the first tournament of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season, caps off a, well, interesting year for the 51-year-old. Lefty’s year started with him trying to become the first
6:31 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Jon Rahm is motivated, even if he’s not feeling well. The top-ranked Spanish star had two birdies and two bogeys Thursday in an even-par 72 in the first round of the Fortinet Championship, leaving him well back of the leaders at Silverado Resort and Spa. “I was