It turns out that swinging the club with Luke Donald, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry is not that impossible as it seemed to.
Johnson Wagner defeated his rivals to claim the Sony Open title on Sunday.
Trying to retain the FedExCup title and cashing the bonus of $10 million would be more difficult for Jim Furyk at the start of the U.S. PGA Tour playoff tomorrow. Aside from being seeded 60th, the Barclays event in Edison, New Jersey is quite a challenge with 125 golfers in attendance. However, Tiger Woods will [...]
Retief Goosen of South Africa is definitely as tough as they come. The golfer needs to make the cut at the Barclays so badly that he will play with a broken toe. Knowing that Hurricane Irene was coming to Florida, the 42-year-odl golfer decided to bring the boat to the garage but the trailer wheel [...]
Players started to pile into trucks and cars after last Monday afternoon’s golf at the Glen Oaks Club and headed for a 30-minute drive down the Corss Island Parkway to the New Park Pizza in Jamaica. One of those vehicles heading for an excursion to the “best pizza in the world” was the 25-year old [...]
Tiger Woods will be able to break the 18 professional majors record achieved by Jack Nicklaus and Padraig Harrington is betting his money on that. Woods missed the cut when he played the PGA Championship’s opening two rounds with Harrington but the Irishman saw enough good shots from Woods that he realized his game will [...]
A nine-stroke deficit did not stop Norway’s Suzann Pettersen from defeating South Korean Na Yeon Choi during Sunday’s first playoff hole, to emerge victorious at the LPGA Safeway Classic. Choi originally led the 54-hole tournament, but while Pettersen started the final round with a nine off, she carded a seven-under par 64 with a total [...]
.B. Holmes will be forced to miss the rest of the season as he withdrew Monday from the Barclays to prepare for a brain surgery that will correct the structural defects on his cerebellum which is the brain part responsible for controlling balance. Holmes, who went to several specialists after feeling vertigo-like symptoms since May, [...]
The only way United States captain Fred Couples can justify the inclusion of Tiger Woods into the Presidents Cup team in November is for Woods to get more tournaments under his belts before November and the latter is considering playing later this year in a US Tour Fall Series. Woods, who failed to qualify for [...]
J.B. Holmes, 29 will not participate in the Barclays Classic in Edison, New Jersey as he was going to because he will be recovering from the brain surgery that he will undergo soon for three months. The two-time FBR Open winner known for hitting long-distance shots has complained about dizziness and vertigo since May’s Players [...]
A brief pep talk from swing coach Robin Symes was needed Saturday in the Safeway Classis to put Na Yeon Choi in the proper frame of mind. “I told my coach that I feel very scared to lose this chance. This is my first time to win this year,” Choi said. “He said, ‘This is [...]
A nifty wedge shot 3 feet on the playoff’s third hole allowed Fred Couples to finish off John Cook and to win the Seniors Players Championship in Harrison, New York. “I knew when it was going, it was a really good shot,” Couples said. “I didn’t think it was going to be short and trickle [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Webb Simpson, 26 grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina so the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina where the Wyndham Championship was held felt like a home to him, especially given that he caddied for Neal Lancaster at a professional–amateur tournament in Greensboro. He was 16 back then [...]
A nursing injury at the USPGA Championship did not stop major Champion Rory McIlroy from completing the next four rounds and will not stop him from visiting his hometown club in Holywood Friday to present the prizes in the competition that carries his name. The 12-hour event, which will run between six in the morning [...]
A berth at the Presidents Cup team may still be waiting for Tiger Woods despite his disastrous performance at the PGA Championship. There are still two captain’s picks for the event this November and reporters were told by U.S. Captain Fred Couples at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship that he still hopes to award [...]
Little-known American Jason Dufner made it to the headlines after a five-stroke lead with only three holes to play at the US PGA Championship only to lose in the playoff. He is however back to the Tour’s normalcy at this week’s Wyndham Championship. “Maybe some guys would feel like it was a tragedy, but I [...]
Japanese golf prodigy Ryo Ishikawa, 19 is now holding membership on the PGA Tour though it is only temporary and will last until the end of the year. This means that Ishikawa will be able to receive available sponsor exemptions for the rest of the season, as the PGA spokesman told on behalf of the [...]
Rory McIlroy is aiming for a second major world title this week in what he believes is a tournament tailor-made for his game, two months after he stunned the golfing world with his US Open victory. World No. 4 McIlroy, who is a 12-1 favourite at the Atlanta Athletic Club’s PGA Championship, tied for third [...]
All the major championships this year seem to be very eventful for Rory McIlroy from the Master where he had a spectacular collapse, the United States Open where he had an eight-stroke victory and the British Open last month where the wobbled out of contention. Nothing could however top the medical drama involving McIlroy less [...]
Keegan Bradley’s victory at the PGA Championship did not only show the world an emerging young talent in professional golf but it also ended the six-tournament-long winless streak in the majors by the United States. A victory for an American at the Atlanta Athletic Club was not unexpected but what came as a surprise was [...]
Jason Dufner had a five-shot lead making him a top contender in the PGA Championship until he let that lead slip on Sunday, leaving him a runner-up slot in the Championship, but he refuses to be too down on himself. The 34-year old Dufner’s dream of getting his first ever victory on the PGA Tour [...]
A phone call from Fred Couples in May after Keegan Bradley won his first PGA Tour event may have been the coolest thing that happened to him during his golf rookie season but it could easily turn to just “cold” if he fails to get another phone call from Couples in the next month. Bradley [...]
Tiger Woods did not make the cut for a major PGA Championship after his performance at Atlanta Athletic Club that left much to be desired. Woods finished 10 over par, six strokes away from making the cut. It was his 260th start as a professional golfer and only the seventh time when he failed to [...]
Being late is bad and disrespectful. And it turns out that it is bad not only for the person waiting, but for the tardy one as well. At least, it is true for golfers being late for their tee time. Brandt Snedeker arrived later than his designated time, thinking that it was not 8:10 but [...]
Finally, it happened. An American golfer captured a major title after a six-major winless streak for the USA. After Phil Mickelson’s victory at the Masters 2010, six major titles were captured by South Africans, Northern Irishmen, and Germans. Keegan Bradley, a 25-year-old undistinguished golfer based in Vermont, won the PGA Championship this Sunday. After a [...]
The crowd went wild at Firestone, chanting and cheering and as Adam Scott’s winning putt slid the hole and sent the Aussie to his first WGC title. But, surprisingly enough, these cheers were not for him but for Scott‘s caddie Steve Williams who has recently parted ways with Tiger Woods. Judging by the interviews that [...]
There is a possibility that reigning U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy won’t be skipping The Players next year after he indicated his desire to go house hunting in Florida after the PGA Championship. Three months after he skipped the flagship event of the tour in May and weeks after he complained about the poor weather [...]
