It seems you can’t go a week without players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf sniping at each other in the press. The most recent edition featured maybe the two biggest principals in golf’s civil war — Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy — going at it over which tour represents the future of the […]
Bryson DeChambeau entered last weekend’s Rocket Mortgage Classic riding an incredible hot streak: In his previous six tournaments, he had finished fifth, second, fourth, third, eighth and sixth (including ties). The only thing he hadn’t yet done this season was win an actual golf tournament, but that came to an end Sunday when he blew […]
The feeling of inevitability Sunday was surprising. As Tiger Woods was decimating the small field at the Tour Championship to claim his 80th professional victory, ending a five-year winless drought, it felt simultaneously foregone and captivating. The 42-year-old with the fused spine held off the best players in the world in the prime of their […]
There is perhaps no professional golf tournament that advertises its degree of difficulty quite as liberally as does the Players Championship. It almost reeks of a golf tournament inferiority complex. The event’s official Twitter handle advertises the “best field in golf” in its profile. And just in case you miss the profile, the account tweeted […]
Masters rookie Jon Rahm, 22, heads to Augusta this week with history decidedly not on his side: No player making his debut at the tournament has won it since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. But the Spanish golfer does have a secret weapon of sorts, one that might help him overcome the weight of history. So […]