The South Course can be a bit of a slog, yes, but even the most straightforward courses can produce a bit of elecricity on the Thursday of a major championship. Of course, we’ve probably said something similar during the opening round of every major ever, and then sh-t quickly proceeds to hit the fan. Like […]
He’d be the first to admit that his newly discovered style of reading greens by doing what looks like a military pushup is more utilitarian than artistic, particularly compared to the yoga-like contortions that Camilo Villegas produced in his heyday. “I figured I could just fill out my shirts a little more, so if I […]
He’d just hit a wedge to makable birdie range and wanted to mark his ball for the approach shot of Justin Rose, who’d put his second shot in the pond. By the time McIlroy rolled in the birdie putt to finish with a red number for the day at one-under 70, the sky was nearly […]
Phil Mickelson returning to Torrey Pines in pursuit of the Career Grand Slam—and gamblers have made Lefty the most-bet-on golfer of the week. Two competitors who figure to have a say in that: Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, who have grabbed most of the headlines over the past month. Like fellow surprise story Richard Bland, […]
The local Phil Mickelson rolled through for an early Monday interview to pay his compliments to the conditioning and mostly bite his tongue on the Rees Jones work at his hometown course. The Brooks-Bryson tension enveloped much of the day, especially after some early morning scuttlebutt from a Brad Faxon radio interview in which the […]
The 19-year-old Saso carried it everywhere, including out on the South Course, like a fan with the biggest piece of bling you can imagine. Women’s Open champion, who won the title at Olympic Club in San Francisco less than two weeks ago, was a guest of the USGA at Torrey Pines, where the U.S. There […]
It’s been a whirlwind two weeks for Chile’s Mito Pereira, and the chaos has only just begun. “This is crazy man,” Pereira said after closing out a 64 at Thornblade Club in Greer, S.C., to rally past 54-hole leader Justin Lower and win by three shots with a 27-under 258 total. A lot of hard […]
With an eye toward the decades to come, we spoke with nine of the most influential and important new voices in our sport. Roger Steele knew his engineering job in Chicago was stifling his creative instincts, and he knew he wanted to do what creatives do: pack up his life and move to Los Angeles. […]
Not surprisingly after the emotional win, the 16th of her LPGA career, she was a little flat at last week’s Hugel-Air Premia LA Open, where she missed the cut after an opening 78 . Ko shot rounds of 69-68 at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore to hover toward the top of the leader board. OK, […]