When I made my Masters picks a month ago, I mentioned how conservatively Tiger Woods has been playing off the tee. I felt that would work against him at Augusta, where distance usually takes reign over the...

They say that pressure can make diamonds, but it can also burst pipes. It seemed for a moment that Sergio Garcia was finally going to shine by besting Tiger Woods head to head for a meaningful title....

Great athletes have an inner source of strength, a deep reservoir of emotional control and self belief that mere mortals cannot seem to find. It is a rarer-than-rare quality that very few ever know, but beautiful to...

Tiger Woods wasted no time breaking in the newest version of his Nike Free-inspired golf shoe, the TW ’14. Woods wore the shoes during all four rounds at The Players Championship in route to his fourth win...

Professional golf never ceases to provide fascinating endings and this year’s edition of The Players did not disappoint. The Players provided a startlingly stark contrast in fortunes for its principal players the first 54 — heck, 70...

Nike Golf’s new line of VR_S Covert drivers and fairway woods have been the most talked about new offering from the company in its history. But for many golfers, the differences between the company’s “Performance” and “Tour”...

If you’ve played this game long enough, you know how important it is to hit the fairway. It allows any of us to control the ball’s spin and flight far easier than out of the rough or...

“If I shot 65, I thought I could win it,” Tiger Woods said after his final round of the 2013 Masters. The world’s No.1-ranked golfer went into the tournament with the kind of confidence, playing level and...

If you’re an Australian, you have to feel pretty good about the chances of your country’s Masters drought coming to an end tomorrow. Adam Scott, Marc Leishman and Jason Day all are poised within striking distance of...

Moving Day at Augusta began with a bang on Saturday as news broke about Tiger Woods being assessed a two-shot penalty for an incorrect drop on No. 15 Friday after his ball struck the flagstick and spun...

Irony is working overtime this Masters weekend. Tianlang Guan was assessed a one-stroke penalty for slow play and the social media world exploded with cries of jingoism and favoritism. Fortunately for Guan, he took the high road...

Tiger Woods, the favorite at this year’s Masters Tournament, has been assessed a two-shot penalty for an illegal drop he took in the second round on Augusta’s 15th hole. Woods third shot on the hole, a par...

After an ideal day for scoring on Thursday, early morning rain, blustering winds and more difficult pin placements greeted the field of 93 on Friday. At the time ESPN went on the air (3 p.m. EST) there...

Rain clouds stayed away from Augusta long enough to see the first round of the 2013 Masters through to its conclusion, with 93 players turning in a total of 32 under-par rounds at a fairly benign Augusta...

Our boots on the ground at Augusta National have confirmed that Tiger Woods is using a Nike VR_S Covert 3 Wood in Round 1 of the Masters, which he used to hit his first tee shot of...

“The winner of this tournament doesn’t just win a major,” Phil Mickelson said in 2001, when the 30-year-old was still trying to win his first major championship. “He becomes a part of the history of the game,...

As we enter Masters Week, the talk is of new Official Golf Rankings No. 1 Tiger Woods and his resurgent form. Is he back or isn’t he? Well, not for me. Not yet. Tiger wins PGA Tour...

As the world’s most popular golf tournament plays this week, I wanted to give a rundown of the Masters from a statistical perspective. First, I want to discuss what I call the “Critical Holes” in a golf...

The best pro golfers in the world will be strolling the fairways of Augusta next week…or are they strutting runways? It’s a little unclear, at this point. For the past several years, Nike has released photos of...

It’s been a pretty good year so far for Tiger Woods. He has won three of the five events he has competed in, and reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the Official World Rankings following his win...

Whoa… whoa… whoa… is Tiger playing his best golf ever? The very mention of it probably incites John McEnroe-esque howls from golf enthusiasts coast to coast, “You cannot be serious!” Yes, Tiger’s win Monday at the Arnold...

Tiger Woods shot a final-round 70 to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by two shots, tying Sam Snead’s record of eight wins at the same event. With the win, the third of Woods’ 2013 season, he will also move...

Coming off a bogey on No. 15, Rickie Fowler had to know it was time to make something happen. He had closed within two shots of final-round playing partner Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational who,...

The Tavistock Cup, the golf world’s yearly paean to excess, was slated to kick off Monday morning at ritzy Isleworth Golf Club with names like Tiger Woods, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and others slated to appear. But...

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. On Wednesday, Tom Watson announced that he would eliminate the fourth captain’s pick and allow the top-nine players on the U.S. Ryder Cup Team to qualify on points. “There’s not a lot of method...

Throughout Tiger Woods’ career, his late father Earl got his attention on the golf course by calling him “Sam.” “He rarely ever called me Tiger,” Woods said. “I would ask him, ‘Why don’t you ever call me...

                ?                         Four-shot win at the 2013 Farmers Insurance Open.                ...

With two wins in just four starts on the PGA Tour in 2013, Tiger Woods could hardly have made a better start to a season. Tiger is in the field this week at the Bay Hill Invitational, where...

She’s poured the perfect Guinness in Ireland, outplayed poker pros in Las Vegas, swam with dolphins in Hawaii, and even wrestled an alligator in Orlando. And oh by the way, she’s also done some sizzling bikini modeling...

On the Monday morning after Tiger Woods secured his seventh career victory at Doral, it was the lead story on ESPN.com. Not baseball, basketball nor football. What was known to be true has been confirmed; there has...

There were a few stories making their way around the PGA Tour as the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship drew to a close. One was the newly-discovered “Stricker Method,” in which a golfer reduces his schedule to spend...

The tough conditions at the Champions Course at PGA National in Palm Beach, Fla., saw most of the field at The Honda Classic fall apart on the final day. But through it all, one player held on. Alabama alum...

Defending champion Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, the world’s Nos. 1 and 2 ranked golfers respectively, will look to reestablish their dominance on the PGA Tour this week at the Honda Classic held at PGA National Resort...

If you filled out a bracket for this year’s World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play and printed it out, it’s probably looking like the dog ate it right now. In the gathering darkness and bitter cold north...

At 9:25 a.m. Eastern Time Wednesday morning, golf fans will be following and enjoying probably the most exciting wire-to-wire golf event that the professional tours have to offer. The top 64 golfers in the world will be...

Hunter Mahan will defend his title this week at the Accenture Match Play, the first of the four annual World Golf Championships to be staged once again in Marana, Ariz., at the Golf Club at Dove Mountain....

GolfWRX is inside the ropes at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, where 64 of the world’s top players are battling it out for Walter Hagen Cup. In 2012, American Hunter Mahan downed Northern...

There has been some talk lately of the passing of the torch from Tiger Woods to Rory McIlroy, and it’s hard to ignore some of the parallels. Rory McIlroy has put together dominating major performances in consecutive...

Tiger Woods shot a final-round 72 to win the fog-delayed Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines by four shots. The win was No. 75 for Woods in his PGA Tour career, and marks the seventh time he’s...

Tiger Woods WITB after the his impressive 75th win at Torrey Pines.   Here is What is in the Bag (WITB)-               Driver: Nike VR Tour 8.5-degree (Graphite Design DI 6X)...