August arrived with pre-Fall fanfare. The ladies tours merged in Scotland for the Scottish Open, a wonderful prelude to this week’s Open Championship. The PGA Tour...
Golf is the oddest of games and sports. After negotiating the elements (or lack of) in the air, for upwards of 600 yards, a player’s fate...
Runaway champions in the major game don’t happen all that often. 15 shots happened in the 2000 US Open, and 8 shots happened three times since,...
Day three of the 151st Open Championship is etched in time. The rains came and the rains went. The course softened a bit, and the course...
The ghosts of Royal Liverpool set the halfway cut at 3 over par on Friday, sending a fair portion of the original field away for the...
In one of my tweets earlier in the week, I screamed “It’s Scotland.” Fortunately, no one called me on the carpet for that error. Make no...
For golf fans across the world, July signals the arrival of ground golf on telecasts. Four wondrous tournaments play out across streams and sets around the...
I know it’s not the tour, and I know it’s a shell of its 1912 US Open self, but a 59 in a legitimate tournament is...
Other than all those promises on Instagram, you don’t often find a six-pack just hanging around. That’s precisely what we have this first weekend in July...
Let’s get right to it. LPGA @ Women’s PGA Championship: A Baltusrol win for Yin Leona Maguire had an opportunity to climb a new rung on...
A glance at Sunday’s final two pairings would probably have elicited the following ranking: Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, followed by Rickie Fowler, followed by Wyndham...
For the fan in me, Moving Day always arrives with a sense of expectation, and departs with a sense of sadness. There is mild grief for...
Like death and taxes, the halfway cut at a major championship is a certainty. There is no avoiding its blade, and stories abound about who coulda...
Los Angeles Country Club’s North course entered the top echelon of golf competition in 2017, when the Walker Cup took place over the George Thomas layout....
June is a pivotal month. No matter where you live, in the northern hemisphere, the good weather has finally arrived to stay (except for Wisconsin.) Even...
It was a week for playoffs and close finishes as June weekend arrived in 2023. Three tours went to extra holes, while another was decided by...
The word grillo means cricket in Spanish and Italian. The Jiminy type, not the sport. So it goes with language; one word in one language has multiple manifestations...
I’ll begin this championship recap with an anecdote that reminded me how certain people operate in this world. They are the ones that are 100% convinced...
You have this story line and you have that story line, but the only story line that matters is the one that you are following. There...
The drive from Buffalo to the media shuttle lot took one hour and two minutes. It included five vehicles that didn’t know left lane from right...
“Frost Delay” is such a common experience for golfers in western New York, we even have a beer named after it. Another common experience for golfers...
As the golf world prepares to turn its attention to western New York and the US PGA Championship, it could not help but peek at a...
A mighty new event on the LPGA circuit, combining team and match play, debuted in San Francisco. For those mourning the end of the PGA Tour’s...
So many tours were in play this week, we once again found ourselves limited to a top-five list. Mexico, California, Texas, South Korea, and Alabama hosted...
The third weekend in April brough the year’s first LPGA women’s major championship. Much was done to replicate the experience at Mission Hills, and other new...
In 1980 at Rochester’s Oak Hill Country Club, Jack Nicklaus claimed his fifth PGA Championship. 23 years after, Shaun Micheel laced a brilliant 7-iron into the...
The week after a major championship eases the vibe a bit, if only to prepare the world of golf fans for the next premier event. That...
I started with “first Basque” and then moved to “fourth Iberian,” before finally settling on the flag that most associate with Jon Rahm, supremely accurate or...
Saturday at Augusta National was a hybrid of sorts. It saw the conclusion of round two, followed by the affirmation of the cut line (three-over par...
Nothing marks an athlete’s career like a return to form from injury. In men’s golf, we speak in hushed tones of the Hogan comeback, as well...
Masters Thursday began for most in its usual way. The honorary starters played their way off the first tee. Few remember that they used to play...
Rick Fehr attended and competed for Brigham Young University and played in the Masters as an amateur in 1983 and 1984. In 1984, Fehr made the...
It feels like golf has arrived. Spring does that sort of thing to you. The Augusta trilogy (National Women’s, Drive/Chip/Putt, and Masters) is two-thirds complete. The...
I’ve come up with a new sort of parlay for the betting golf fan. Choose a winner between consecutive tee times, or any two tee times...
As ticket-holders exit their shuttles and enter the main gate to Oak Hill Country Club this May, their eyes will be attracted to so many sights....
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help...
