The roars have died down a bit with the Ryder Cup in the rearview mirror, but the birdies continued to flow as the PGA Tour resumed the 2021-2022 season at the Sanderson Farms Championship. And no one scored better on Thursday than one of the tour’s newest members. Rookie Sahith Theegala posted a bogey-free 64
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2:16 PM ET Justin Thomas has lured Jim “Bones” Mackay away from his full-time broadcasting job to be his full-time caddie. The sixth-ranked player in the world who won the Players Championship in March and was a member of the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup parted ways with long-time caddie Jimmy Johnson, who had been with
To love golf, most players know, is to occasionally hate it. When you invest so much time, energy and passion into something that still results in maddening inconsistency, the temptation is often to deposit your clubs at the bottom of the nearest water hazard. Therein lies the premise of our new podcast, Henni & Hally
Bryson DeChambeau is clearly getting the feel for this long-drive contest thing. A day after making his debut at the LDA World Long Drive Championship with five bombs of more than 400 yards, the 2020 U.S. Open champion had to adapt to an unfriendly wind in the golfers’ faces on Wednesday at the Mesquite Regional
8:54 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau advanced to the next round of the Professional Long Drivers of America World Championships after finishing second in his group Wednesday in Mesquite, Nevada. DeChambeau moved on for the second straight day, with Wednesday’s cut seeing the field go from 64 to 32. Set Yds 1 344 336 327 343
The broadcast of the ShopRite LPGA Classic is going to sound a little different this year. For the first time ever in a U.S. golf television broadcast, you’ll only hear female voices. When you tune in to Golf Channelf for the 54-hole tournament that starts on Friday, Cara Banks will host, with Judy Rankin working
6:10 PM ET Associated Press The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines had an ideal spot on the West Coast Swing as the weekend between the NFL conference championship games and the Super Bowl. That changed when the NFL added a game to its regular season. That led the tour to adapt by starting the
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — For Billy Horschel, 2021 has so far been a year of goals, real, unimagined and, in the case of a spot on the American Ryder Cup team, unfulfilled. But the 34-year-old Floridian, still relatively fresh off the back of his victory in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth earlier this month,
Perhaps the silliest pre-Ryder Cup storyline was Bryson DeChambeau’s perceived lack of attention on the biennial event, which was born out of his announcement that he’d be competing in this week’s Professional Long Drivers Association World Championship. So far, it appears DeChambeau is juggling both duties with relative ease. After going 2-0-1 in the 19-9
5:14 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau finished tied for second place in his group after the first day of the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships in Mesquite, Nevada, averaging 406.2 yards on his five longest tee shots. DeChambeau hit drives of 412, 408, 407, 403 and 401 yards on Tuesday to advance to the next
Well, that was a pretty fun week at Whistling Straits, wasn’t it? If you tailed some of our pre-event and live Ryder Cup bets, it was a really fun week. As usual, though, we don’t point to past success—it’s onto the next betting opportunity—the 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in
9:46 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — K.J. Choi shot a closing 4-under 68 on Sunday for a two-shot victory over Bernhard Langer and Alex Cejka at the PURE Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach for his first PGA Tour Champions win. Choi, 51, reeled off four consecutive birdies on Nos. 5-8 and played
It was a remarkable weekend for the United States Ryder Cup team. The Americans bolted to a 3-1 lead Friday morning and never looked back, cruising to a dominating 19-9 victory. For once, the World Ranking turned out to be a harbinger: eight of the top 10 were on Steve Stricker’s American team and only
The party is still raging among U.S. golf fans after the enormous Ryder Cup triumph in Wisconsin, but the new PGA Tour season resumes this week in Jackson, Miss. Even Spaniard Sergio Garcia, the defending champion at the Sanderson Farms and a rare bright spot for the European Ryder Cup team, plans to tee it
3:46 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Delayed a year due to the pandemic, the much-awaited Ryder Cup delivered, even if the final-day drama was missing. Plenty of passion and pageantry, a slew of impressive shots and putts, the usual nitpicky irritation between both sides and — in the end — a joyous winning team and
The Ryder Cup narrative completely shifted in a matter of 57 hours. Before Friday morning’s first tee shot at Whistling Straits, the Americans were a highly talented squad with chemistry issues and a distinct lack of success in the biennial matches. The Europeans were an aging but cagey side counting on a battle-tested core to
8:56 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — As the United States team celebrated wildly around the 18th green after winning the Ryder Cup in a record-breaking 19-9 rout at Whistling Straits on Sunday, the 12 European players and captain Padraig Harrington sat on stools in a nearby tent for postmatch interviews. With Queen’s “We Are the
This has been a season of comebacks. The sport got an assist from the pandemic as new and old golfers doubled down on their play—it started in 2020 and continues this year. The industry has benefited in every metric of participation and consumption. I give you two examples: If you invested $1,000 in Callaway stock