Rickie Fowler has good news for Tiger Woods fans. “I know he’s been getting after it as far as rehab goes—that takes up most of his day,” Fowler said Wednesday ahead of the 3M Open. “I know as kind of stubborn as he is, being as big of a kind of golf nerd as all
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Don’t adjust your glasses or rub your eyes out, folks. It’s not 2017. It’s 2021, and Rickie Fowler—yes, THE Rickie Fowler—is tied for the lead in a PGA Tour event. Fresh off a final-round 65 at the Open Championship, Fowler brought some positive momentum back home to the U.S., shooting an opening-round seven-under 64 Thursday
4:28 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke and South Africa’s James Kingston carded an opening-round 65 to share the lead at The Senior Open on Thursday. Clarke failed to make the cut at last week’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, but he got off to a quick start at the Sunningdale Old Course in
On the eve of the Amundi Evian Championship, Nelly Korda, the top-ranked female golfer in the world, was asked how she planned to manage her time in the coming weeks with a schedule that included a trip to France for the year’s fourth major, then on to Tokyo for the Olympics. “I bought a gaming
1:40 PM ET Associated Press Collin Morikawa is the champion golfer of the year. Morikawa captured The Open on Sunday for his second major title in two years. It was his first time playing The Open, just like it was his first time playing the PGA Championship when he won at Harding Park last year.
On the final hole of the 2019 Evian Championship, Jin Young Ko turned to caddie David Brooker and asked how many putts she needed to win. “He said, ‘If you make a par you win. If you three-putt, still you win. But you’re a professional, so you have to make a two-putt,’” Ko explained at
You can’t blame Louis Oosthuizen for not being in the mood to talk following a third consecutive close call in a major championship. But three days after his third-place finish at Royal St. George’s, the South African finally opened up about what happened at the Open Championship. Oosthuizen spoke to reporters at a press conference
5:17 PM ET The PGA Tour heads to Minnesota this week for the 3M Open. Matthew Wolff and Michael Thompson are the previous winners of this event, respectively, but will they be a factor this week? Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worth considering? Sports
PALO ALTO, CA – OCTOBER 1994: Tiger Woods and teammates of the 1994 Stanford University Men’s Golf Team pose for a group photo in October 1994 on the Stanford University Golf Course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Kneeling in front row are Matt Thompson (far left), Eri Crum (second from left), Jerry Chang
3:27 PM ET Jordan Spieth knows he couldn’t have won The Open at Royal St. George’s on Saturday, but he might have very well lost it on the final two holes of the third round. Spieth, who was attempting to join Tom Watson and Bobby Jones as the only American-born golfers to win The Open
If you’re not betting the 3M Open, you’re either broke from your Open losses or not big enough of a golf degenerate (there’s no shame either way). Though most of the experts in this column were on Jordan Spieth last week, we did have Lee Alldrick of FanShare Sports on Collin Morikawa (40-1). So we’re
Between Collin Morikawa and Seamus Power both winning PGA Tour events on Sunday, there was a lot going on in the (wide) world of golf. It’s no wonder so few people noticed Robert Garrigus did something that’s never been topped before. In fact, there’s a good chance Garrigus himself doesn’t realize it. Playing in the
3:32 PM ET SANDWICH, England — Louis Oosthuizen produced an amazing two months of golf, contending in three consecutive major championships and joining a short list of players to finish top-3 in three of them in a single year. He simply has no hardware to show for it. Oosthuizen, 38, the 2010 Open winning at
The course was Starfire Golf Club in Scottsdale. The player was Bubba Watson, and he was staring down a 30-yard pitch on the final hole for eagle. Bubba was out here to do one thing, and that was to go as low as possible. We suppose that’s the objective for any round of golf, yes?
8:09 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Like it did with everything else, COVID-19 turned golf upside down. In 2020, there was no Open. The Masters was in August. The PGA Championship was back in August, where it normally fell before being moved to May the year before. The U.S. Open was in September. Instead of
After a glorious stretch of seven men’s major championships in 11 months, golf fans have to wait 263 days until the next one. Just typing that makes us sad, but that doesn’t mean it’s not too early to think about April at Augusta National. Sportsbooks certainly are already with 2022 Masters odds in place. And
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is pursuing the creation of a sixth 18-hole course, multiple sources have confirmed to Golf Digest. The course would be on a piece of land the resort had originally planned for the Bandon Muni course, south of town along the New River. The land is covered in dramatic sand dunes and
8:11 AM ET In your head, this should sound like a bad, over-the-top game show host … Hey everybody, it’s the waaaay-too-early major championship predictions for 2022! I’ll give you all the picks that have zero chance of coming true but are great for starting arguments! And what’s the first big one I’m gonna give