7:50 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is serious about getting on top of his focus issues. After jumping out front at the PGA Championship on Friday, he agreed to take just three questions from reporters waiting to grill him about his standing atop the leaderboard and his quest for a sixth major
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The 36-hole mark of a golf tournament can be either a glorious position or a nightmare for bettors. Either you’re ripping up your pre-tourney tickets, or you’re going to bed dreaming about the money you could win on the weekend. We’ve been on both sides, so we can sympathize with how ever you’re feeling after
Dustin Johnson birdied his opening hole on Friday, and added another birdie and an eagle over his final three. It still wasn’t enough to stick around Kiawah’s Ocean Course for the weekend. Even with a late flurry, Johnson finished the first 36 holes of the 2021 PGA Championship at six over par. It marks the
2:22 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is the clubhouse leader at the PGA Championship — a surprise given his recent form and struggles with numerous aspects of his game. Jason Day had an easy explanation. “There were no foul balls,” said Day, who played with the 50-year-old Mickelson during the first two
We should expect to see the same from Day 2 at the Ocean Course with similar conditions, though we might have a sustained wind of at least 15 miles per hour from 10 a.m. on. That’s all this faux-links course needs to show its teeth. (Scroll down for the latest updates) Here are the latest
8:18 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The scorecard yardage of 7,876 makes the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island the longest in major championship history. As daunting as it sounds, that is not the reason players in this week’s PGA Championship look so battered and bruised as they exit the premises. Sunburned and sullen, the
The legendary Kevin Garnett once said screamed at the top of his lungs, “ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!” Jordan Spieth fans might be screaming a similar refrain to the heavens when their knees hit the floor on Thursday night. That’s because, according to this stat from stats guru Justin Ray, Spieth’s chances of making history and completing
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C.—There was no evidence that anything is amiss in Rickie Fowler’s world when he rolled up to the first tee of the Ocean Course on Thursday morning. Two teenage girls whispered conspiratorially, stimulated by his presence. Fowler’s perfect drive received the loudest ovation even though he was playing with Masters champ Adam Scott
4:32 PM ET Associated Press Sam Burns has withdrawn from the PGA Championship with a back injury. The 24-year-old Burns came in as one of the hottest players in golf. He won the Valspar Championship three weeks ago, then finished second at the AT&T Byron Nelson last week ahead of the year’s second major. Burns
(Scroll down for the latest updates) And that’s not to diminish the other storylines of these other players . . . Jordan Spieth pursuing the career Grand Slam as he has reemerged as one of the world’s best. Bryson DeChambeau, with his power and brawn, will likely apply a different strategy than other players—and how
6:50 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina — A look at the field for this week’s PGA Championship makes one thing perfectly clear: There are a lot of good options when picking who will lift the Wanamaker Trophy come Sunday night. (And hopefully whoever it is has better luck with it than Collin Morikawa, who
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Major championship golf is upon us and, in a refreshing change of pace, it’s not another Masters. Here are the key questions heading in this PGA Championship… Will any PGA club pro break 80? The Ocean Course is a beautiful beast that has already gotten into the heads of the game’s
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C—The first ball went to parts unknown. The second, water. The third followed the second. There wasn’t much vexation, at least visibly; it was a practice round, after all. And on his fourth, after he and his group moved from the back 17th tee to a box 25 yards up, Bryson DeChambeau did,
6:48 AM ET The contenders who hope to win this week’s 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island had better hope their big sticks are ready. The Ocean Course will measure a whopping 7,876 yards, making it the longest course to ever host one of professional golf’s four majors. Rory McIlroy won the previous PGA Championship
Arthur Hills, the noted golf course architect who built more than 200 courses touching nearly every segment of the golf market, died Tuesday in Florida at age 91. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Hills first came into design through his landscape contracting business, Hills Landscape Company, in the mid-1960s. But like so many Americans of
1:00 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina — Here are the tee times for the opening two rounds of the 2021 PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island: All times ET Round 1 First tee 7 a.m. — Patrick Rada, Adam Long, Cameron Tringale 7:11 a.m. — Dylan Frittelli, Larkin Gross, Matt Jones
It’s a major championship week, which means we are back with another installment of value bets. Alternate title: Two clowns from New Jersey find eight more creative ways to light money on fire. Apparently, that’s too much of a mouthful. Whatever. All jokes aside, we’ve had some decent success in this value space (please don’t
Rory McIlroy was in a slump. We can quibble over the choice of that word, but Rory’s standard is different from your run of the mill tour pro. It was a slump. Back in 2019, McIlroy won the WGC-HSBC Champions to cap a stellar season. He was the PGA Tour player of the year, FedEx