3:13 PM ET Jon Rahm is considered among the favorites to win the Masters in a few weeks, but the golfer said that recommendation should come with an asterisk: His wife, Kelley, is expecting the couple’s first child. “All I can say is if anybody’s thinking of betting on me [at] the Masters, maybe think
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Which players might have an advantage to advance from their groups? And what stats will be key to winning the 2021 WGC-Match Play? Our “Be Right” experts, plus Golf Digest’s Shane Ryan—who joined us from on-site at Austin Country Club—offer their analysis and best bets for this week. Ryan, who has covered this event for
8:00 AM ET Christiaan Bezuidenhout does not remember what happened. He was just 2 years old at the time. All these years later, though, he knows how close he came to death. Bezuidenhout, 26, might be the best golfer in the world you don’t know about. He has climbed to 35th in the Official World
Of course, this is bound to be a wild week. Just like the basketball tournaments, upsets are aplenty at the WGC-Match Play. In the last edition (2019), only five of the 16 top seeds advanced to the Round of 16—and that’s a historical trend. Per Justin Ray of the 15th club, only 36 percent of
When the PGA Tour brought the Rocket Mortgage Classic to Detroit Golf Club in 2019, diversity and inclusion were a top priority for the tournament. In a city with the largest Black population in the United States, they had to be. In turn, the event was awarded the tour’s inaugural Fair Way Award for, among
8:15 PM ET Two weeks before the Masters, Rory McIlroy is making a formal coaching addition, tapping longtime instructor Pete Cowen to help with his game. McIlroy has sought help from Cowen in recent weeks at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship and now will have the Englishman on board in a more
Take this stat: In 2019 (the event was cancelled last year), 35 percent of lineups were created sub-optimally, meaning they had absolutely no chance to win the contest’s top prize. The structure of your lineups—if done successfully—will give you a better chance than most weeks just from the start. Make sure the six players in
6:17 PM ET March Madness will makes its way to the golf world this week, as the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event is set to commence Wednesday at Austin Country Club in Texas after a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who won this event in 2017, is the
The PGA Tour heads to Texas this week for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. This marks the fifth season the event will be held at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, but the first since 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the 2020 edition to be canceled. All but five of the top 64 players
Type the name Matt Jones into the Google search engine and out spits a list of suggestions from the tech behemoth that indicates the guy might be a great golfer, but it’s his good fortune enjoying betrothment to a certain former Miss Idaho that stirs perhaps the most interest in the Australian native. That short
9:14 PM ET Another knee procedure has Brooks Koepka‘s Masters status in doubt more than two weeks prior to the start of the first major championship of 2021. Koepka, 30, a four-time major champion who won earlier this year at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, told Golfweek on Sunday that he had surgery on his
Brooks Koepka cast further doubt on his status for the upcoming Masters after he posted images to his Twitter and Instagram accounts on Sunday that show the four-tine major champion on crutches and with a bandage on his right knee. “Only 1 way to go from here,” the cryptic caption read, with an arrow pointing
6:36 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — When Matt Jones won his first PGA Tour title seven years ago, he needed a 45-foot birdie putt just to get into a playoff and then a 40-yard chip-in to take the victory. This win was far less dramatic, yet just as meaningful. It got
The Tokyo Olympics are scheduled to begin in late July following a one-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the global event will be closed off to the rest of the world. After weeks of rumors and reports, organizers officially announced the Summer Games will not allow international spectators. “Currently, the COVID-19 situation in
The beauty of a course like PGA National is that no lead is safe. Both Matt Jones and Aaron Wise have found this out in excruciating fashion over the first three rounds at the Honda Classic. First, it was Jones, who matched the course record on Thursday with a nine-under 61, which gave him a
6:56 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Aaron Wise had a six-shot lead during the third round of The Honda Classic, looking poised to turn the tournament into a rout. Everything went wrong from there, and Matt Jones took full advantage. Jones, a 40-year-old Australian, handled the wind at PGA National to
It’s a psychological ploy with which any disconsolate golfer can relate. Call it self-preservation. When things get tough on the course, just stop caring. It lessens the pain, takes the edge off, and maybe—just maybe—it frees up the mind for more satisfying results. Korn Ferry Tour Roberto Diaz is taking that I-don-give-a-crap philosophy to a
1:46 PM ET Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Justin Harding will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the European Tour’s Kenya Open after a 7-under 64 on Saturday. The South African moved to 16 under overall at Karen Country Club. American Johannes Veerman is one of three players sharing second place after