Depending on where you are in the spectrum of pro golf as entertainment, you either love or hate the 16th hole scene at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. You either cheer the groundbreaking ingenuity and almost comical raucousness of “the Coliseum,” or you roll your eyes with disgust at how the reaction to single golf
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On the eve of the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open in late January, the tournament’s executive director, Marty Gorsich, had every reason to be in a good mood. He had an attractive field that included Tiger Woods. Corporate and ticket sales were booming. After a decade of trying to dig the event out of a deep
Winning streaks don’t usually last long on the Ladies European Tour, which is what makes Emily Kristine Pedersen’s performance this past month notable. After a pair of victories in Saudi Arabia, the 24-year-old from Denmark triumphed again on Sunday in Spain, grabbing the title in the 2020 season finale at the Andalucia Costa del Sol
No one could have foreseen how the 2020 golf season would unfold when the PGA Tour and European Tour resumed play this summer, least of all Will Zalatoris. The 24-year-old former Wake Forest All-American was a member of the Korn Ferry Tour and was sitting at 483rd when the Official World Golf Ranking was frozen
6:28 AM ET Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi International in its third year is shaping up as one of the strongest fields on the European Tour with commitments from Masters champion Dustin Johnson, U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau and a curious one from Paul Casey. Tournament organizers said on Thursday that seven
With his decision to skip this week’s Mayakoba Classic, Dustin Johnson has wrapped up his year competition-wise on the PGA Tour. And what a year it turned out to be. The 36-year-old’s coronation at the Masters earlier this month, after his FedEx Cup title in August, makes it difficult to remember there were questions at
7:31 AM ET Christiaan Bezuidenhout held his nerve to win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by four shots at Leopard Creek Country Club on Sunday as the rest of the contenders faltered in a dramatic finish. The 26-year-old South African took his second European Tour victory after birdies on the 14th and 15th holes helped him
Two years ago, the original “Capital One’s The Match” brought golf back into the Thanksgiving spotlight after the retirement of the Skins Game a decade earlier with Phil Mickelson beating Tiger Woods for a winner-take-all $9 million payday at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. When the franchise is revived once more on Friday in the Arizona
With the Mayakoba Golf Classic coming the first week of December, it marks the latest an official PGA Tour event has been played in a calendar year since 1971. Not surprisingly, then, when the deadline to enter the event passed on Friday, only four of the top 15 players on the Official World Golf Ranking
12:44 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk will go into the final round of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship with a slender one-shot lead at Leopard Creek Country Club after overcoming a difficult start to card a 71 on Saturday. Meronk, whose only win on tour came at the Open de Portugal last year, bogeyed
At 6-foot-6, Adrian Meronk is freakishly tall for a professional golfer, yet his stature in the game can grow even larger should he pull off a victory on Sunday in the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. After posting a one-under-par 71 at Leopard Creek Country Club in Malelane on Saturday, Meronk is
12:53 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk carded six birdies and an eagle in a scintillating round of 66 to take a three-shot lead after day two of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship on Friday. Meronk, whose only win on tour was the Open de Portugal last year, followed up his two eagles in the
America is very familiar with Charles Barkley’s golf swing. That hitch and hesitation before impact—the former NBA star’s poor move has been imitated by so many. Before “The Match: Champions for Change,” Phil Mickelson swore that Barkley had cured his swing—saying Barkley had “flushed every iron shot” in their practice rounds at Stone Canyon Club.
It was the perfect day-after-Thanksgiving viewing. No one wants anything too serious when they’re still digesting the previous night’s feast, and this third edition of these made-for-TV matches—this one officially dubbed “The Match: Champions for Change”—never promised to be anything more than pure entertainment for wonderful causes. It was certainly entertaining. Despite giving up some
2:30 PM ET Charles Barkley has insisted his golf game has gotten better. We’re about to find out as he teams with Phil Mickelson in a match against Steph Curry and Peyton Manning at Stone Canyon in Arizona. The Match: Champions for Change will benefit historically Black colleges and universities. play 0:38 Peyton Manning doesn’t
Faced with the test early in 2020 on how to make professional golf work amid a global pandemic, the game’s biggest stakeholders worked together on a plan that salvaged a good deal of the overall schedule. During that process, the potential for a long-term partnership emerged between the PGA Tour and European Tour, one that
9:43 AM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour has acquired minority stake in the European Tour’s media production company as part of an alliance that could be the start of a global golf schedule. The alliance announced Friday allows the PGA Tour and European Tour to collaborate on commercial opportunities, global media rights in certain
1:46 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk and Frenchman Robin Roussel hit seven under par 65s to share the lead by one stroke after the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday. Roussel hit five successive birdies on the back nine after a slow start, while Meronk had two