6:17 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A day after saying he needed to be patient about results, Jordan Spieth matched his career best with a 10-under 61 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Xander Schauffele in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Winless since the 2017 British Open, Spieth is
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If you knew nothing about golf but a little something about math, and someone came to you with a printed stack of advanced stats—strokes gained, especially—it would be simple to identify the good players, and even simpler to identify the great ones. At some point, you would come across Tony Finau’s stats, and you’d conclude
7:30 AM ET Taneka Mackey (née Sandiford), 26, is the first Bahamian woman caddie on the LPGA Tour. Since 2017, Mackey has caddied for LPGA Tour player Amy Olson. After suffering a seizure in November 2018, Mackey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite her diagnosis, Mackey returned to Olson’s bag in 2019 and remains the
Jordan Spieth shot the same score for the first two days of the 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open, but the three-time major champ felt a lot different following Friday’s round. In a good way. Well, for the most part. When Spieth spoke to reporters following Friday’s round he was still stinging a bit from a
Riding a roller coaster has been a popular analog for following Jordan Spieth, albeit one that’s not necessarily kindred. For if the Spieth Experience was an amusement ride, said ride would have been shut down long ago for slamming into banks and gliding off the tracks and ejecting its passengers mid-barrel roll. Of course, even
7:48 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Over the first two days of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Jordan Spieth saw the kind of round he’s been looking for. He putted “out of his mind” and then hit 11 fairways. Unfortunately, for Spieth, the two didn’t happen on the same day. The former came Thursday, the
Long before Bryson DeChambeau began making a moon shot routine, astronaut Alan Shepard made a moon shot for posterity. On Feb. 6, 1971, 50 years ago to the day on Saturday, Shepard, the commander of the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, took out “a little white pellet that’s familiar to millions of Americans,” he
8:55 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Co-leader Matthew NeSmith nearly made a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th and barely got a reaction from the few fans. Xander Schauffele flubbed a chip and couldn’t help but hear a surprised spectator’s reaction. With attendance capped at about 5,000 at sunny TPC Scottsdale, a fraction of
Justin Suh tied for 37th at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open. The result netted him a solid payday—$34,125 to be precise—and came at a good time given that the former USC All-American is currently waiting for the PGA Tour Latinoamerica season to resume and was only in the field at Torrey Pines because of a
Compared to what we’ve had since the COVID-19 restart last June, the scene on Thursday at the Waste Management Phoenix Open was as electric as it gets. Of course, it’s nowhere near as electric as it would get at TPC Scottsdale during a normal season, but we’ll take what we can get this time. And
10:21 AM ET Englishman David Horsey fired a nine-under-par 61 for a one-shot lead over Scot Stephen Gallacher in the opening round of the European Tour’s Saudi International on Thursday. Horsey started slow at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, before hitting form on the back nine with seven
In a week where much of golf’s chitter-chatter has revolved around the on-going issue of driving distances at the elite level of the game, the opening day of the Saudi International confirmed the impression that a 7,000-yard course needs at least a stiffish breeze to challenge the very best players. Well over half of the
7:30 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Before he set foot on the property at TPC Scottsdale, Justin Thomas could see that this year’s Waste Management Phoenix Open was going to be different. As he pulled in, Thomas had a view of the 18th hole from his car and didn’t see the large structures full of
On Sunday, the PGA Tour released a statement saying that the embedded balls of Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy during the third round of last week’s Farmers Insurance Open were “virtually the same situation.” And, at that moment, that appeared to be the case. But two days later, the tour contacted McIlroy to tell him
9:00 AM ET The PGA Tour heads to Arizona this week for the Waste Management Open at TPC Scottsdale. Chris “The Bear” Fallica nailed Patrick Reed‘s victory last week, picking him at 25-1 odds to win at the Farmers Insurance Open. Reed, who was embroiled in some controversy, is not playing this week’s event, but
In November, Jon Rahm revealed that he and his wife, Kelley, are expecting their first child. The birth is, naturally, an occasion he wouldn’t miss. Even if that means missing the Masters. “Before anybody asks, yes, if I’m at Augusta and I’m playing well and she starts getting—you know, starts, I’m flying back,” Rahm said
It is said you can’t quit love, which perhaps explains why Ian Woosnam, in spite of past proclamations, is making a return to Augusta National. Woosnam, who won became the first (and to this point, only) Welsman to win the green jacket with his triumph at the 1991 Masters, has said that he was done
6:36 PM ET The Saudi International was a controversial addition to the European Tour schedule two years ago, given the country’s human rights issues and the fact the event is supported by the government and meant to bring positive reviews to the region. Paul Casey was among those who declined lucrative appearances to play, citing