Si Woo Kim became the youngest-ever winner of The Players Championship on Sunday when the 21-year-old South Korean capped off a three-stroke win at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Kim shot a bogey-free final round of 3-under 69 on the Stadium Course, finishing at 10-under 278 to hold off Ian Poulter and Louis […]
Dustin Johnson cruises to Riviera win, becomes golf's new No. 1 player
February 22, 2017 by
Your browser does not support iframes. Dustin Johnson won for the 10th consecutive season on Sunday, cruising to a five-shot win in the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club to become the 20th player in golf history to assume the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. Johnson played 36 holes on Sunday, lapping […]
Dustin Johnson cruises to Riviera win, becomes golf's new No. 1 player
February 21, 2017 by
Your browser does not support iframes. Dustin Johnson won for the 10th consecutive season on Sunday, cruising to a five-shot win in the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club to become the 20th player in golf history to assume the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. Johnson played 36 holes on Sunday, lapping […]
Aditi Ashok becomes first Indian winner on Ladies European Tour
November 13, 2016 by
Aditi Ashok made history in India on Sunday. (Getty Images) Aditi Ashok made history on Sunday, becoming the first Indian-born player to win on the Ladies European Tour. The 18-year-old, who made a splash in golf’s return to the Olympics, won the Hero Women’s Indian Open by a shot over two-time LPGA major winner Brittany […]
Hideki Matsuyama becomes first Asian-born WGC winner
October 30, 2016 by
Hideki Matsuyama won the WGC-HSBC Champions. (Getty Images) Hideki Matsuyama set a major milestone for Japenese and, more broadly, Asian golf on Sunday in winning the World Golf Championships HSBC Champions in China. Matsuyama, who won the event by seven shots at 23-under 265 at Sheshan International in Shanghai, became the first Japanese-born and Asian-born […]
103-year-old man records his eighth ace, becomes oldest with hole-in-one
December 20, 2014 by
They say golf is a game you can play for a lifetime. So long as you’re upright and swinging, that means you have a chance to make an ace, just like 103-year-old Gus Andreone did in Florida on Wednesday. Andreone, the oldest member of the PGA of America, made the hole-in-one at Palm Aire Country Club […]
Report: IBM CEO Rometty becomes 3rd female Augusta National member
November 15, 2014 by
Observers thought IBM CEO Virginia “Ginni” Rometty would be the first female member of Augusta National Golf Club. It had practically become tradition for the head of Big Blue to don a green jacket. But when the home of the Masters admitted its first female members in 2012, Rometty wasn’t one of them. All in […]
Lydia Ko becomes youngest LPGA Rookie of the Year
November 13, 2014 by
Despite being just 17 years old, Lydia Ko doesn’t seem like a rookie. Maybe that’s because she’s been winning LPGA tournaments since she was a 15-year-old amateur. However, 2014 marked the Kiwi teen’s first pro campaign, and her two-win season was good enough to clinch the LPGA Tour’s rookie of the year award. “It’s really […]
Kevin Sutherland becomes the first Champions Tour player to ever shoot 59
August 17, 2014 by
The Champions Tour is named “champions” for a reason. So many legends turn 50 and take their talents to a completely different tour, going up against huge names in golf that can still really, really golf their ball. But unlike the PGA Tour, nobody had ever broke 60 until Saturday on the Champions Tour. While […]
Jim Furyk becomes the sixth player in PGA Tour history to post a round of 59
September 16, 2013 by
The major season in golf might be over, and the interest in the sports world might be on the NFL and Johnny Manziel, but a veteran on the PGA Tour did something on Friday that should bring all the eyeballs back to golf. Jim Furyk posted the sixth round of 59 in the history of […]
