Bubba Watson takes BP with a golf club for a great trick shot

Your browser does not support iframes. Bubba Watson was in China this week to play a post-Masters event, the Shenzhen International on the European Tour.  One of the perks of playing in the event, aside from a hefty appearance fee for the two-time Masters winner, was playing Night Golf at host Genzon Golf Club’s Course […]

Honolulu police: Robert Allenby wasn’t kidnapped or at a strip club

Robert Allenby maintains he can’t remember a two-and-a-half hour stretch after leaving Amuse Wine Bar in Waikiki Beach on the Friday night after missing the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii.  The Honolulu Police Department did their best to fill in the blank on Thursday. Detective John McCarthy told the Associated Press that the […]

Witness: Allenby fell, injuring himself after trip to strip club

Maybe there was a good reason to be skeptical of Robert Allenby’s account of a harrowing night last Friday and early Saturday in Honolulu. The two homeless men who accosted Allenby, according to the homeless woman the golfer credits with saving his life, have now spoken to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and offer a very different […]

Watch a dad pull his son’s loose tooth with string, a golf ball and club

This isn’t so much a golf story as it is one about dentistry, and maybe parenting.  You see, 7-year-old Noah Smith had a loose tooth that he wanted to pull out — presumably to collect on it from the Tooth Fairy. But Noah wasn’t sure how to extricate it. So his dad, Phil, had an […]

Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews votes to admit female members

It only took 260 years.  On Thursday, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews announced its membership has voted to allow female members. Peter Dawson, chief executive of the R&A, the governing body off-shoot of the club, said the club will fast-track membership for “a significant initial number” of women into the club. […]

Our Friday equipment roundup: Oakley golf bag, Under Armour shorts and a helpful golf club

If there is one thing golfers love to do, it’s tinker with new equipment. We are always looking for the latest driver, hottest putter and best pair of shoes to help us go low. Each Friday for the rest of the year we will be bringing you five items that we’ve enjoyed messing around with, […]

Irish professional golfer penalized in British Open qualifier playoff for 15th club

There are plenty of crazy rules in the game of golf that makes one question why in the world it’s in the rulebook to begin with, but one of those rare black and white requirements is how many clubs you’re allowed to play with in a tournament. Fourteen is the number, with absolutely no exception […]

Look at how many people are working on this bunker at Merion Golf Club on Monday

No, the picture above is not a contest to see who can find Waldo first, that is an actual image from the 11th hole at Merion Golf Club on Monday. The site of this year’s U.S. Open, Merion has been hit with some pretty hard rains over the last few days and the USGA is […]

The U.S. Open will feature wicker baskets instead of flags at Merion Golf Club

For the first time since 1981, the world will descend on Merion Golf Club’s East Course on June 13 for the second major championship of the year and the fifth time the U.S. Open has been hosted there. One thing you should expect to see? Wicker baskets adorning the tops of the flagsticks all across […]

This EZee golf club is probably not going to make it past the USGA

You know what the hardest part about golf is? Swinging the club consistently, so why not skip that part completely? EZee golf allows you to do so by pulling some trigger and propelling the golf ball down the fairway, or at the green, without making a swing at all. The video was posted a year […]