Louis Oosthuizen didn’t finish out the PGA Championship like he would have wanted, but at least he has a lovely singing voice. Devil Ball Golf
Louis Oosthuizen completes runner-up Grand Slam, celebrates in gloriously dorky way
January 4, 2018 by
If Jordan Spieth wins the Grand Slam, he'll deserve all the hype he gets
August 26, 2017 by
Your browser does not support iframes. We’re all fumbling our way through 2017 amid endless bluster and empty hype. It’s a world where LaVar Ball can claim, with a straight face, that he could beat Michael Jordan, a world where people can get suckered into believing that Michael Phelps would race an actual shark. Here, today, we […]
Louis Oosthuizen completes runner-up Grand Slam, celebrates in gloriously dorky way
August 18, 2017 by
Traveling in the footsteps of Robin, Garfunkel, Oates, Jesse Pinkman, and Chewbacca, Louis Oosthuizen is now golf’s most famous second banana, having completed a remarkable feat: with his T2 finish at Sunday’s PGA Championship, Oosthuizen now has notched a runner-up finish in each of golf’s four majors. His most famous second-place showing came in 2012, […]
Rory McIlroy: Completing Grand Slam gets tougher each year
March 31, 2017 by
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland tees off at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. (Getty) In two Sundays, Rory McIlroy can make golf history in winning the Masters. He would become the sixth man in golf history — joining Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen — to complete the career […]
Jordan Spieth’s 4-putt double bogey may cost him the Grand Slam
July 20, 2015 by
If Jordan Spieth doesn’t win the British Open on Monday, he will likely blame the par-3 eighth as the undoing of his single-season Grand Slam chances. Spieth, trying to become the first golfer in the modern era to win the Grand Slam having already claimed the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015, arrived at the […]
Jordan Spieth wins stunning U.S. Open, takes step toward historic Grand Slam
June 22, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — All that is gold doesn’t glitter. This wasn’t pretty, but golf’s Golden Child is now halfway to the Grand Slam. Jordan Spieth won the U.S. Open on Sunday in a completely different fashion than he did the Masters just two months prior. At Augusta, he was poised beyond his years; at […]
Jordan Spieth’s Grand Slam hopes still alive, but spoilers lurk
June 20, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Looky, looky. The guy practically all of us expected to be on top of the U.S. Open leaderboard is. Jordan Spieth shot a 3-under 67 on Friday morning at Chambers Bay to move (at the time) into a share of the lead at the U.S. Open. (Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed […]
Rory McIlroy went lefty, made par at the Grand Slam of Golf
October 17, 2014 by
Rory McIlroy wasn’t going to win the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, but that didn’t mean the world No. 1 couldn’t show off his golf skills and have a little fun in a tricky spot on Wednesday. McIlroy’s tee shot to the par-5 17th at Port Royal Golf Club looked good at first, but then […]
The Bacon Mailbag: Who gets the Grand Slam first, Rory or Phil?
July 27, 2014 by
Each week for the remainder of the golf season we will be rolling out a mailbag, with any and all questions invited from readers and fans around the world. Have a good question you want answered? Hit me up on Twitter at @shanebacon or e-mail me at shanebaconblogs@yahoo.com and we will try to get to it […]
Phil Mickelson plans to reduce his schedule so he can focus on winning the career Grand Slam
October 28, 2013 by
One of the reasons that golf is such a popular sport is unlike almost every other sport out there, golf allows you to compete nearly your entire life. With the advance in technology and fitness, it also helps professionals compete well into their 50s, and while Phil Mickelson isn’t quite there yet, he knows that […]
