The PGA Tour makes the short trek from Augusta, Ga., up into the Palmetto State for this week’s RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, S.C. The Pete Dye & Jack Nicklaus design is radically different in look and style from Augusta National, but it makes for a fascinating contrast a […]
Watch Arnold Palmer Invitational featured holes on Yahoo Sports
The PGA Tour wraps up the Florida Swing this week in Orlando with the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Mr. Palmer’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge will welcome a number of the world’s best players, including Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose. Matt Every returns as the two-time defending champion. Meanwhile, the […]
The story of the nine holes that changed Colin Montgomerie’s life
It was July 1986, and Colin Montgomerie had recently graduated from the Houston Baptist University. He’d learned to win playing collegiate golf in the States, but wasn’t thinking about a future in professional golf. In fact, Monty was ready to represent the best players in the world, not compete against them. Then, the day after […]
Dustin Johnson holes out from 159 yards for welcome-back eagle
Welcome back, Dustin Johnson. Johnson played his first PGA Tour round in six months on Thursday, coming back from a leave of absence at the Farmers Insurance Open. The bomber didn’t take very long to remind his peers what he’s capable of doing. On the par-4 fourth of the South Course at Torrey Pines, Johnson […]
Here are five better ideas than Tiger Woods filling his golf holes with sand to practice
Tiger Woods is back, but it took a ton of work to get him from where he was after back surgery to where he is now. Woods had his Quicken Loans National press conference on Tuesday, and talked about the process of getting back to the game of golf. It took him a while to […]
Miguel Angel Jimenez holes out from fairway, does a little dance
Golf fans can debate plenty of things. Who is the best golfer in the world? Which young star will be the next major winner? Tiger or Jack? The one thing that most people won’t argue about is the coolest professional golfer out there. Miguel Angel Jimenez would top most lists, with his slight gut to […]
Bubba Watson holes a ridiculously long putt-putt shot
Bubba Watson was playing a little putt-putt, and like all of us, he got a little loopy on the course. But unlike most of us, Bubba’s a two-time Masters winner, so he can get a little freakier than we can and still pull off the hole-out, as you can see above. (Should I have said […]
Rory McIlroy made two eagles in six holes on Thursday at the BMW PGA Championship
It has been a pretty crazy 24 hours for Rory McIlroy, who announced on Wednesday that he and fiance Caroline Wozniacki were splitting up and had a tee time on Thursday in one of the biggest events of the year on the European Tour. Rory started out a little sluggish, making two bogeys after just […]
Jim Furyk holes out one of the most creative chip shots you’ll ever see at Riviera
There are few par-3s in the United States that are as popular, and as quirky, as the sixth at Riviera. Known for the bunker in the middle of the green, No. 6 is the site of plenty of strange golf shots, pitch shots from the putting surface and creativity at its finest. Jim Furyk was […]
James Hahn holes out for eagle, gives caddie a Lebron-like chest bump
The jumping chest bump has become a universal language in sports, something you see all over the world between teammates celebrating something marvelous. That is, in every sport but golf. Not a ton of golfers are airing out to bump chests with their caddies, but that changed on Thursday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am […]