It seems fitting that the person to deny Lydia Ko a third consecutive LPGA major would be a player who is somehow younger than she is. And that’s exactly what 18-year-old Canadian Brooke Henderson did on Sunday to win her first major title at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Henderson first earned her way into […]
Lydia Ko leads Women’s PGA with chance to win third major in a row
June 12, 2016 by
Lydia Ko has a chance to do something on Sunday that’s never been done in LPGA history. The 19-year-old Kiwi carries a one-shot lead into the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Washington. She’s at 2-under 211, ahead of Gerina Piller and two-time major winner Brittany Lincicome. And […]
Big names, major champions miss the cut at the Masters
April 9, 2016 by
Though the Masters has the most generous cut among the four major championships, plenty of familiar names failed to make the weekend at Augusta National. For players like Rickie Fowler and Ernie Els, it was bad first rounds that did in their chances. In the case of Els, it was the first hole. He 6-putted […]
Jason Bohn had no idea he was having a major heart attack at Honda
March 1, 2016 by
Jason Bohn had no idea he was having a heart attack. The 42-year-old was experiencing the symptoms throughout his second round on Friday at The Honda Classic, but he thought they were related to the flu he battled two weeks prior during the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. “I would have thought having a heart attack […]
Justin Thomas says he’d rather win a Ryder Cup than a major in ’16
January 6, 2016 by
After getting his breakthrough PGA Tour win in November at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia, Justin Thomas is on the short list of golfers expected to carve out a spot in golf’s highest echelon in 2016. Thomas, who makes a lot of birdies and eagles and has prodigious length with his astounding club speed, is […]
At 40, does Tiger Woods have one more major run in him?
December 31, 2015 by
As recently as May 17, 2014, Tiger Woods was the No. 1 golfer in the world. On his 40th birthday, Dec. 30, 2015, Woods is ranked 416th in the year-end Official World Golf Ranking. The arithmetic is simple to compute, but Woods’ fall from his perch as best golfer in the world has been deeper […]
Jordan Spieth calls 2016 Olympic golf tournament his ‘fifth major’
November 25, 2015 by
Jordan Spieth has a lot to live up to in 2016. He won two majors, came up four shots shy of winning the other two and took the FedEx Cup. In total, he earned $ 22 million in on-course cash. So what’s another bit of added pressure for the 22-year-old? Spieth said Tuesday at the […]
Lydia Ko wins The Evian to become youngest female major winner
September 13, 2015 by
Lydia Ko had one last chance to become the youngest female major champion in history, and she seized it. On Sunday, Ko won The Evian Championship, the LPGA’s fifth major championship of the year, to become a major winner at 18 years, 4 months, 20 days. The final-round, 8-under 63 Ko shot at Evian Golf […]
Anirban Lahiri notches best major finish by an Indian player
August 19, 2015 by
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Anirban Lahiri may have finished seven strokes back of PGA Championship winner Jason Day, but his T-5 finish at Whistling Straits made history, marking the best finish in major championship by an Indian player. Shiv Kapur finished ninth at the 2013 British Open. “I won’t really say I was in contention here, […]
Inbee Park wins seventh major at Women’s British Open
August 2, 2015 by
Inbee Park did it again. Closing with a tournament-best-tying final-round 65, Park caught and passed 54-hole co-leaders Jin Young Ko and Teresa Lu to secure her first Ricoh Women’s British Open at Turnberry in Scotland. It’s the seventh major title for Park, who has won six of her seven majors in her last 14 major […]
