After a 2014-15 season in which he considered walking away from professional golf, Graeme McDowell knew he couldn’t rest on his laurels with the turn of the PGA Tour calendar. He chose to eschew the European Tour’s version of the FedEx Cup playoffs and compete in some of the fall events on the PGA Tour’s […]
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 […]
Brazil judge rejects request to halt Olympic golf course construction
November 29, 2014 by
Leave good enough alone. That was the pre-Thanksgiving ruling of a Brazilian judge, rejecting a plea from national prosecutors to halt the construction of the 2016 Olympic golf course on the basis that its design violates the country’s environmental laws. Prosecutors have been trying for months to derail the project, ranging from demands several holes […]
Phil Mickelson: ‘I want to be an Olympic athlete’
November 9, 2013 by
There are plenty of reasons why golf entering the Olympics is a great thing, but not a lot of people thought it would be such an important thing that the second most popular golfer in the world would be circling that date on his calendar three years in advance. Phil Mickelson, talking with Callaway’s Harry […]
Video: Dog has some fun on one of Olympic Club’s greens
November 23, 2012 by
Happy Thanksgiving! For your viewing pleasure on this glorious Turkey Day, we offer up a video of a Welsh Corgi going nuts on Olympic Club’s Cliff Course. Most of us will never get a chance to play one of the most picturesque short courses on the planet, but this dog somehow snuck onto the property […]
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps holes 153-foot putt at Dunhill Links
October 6, 2012 by
All that work with noted golf instructor Hank Haney on the driving range appears to be paying off for Michael Phelps. The Olympic golf medalist, who’s going to be on the “Haney Project” in 2013, is already making strides on golf’s biggest stage, after he holed a 153-foot putt at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Playing […]
Land issues could complicate 2016 Olympic golf site
April 21, 2012 by
When it comes to the Olympics, nothing is ever easy, as the organizers of the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro are learning. While golf is slated to return to the Olympics slate for the first time in more than a century, the chosen site for the course in Rio is now the focus of […]
Who was the Comedian that use a golf cart to make disasters in an Olympic ceremony?
March 18, 2012 by
QUESTION: I don’t remember if it was an Olympic or a FIFA World Cup, but he was a comedian that use a golf cart to make disasters as part of the Closing or Aperture Ceremony. Thanks! ANSWER: Answer by mrcoins.australiaNeill Gladwin Sydney closing ceremony The quad cycle was central to the comic ‘lawnmower man’ segment […]
