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Henrik Stenson's home robbed while he played the Open Championship
The first rule of burglaries: show up when your target’s not home. And when you can watch your target on television, well, you’ve got a pretty good idea they’re not home. Henrik Stenson, defending British Open champion, came home from his opening round on Thursday to discover his rental home had been burglarized, top to […]
2020 PGA Championship could be played in May for Olympics
Jimmy Walker won the PGA Championship this year. (Getty Images) This year’s PGA Championship was moved up several weeks from its typical August date to accommodate the sport’s return to the Olympic program. What is usually the season’s final major appears set to be the second major of the year in 2020, when golf is […]
The Road to ruin: St. Andrews’ 17th played like a par 5 on Thursday
After Zach Johnson finished an impressive 6-under 66 to start his British Open at St. Andrews, he was told there hadn’t been a birdie all day at the famous Road Hole 17th. “That’s not right,” Johnson said. “The group in front of us all made 4s.” The 17th hole is a par 4. On the […]
Win irons personally played by Ben Hogan in an eBay auction
Ben Hogan found the secrets of golf in the dirt. Now you can bid for a set of the instruments the Hawk used to dig out those secrets. A set of irons Hogan personally used in the 1980s is now up for auction on eBay. They can be all yours, right now, for the meager […]
Marcel Siem played Turkish Open final round with dislocated rib
If Marcel Siem was going to have even a remote chance of catching Rory McIlroy for the European Tour’s Race to Dubai crown, he had to win the Turkish Airlines Open on Sunday. That bubble burst during Siem’s warm-up in the gym, when he dislocated a rib. However, Siem, who trailed the lead by a […]
Jimmy Fallon and Cameron Diaz played roller golf and now it’s all we want to play
The idea of “building the game of golf” has been a hot topic in 2014. Between the HackGolf idea to the 15 inch cups to Top Golf, people have been trying hard to find different ways to present the game of golf so that a new generation might find it interesting and take it up. […]
Rory McIlroy and Bill Clinton played a round of golf together in Ireland
No matter what the PGA Tour tells us, this is normally as much of an offseason as we are going to get in the golf world. Tiger Woods hibernates from the world except for paid appearances at certain events, Phil Mickelson is Mr. Family Man more than he usually is, and Rory McIlroy is busy […]
Adam Scott played Muirfield and had to hit a bunker shot left-handed
The British Open is a week away, and that means the world’s best are taking to Muirfield to get in a practice round or two before next Thursday. Justin Rose and Adam Scott were a couple of the pros that got in a practice round this week, and if there is one reminder on what […]
Can an matchplay golf match be played over a single day?
QUESTION: I don’t have much knowledge about golf. I’d like to know a little more about how matchplay works – especially Irish matchplay. Also, which is usually longer in duration – a standard strokeplay match or a standard matchplay match? ANSWER: