Jason Day is making some style changes in 2017. (Getty Images) With the turn of the calendar to a new year, many of golf’s best enter into a game of musical logo placements, with pros taking on new equipment and apparel deals. World No. 1 Jason Day had already previously announced he would continue to […]
IOC member thinks golf should be out of the Olympics without stars
June 27, 2016 by
They’re dropping like flies, or mosquitoes, from the men’s Olympic golf tournament. Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Graeme McDowell, Branden Grace, Marc Leishman, Louis Oosthuizen, Vijay Singh, Tim Wilkinson, Charl Schwartzel and Miguel Angel Jimenez have all withdrawn their names from consideration for the 60-player tournament in Rio. Some have voiced concerns over Zika virus. Others […]
The Bacon Mailbag: Masters, stars struggling to close and the best celebration in golf
March 26, 2014 by
Each Tuesday 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 and we will try to get to it in the coming weeks. Here we […]
Tiger Woods joins a growing list of big stars skipping the Accenture Match Play
February 8, 2014 by
One of the big fears of a match play event, especially a huge professional one with million dollar sponsors, is that the finals will produce two duds. Every golfer dreams of a Tiger Woods versus Phil Mickelson final, but we’ve seen our share of watered down finals over the years of the Accenture Match Play […]
