Francesco Molinari won the Italian Open for the second time, backing up a 2006 win. (Getty Images) For the second week in a row, there was a home-nation hero on the European Tour. Last week, it was Joost Luiten winning his national championship in the Netherlands, taking the KLM Open for the second time with […]
Wesley Bryan wins 2nd Web.com Tour event in last three starts
April 26, 2016 by
Your browser does not support iframes. It took Wesley Bryan but just six starts to guarantee he’ll have a spot on the 2016-17 PGA Tour. Bryan, one half of a viral trick-shot duo with his brother George, won the El Bosque Mexico Championship on Sunday for his second Web.com Tour win in the first six […]
Kris Tamulis wins Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic for breakthrough after 186 starts
September 1, 2015 by
Kris Tamulis had been waiting a long time for this – 185 starts to be exact. But on Sunday, she finally earned a breakthrough win on the LPGA Tour, taking the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic in Alabama. She had to play 29 holes on Sunday to do it, finishing out a weather-delayed third round at […]
Adam Scott will stick with long putter even after the anchoring ban starts
August 28, 2015 by
Adam Scott won’t be able to use the anchored putting stroke come Jan. 1, 2016. It’s been banned by the game’s governing bodies. However, the long putter that Scott has been using for the last five years will remain legal. Scott has decided, then, that he’s sticking with his original plan: He’s going to keep […]
The Open Championship starts soon, and Graham DeLaet just got his clubs
July 14, 2015 by
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — And you thought your lost-luggage story was bad. Imagine a NASCAR driver without his steering wheel. An NFL player without his helmet. A baseball player without his bat. Now you’re getting an idea of the teeth-grinding agony that Graham DeLaet went through for more than two days waiting for his clubs […]
Tiger Woods’ return to the PGA Tour starts with a bogey at the Quicken Loans National
July 3, 2014 by
It wasn’t exactly the start that Tiger Woods had hoped for after more than three months away from the PGA Tour, but it is a start, and that is a good thing. Woods, who hasn’t played a round on the PGA Tour since March 9, teed off early on Thursday morning at Congressional Country Club […]
16-year-old Lydia Ko will turn professional when she starts her next event
October 12, 2013 by
If there was ever a no-brainer decision for a teenager to turn professional, it is Lydia Ko, but that will all change the next time she tees it up in a LPGA event. Ko’s mother, Tina Hyon, told the Golf Channel’s Randall Mell in an e-mail that Ko, the 16-year-old who become the youngest player […]
Video: Tiger Woods starts round out with impressive eagle at the first
March 9, 2012 by
You have to give Tiger Woods a lot of credit: The guy sure knows how to start a tournament with a bang. After finishing birdie-eagle during the final round of the Honda Classic to fire an eye-popping 62, Woods kept the good vibes going on Thursday at the WGC-Cadillac Championship with another eagle. And like […]
