For the first time since 1996, Tiger Woods is not even in the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Woods checks in at No. 104 in the latest ranking, dropping another eight spots from the week prior. It’s his first week outside the top 100 since Sept. 28, 1996 — the week before Woods’ […]
Aaron Baddeley had the craziest ace* of all time
March 27, 2015 by
Aaron Baddeley’s tee shot the drivable par-4 17th at TPC San Antonio on Thursday had flown into an unplayable lie. The Aussie decided he would re-tee, hitting 3 from the tee box. Well, Baddeley put a 3 on his scorecard. That’s because Baddeley holed his second tee ball, dropping in the cup from 336 yards […]
Rory McIlroy will play Arnold Palmer Invitational for first time
February 10, 2015 by
Arnold Palmer is finally going to get his man. Rory McIlroy is going to play his Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando for the first time next month. McIlroy made the announcement on Twitter on Monday. In November 2012, Palmer joked on Golf Channel’s air that if McIlroy didn’t play the next year’s API […]
Aussie golfer’s great week: Par-4 ace, then wins at same time as fiancee
February 8, 2015 by
It has been a very good two-week stretch for Aussie pro Richard Green. Playing in the Oates Victorian Open this week in his native country, Green made a par-4 hole-in-one during the tournament pro-am. That’s cool enough. Then he managed to win the tournament on Sunday, prevailing in a two-hole, sudden-death playoff at Thirteenth Beach […]
Is it time to write off Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson?
February 7, 2015 by
This has never happened. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have never each had the weekend off in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour. Woods had never missed the cut in consecutive starts in his PGA Tour career before a career-worst 82 at the Phoenix Open sent him packing almost six months after missing the cut […]
How Tiger Woods did the last time he coached himself
September 20, 2014 by
One sentence in Tiger Woods’ latest blog post, published Thursday, caught enough attention to merit worldwide headlines. “I may just do it on my own,” wrote Woods concerning who might be his next swing coach. It wouldn’t be the first time in Woods’ career where the 14-time major winner has been teacher and student. When Woods […]
Phil Mickelson wants to play Pinehurst, but he can’t get a tee time
May 3, 2014 by
Being a professional golfer, and one that has been at it for as long as Phil Mickelson has, grants you plenty of incredible pleasures, but apparently a tee time at one of the most famous resorts in the United States is not one of them. Mickelson, the No. 9 ranked player in the world and […]
Golfer makes two holes-in-one in the same round after happening upon a tee time
March 27, 2014 by
Allow me to set the stage for you. You and some buddies head to South Carolina for a golf vacation. You end up in Myrtle Beach, the Las Vegas of golf trips, and you prepare to nine rounds of golf. The preparation didn’t go as smoothly as you wanted, and some of you are left […]
For the second time this year, Phil Mickelson flirted with 59
August 31, 2013 by
On Friday at the Deutsche Bank Championship, Phil Mickelson was in a rare spot in his group, being the third player that most thought would have a chance to take home this trophy. Playing with Adam Scott, who won last week at the Barclays, and Tiger Woods, who finished second, it was Mickelson who was […]
Tiger Woods injured again…this time, by hotel bed
August 22, 2013 by
Tiger Woods enters this weekend’s Barclays, the initial event of this year’s FedEx Cup, as the favorite to win the whole deal once again. And, since it’s not a major, he’s probably going to throttle the entire field and walk away with another two-comma check. But it won’t be easy, no. Woods has taken his […]
