The Web.com Tour will have some new events next year. (Getty Images) The Web.com Tour season will kick off next January with a pair of tournaments that buck tradition. The tour, which ultimately determines the fate of 50 PGA Tour cards each season, has partnered with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism to present a pair […]
Power rankings: OHL Classic at Mayakoba
November 9, 2016 by
Russell Knox is the top of the field this week. (Getty Images) The PGA Tour heads to Cancun, Mexico, going for the penultimate event of the calendar year, the OHL Classic at Mayakoba. El Camaleon is a fun host course, and on it unfolded a great three-man playoff last year, with Graeme McDowell beating Russell […]
Pampling wins in Vegas for unlikely third PGA Tour victory
November 7, 2016 by
Rod Pampling had an unexpected triumph on Sunday in Vegas. (Getty Images) Rod Pampling wasn’t even supposed to be playing golf this week. He got in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open thanks to a PGA Tour clerical error. Seriously. This Vegas field was supposed to be 132 players, an effort made in deference to […]
European Tour head signals potential change to Ryder Cup process
November 6, 2016 by
Ryder Cup 2016. Day Three. Rory McIlroy of Europe congratulates Patrick Reed of the United States on his win during the Sunday singles competition at the Ryder Cup tournament at Hazeltine National Golf Club on October 02, 2016 in Chaska, Minnesota. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images) Changes could be coming to the process […]
Trio of senators ask USGA to move Women's Open from Trump course
November 5, 2016 by
Donald Trump hosts two golf majors in 2017. (Getty Images) Three U.S. senators have formally asked the USGA to move the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open from the Donald Trump-owned Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote a letter to the USGA — namely executive […]
Stenson, Reed, Schwartzel all withdraw from Turkish Airlines Open
November 5, 2016 by
Henrik Stenson is not competing in Turkey this week. (Getty Images) Several big names have followed Rory McIlroy in withdrawing from this week’s Turkish Airlines Open, the first of the three-event Final Series on the European Tour. Open champion Henrik Stenson, Ryder Cup hero Patrick Reed and 2011 Masters winner Charl Schwartzel have opted out […]
Inbee Park done for 2016 as thumb injury heals
November 4, 2016 by
Inbee Park won a gold medal in Rio. (Getty Images) We won’t see Inbee Park in the final two events of the LPGA schedule, as the Olympic gold medalist continues to recover from a nagging left thumb injury. According to Golf Channel, Park won’t defend her title next week at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and […]
Tiger Woods says he's coming back in December, really, no kidding
November 3, 2016 by
Tiger Woods has reaffirmed his commitment to play in December’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, a small event that will offer Woods a friendly environment for his first tournament since August 2015. Look, you’ve heard this before. Woods had committed to play in last month’s Safeway Open but pulled out just days before the […]
ESPN documentary 'Hit It Hard' shows the many sides of John Daly
November 2, 2016 by
John Daly is still hittin’ it hard. (Getty Images) “My life changed in four days. That doesn’t happen to too many people.” John Daly has become a human punch line, a cautionary tale, written off as a rube who never realized he was the butt of the joke. But as we see “Hit It Hard,” […]
