Who better to see your first ace than your dad? Shaun O’Meara, son of two-time 1998 major winner Mark O’Meara, enjoyed that special moment on Sunday during the final round of the PNC Father-Son Challenge in Orlando, Fla. Playing the fourth hole at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club’s Grande Lake, the younger O’Meara hit a 7-iron […]
PGA president makes sexist remark in defense of Faldo against Poulter
October 24, 2014 by
PGA of America president Ted Bishop wanted to defend six-time major champion Nick Faldo, who he spent Thursday with at an event, in his ongoing public spat with Ian Poulter. However, in the process, Bishop made remarks indefensible for a person of his stature in golf. Responding to published shots Poulter took at Faldo in […]
81-year-old Pennsylvania man makes 3 aces in 3 straight days
October 19, 2014 by
Dom DeBonis already got his hole-in-one, back in 1969. But, at 81 years old, the Pennsylvania man had gone longer waiting for his second than he had for his first. That all changed last week in an incredible span where he made four aces in a 33-day span, including three in consecutive days in Myrtle […]
Jason Day takes off shoes, crosses river and still somehow makes par at the PGA Championship
August 9, 2014 by
It was quite the adventure for Jason Day early on at the PGA Championship. The 26-year-old Australian was in the final group with Rory McIlroy, but hit an errant tee shot on the second hole and was forced to take off his shoes and wade across a river to hit his second shot. Day did […]
Phil Mickelson makes a birdie off the cart path on Thursday at the Scottish Open
July 11, 2014 by
While 2014 has been a really disappointing season for Phil Mickelson, a refresher of what you’re capable of can really turn things around. A year ago at the Scottish Open, Mickelson won in a playoff, following that up the next week with a Sunday 66 to claim his first ever British Open title and the […]
Peter Hanson makes hole-in-one, wins a fan her mortgage for a year
June 28, 2014 by
This week at Congressional marks the first with the name “Quicken Loans” attached to it. The online mortgage lender teamed up with Tiger Woods to headline this event, and promised some nice prizes for fans if anyone in the field made a hole-in-one. While nobody has carded one on the par-3 10th yet this week […]
Pablo Larrazabal gets stung by hornets, jumps in lake, makes birdie immediately after
April 19, 2014 by
Being a professional golfer has plenty of perks, but on Friday at the European Tour’s Maybank Malaysian Open one of the players in the field ran into a situation that was anything but desirable. Pablo Larrazabal, a 30-year-old professional golfer from Spain, was playing his round when hornets came after him. Larrazabal tried to get […]
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 […]
John Daly makes 12 on par-4 on his way to a second round 90 at the Valspar Championship
March 15, 2014 by
Death, taxes and John Daly erupting at least once a year at a PGA Tour event. Those are the three things you can bank on and run with, and the latter happened on Friday at the Valspar Championship. Daly, who had made the cut in two of his four starts heading into this event, shot […]
Dustin Johnson makes eagle on the first hole during final round of the Cadillac Championship
March 9, 2014 by
When the leaderboard is as crowded as it is this Sunday at the Cadillac Championship, getting off to a good start is imperative if you want a chance to win. Dustin Johnson did just that on Sunday at Doral, hitting a meaty 346-yard drive on the par-5 first hole, sticking his second shot from 244 […]
