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 […]
The Bacon Mailbag: Masters, stars struggling to close and the best celebration in golf
March 26, 2014 by
Tiger Woods still unsure if he will play the Masters
March 24, 2014 by
If you’re still wondering about the possibility of Tiger Woods missing the Masters this year, you’re not alone, because even Tiger himself isn’t sure what will happen with his ailing back in the coming weeks. Speaking at a press conference on Monday about his tournament’s new title sponsor, Woods echoed what he said on his […]
The Bacon Mailbag: Masters, Ryder Cup surprises and my dream foursome
February 5, 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. […]
Craig Stadler will make this his final Masters after son Kevin qualified with win
February 4, 2014 by
A lot of things come with a PGA Tour win. You get two more years on the PGA Tour, bonuses from your sponsors and club companies and that one piece of mail you’ve been waiting for your entire life. Yes, Kevin Stadler’s win on Sunday at the Waste Management Open was his first ever on […]
Graham DeLaet tweets out his first Masters invite
January 7, 2014 by
There are few things in sports more coveted than an invite to the Masters. The first major championship of the season is still technically an “invitational” meaning that no matter what you do to get in, you still have to get that piece of paper in the mail that invites you to take part in […]
The 10 best golf moments of 2013: No. 2, Adam Scott wins the Masters
December 29, 2013 by
Over the next 10 days, until we get to the New Year, we will be rolling out the top-10 best golf moments of 2013. After much deliberation and debate, we picked what we thought were the 10 moments you will remember about this season a decade from now. We continue with No. 3 and Jason […]
Simon Dyson could be expelled from the European Tour for rules violation at BMW Masters
November 2, 2013 by
If you break a rule on the PGA Tour, you risk getting called out by a golf personality, but on the European Tour, it could mean never playing one of their events again. That is the case with Simon Dyson, the 35-year-old Englishman who was disqualified last week at the BMW Masters for tapping down […]
Simon Dyson disqualified for clearly tapping down a mark in his line at the BMW Masters
October 26, 2013 by
The thing about the rules of golf is that some of the rules take much deliberation while others are cut and dry. Simon Dyson fell into that second group on Saturday at the BMW Masters in Shanghai. Dyson had shot a pair of 2-under 70s at the BMW Masters and found himself in a tie […]
A Masters green jacket sold for nearly $700,000 at an auction
September 9, 2013 by
You know the one piece of clothing that every golfer dreams of owning? Well, these days you don’t necessarily need a precise short game and ridiculous mental focus, just three quarters of a million dollars and some dumb luck. That’s what happened over the weekend, when GreenJacketAuctions.com sold Horton Smith’s former Masters jacket for $ […]
The guy that ended up penalizing Tiger Woods at the Masters was a Champions Tour player
May 4, 2013 by
Of the tens of millions of people that tune in each day to the Masters, one person called in on Tiger Woods during his second round at Augusta National to report a penalty. Rumors flew around of who it might have been, even landing on the ex-husband of Tiger’s current lady, Lindsey Vonn. So who […]
