Combine the CVs of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and the numbers are staggering: 121 PGA Tour wins including 19 major championships. Combine their ages, however, and the figure is troublesome. Woods turns 39 in December. Mickelson is 44. That’s 83 years, putting both players closer to the end of their glory days. For the […]
Rory McIlroy alludes to Woods, Mickelson career mortality at Tour Championship
September 11, 2014 by
Jimmy Fallon takes on PGA Tour players in his latest superlatives bit
August 19, 2014 by
At this point, not watching Jimmy Fallon on a nightly basis is a crime against laughter. Fallon has been killing it on The Tonight Show since taking over for Jay Leno, giving us everything from an incredible band in The Roots, to hilarious bits in his opening monolgue to fun games with his guests. Fallon, […]
Kevin Sutherland becomes the first Champions Tour player to ever shoot 59
August 17, 2014 by
The Champions Tour is named “champions” for a reason. So many legends turn 50 and take their talents to a completely different tour, going up against huge names in golf that can still really, really golf their ball. But unlike the PGA Tour, nobody had ever broke 60 until Saturday on the Champions Tour. While […]
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 […]
Check out the highlights from Tiger Woods’ return to the PGA Tour
June 27, 2014 by
There was some good from Tiger Woods and definitely some bad as the most recognizable golfer on the planet made his return to competitive golf on Thursday. Woods opened with a 3-over 74 at the Quicken Loans National event, a respectable number that could have been much worse considering the way he started. Tiger had […]
The Bacon Mailbag: 11-year-olds in pro golf, a U.S. Open fantasy draft and Chipotle on the PGA Tour
May 21, 2014 by
Each week 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 or e-mail me at shanebaconblogs@yahoo.com and we will try to get to it […]
A mini tour player just made a hole-in-one in a playoff to qualify for his first PGA Tour event
May 14, 2014 by
Monday qualifying on the PGA Tour is normally reserved for the “what if” story. What if I had made just one birdie? What if I hadn’t choked on the final hole? What if I had finally got that break I need?! On Tuesday at the The Lakes at Castle Hills, it was anything but a […]
Adam Scott, the most eligible bachelor on the PGA Tour, is officially off the market
May 10, 2014 by
There will be plenty of single people around the world that will spend their Friday night disappointed after Adam Scott let the news drop that he got hitched last month in the Bahamas. Scott, the 33-year-old former Masters winner, has been a favorite amongst the female golf contingent for some time, and gave Ben Everill […]
Felipe Aguilar shoots 28 on the back nine including a holed-out eagle on 18 to win European Tour event
May 6, 2014 by
There are guys that can close, like Bubba Watson did a month ago at the Masters, and then there are guys that make an absolute charge up the leaderboard to win, like Felipe Aguilar did on Sunday at The Championship at Laguna National. The 39-year-old Chilean headed into Sunday four shots back of the lead, […]
