You might remember John Peterson from Olympic Club back in 2012, when the unknown LSU fan with the great golf swing and putter cover in his back pocket nearly won that U.S. Open before Webb Simpson took home the trophy. Peterson finished T-4 that week, and after a solid season this past year on the […]
PGA Tour rookie gets stuck in traffic, decides to practice on the side of the freeway
December 11, 2013 by
PGA Tour player Jason Kokrak makes hole-in-one on 409-yard par-4 during pro-am
November 7, 2013 by
Sports writers toss around the cliche, “you don’t see this everyday” a lot, but in the case of Jason Kokrak at the McGladrey Classic Pro-Am, we’ve seen this on the PGA Tour only once … ever. Kokrak, a 28-year-old from Ontario, Canada, was playing in the pro-am at a PGA Tour stop on Wednesday when […]
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 […]
Henrik Stenson wins Tour Championship, FedEx Cup with steady hand
September 30, 2013 by
ATLANTA – It got the tiniest bit hairy there for a second, but Henrik Stenson held on, as he’d done from Day 1 at the Tour Championship, to claim the richest prize in golf in the FedEx Cup. Stenson, who at one point on Saturday had a lead as high as nine strokes, saw his […]
The five best shots on the PGA Tour in 2013
September 29, 2013 by
The year is all but over for the big names in golf, with the majors wrapped up, the FedEx Cup over and the major awards pretty much handed out. With that said, we take a look back over 2013 and see which five shots on the PGA Tour were the best. 5. Jim Furyk’s second […]
The five best rounds on the PGA Tour in 2013
September 27, 2013 by
5. Martin Laird’s 63 on Sunday at the Valero Texas Open — You know those days where everything clicks, and the golf swing, and putting stroke, seem effortless? That was Martin Laird on Sunday at TPC San Antonio, carding a final round 63 that included nine birdies, nine pars and a round that propelled him […]
The five best PGA Tour tournaments of 2013
September 26, 2013 by
5. Wyndham Championship — It was one of those tournaments that gave us such an exciting finish, and another on this list that included Jordan Spieth, who couldn’t hold off Patrick Reed on his way to a first ever PGA Tour win. Spieth and Reed both ended regulation at 14-under, and while Reed played the […]
Henrik Stenson leads at the Tour Championship as the rain brings everyone together
September 22, 2013 by
ATLANTA – By the end of the day’s play at East Lake Golf Club, which came shortly before 2 p.m. ET, the rain was blowing sideways. The fairways were soggy and the greens were soaked. Indeed, there wasn’t a surface anywhere outdoors at the Tour Championship that was anything close to dry. Even so, Henrik […]
Adam Scott, felled by illness, drops out of contention at the Tour Championship
September 21, 2013 by
Adam Scott entered the weekend at the Tour Championship four strokes back of leader Henrik Stenson, with a decent chance of winning the FedEx Cup and making a serious case for player of the year. [Related: Henrik Stenson falters in the rain but still has comfortable lead] But a bout with the flu Friday night […]
Henrik Stenson controls Tour Championship with sore wrist; Tiger fails to birdie even once
September 20, 2013 by
ATLANTA – You don’t get much better days to play golf than Thursday’s sunny skies at a warm East Lake, and almost everyone took advantage of the favorable conditions to start the Tour Championship off with a sprint. Henrik Stenson, still shaking off the effects of a sore wrist, claimed the first-round lead with a […]
