Patrick Reed ended Day 1 of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions where he finished here a year ago: atop the leaderboard. Reed, who won the PGA Tour’s winners-only event a year ago, has a one-stroke lead over Thursday playing partner Jordan Spieth after the first round at Kapalua’s Plantation Course on Maui in Hawaii. The […]
Jordan Spieth calls 2016 Olympic golf tournament his ‘fifth major’
Jordan Spieth has a lot to live up to in 2016. He won two majors, came up four shots shy of winning the other two and took the FedEx Cup. In total, he earned $ 22 million in on-course cash. So what’s another bit of added pressure for the 22-year-old? Spieth said Tuesday at the […]
Fantasy golf power rankings: Hyundai Tournament of Champions
A new year has started in golf, and that means fantasy golf leagues are firing back up, too. Devil Ball Golf will have you covered all season long with our top five fantasy golf picks on Tuesdays for that week’s PGA Tour event. Golf is back! It was only gone for a few weeks, but […]
Different tournament, same top spot for Jordan Spieth
Jordan Spieth ended Day 1 of the Hero World Challenge on Thursday in the same place he ended his last tournament: atop the leaderboard. Four days after becoming the first American in 21 years to win the Australian Open, Spieth shot a 6-under 66 at Isleworth Golf & Country Club to lead the 18-man event […]
Sergio Garcia won his first tournament of 2013 while his girlfriend caddied for him
The embrace you see above is not something that normally happens between caddie and pro, but Sergio Garcia’s 2013 season was a bit peculiar even for his standards before teeing it up last week at the Thailand Golf Championships. Taking a page right out of Patrick Reed’s book from earlier this season, Garcia asked his […]
Tiger Woods blows four-shot lead with eight holes to go to Zach Johnson at his own tournament
It was an ending like no other on Sunday at Sherwood Country Club, with Zach Johnson taking down Tiger Woods at the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge in the most unusual of outcomes. Tiger Woods missing a short putt to lose a tournament? It happened. Zach Johnson hitting an 8-iron from the middle of the fairway […]
Bizarre ruling at the Korea Open cost leader the tournament
In what can only be called the Korea Open version of the Dustin Johnson situation at the 2010 PGA Championship, Kim Hyung-tae lost by a shot after finding out on the 17th hole on Sunday that he had grounded his club in a hazard earlier in his round. Hyung-tae had a two-shot lead standing on […]
A 16-year-old shot 59 at Pinehurst during a big junior tournament
Remember the days when the 59 Club was just a bunch of old guys that caught fire on the PGA Tour and found a different gear? Yeah, those days are long gone. Will Grimmer, a 16-year-old playing in the North & South Junior this week, shot a second round 59 on Pinehurst #1, 11-under and […]
Watch highlights from the final round of the 2013 Memorial Tournament
While the final round of the 2013 Memorial might have lacked one man we expected to see heading into this week, it sure didn’t lack excitement. Matt Kuchar had a sizable lead late in the final round, but a bogey on his 16th hole and some impressive play coming in by Kevin Chappell made the […]
Ben Crenshaw checks in from 1995 with an ace at the Par-3 tournament
All right, this is just great. Ben Crenshaw, the two-time Masters winner and certainly one of the most beloved figures in Augusta this week, gave the fans one more big thrill at the Par-3 tournament on Wednesday. Crenshaw won another piece of crystal with his ace on the 7th, a shot that required both style […]