Sangmoon Bae wrapped up his PGA Tour season on Sunday with his final round at the Tour Championship, and it’s going to be the last time we see the Korean in the United States for almost two years. Bae, who finished T-18 at East Lake, is heading home to South Korea to play on the […]
Motivated by controversy, U.S. Solheim Cup team wins with biggest-ever comeback
September 20, 2015 by
Call it karma. Call it righting a wrong. Use whatever cosmic terms you want, but the U.S. Solheim Cup team completed the biggest comeback in the history of the biennial matches, rallying from a 10-6 deficit to defeat the European team for a 14.5-13.5 victory at Golf Club St. Leon-Rot in Germany. There’s no doubt the […]
Defending U.S. Women’s Open champ Wie making drastic swing change
July 8, 2015 by
Michelle Wie may be the defending U.S. Women’s Open champion this week at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania, but it won’t be the same player looking to go back-to-back in the most prestigious event in women’s golf. After winning the U.S. Women’s Open last year at Pinehurst No. 2, Wie’s quality of play fell off […]
Get a look at Tiger Woods’ first U.S. golf course design
July 1, 2015 by
While Tiger Woods is struggling on the golf course, his golf-course design business is booming. His first course opened last year in Mexico, and he has jobs in China and the United Arab Emirates. On top of that, Woods’ first design in the U.S. is also set to open in November. Bluejack National, which will […]
Jordan Spieth wins U.S. Open as Dustin Johnson chokes on final green
June 23, 2015 by
The Jordan Spieth train keeps a-rolling … and this time, it ran over Dustin Johnson. The Masters champion wasn’t quite as steady at Chambers Bay as he’d been at Augusta, but he was good enough to outlast the field and win the 2015 U.S. Open. Spieth, all of 21 years old, has now won two […]
Jordan Spieth wins stunning U.S. Open, takes step toward historic Grand Slam
June 22, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — All that is gold doesn’t glitter. This wasn’t pretty, but golf’s Golden Child is now halfway to the Grand Slam. Jordan Spieth won the U.S. Open on Sunday in a completely different fashion than he did the Masters just two months prior. At Augusta, he was poised beyond his years; at […]
After bout of vertigo, Jason Day will play at U.S. Open on Saturday
June 20, 2015 by
After a scary collapse at the close of Friday’s round at the U.S. Open, Jason Day has confirmed that he will attempt to play on Saturday. While walking at the ninth hole, his final hole of the second round, Day suddenly collapsed on Friday afternoon while walking past grandstands. Initially he appeared to have twisted […]
Tiger Woods flails at U.S. Open, will likely miss cut
June 19, 2015 by
Tiger Woods is still not back, at least not according to his play at the 115th U.S. Open. Woods carded bogeys on four of his first six holes, and then this happened on the par-5 eighth: To understand how bad Tiger’s round started, that was actually one of his better holes, as he scrambled to […]
How Chambers Bay fulfilled its destiny and landed the U.S. Open
June 16, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Chambers Bay was born to host the U.S. Open. The dream, the concept of holding an Open here was why the idea of turning an exhausted, century-old gravel pit into a quirky, championship-caliber course was conceived over a decade ago. This week, eight years after this ambitious project opened its doors […]
