Harrington made a 5-footer for the win. (Getty Images) Padraig Harrington is a winner again on the European Tour for the first time in eight years. He pulled off the victory at the Portugal Masters on Sunday, closing with a 6-under 65 at Victoria Clube de Golfe to beat Andy Sullivan by a shot at […]
In-Gee Chun wins Evian Championship with major record-setting total
September 19, 2016 by
In Gee Chun won her second major at The Evian Championship. (Getty Images) In-Gee Chun set a new bar for major championship scoring on Sunday at The Evian Championship, the LPGA’s fifth and final major of the year, in France. Chun won her second major title, following her 2015 U.S. Women’s Open win in Pennsylvania, […]
Molinari wins Italian Open for 2nd time, starts nationals streak
September 18, 2016 by
Francesco Molinari won the Italian Open for the second time, backing up a 2006 win. (Getty Images) For the second week in a row, there was a home-nation hero on the European Tour. Last week, it was Joost Luiten winning his national championship in the Netherlands, taking the KLM Open for the second time with […]
Dustin Johnson wins BMW Championship for 3rd title of the year
September 14, 2016 by
Dustin Johnson may well have wrapped up PGA Tour Player of the Year honors on Sunday, winning the BMW Championship by three shots over Paul Casey for his third win of the season. Johnson shot a final round of 5-under 67 at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Ind., to finish at 23-under 265. Locked in a […]
Phil Mickelson wins closest-to-the-pin contest hitting righty
September 4, 2016 by
Phil Mickelson plays a shot during the second round of the Deutsche Bank Championship. (Getty Images) Lefty can play righty. Phil Mickelson and the other seven Americans who qualified for the U.S. Ryder Cup team off the points list traveled to Gillette Stadium on Wednesday night to take in the Patriots home park, spend some […]
Five years after brutal diagnosis, Sauers wins U.S. Senior Open by one
August 16, 2016 by
Gene Sauers celebrates winning the U.S. Senior Open (Getty Images) You might have been hard-pressed to convince Gene Sauers five years ago that he was still going to be playing professional golf in 2016. On Monday, he became a first-time major champion. Sauers won the U.S. Senior Open by a shot over Billy Mayfair and […]
Justin Rose wins first Olympic gold medal in golf in 112 years
August 15, 2016 by
Justin Rose celebrates winning the Olympic gold medal in golf. (Getty Images) Justin Rose is a U.S. Open winner and now an Olympic gold medalist, winning the men’s Olympic golf tournament on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro in a thriller of a duel against Henrik Stenson. The Briton prevailed with a two-shot win on the […]
PODCAST: Jimmy Walker wins the PGA; talking golf with Shane Battier
August 4, 2016 by
Jimmy Walker won the Wanamaker Trophy at Baltusrol. (Getty Images) Jimmy Walker won his first major championship at the PGA Championship, with an exciting final 30 minutes against Jason Day. How does his win rank against the other three majors of the year? We’re joined in the second half of the show by two-time NBA […]
Henderson wins 1st LPGA major in Women’s PGA playoff over Ko
June 14, 2016 by
It seems fitting that the person to deny Lydia Ko a third consecutive LPGA major would be a player who is somehow younger than she is. And that’s exactly what 18-year-old Canadian Brooke Henderson did on Sunday to win her first major title at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Henderson first earned her way into […]
