Category: Golf News
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Brian Campbell stuns even himself with first PGA Tour win
Brian Campbell came out on top at the Mexico Open on Sunday night as viewers were treated to some sudden-death playoff chaos between two antithetical player profiles: Campbell, a journeyman and one of the shortest hitters on the PGA Tour, and Aldrich Potgieter, the 20-year-old South African prodigy who currently leads the tour in driving…
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Tiger Woods withdraws from The Genesis Invitational
Tiger Woods announced Monday that he will not be playing this week’s The Genesis Invitational, where he is the tournament host. “I planned to tee it up this week, but I’m just not ready,” said Woods, whose mother Kultida passed away last week at the age of 80, in a statement. “I did my best to prepare, knowing…
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Nelly Korda ‘not bad’ in runner-up showing at LPGA season opener
Whatever rust she had accumulated during the winter beak, Nelly Korda shook it off this week at Lake Nona. Korda shot 7-under 65 on Sunday to cap an 18-under performance at the LPGA’s season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. In any of the previous three editions at Lake Nona, that score would’ve won by…
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Harris English’s win came after 1 under-the-radar gear switch
After his staffer’s win at the Farmers Insurance Open this weekend, Ping Tour rep Kenton Oates called Harris English a “creature of habit and routine.” “He loves the process of what it takes to be great at this game and this bleeds into what you see in his bag,” Oates said. Looking into English’s golf bag, it’s…
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Scottie Scheffler speaks on surgery after off-season injury
We now know what Scottie Scheffler was making for dinner on Christmas. Homemade ravioli. The world No. 1, 13-time PGA TOUR winner and reigning Player of the Year, admitted Monday during a meeting with media at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge that he was helping prepare ravioli on Christmas Day when he punctured…
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Nick Taylor wins Sony Open
Nick Taylor walked off the seventh green on Sunday 1-over for the round and five shots back, his mind wandering anywhere but the possibility of winning the golf tournament. When he missed back-to-back 4-foot birdie putts on Nos. 15 and 16, he thought it was over again. And as he stood on the 18th tee…
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Hideki Matsuyama triumphs with record-breaking win in Maui
Hideki Matsuyama earned his 11th career PGA TOUR title in a birdie bonanza at The Sentry, and it came in record-setting fashion. Matsuyama carded 35-under 257 at The Plantation Course at Kapalua, three strokes clear of Collin Morikawa, to set a PGA TOUR record for the lowest 72-hole score in relation to par. The prior four lowest…
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Scottie Scheffler injures Right Hand and withdraws from PGA Tour Opener
Scottie Scheffler injured his right hand on a broken glass preparing Christmas dinner, forcing the top-ranked player to withdraw from the PGA Tour’s season-opening event in Hawaii. “Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Scheffler’s manager, Blake Smith, said Friday in a statement. “Small glass fragments…
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Charlie Woods gets a hole in one
Tiger Woods’ son hit the shot of his life for his first hole-in-one, but it was Bernhard Langer who hit the shot that mattered Sunday — an 18-foot eagle putt in a playoff to beat Woods and son Charlie in a terrific duel at the PNC Championship. Langer and 24-year-old son Jason won for the second straight…
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Shaun Norris overcomes six-shot deficit to win Alfred Dunhill Championship
Shaun Norris of South Africa came from behind to win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by a stroke on Sunday. Norris was six shots off the lead entering the final round but shot a 5-under 67 at Leopard Creek Country Club that gave him a 13-under 275 total. The 42-year-old Norris overcame a double bogey on…