Month: December 2019

CBS Sports’ overhaul of its golf broadcast continued on Monday. The network announced that Lance Barrow, who has served as the golf division’s coordinating producer since 1997, will step down following the 2020 season. “For over 40 years Lance has embodied the tradition and history of CBS Sports golf and set the standard of excellence

Four months later, Vince India finally exorcised whatever demons might have been lingering from one of golf’s most heartbreaking stories of 2019. On the 16-hour drive from central Florida back to his home in Chicago, he could breathe easy and know a good night’s sleep was ahead. It’s been a long few months for the

The PGA Tour is finalizing new television deals with current partners CBS and NBC, according to a Sports Business Journal report. SBJ’s John Ourand writes that the framework is in place for a nine-year deal, with an official announcement coming in 2020. The PGA Tour could take in $700 million per year with the signing,

Suzann Pettersen can boast of having one of the most epic retirements an athlete could imagine. Chosen, controversially, as a captain’s pick for the 2019 European Solheim Cup team, the 38-year-old Norwegian got her game back in shape after taking nearly two years away from competitive golf. During that time, she and her husband welcomed

Harold Varner III wasn’t the only golfer to suffer a painful finish at a major championship in 2019. But we’re guessing he’s the only one who called Michael Jordan to talk about it. The engaging 29-year-old joined the Golf Digest Podcast to talk about his relationship with the basketball legend, that hectic Sunday at Bethpage

Pebble Beach’s nine-hole par-3 course, Peter Hay, has always been a bit pedestrian in nature. But that’s about to change. The resort announced on Tuesday that Tiger Woods’ design firm, TGR Design, will start reconstruction of the rather mundane layout in 2020, rethinking the previous routing to include a second hole that will replicate Pebble

Just as Tiger Woods completed what might be the most improbable personal comeback in sports history, the unlikely link of a 39-year-old man from La Crosse, Wis., and his million-dollar payday on Tiger’s Masters victory will always be part of the story. James Adducci, who we visited in May, watched Sunday’s final round from his

Hank Haney has filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour, alleging the tour has harbored a “vendetta” against him. Haney, who was suspended by the PGA Tour and SiriusXM earlier this year for comments deemed racist and sexist on his eponymous radio program, filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District

Discovery announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Latin America Golf, which operates Golf Channel Latin America. Launched in 2006, Golf Channel Latin America is a PGA Tour platform, offering 36 exclusive live events per year. The network reaches 17 countries and boasts reporting, analysis and coverage of the sport on its digital side, along

10:01 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Tiger Woods did his best to lead by example at the Presidents Cup, winning all of his matches and capping his playing week with a singles victory over Abraham Ancer. Woods, 43, never trailed in the match at Royal Melbourne, building a 3-up lead through 15 holes and then

12:02 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — There were high emotions and fierce hugs from Tiger Woods, this time as a winner both ways in the Presidents Cup. Woods capped off a big year that began with his 15th major at the Masters by playing and leading his U.S. team to another victory in

12:28 PM ET So many times over three days it appeared as if the Presidents Cup, the first event in which Tiger Woods had served as a captain, was headed for an embarrassing, blowout defeat. Instead, each time, the Americans found a way to inch closer, to stay within reach. And so a surprisingly close,

2:00 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — As he played the Royal Melbourne course again on Sunday, leading his U.S. Presidents Cup team to victory first as a player before settling in his captain’s role, it was difficult not to yearn for a circumstance in which Woods could play this Sandbelt gem in a stroke-play tournament.

3:39 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — This one really hurt for the Internationals. The Presidents Cup has long been the domain of the Americans and they came to Royal Melbourne heavy favourites to triumph easily once again. But first-time captain Tiger Woods and his U.S. team was instead forced to produce a singles rally to

8:24 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The words came out confidently, and without rancor. All was positive, and there would be no going down any dark mine-filled roads. Patrick Reed had enough of that. He let his clubs do the talking on Sunday. Playing good golf typically puts a smile on the face of a

5:53 PM ET Associated Press Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print NAPLES, Fla. — Rory Sabbatini and Kevin Tway won the QBE Shootout on Sunday, birdieing the final two holes in best-ball play for a 12-under 60 and a two-stroke victory. Part of a five-way tie for the second-round lead, Sabbatini and Tway finished

12:14 PM ET Hank Haney is suing the PGA Tour for what he says is its role in his firing from a SiriusXM satellite radio show earlier this year. Haney, a longtime golf instructor known best for working with Tiger Woods, said in a U.S. district court lawsuit that the PGA Tour “improperly intimidated, enticed