9:13 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Chez Reavie and his parents had a deal. At the end of elementary school, throughout middle school and into his early years of high school, Reavie had to get good grades and then keep them up throughout the first half of the school year so he could miss school
Month: January 2020
Current FedEx Cup point leader Justin Thomas will be returning to the Waste Management Phoenix Open to take on a solid field, including two-time winner Hideki Matsuyama and defending champion Rickie Fowler. Thomas will be looking for his third win of the 2019-’20 season after emerging victorious at the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges last
4:31 PM ET Ernie Els has a unique perspective on the proposed Premier Golf League that hopes to lure the top players in the game to a big-money, team-oriented concept. Els strongly considered playing in a league under a similar concept more than two decades ago. The South African, who won four major championships during
Nippon Shaft’s MODUS³ series won its fifth tournament of the season on Sunday when 36-year-old Australian Marc Leishman came from four shots behind to win the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, California. The champion played Nippon Shaft’s N.S.PRO MODUS³ Tour 130 X-flex steel shafts in both his irons and his wedges and shot a
Over 350 golf apparel brands were in attendance at last week’s PGA Merchandise Show announcing current collections or previewing upcoming lines. Here are some cool golf brands with new apparel lines that caught our eye on the show floor. All products featured on Golf Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy
SCOTTSDALE — When news of a potential new tour aiming to lure the game’s biggest stars emerged last week, the PGA Tour did not initially comment. Its commissioner Jay Monahan, however, did send an email to players on Monday expressing the organization’s thoughts, Golf Digest has confirmed. The gist of Monahan’s message: The PGA Tour
It’s customary at team events for captains to give a gift to players to remember the event by. Typically it is a custom-made item that highlights the tournament course or region. For the Presidents Cup, the PGA Tour worked with the creative minds at Seamus Golf to design an Australian-themed keepsake for Tiger Woods to
An equipment editor at Golf Digest sounds like a dream job, and seeing the assortment of new clubs clustered around Mike Stachura and Mike Johnson’s desk does little to disrupt the fantasy. But look closer and you might also see stacks of scientific papers thick as college textbooks. Or one of the Mikes entering another
6:42 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Madelene Sagstrom won the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, birdieing the par-3 17th to tie for the lead and winning with a par when Nasa Hataoka missed a 3-footer on the last. Sagstrom finished with a 2-under 70
Golf, compared to other professional sports, is mostly a controversy-free game. There are rules disputes, and slow play can really get on people’s nerves, but it’s nothing to get that worked up over. But this Saudi Arabia tournament the past two years sure has gotten people going, hasn’t it? I don’t usually follow player commitments—I
7:36 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Marc Leishman realized he had at two-shot lead as he stood over a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Torrey Pines. He also knew Jon Rahm was the only one who could catch him. That made his final birdie all the more important. It
Ecco staff player Henrik Stenson will be wearing the brand’s new S-Three shoe on Tour this season Ecco Golf’s new S-Three shoe features a pioneering new midsole technology that improves comfort and stability. A hybrid model that blends on-course performance with off-course style, the S-Three features Zonal Fluidform Technology, which comprises a moulded midsole with
Look at old videos of the best swings of yesteryear, and you’ll likely see the golfer’s lead knee move toward the ball during the backswing. At the same time, the lead leg’s foot would roll inward and the heel would come off the ground. For the most part, it’s become a thing of the past.
Turns out, Tiger Woods didn’t need to win a record 83rd PGA Tour title to reclaim his status as one of the favorites to win the year’s first major. Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook released updated Masters odds on Monday and Tiger is back at the top of the board along with Brooks Koepka and Rory
Madelene Sagstrom of Sweden had her biggest breakthrough in her first LPGA Tour event of 2020, winning the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Sagstrom joined the LPGA Tour in 2017 after one of the most successful seasons on Symetra Tour history, with three victories and four top 10s in her rookie campaign. Known to be
It would be overstating matters to label them the “forgotten men” of European golf. But for half of the visiting team in the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National in Minnesota, the still on-going contrast between winning and losing has been stark indeed. Where the likes of Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari and Jon Rahm are
8:55 AM ET The men’s Olympic golf tournament is still six months away, but Americans, including Tiger Woods, trying to grab one of the four spots available in the 60-player field are already in an intense battle to get to Tokyo, where the competition begins on July 30 at Kasumigaseki Country Club. Here are some
Jordan Spieth’s comeback showed signs of early promise at Torrey Pines, only for the weekend (73, 74) to bring much of what has plagued him for the past two years. And with it, an unwanted distinction. For the first time since 2013, the former No. 1 is outside the Official World Golf Ranking top 50.
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