12:07 PM ET Associated Press BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, England — The Ladies European Tour will have its biggest schedule in nearly a decade and record prize money that includes bonus money for the top three players at the end of the season. The 24 tournaments held in 16 countries offers a total prize fund of nearly 18
Month: January 2020
After winning the Hero World Challenge for his first victory in more than two years, Henrik Stenson wanted to carry that momentum forward the rest of the year. There was just one problem. He was done playing for the year. The first-place finish at Tiger Woods’ star-studded Bahamas event also finished off Stenson’s playing schedule
7:22 PM ET SAN DIEGO — The season began for Tiger Woods in October, the first time he’s ever taken part in the PGA Tour’s fall wraparound schedule. But getting to Torrey Pines is where the new year truly begins for Woods, and it doesn’t hurt to get off to a good start. There were
Mizuno has announced the launch of its new ST200 Series of metal woods which go on sale next month. The ST200 series of drivers and fairway woods has been created through a collaboration between Mizuno’s Japanese and US R&D teams – the first in the brand’s history of wood design – to capitalise on the
ORLANDO — There are training aids spread out all over the floor at the PGA Merchandise Show. We walked the aisle and picked out six simple products that can make your practice more efficient and effective. From putting to learning how to set your wrists, these training aids are able to help just about any
ORLANDO — Though golf has a tendency to move slower than most industries, the technology innovations we’ve seen this week beg to differ. Artificial intelligence and robotics have been terms perhaps thrown around in the past, implemented by only the biggest companies, but now we’re actually seeing the results of intense research and development. And
LA JOLLA, Calif. – Tiger Woods knows he could have started faster, could have hit it closer, could have squeezed a few more shots out of his first round of 2020. He also knows you can never be too upset with something in the 60s. “Overall, I felt like the golf course was definitely gettable
ORLANDO — Golf relies so heavily on the natural world that the golf industry has to take its environmental impact seriously. This means looking at things like the amount of waste produced by golf products—think the single-use plastic packaging new golf clubs come wrapped in. The issue of golf’s impact on the environment has become
That Dean Burmester shot a three-under 69 on the Majlis course during the first round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic was notable on its own, given how difficult the conditions where during Thursday’s opening round. Firm greens, thick rough and gusty breezes left the day’s scoring average at 74.11 and put the 30-year-old South
12:45 PM ET Natalie Gulbis, whose lone LPGA Tour victory came in 2007, said she will retire from competitive golf at the end of this season. Gulbis, 37, has played a limited schedule the last two years while trying to navigate back issues that have hampered her for more than a decade. In a story
Tiger Woods will make his first start in 2020 when he competes in this week’s Farmers Insurance Open, joining an impressive field that includes seven of the top 15 players in the World Ranking. A seven-time winner of this event, Woods has had plenty of success at Torrey Pines, including a 2008 U.S. Open win.
6:33 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Jared Wolfe won The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at Baha Mar on Wednesday for his first Korn Ferry Tour title, closing with a 3-under 69 in strong wind for a four-stroke victory over Brandon Harkins. A winner each of the last three years on PGA Tour Latinoamerica,
Skechers GO GOLF’s footwear collection for 2020 combines award-winning Skechers Performance technologies and exciting new designs to help golfers play and look their best whenever they step onto the golf course. The GO GOLF collection boasts innovative designs for men and women influenced by the players who wear them. As with past launches, the 2020
ORLANDO — PGA Show organizers are used to seeing innovative and unique exhibits each year as companies plan their showcases. Hearing about a new company wanting to drive in a mobile unit with a robotic putting green simulator was probably a little atypical. Driving from their Encinitas, Calif., home base to Orlando, Jim Stracka—the inventor
When Jason Day won the Farmers Insurance Open two years ago, the victory seemed to signal that he was perhaps on his way back to being the best player in the world again. After a difficult 2017 in which his mother was diagnosed with lung cancer (and initially given only months to live) and his
Great iron players talk about compression—the feeling of hitting the ball with a downward strike. To create that dynamic on your iron shots, focus on the start of the downswing. RELATED: Game-Improvement Irons Nathaniel Welch Feel like you’re moving your left shoulder (for righties) down and toward the target as the first move from the
ORLANDO—Listen to the bell, all heinous sandbaggers. It tolls for thee. Like communism, golf’s handicap system is rooted in good intentions, but is an infrastructure that is easily falsified and exploited. What was supposed to create a level playing field for sticks and hacks often tips the scales in the latter’s direction, with better players
4:05 PM ET SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods is set to begin the 2020 part of his PGA Tour schedule this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, looking to keep the momentum going after an impressive conclusion to 2019. Ranked sixth in the world, Woods, 44, won the Zozo Championship in Japan, finished fourth at
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