Month: April 2020

Jordan Spieth is playing for charity at this week’s Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational, but the golf gods weren’t in a giving mood on Thursday. The three-time major champ appeared to make a hole-in-one while playing alongside Tony Romo during the Dallas-area event to raise money for the out-of-work caddies at Maridoe Golf Club, one of

In late May, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will reprise their Thanksgiving 2018 match, and this time they’re bringing Tom Brady and Peyton Manning to the party. The first version was half weird, half interesting. I got to see it for free because the pay-per-view element was botched and Bleacher Report decided to just give

11:28 PM ET Associated Press BRISBANE, Australia — Adam Scott is going to extraordinary lengths to interact with some of his social media followers during the coronavirus pandemic: nine holes of a golf course. The 2013 Masters champion will play some of the holes on the 18-hole Maleny Golf Club on Friday and livestream it

Golf’s distance debate continues to be one of the hottest topics in our game. The latest stoke in that fire may have come last week from Nick Faldo in comments he made on a podcast regarding the use of tees as a way to limit distance. Though he mentioned he has brought up this point

5:13 PM ET With the postponement of the Olympic Games by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Golf Federation announced Wednesday that it was also pushing back the qualifying deadline by the same timeframe. Players will now earn Official Golf Ranking points through June 21, 2021 for men and June 28, 2021

The LPGA Tour announced its planned return to competition in mid-July, with a schedule of 21 events through Dec. 20—the only two off-weeks being November 12-15 (when the men play the Masters) and November 26-29 (Thanksgiving). Once the anticipation about seeing live golf again subsides, the question is: What exactly will the LPGA look like

The LPGA Tour has postponed the start of its season by another month and now plans to play its first event, the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, in mid-July. The team event, which was played for the first time in 2019, is held at Midland C.C. in Midland, Mich. The change has shifted move events

5:40 AM ET Staging this year’s Ryder Cup without fans is not in the event’s best interests but it might have to “take one for the team” and proceed that way amid the the coronavirus crisis, Team Europe captain Padraig Harrington has said. The golf calendar has been severely affected due to the coronavirus pandemic,

Adam Scott, who ticks 95 percent of the boxes when it comes to being a perfect human, has just reminded us once again that he’s one of the nicest guys in professional sports. According to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Scott got wind of the plight of fellow Aussie, Ross Campbell, a 76-year-old

7:00 PM ET Associated Press U.S. Women’s Open champion Jeongeun Lee6 could be ready to get back to golf. At home, anyway. With exhibitions in the works involving Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and a charity event for caddies at a private club in Texas, the Korean LPGA Tour is planning to resume in two

The PGA Tour’s Twitter King would rather be making golf swings than roasting them. Much rather. Max Homa, who has emerged as a fan favorite with his ruthless takedowns of average golfers below average moves—and his down-to-earth personality—said he’d go back to basics if it meant competing again on Tour. On a call with reporters

MIAMI — Before a pandemic set in, golfers at Crandon Park on Key Biscayne—the lush island hamlet across the bay from a shimmering downtown dubbed mini-Manhattan—would stop and stare as Axel Monssoh hit balls on the driving range. Five. Ten. Fifteen minutes. It didn’t matter if they were some of the top high school, college

12:51 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — In a phone-a-friend moment during the coronavirus pandemic, Adam Scott reached out to a fellow golfer who’d been waiting for his call. Under the headline “No cameras, no trophies, but Adam Scott just won the lockdown’s act of kindness award,” the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Tuesday about

Golf fans are well aware of Tiger Woods’ fiercely competitive nature. In fact, Tiger told GOLFTV’s Henni Zuel last week he’d rank himself and Michael Jordan 1A and 1B when it comes to their will to win no matter the circumstance. But that doesn’t mean Woods is incapable of having a soft spot for his

7:06 PM ET Associated Press Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has announced that golf can resume in the state beginning May 5. The announcement on Monday was part of a partial resumption of outdoor activities that includes fishing, hunting and use of state parks and state lands for day trips. Inslee said that the Golf Alliance

It’s hard to believe that not even two months ago the most talked-about issue in golf was something as silly as an announcer’s comment. Granted, Paul Azinger had seemed a bit condescending when discussing Tommy Fleetwood’s European Tour exploits, but with all that’s happened in the world since—and all that hasn’t while many things including