Category: Golf

To get out to a healthy first-round lead early on Thursday at a major championship, as Xander Schauffele did at Valhalla, requires nearly every part of your game to be working. Such was the case for Schauffele during his record-setting bogey-free 62, but no facet was sharper than his putting. As of midday Thursday, Schauffele...

[PHOTO: Michael Reaves] In many ways, this will be the most egregiously messed up thing I’ve ever written about Rory McIlroy, and I once wrote and published a long break-up letter to him. What I’m about to say is a curse, a jinx, a taboo, and it should be a federal crime. I would pre-emptively...

[PHOTO: Ross Kinnaird] Officially, Scottie Scheffler became a father last week. Unofficially, he’s been pro golf’s daddy for a few years. The two-time reigning PGA Tour Player of Year is the game’s undisputed world No.1 right now, but there were questions about whether his latest life-changing event would affect his play. Well, it took all...

LOUISVILLE — It was well before lunchtime on Thursday when Tiger Woods finished his play on Valhalla Golf Club’s 18th hole with a tap-in par. He’d started the first round of his 23rd PGA Championship early with his grouping on the 10th hole. A sizeable moving gallery followed Woods over the first nine holes, but...

While many golf greats are huffing and puffing around the Jack Nicklaus-designed Valhalla Golf Club this week, John Daly will be cruising around in a golf cart. No sight represents the PGA Championship better than JD rocking once-in-a-lifetime pants while zooming around fairways with caddie Lance Odom trudging behind him, clubs in tow. Like in...

LOUISVILLE—It’s easy to get lost in the moment watching Rory McIlroy hit golf balls. The golf swing; the firing of the golf ball off the clubface; it’s easy to focus on the beauty of the end product. The ball sailing high, straight, and far into the sky. But have you ever noticed how he tees...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that’s perhaps never been more true after hearing this story. Many of us have trinkets and knick-knacks from various sporting events, but very few of us are as committed to keeping something so obscure as this r/golf legend. In honor of the PGA Championship returning to...

Rose Zhang was considered a favorite this week at Liberty National, thanks to her historic victory a year ago at the inaugural playing of the Mizuho Americas Open. But her first title defense as a professional career got stalled before it got started as the LPGA announced early Thursday morning that the 20-year-old had withdrawn...

Being able to laugh at yourself is a sign of humility and maturity. It’s possible these traits apply to Patrick Reed after watching the below video. Reed has gotten a tonnnn of flak over the years from golf fans—way before he went to LIV—for a variety of questionable rules incidents. There was the two-stroke penalty...

LOUISVILLE — We’ve seen Valhalla Golf Club only three times for major championships, but from the first in 1996 when Mark Brooks beat Kenny Penny to 2024, the club has added 465 yards and turned a par 5 into a par 4. Today, the scorecard is a 7,609-yard par 71. This is big-boy golf on...

[PHOTO: Michael Reaves] Most players will tell you that on major championship weeks, they like to keep it simple. If you’re tinkering with your equipment or “searching” for a swing on the range the week of, you might as well book your flight home for Friday. Both defending PGA champion Brooks Koepka and reigning Masters...

While Jason Day, Cameron Smith and company will be primarily chasing major glory at Valhalla from Thursday night (AEST), the battle for positions for Paris 2024 shapes as an intriguing sub-plot. Day, Australia’s No.1 and the World No.19, is in pole position to secure one of the two men’s spots, with the 36th-ranked Min Woo...