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Previewing the Byron Nelson Championship
The PGA Tour’s HP Byron Nelson Classic is being played this week at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, TX. Any tournament that takes place immediately following a major championship (or, in this case, the unofficial 5th major championship) is destined to see a decline in big name entries, as many of the world’s [...]
TweetOregon Golfer Loses Title Due to Scorecard Error
Talk about unfortunate. After dominating the field at the Oregon Scholastic Activities Association Class 5A state championship, senior Caroline Inglis walked off the course 9 shots better than any of her fellow competitors. She just needed to sign her scorecard and accept her 4th straight state championship title; a win that would make her the [...]
TweetPreviewing The Players Championship
The Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s unofficial “fifth major” kicks off this week at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Seeing as the tournament is one of the most prestigious on the PGA Tour, and is arguably the most prestigious non-major of the year, the field is packed with stars year in and year [...]
TweetRickie Fowler Gets Breakthrough Victory at Wells Fargo Championship
The youth movement in golf got a serious morale boost on Sunday, as Rickie Fowler got his first PGA Tour victory after beating Rory McIlroy and D.A. Points in a playoff at the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship. And in a tournament where Tiger Woods looked about as far from “back” as he ever has, this [...]
TweetHometown Boy Webb Simpson Tied for Lead at Wells Fargo Championship
Mapquest says it is 0.9 miles from Webb Simpson’s home to the front gates of the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the back of the 16th green and facing an impossibly long putt, Simpson had to have felt closer to his home than the hole. But he unleashed a curling 62-footer down [...]
TweetTiger Woods Still Fighting Demons Off the Tee
Coming off of a victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational heading into last month’s Masters, Tiger Woods had high expectations and appeared to be tying the bow on a newly packaged swing. Things regressed at Augusta National. He fought off a vicious double cross and was lucky to hack his way to a 40th-place finish. [...]
TweetBubba Watson Pulls Out of The Players Championship
Bubba Watson has announced he will not play in The Players Championship, citing the need to spend time with his family. Watson withdrew from this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, as well, and he indicated that he did not want to spend too much time away from his wife, Angie, and their recently adopted infant son. [...]
TweetAnthony Kim Trying to Resurrect His Career
Once thought to be the “next big thing” in the world of golf, Anthony Kim has done anything but live up to expectations. Kim looks to regain, or at least try and find, the lost magic this week at the sight of his first of three career wins on the PGA tour. That win came [...]
TweetGolfer Bitten, Dragged By Alligator in Florida
The term hazard on a golf course has taken on another meaning for 75 year old Albert Miller. Miller, who was playing at Lake Ashton Golf and Country Club in West Lake, FL had a chance encounter with an inhabitant of the course. That inhabitant was not a neighbor whose home he errantly hit, it [...]
TweetPreviewing the Wells Fargo Championship
This week’s stop on the PGA Tour is the Wells Fargo Championship, played at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, NC. Incidentally, Quail Hollow will host the PGA Championship in a mere 5 years. It is fitting that one of the most exclusive clubs in the country hosts a tournament that annually brings out the [...]
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