CNN — Tigers, great white sharks, and hawks; in terms of nicknames, golf thought it had the top of the food chain covered. That was until the king of the monsters – “Quadzilla” – roared onto the scene in March. Victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational sealed a first PGA Tour title for Kurt Kitayama, […]
CNN — The R&A and United States Golf Association (USGA) held a press conference Tuesday to announce their proposals to roll back the distances that golf balls can fly at elite tournaments. In response, several of golf’s elite let fly. Speaking ahead of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship, world No. 15 Sam Burns described the […]
CNN — Only in golf can you watch Spider-Man go toe-to-toe with Shrek, or see a Walrus face off against a Great White Shark. Since the game’s earliest tournaments, countless top players have been blessed – and cursed – with an array of nicknames, many becoming synonymous with their sobriquets. Some monikers are a nod […]
CNN — Look up a definition of “eventful” and you just may find a snapshot of Jordan Spieth’s Thursday afternoon. Of the thousands of holes the American golfer has played throughout his glittering career, for sheer spectacle, few will have rivaled the seventh hole he played during the second day of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match […]
CNN — Breakaway tours, first-time major winners, the return of Tiger Woods; 2022 was a seismic year for many golfers. But few golfers had a season as life-altering life as Danielle Kang’s. The American could not have had a better start, clinching her sixth LPGA Tour title at the first event on the calendar, the […]
CNN — When Nelly Korda faced off against two of the PGA Tour’s finest in December, she received rave reviews. “It’s a testament to these other ladies that anyone can even sniff beating her because that was wildly impressive,” Max Homa marveled to reporters after he and Kevin Kisner faced Korda and Denny McCarthy at […]
CNN — A major title, a green jacket, millions of dollars in prize money; there are plenty of perks to winning The Masters, but there’s another prize that contenders are particularly hungry for. Because when you win at Augusta National, you earn the right to decide the menu for next year’s Masters Champions Dinner. This […]
CNN — It is said that a Grandma knows best. Scottie Scheffler, newly crowned The Players Championship winner, would agree wholeheartedly. Scheffler’s grandmother, Mary, could not have chosen a better week to follow her grandson around all 72 holes of a tournament. A dominant victory sealed a dream Sunday for Scheffler at TPC Sawgrass in […]
The incredible true story of the time an astronaut played golf on the moon Over 50 years ago, Alan B. Shepard Jr. played a game of golf that was “out of this world.” Almost 240,000 miles away from Earth, Shepard hit two golf balls on the surface of the moon. Despite being so far away, […]
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