CNN — Tiger Woods could form part of the US Ryder Cup team – or at least, Zach Johnson isn’t ruling it out. Ahead of the Sony Open in Hawaii, US captain Johnson said he wouldn’t discount selecting Woods to compete in the tournament if the 47-year-old didn’t qualify for the team automatically. “I would […]
CNN — It’s one of sport’s most unfamiliar sights – Tiger Woods standing idly by as his opponents are crowned winners. Alongside Rory McIlroy, Woods had just fallen to an emphatic defeat in the seventh edition of The Match to golf’s dynamic duo and long-time friends – Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. Cross-armed, the 15-time […]
CNN — It might be a rare sighting these days, but golf fans have long grown accustomed to watching Tiger Woods wear red on Sundays. But at the PNC Championship, onlookers were seeing double. For the final round of the annual father-son event in Orlando, Tiger and son Charlie teed off in perfect symmetry. At […]
CNN — In September 2013, Jordan Spieth was powering towards one of the greatest rookie seasons golf has ever seen. Having become the first teenager to win on the PGA Tour in 82 years, the Dallas-born youngster was picked for the Presidents Cup team. By the end of the season, the newly crowned PGA Tour […]
CNN — You’d be hard-pushed to call golf an extreme sport. It is a low-risk game played at a leisurely pace in mostly scenic, but ultimately ordinary, locales. Emphasis on most, because in various pockets around the world – and in one instance, outside it – golf is taken to extremes. Across these venues, the […]
CNN — Last year, Lydia Ko’s mother joked that she would retire if her daughter made it back into the top three of the women’s golf world rankings – a position the New Zealander hadn’t occupied in over five years. Based on what happened next, it can only be assumed that Ko was desperate to […]
CNN — It remains to be seen whether football will come home for England at the World Cup in Qatar next month, but for neighboring Scotland, golf has officially – and finally – returned to its motherland. Having hosted the game for almost six centuries, “the home of golf” – as Scotland is known – […]
CNN — Undeserving. Scared. Imposter. From two-time winner on the Ladies European Tour (LET) to Wales’ first ever Solheim Cup player, there were many ways for onlookers to label Becky Brewerton in 2012, but none got close to the way she was describing herself. Formerly a prodigious amateur, for eight years Brewerton had traveled the […]
CNN — Give Ronan Keating a microphone and send him out on stage to woo a sold-out stadium crowd, and the Irishman is relaxation personified. But hand him a driver and plant him on the first tee in front of a smattering of golf fans at St. Andrews, and the former Boyzone star becomes a […]
CNN — Dustin Johnson took his LIV Golf earnings for the season past the $35 million mark with victory in the series’ final event of the year in Miami on Sunday. Having already claimed an $18m winners’ bonus for clinching the individual championship in Jeddah earlier this month, the American captained the 4Aces to the […]
