The 2017 Masters was not Sergio Garcia’s first time to win a major championship. Somewhere along the line, the British Amateur and U.S. Amateur championships were shuffled off the top shelf of golf accomplishments...
There were plenty of casual golf fans Googling the name “Justin Thomas” over the weekend. It’s understandable. Here is a player who has never finished higher than 18th in a major championship, never had...
In the summer of 1991, a reporter corralled the new 15-year old winner of the Junior World Golf Championship coming off the 18th green at Torrey Pines. “How many tournaments had he won,” asked...
Matt Kuchar didn’t win a golf tournament during the 2016 season but you would have a hard time convincing him that anyone had a better year on the course. There was a scintillating final...
Henrik Stenson’s career arc from childhood to the Champion Golfer of the Year is unlike any other in professional golf. Growing up in Sweden his parents didn’t play the game and Henrik never touched...
Are you still talking about the Big Three? That was 2015, and the next big thing is already here. This time however, we aren’t talking about reawakening echoes of golf’s past. This time the...
As much as the golf media tries to gin up excitement for a Big Three – or even Big Four – the “graybeards” on Tour in their thirties just keep mucking up the hype...
Only two players have ever come out of college and won at least one tournament in each of their first seven years on the PGA Tour – one was Tiger Woods and the other...
Most of us have seen the Nike Golf commercial, “Ripple,” with a young Rory McIlroy being inspired by watching Tiger Woods on television. That scenario is no doubt the backstory for almost all...
Tiger Woods took over from Jack Nicklaus as his generation’s greatest golfer – the one who fellow players watch with awe. Phil Mickelson, on the other hand, has assumed the legacy of Arnold Palmer...
