Lee Westwood Ridicules PGA of America’s Ryder Cup Task Force on Twitter
(H/T GOLF.com Tours and News RSS Feed) The Europeans have beaten the U.S. into a Task-Forced shaped corner. After seeing Team USA lose the Ryder Cup for the eighth time in ten tries last month, an 11-member Ryder Cup Task Force was announced by the PGA of America...
PGA Tour: 10 Players Destined to Rise (or Fall) in 2015
GolfWRX ran an interesting article analyzing the make-or-break metrics of the ultra-competitive grind of the PGA Tour and came up with 10 players 'on the rise' and players on the decline and destined to mediocrity for the 2015 season. (GolfWRX) Before last season, I...
Cool Halftime Show: Steve Stricker Hits Wedge At Wisconsin-Illinois Halftime Atop Camp Randall Stadium
Pretty good halftime show here. The Wisconsin-Illinois intermission featured PGA Tour golfer Steve Stricker hitting golf balls from the rim of Camp Randall Stadium onto midfield: During halftime of today's Wisconsin, Illinois football game, Steve Stricker found...
Eighty Percent of Voters Side With Phil Mickelson in Tom Watson Criticism
Europe's victory in last week's Ryder Cup wasn't the only one-sided slugfest at Gleneagles. A Golf.com poll shows fans are unified behind Phil Mickelson in his row with American captain Tom Watson over why America lost the biennial battle yet again. The poll of 694...
MUST WATCH: Brandt Snedeker Shooting Skeet… And Picks Off a Clay Pigeon With His 4-Iron!
Yea, that’s the guy, SKEEETeker. Shooting skeet was getting to easy with a gun. So I stepped it up a notch…. #4ironhttp://t.co/tAZcBn0iwn — Brandt Snedeker (@BrandtSnedeker) October 6, 2014 Armed with a Bridgestone 4-iron, instead of shotgun, Brandt Snedeker shot a...
Adjustable Lofts Help Callaway Big Bertha Hybrids Work for All Types of Golfers
In hybrid design, the focus isn't only about how to give the smallest metalwoods more springlike effect to achieve extra distance. It's about how to make it easier to get the right lofts to match your set needs. Callaway's answer is the new Big Bertha hybrid ($250;...
Watch Rory McIlroy Putt Into a Road Hole Bunker at St. Andrews [Video]
The par-4 17th hole at St. Andrews -- "the Road Hole" -- is known as one of the toughest holes in golf, and Rory McIlroy was its most high-profile victim on Sunday. Read more:...
Top 10 Most Dramatic Ryder Cup Moments
(H/T USA Today - Golf) Here is one man’s opinion of the ten best moments in Ryder Cup history over the last 50 years (listed in chronological order):1. 1967: After listening patiently while Great Britain & Ireland captain Dai Rees glowingly introduced his team,...
Adam Scott, Steve Williams Decide to Part Ways
(H/T USA Today - Golf) Adam Scott is looking for a caddie now that he and Steve Williams have decided to end their partnership. Scott said in a statement Wednesday that he and Williams are at different stages of their lives. Williams has been on the bag for 14 majors...
Report: Anthony Kim Might Not Play Golf Again
(H/T Golf Digest) Remember Anthony Kim? The 23-year-old kid who stole the show at the 2008 Ryder Cup by leading the U.S. to an upset win? You've probably asked yourself "What ever happened to him?" on more than one occasion. And now, we finally know -- well, maybe....
Tiger Laughs Off Rory’s Comments About Age
(H/T ESPN.com - GOLF) WINDERMERE, Fla. -- Tiger Woods took in stride the comments made by Rory McIlroy last week about him and Phil Mickelson being on the "last few holes" of their careers. "I thought it was funny," Woods said Monday at a news conference to promote...
Rory McIlroy Drains 55 Consecutive Putts on Practice Green
(H/T GOLF.com Tours and News RSS Feed) Now we know why Rory McIlroy couldn’t buy a putt Sunday during the Tour Championship. He wasted them all on the practice green prior to the round. Golf Channel caught McIlroy in a moment of true brilliance before Sunday's...
Winner’s Bag: What Billy Horschel Used to Win The Tour Championship
(H/T Golf Digest) It would be hard to argue that Billy Horschel’s driver switch at the PGA Championship wasn’t a timely one. When he made the move to the 9-degree club Ping G30 (shown) with the Aldila Rogue shaft, Horschel was averaging 277.0 yards off the tee,...
Donald Trump Offers Obama Free Golf for Life… If He Resigns
(H/T GOLF.com Tours and News RSS Feed) Donald Trump has made President Obama a golf offer he certainly will refuse. When asked by Golf.com about Obama's unsuccessful attempt to play golf at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., Trump declined comment through a...
Dustin Johnson to Wayne Gretzky: ‘It’s going to make me a better person and a better golfer’
(H/T Golf Digest) Dustin Johnson told his future father-in-law Wayne Gretzky that his hiatus from golf is "going to make me a better person and a more responsible person," and by extension a better golfer, Gretzky said on a Canadian radio show on Wednesday. "Obviously...
What Was it That McIlroy Said About Woods, Mickelson That Was Wrong?
(H/T Golf Digest) The question to Rory McIlroy at the Tour Championship on Wednesday was an innocuous one and so was the answer, though not everyone apparently saw it that way. Q. This is the first time since 1992 that Tiger and Phil have not played in the Tour...
Rory McIlroy Discusses Recent 4-Putt Nightmares
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Tales of Rory McIlroy’s Prodigious Length Are Already Rumbling Through the Rockies
(H/T Golf Digest) Rory McIlroy hits the golf ball ridiculously far in normal conditions. But in the mile-high altitude of Denver? Not surprisingly, the 25-year-old Northern Irishman put on a display of power that turned heads before this week's BMW Championship even...
Why Does Phil Mickelson Want to Buy a Rancho Santa Fe Country Club?
(H/T Golf Digest) Three years ago, Phil Mickelson and his agent and friend Steve Loy bought four private golf courses in Arizona that formed the foundation of their new business venture, the M Club. At the time, Loy was asked by Phoenix-area golf writer Bill Huffman...
Tom Watson selects Keegan Bradley, Hunter Mahan and Webb Simpson for the 2014 U.S. Ryder Cup team
(H/T GOLF.com Tours and News RSS Feed) NEW YORK -- Tom Watson has selected Keegan Bradley, Hunter Mahan and Webb Simpson for the U.S. Ryder Cup team with his three captain’s picks. Bradley and Mahan were widely expected to make the team, but Webb Simpson was a minor...