Almost all of golf’s biggest names are bypassing Las Vegas this week. Rickie Fowler is making the stop, however, and that makes him the favorite.
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It had been a tough day for Ben Martin. The 28-year-old from South Carolina had limped in with a third-round 80 at the BMW Championship on Sept. 18, essentially knocking him out of a spot in the field.
Three days into his PGA Tour debut in 1986, Jerry Foltz injured his back in a car accident after being hit by a drunk driver and was never the same. But the Western High School graduate knew golf, and he was good at talking about it. And if you’ve watched the Golf Channel through the years, you’re familiar with his work.
Phil Mickelson committed a rules violation at the President’s Cup — where he used two different brands of golf balls in Friday’s round — that cost his team two holes in a match it halved with Jason Day and Adam Scott. But the gaffe didn’t stop Mickelson from talking smack in his postmatch news conference.
World number one Jordan Spieth capped a sensational season on Friday when, as had been widely expected, he was voted the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year after a 2014-15 campaign highlighted by two major victories among his five wins.
After contemplating playing last week, Rickie Fowler officially committed Tuesday for next month’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open golf tournament at TPC Summerlin.
PGA star Rickie Fowler indicated to reporters at a news conference in Atlanta on Tuesday he plans to play in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas next month.
Former world number one Tiger Woods announced on Friday that he underwent back surgery earlier this week and will be sidelined for the rest of this year.
As an avid golfer and noted bald man, comedian Larry David — “Seinfeld” co-creator and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator and star — has a special place in his heart for Jordan Spieth, the two-time major winner with a rapidly receding hairline.
An Ohio man playing golf with a friend at a northern Michigan resort died after being attacked by a swarm of bees when he went to search for his ball in the woods, police said on Thursday.
A virtual recluse since losing the Tour Championship to Happy Gilmore in 1996, Shooter McGavin recently came out of hiding at the U.S. Open, where he took an epic selfie with fellow golf legend Tiger Woods.
It was last Thursday morning and the flotsam and jetsam of the Tom Brady announcement had just begun to swirl when the PGA of America put out a terse one-paragraph statement: The Grand Slam of Golf, a fairly popular exhibition match featuring the winners of the four majors — or in the case of this year, the three major winners and a capable alternate — would not be held in 2015.
There’s really no mistaking the message stamped in big red letters across Silverstone Golf Club’s homepage.
President Obama opened his speech at a political fundraiser Monday at the Henderson home of Las Vegas Sun publisher Brian Greenspun by joking about his golf outing at Shadow Creek in North Las Vegas in November that turned out to be a fundraiser for former New York Yankees great Derek Jeter.
There’s no clock in golf, except if the marshal tells someone he’s playing too slow and to pick up the pace. But for Patrick Lindsey, time is his biggest enemy as he oversees preparations for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.