This Week in Golf: Dustin Johnson Does It Again At WGC-Bridgestone
By Sam McPherson Dustin Johnson shot a closing 66 on Sunday to win the Bridgestone Invitational, his third World Golf Championships event victory in the last four seasons. With 11 PGA Tour wins under...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: PGA Tour Midseason All-Stars
By Sam McPherson It was a quiet week for the PGA Tour. The Greenbrier Classic, scheduled for July 7 -10 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was canceled a few weeks ago due to weather-related...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Stenson’s Sunday 63 At Open Championship Makes History
By Sam McPherson When explaining the 2016 Open Championship at Scotland’s Royal Troon, even the superlatives don’t seem to make sense. Two golfers –Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and America’s Phil Mickelson...
View ArticleThis Week in Golf: Vegas Wins Canadian Open With Closing-Round Comeback
By Sam McPherson Jhonattan Vegas sat in the clubhouse on Sunday afternoon at the RBC Canadian Open patiently wondering if his 276 total — good enough for 12-under par — would hold up. It did. When the...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Walker Holds Off Day To Win PGA Championship
By Sam McPherson Many golf fans were probably surprised to see Jimmy Walker leading after the first three rounds of the 98th PGA Championship. After Sunday’s thrilling finale at the famed Baltusrol...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Knox Wins Travelers; Furyk Shoots Record Sunday 58
By Sam McPherson Scotland’s Russell Knox won the Travelers Championship on Sunday with a 14-under par score, after shooting all four rounds at TPC River Highlands in the 60s. He held off three...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Moore Wins John Deere; Rose Gets Gold In Rio
By Sam McPherson Professional golf had an unusual week as two different tournaments on two different continents held the attention of fans. The PGA Tour rolled through Silvia, Illinois, where a...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Si Woo Kim Runs Away With Wyndham Championship
By Sam McPherson In the final PGA Tour event of the season before the FedExCup playoffs, South Korean golfer Si Woo Kim shot 21-under par at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina to...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Patrick Reed Takes The Barclays To Open FedExCup Playoffs
By Sam McPherson If the purpose of the FedExCup playoffs on the PGA Tour is to generate excitement, The Barclays at Bethpage Black did not disappoint this weekend as Patrick Reed held off a bushel of...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Rory McIlroy Gets Impressive Win At Deutsche Bank
By Dan Reardon He’s back. At least for one week, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has quieted his doubters and silenced his critics with a tour-de-force performance on the second leg of the FedExCup...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Dustin Johnson Wins BMW Championship, Eyes FedExCup
By Sam McPherson With a round of 63 in Friday’s second round, Dustin Johnson took control of the BMW Championship at the Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana. He then held on over the weekend...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: 5 Golfers Who Can Win The FedExCup
By Sam McPherson After a year-long schedule of golf tournaments, only five PGA Tour professionals have a chance to win the 2015-2016 FedExCup this weekend at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. This...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Rory McIlroy Wins FedExCup, Arnold Palmer Passes
By Sam McPherson The final day of the 2015-16 PGA Tour season will be remembered for a long time, and much of that has little to do with the Tour Championship itself, won by Rory McIlroy in a four-hole...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Watson Wins WGC-Dell, Houston Open Next
By Sam McPherson It has been four years since Bubba Watson last won a major tournament. But with his second victory of the PGA Tour season, on Sunday in the WGC-Dell Match Play event at the Austin...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Reed Wins Masters, Holding Off Fowler, Spieth
By Sam McPherson American Patrick Reed did most of the hard work on Friday and Saturday at Augusta National, although his Sunday was anything but easy. He shot a one-under par 71 on the final day, and...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Reed Wins Masters, Holding Off Fowler, Spieth
By Sam McPherson American Patrick Reed did most of the hard work on Friday and Saturday at Augusta National, although his Sunday was anything but easy. He shot a one-under par 71 on the final day, and...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Kodaira Wins RBC Heritage, His First PGA Tour Title
By Sam McPherson After tying for 28th place last week in his inaugural appearance at The Masters, Satoshi Kodaira of Japan won his first PGA Tour event on Sunday at the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head,...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Landry Wins Valero Texas Open With Steady Play
By Sam McPherson In January, Andrew Landry just missed winning his first PGA Tour event when he lost on the fourth hole of sudden death to Spain’s Jon Rahm at the CareerBuilder Challenge in Palm...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Horschel, Piercy Go Low Sunday, Win Zurich Classic
By Sam McPherson The Zurich Classic of New Orleans and its unique team format once again provided loads of excitement for golf fans on Sunday. Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy carded a fourth-round best...
View ArticleThis Week In Golf: Jason Day Wins Wells Fargo By Two Strokes
By Sam McPherson If the Wells Fargo Championship this week at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, was any indication, then the golf world needs to take notice: Jason Day is back in a...
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