Tag: Golf

After finally capturing the one that always seemed to get away, Rickie Fowler returned to the top 10 in the latest installment of the Official World Golf Ranking. Fowler had a number of close calls in recent years at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, including a playoff loss in 2016. But Sunday, despite closing with a […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Before Rickie Fowler shook off a shocking triple bogey on his 11th hole and won his first Waste Management Phoenix Open title Sunday, he received a special text the night before. The sender? Tiger Woods. “He texted me last night, ‘Good playing and go get the job done,’” Fowler said after posting […]

Let’s take a look back in history at this week in golf from Feb. 4-10, information courtesy of the Golf Channel Research Department. Feb. 5, 1983: Tom Kite shoots a course-record 62 at Pebble Beach in the third round and later won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Feb. 6, 1971: Using a makeshift 6-iron that […]

Akshay Bhatia might be just 17 years old, but the junior golfer continues to outperform many college-aged amateurs. Bhatia, the world’s top-ranked junior and ranked 12th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, added to his impressive list of accomplishments with a playoff victory Sunday at the Jones Cup. After Sunday’s final round at Ocean Forest Golf […]

The ANA Inspiration didn’t get shut out after all. With so much uncertainty over how overlapping dates with the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur would affect the ANA’s amateur field, the ANA showed Monday that it can do more than coexist. Its amateur tradition just might continue to thrive. “It turned out to be a […]

A bad week for Sergio Garcia apparently started earlier than assumed. Garcia was disqualified after the third round of the European Tour’s Saudi International for damaging multiple greens during competition. He publicly apologized for the incident, with subsequent reports indicating that Garcia damaged up to five greens before fellow competitors alerted rules officials of his antics. […]

Rory McIlroy is a generational player, the kind who earns Hall of Fame credentials while still being eligible for his parents’ insurance plan. St. Augustine will one day make an official call, but there is plenty more to accomplish until that time. And part of what McIlroy will do, is doing, and has done, he […]

Pernilla Lindberg will make her debut as a married woman at the ISPS Handa Vic Open this week. She is also borrowing her husband, Daniel Taylor, from Rolex world No. 1 Ariya Jutanugarn to caddie for her while they honeymoon between work in Australia. Taylor was Lindberg’s caddie for six of the last seven seasons, […]

Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING Rickie (+8%): The strokes-gained stats show that Fowler’s final round in Phoenix was the worst by a winner in the ShotLink era, but there’s also something to be said for winning ugly. Yes, he […]

The calendar has flipped to February, which means the questions about the Masters are just around the corner. For Rory McIlroy, that’s not necessarily an appetizing prospect. For the fifth straight spring, McIlroy will look to round out the career Grand Slam at Augusta National. He has come close in recent years, finishing T-10 or […]