What’s in store for Saturday at the PGA Championship? Frankly it’s anyone’s guess, which is what makes it so fascinating. Phil Mickelson and Louis Oosthuizen enter the weekend tied for the lead at five under, but there’s a crowded leader board full of major champions (Brooks Koepka, Hideki Matsuyama, Bryson DeChambeau, Gary Woodland) anxious to
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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — It feels silly to type, but each major championship serves as a reminder of just how long major championships are. From the media circus lead up, to the inevitable look at this crazy leader board takes pre-noon on Thursday, to the cut-line battles on Friday afternoon—add in the literal longest course
7:50 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is serious about getting on top of his focus issues. After jumping out front at the PGA Championship on Friday, he agreed to take just three questions from reporters waiting to grill him about his standing atop the leaderboard and his quest for a sixth major
The 36-hole mark of a golf tournament can be either a glorious position or a nightmare for bettors. Either you’re ripping up your pre-tourney tickets, or you’re going to bed dreaming about the money you could win on the weekend. We’ve been on both sides, so we can sympathize with how ever you’re feeling after
2:22 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is the clubhouse leader at the PGA Championship — a surprise given his recent form and struggles with numerous aspects of his game. Jason Day had an easy explanation. “There were no foul balls,” said Day, who played with the 50-year-old Mickelson during the first two
We should expect to see the same from Day 2 at the Ocean Course with similar conditions, though we might have a sustained wind of at least 15 miles per hour from 10 a.m. on. That’s all this faux-links course needs to show its teeth. (Scroll down for the latest updates) Here are the latest
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C — What was supposed to be hard was easy. Or maybe he just made easy work of the hard. Will Zalatoris has a habit of doing that. Zalatoris continued to exceed ever-growing expectations by turning in a one-under 71 Thursday to be squarely in the PGA Championship mix. “Yeah, actually everything was
8:18 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The scorecard yardage of 7,876 makes the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island the longest in major championship history. As daunting as it sounds, that is not the reason players in this week’s PGA Championship look so battered and bruised as they exit the premises. Sunburned and sullen, the
The legendary Kevin Garnett once said screamed at the top of his lungs, “ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!” Jordan Spieth fans might be screaming a similar refrain to the heavens when their knees hit the floor on Thursday night. That’s because, according to this stat from stats guru Justin Ray, Spieth’s chances of making history and completing
4:32 PM ET Associated Press Sam Burns has withdrawn from the PGA Championship with a back injury. The 24-year-old Burns came in as one of the hottest players in golf. He won the Valspar Championship three weeks ago, then finished second at the AT&T Byron Nelson last week ahead of the year’s second major. Burns
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C—John Catlin, who is playing in the PGA Championship on a special exemption, received a one-shot penalty Thursday for a violation of pace of play. According to the PGA of America, the 30-year-old Catlin—who plays on the European Tour and is 80th in the Official World Golf Ranking—recorded his first bad time on
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Major championship golf is upon us and, in a refreshing change of pace, it’s not another Masters. Here are the key questions heading in this PGA Championship… Will any PGA club pro break 80? The Ocean Course is a beautiful beast that has already gotten into the heads of the game’s
6:50 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina — A look at the field for this week’s PGA Championship makes one thing perfectly clear: There are a lot of good options when picking who will lift the Wanamaker Trophy come Sunday night. (And hopefully whoever it is has better luck with it than Collin Morikawa, who
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C—The first ball went to parts unknown. The second, water. The third followed the second. There wasn’t much vexation, at least visibly; it was a practice round, after all. And on his fourth, after he and his group moved from the back 17th tee to a box 25 yards up, Bryson DeChambeau did,
6:48 AM ET The contenders who hope to win this week’s 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island had better hope their big sticks are ready. The Ocean Course will measure a whopping 7,876 yards, making it the longest course to ever host one of professional golf’s four majors. Rory McIlroy won the previous PGA Championship
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Despite being the top-ranked player on Planet Earth, Dustin Johnson enters this PGA Championship as a big ol’ question mark. He withdrew from last week’s event, the AT&T Byron Nelson, due to knee “discomfort.” He doesn’t have a top-10 in any of this last six starts—particularly concerning because in his 10
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C.—There is a belief among artists that the moment you argue why you matter is the moment you prove the opposite. To critics of the PGA Championship, long considered fourth on the totem pole of the four majors, that moment arrived via marketing slogan: “This is major.” Now, there is not enough space
1:00 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina — Here are the tee times for the opening two rounds of the 2021 PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island: All times ET Round 1 First tee 7 a.m. — Patrick Rada, Adam Long, Cameron Tringale 7:11 a.m. — Dylan Frittelli, Larkin Gross, Matt Jones
It’s a major championship week, which means we are back with another installment of value bets. Alternate title: Two clowns from New Jersey find eight more creative ways to light money on fire. Apparently, that’s too much of a mouthful. Whatever. All jokes aside, we’ve had some decent success in this value space (please don’t
7:19 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The pudgy face is gone. So too is the curly hair sticking out from beneath an odd-looking cap. Now, the look is more mature, one of a husband and father, someone whose priorities have evolved. After all these years, Rory McIlroy returns to the same place, but he
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C.—As talk of rival leagues to the PGA and European Tours continue to burn, the sport’s governing bodies—including the PGA of America—are doing their best to douse the fire while reminding their constituents of the dangers of going near the flames. Speaking Tuesday ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at the Ocean Course,
KIAWAH ISLAND—Vijay Singh has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. The PGA of America said in a statement that Singh cited a back injury as the reason for his WD. Singh, 58, is far removed from being a full-time PGA Tour player. However, he had a spot in the field thanks to lifetime exemptions from PGA
6:35 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Monday qualifier Dicky Pride won the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing with a 5-under 67 for a 3-stroke victory. Making his 11th senior start, the 51-year-old Pride had six birdies in an 11-hole stretch before dropping a stroke on
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In front is a green, surrounded by waste bunkers and marsh and dunes against the backdrop of the Atlantic. Behind stands all of America. It is a beautiful convergence that can make the biggest titan feel small and turn the coldest S.O.B. sentimental. Yet to one observer, the appeal of the
May 13, 2021 John Daly‘s story has always been the stuff of fiction. You just don’t win one of golf’s four major championships having never seen the course, let alone getting into the field as an obscure alternate. Yet, 30 years ago, in 1991, John Daly emerged as the long-hitting “grip-it-and-rip-it” folk hero when he
The 2021 LPGA Tour season moves on to its 10th tournament of the year this week at the Pure Silk Championship. At a glance, it would seem like a run-of-the-mill event, albeit one that begins a parade of 11 straight weeks of tournaments through early August. But with a closer look, the stop at Kingsmill
6:32 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — K.H. Lee was more than happy to play through a steady downpour in the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson, and didn’t mind waiting out a weather delay of more than two hours Sunday. The reward was the final spot next week in the PGA Championship.
A win, whenever it comes, is a welcome blessing. In his 80th PGA Tour start, fighting nerves, elements and a hot golfer appropriately named Burns, Lee was a picture of composure when he birdied his final two holes to beat Louisiana native Sam Burns by three strokes in a shootout in McKinney, Texas. After a
“I always called him after each round. I texted him first. ‘Today I was hitting better … today I was shit.’ It was always something like that. And then I’d end up calling him when I got to the hotel, and I’d go through every single shot. What I ate for dinner. What I ate
6:32 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Paul Goydos shot a bogey-free 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Billy Andrade into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Goydos, 56, had an 8-under 136 total at TPC Sugarloaf. He has five senior victories after winning twice