Golf

You’re in a playoff with your college buddy and you’ve already qualified and made it to the NAIA national tournament. You think to yourself: “If he wins this hole he gets to go to nationals and I’ve already qualified.” What do you do? You kick his ass on that playoff hole and move on with [...]

Do we have the next Tiger Woods on our hands? I won’t go as far as to say that quite yet, but 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa is making a name for himself very quickly. Ishikawa finished today’s major at The Crowns with a final round of 58. No, I didn’t accidently hit 5 instead of 6. [...]

“We are not a police state,” said R&A chief executive Peter Dawson.  “People can say what they like, but if they start putting players off then we will have something to say about it.” I’m not sure what his definition of “putting players off” is, but I have a strong feeling we’ll find out.  You know what this [...]

The sad part is you probably still have no idea who I am talking about. Well, unless you’ve been here, or here or here. Lorena Ochoa, who is the #1 ranked Golfer on the LPGA Tour, and the only woman besides Michelle Wie that I could pick out in a line-up (maybe), has decided to [...]

Now that The Masters is over and Tiger is officially back on Tour, who knows what the public perception of him will be in the months and years to come. His official legacy has many chapters yet to be written. My guess is that by the end of his career he will still go in [...]

In 1996, the year before Tiger Woods forever blew up the game of golf as we knew it, the leading money winner on Tour was Tom Lehman with a whopping $1.78 million in winnings. Not a bad year for most. That same year, the top 9 money winners earned over $1 million. In 10th place [...]