Through coordinated announcements, the R&A, PGA of America, and USGA have released the dates for the golf major championships impacted by the Coronavirus. August 6-12 – PGA Championship, Harding Park, San Francisco September 17-20 – U.S. Open, Winged Foot, Mamaroneck, NY September 25-27 – Ryder Cup, Whistling Straits, Kohler, WI November 12-15...
A sports dynasty rekindled today as Tiger Woods breezed past third-round leader Francesco Molinari, then held off a Who’s Who of modern golf en route to his fifth Masters Championship at Augusta National Golf Club and 15th major golf championship overall. Woods didn’t just defeat Dustin Johnson and Francesco Molinari; he defeated shame and humiliation...
Somewhere in Heaven Dan Jenkins is smiling, because this is what a major championship leader board is supposed to look like. Our great lion of a sports writer may be watching his first Masters from Heaven, but the heart of a true golf writer always aches for the greatest names to be in contention, not puzzling strangers. So right now, with five former major champions...
Defending Masters Champion Patrick Reed selected Bone-in Cowboy Ribeye as the main course for the traditional champions dinner. Side dishes included smoked gouda mac and cheese, creamed spinach, corn creme brulee, and steamed broccoli with sea salt and shaved parmesan. What, no pink Himalayan salt? He offered three different desserts: tiramisu, vanilla bean creme...
[Editor’s Note: We’ll be filing two game stories this week, one during the first three days of play and our usual tournament recap for Sunday night. You can follow all the action at Golf News Net and here.] The Masters is the greatest sporting event of the year: period, full stop, end of sentence, end of paragraph. Not the Super Bowl, not the World...
Once again, VegasInsider.com has the best odds book around this side of Ladbrokes. Here are the odds to win the 2019 Masters. As we go to press, we think the smart money is on Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas, and Adam Scott. Also, you get great value for Francesco Molinari (25-1), Jason Day (30-1), and Ian Poulter (90-1). Odds to win 2019...
I first heard it as a middle-schooler taking my initial steps in studying the craft of story writing. I hated its disingenuousness then, and my distaste for it grows with each passing year – that old journalistic saw: “Where heroes don’t exist, it is necessary to invent them. It’s good for public morale.” Author Dan Jenkins always said...
“Tiger and Phil! Tiger and Phil! Tiger and Phil!” For the last eight weeks, that’s all we’ve heard in golf. Turn on your television set, pick up a magazine, or scan a newspaper headline, and it’s almost as if prophets were delivering a message from God that they saw written in letters of fire 30 feet high. And as we’ve inched...
In just a week, Tiger Woods’s odds of winning the Masters went from 17-1 (good for third, behind Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson) to a 9-1 favorite. Justin Thomas and Rory are second at 11-1. DJ has faded to 23-2. Remember – odds are a reflection of who Vegas thinks people will bet on – not who they think will win. Clearly too many people were...
What was it Heath Ledger said in “The Dark Knight?” “Tiger plays well in one…little…tournament…AND EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MINDS!” That’s exactly what happened. Tiger finished second at a tournament nobody normally watched, and everyone is back on the bandwagon, and DUI be damned! Betting odds are not a reflection of whom...
We thought we’d seen this movie before, and we were ready for yet another heart-wrenching ending. If past history were any indication, Sergio Garcia was supposed to lose this Masters in the clutch, not win it. Something horrible always happens to Garcia, he’s played the flawed tragic hero perfectly for close on two decades. Shakespeare would have loved...
It was 1998 when we first met Justin Rose. Back then he was a green and grateful amateur, just 17 years old. But that week in July, he ignited the normally staid English crowd into one joyous celebration after another as he nearly won the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. It was sparkling scene: the salty waves lapping at the feet of the mammoth fescue-covered...
One of my dear friends, my idols, and my icons, John Hopkins of Global Golf Post, wrote this poignant and fascinating retrospective on the life of the one and only Seve Ballesteros. Hoppy is a true Literary Lion and a gentleman as well, beloved by his peers and esteemed by his readership. Even on our best days, we all wish we were Hoppy. This is one legend writing...
You may find yourself In a beautiful house With a beautiful wife. You may ask yourself “Well, how did I get here?!” —Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” The immortal words of David Byrne, that’s what we all might have asked ourselves in April of 1987, even Larry Mize, as he strode out of Butler Cabin clad a Green Jacket, the newly...
Last year Tony Dear of GNN came on our show and said he thought Danny Willett could win the Masters. We all pointed at him and laughed. Now Theon Greyjoy is sporting a Green Jacket serving blood puddings at Masters Dinner. So Tony came back on the show for Part 1 of our Masters Preview show. It’s here, so check it out. We’ll post Part 2 aling with our...