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Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club

Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – Quick! We need rewrites to the script! A bit player stole the show in Hollywood! 29-year old Wyndham Clark, unheralded before the tournament began, outlasted four-time major champion Rory McIlroy at Los Angeles Country...

Fowler Clings to Share of Lead with Plucky Clark, McIlroy, Scheffler Lurk at 123rd U.S. Open

LOS ANGELES, CA – Hoping to end a lifetime major championship drought, Southern California born and bred Ricky Fowler shot an EVEN par 70 over Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course to stay tied atop the leaderboard at 10-under as the 123rd U.S. Open Championship turns towards Sunday’s final round. Plucky young gun Wyndham Clark, a journeyman party crasher wo...

Tiger, I’m Gobsmacked

We’re sunk. Golf is sunk. At least the PGA Tour. I said weeks ago in print in this column:  Tiger if you’re going to save golf, you better be squeaky clean, because if they get anything on you, we’re all sunk. Right on cue, we get not one, but two scandals. First we get Tampongate. Apparently Woods just forgot that every camera on planet Earth is HD...

As the LIV Golf World Turns – World Golf Points in the Balance, Patrick Reed Shunned by McIlroy, Seminole Shuns LIV

The grisly shuck that is the Saudi-funded sports-washing experiment otherwise known as the LIV Golf Tour will not have long to wait before a decision is made to allow their players to receive world golf ranking points and a pathway into playing in major championships. While their application to the Official World Golf Ranking board has not yet been reviewed, there...

For Rory McIlroy, the Agony of a Jilted Lover as His Putter Goes Cold at St. Andrews Open Championship

Perhaps the only sight in golf more annoying than watching the player in front of you make everything he looks at on the greens is watching the player in front of you make everything on the greens while you make nothing all day. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Niente. That was the dismal fate the Golf Gods resigned Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy to at the 150th...

Rory Roars to First Round 65 at Southern Hills

Rory McIlroy charged out of the gate at the 2022 PGA Champion like his thoroughbred days of old, carding seven birdies en route to an opening round of 5-under 65 for a one shot lead over Will Zalatoris and John Hoge. 2017 PGA Champion Justin Thomas shot a 3-under 67 and is two shots back, along with Abraham Ancer and Matt Kuchar. Starting on the back nine, McIlroy...

The Roar-y Returns, McIlroy Seeks Another Major at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course

We were having a fine run-up to this, the 103rd PGA Championship, even before Rory McIlroy’s TaylorMade TP5x golf ball tumbled into the cup at the 72nd hole of the Quail Hollow Championship two weeks ago. Nearly all of golf’s young gun stars and marquis names had won since the turn of the year:  Bryson Dechambeau, Patrick Reed, Justin Thomas, Jordan...

Rory McIlroy, Jason Day to Skip Rio Olympics Over Zika Fears

We said this was a terrible idea, and each day we are proved more prophetic. If it’s not fecal matter on the water, savage protests, a recession with people starving in he streets, government corruption to make even Hillary Clinton blush, it’s now a mosquito-borne virus that delivers genetic defects to your kids while slowly decaying your brain and blood...

The Thin Green Line – Oakmont’s Swing Holes Could Decide 2016 U.S. Open

OAKMONT, PA – They’re called “half-par holes” be cause they play either much easier or much harder than the par on the scorecard states, and they are often the key to winning a golf tournament. Be it stroke play or match play, the ability to negotiate the razor thin edge between a birdie (or even eagle) or a triple bogey is the difference...

Jason Day Just Passed Jordan Speith as Vegas Favorite to win 2016 Masters

While everyone else was waxing beatifically about Jason Day passing Adam Scott in the World Rankings, Day also took the top spot on another list – he just became the new Vegas favorite to win the 2016 Masters. Day has won seven of his last 14 starts internationally and has taken the last two PGA Tour events with more difficulty from this back than the field. He...