Golf

VAIL, Colo. — Even as the winds picked up across Red Sky Golf Club’s Fazio Course Monday, Northern Arizona didn’t give up a bit of ground. Altitude is nothing new for the women from Flagstaff, Arizona, though this kind of mountainous landscape is a bit more extreme. “If you wouldContinue Reading

DETROIT — The PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic golf tournament is staying at Detroit Golf Club through 2027, after a five-year extension between the title sponsor and course was made official Monday. To celebrate, Rocket Mortgage golf brand ambassadors Bryson DeChambeau, fresh off Sunday’s historic Ryder Cup victory at WhistlingContinue Reading

Italy has made its impactful footprint on the Ryder Cup through the years. Costantino Rocca took down Tiger Woods in singles in 1997, and the country never had a prouder moment in the event than in 2018, when Francesco Molinari became the first player from Europe to post a perfectContinue Reading

In this first in a series of articles featuring profiles of some of the men and women serving as course raters for Golfweek’s Best, Golfweek architectural panelist, author and Auburn professor Jim Hansen chats with Linda Carrier of Pinehurst, North Carolina.  At 56 years old and a Type 1 diabeticContinue Reading

Gloating is not endearing, but after suffering through decades of watching my beloved Chicago Cubs lose, after they finally won a World Series in 2016, I’ll admit that I spent a while reading articles written by Cleveland writers and pundits. I did the same thing after Syracuse won the 2003Continue Reading

Rose Zhang begins her competitive career at Stanford on Monday at The Molly Collegiate Invitational in Seaside, California. Zhang enters college golf with a game so complete, that no one would’ve been a bit surprised to see her win an LPGA event as a teenager, much like Lexi Thompson, BrookeContinue Reading

HAVEN, Wisc. – Winning cures everything. Team USA dominated the 43rd Ryder Cup like never before, winning 19-9. Call it the Whipping at Whistling Straits. U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker, a Wisconsin native, can drink Spotted Cow free for life, or until the cows come home, after this resoundingContinue Reading

HAVEN, Wisc. – O, Captain! my captain! Who’s on tap to take the baton and lead the respective 12-man sides in 2023 in Rome at Marco Simone Golf Club? NBC’s Paul Azinger, who captained the victorious U.S. side in 2008, suggested a return engagement for America’s wining captain after aContinue Reading

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Chad NeSmith and Malachi Johnson are entranced by the same game. THUMP. Though neither of them could see the patch of grass travel through the air from Johnson’s iron blade, they could hear it. “Now what do you think you did wrong there?” NeSmith asks. “Lost myContinue Reading

The U.S. team demolished the European squad at the 43rd Ryder Cup, winning by a margin of 19-9, earning the most points since the event went to its current format. Dustin Johnson led the way for the Americans. He arrived at Whistling Straits with a career 7-9 Ryder Cup markContinue Reading