What we learned: Byron Nelson, Sybase
Each week, the GolfChannel.com team offers thoughts on “what we learned” from the most recent events and news developments. This week we learned that unlike the PGA Tour, the LPGA has no problems with extending penalties for slow play. I learned that Jason Dufner isn’t exactly practicing what he preaches. This past Wednesday, I stood More...
Murphy’s Law: Kuchar where he belongs
Remember: They’re not booing, they’re saying “Kooooooch.” And when they’re not saying “Koooooch”, they’re saying “Duuuuuuuuude … you could win the U.S. Open!” That’s More...
Mystery of TPC Sawgrass, not sense of humor, still eludes McIlroy
He might have lost the plot, but not his sense of humor. Rather famously, Rory McIlroy skipped the Players Championship last year before taking up his PGA Tour card again this season and again entering the circuit’s More...
Is the Players the Fifth Major? A Fan’s Take
On May 10, the world’s best golfers will tee it up at the Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It is a great tournament and the Players is considered by some to be the fifth major championship More...
Will Fowler’s win bode well for golf?
The game of golf will be just fine if its young stars can produce as they did Sunday at Quail Hollow. Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy battle in a playoff, with journeyman D.A. Points playing the foil. Good stuff, More...
Tiger Woods’ game shows signs of rust at Wells Fargo Championship
Nobody, not even Tiger Woods, knew how his first competitive round in three weeks would go. After walking off the 18th hole at Augusta National following a final round 2-over 74 that saw him finish T40, the worst More...
Every golfer needs a spring tuneup
You know it’s a bad start to the golf season when the computer that tracks your handicap heckles you. More on that later, for now let’s try to keep it positive. The Masters has come and gone and it snowed this More...
Ben Curtis enters Zurich Classic after victory in Valero Texas Open
Ben Curtis, the 2003 British Open champion who hadn’t won on the PGA Tour since 2006 and had been playing a limited schedule, immediately entered the Zurich Classic after his victory Sunday in the Valero Texas More...
U.S. President Obama Believes Augusta should Accept Female Members
A White House press secretary shows that the U.S. president Obama believes Augusta should accept female members. Augusta is the home of United States Masters, at present, only male members. The White House press More...
Augusta’s Payne ducks women’s issue he once championed
In the early 1990s, an upstart Olympic leader had an idea that was going to stun not only the Olympic world but also Augusta National, the stodgiest, most traditional golf club in the nation. He was going to make More...