Unexpected events and last-minute adjustments are nothing new to the PGA Tour, but the current wave of withdrawals from the Charles Schwab Challenge has had a particularly significant effect. One of the most prestigious invitational events on the Tour, the tournament is hosted annually at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The competition’s…
The year’s second major championship is complete and Xander Schauffele is a happy man. The PGA Tour, however, now is back in Texas as we start to creep closer toward the U.S. Open at Pinehurst.Although Schauffele walked away with the Wanamaker Trophy, the man who made the most headlines last week at Valhalla is in…
Tiger Woods is preparing to play in the PGA Championship once again after a one-year hiatus in 2023. Woods, who withdrew from the tournament after three rounds in 2022, will make his 23rd appearance in the tournament barring any last-minute changes. The American golfing icon had not won any major since the 2008 U.S. Open until his 2019 Masters…
Camila Giorgi, 32-year-old Italian tennis player and winner of four WTA Tour tournaments, officially confirmed her retirement from tennis after her mysterious departure from the courts. “There are many falsehoods about me. But I confirm it: I’m retiring,” the tennis player and model shared on her social networks. Camila Giorgi is awaiting trial and is being…
One of the most frustrating aspects of playing golf with a few buddies for money is that, depending on the game, some players can be completely irrelevant to what actually happens in the match. Nothing is more infuriating than handing over your hard-earned dollars to somebody who was in the pocket on 16 of the…
Camila Giorgi’s retirement from tennis has taken another interesting twist.The 32-year-old Italian, a 2018 Wimbledon quarterfinalist who was once ranked as high as No. 26 in the world, retired earlier this month, without any warning, to pursue a career in lingerie modelling. She was listed on the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s (ITIA) retired players list…
The DP World Tour is set to impose tougher sanctions for players who do not shout “Fore!” at an appropriate time. A representative at Wentworth HQ has confirmed to bunkered.co.uk that the new sanctions were agreed at a tournament committee on April 15th. Players on the European circuit have been told that it is mandatory…
Rory McIlroy attempted to make a return to the PGA Tour’s policy board before being rejected, but his former Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington believes he should stay away from the politicsRory McIlroy has been told how to follow in Tiger Woods’ footstepsRory McIlroy has been told by Padraig Harrington to stay away from the…
Black Charlotte golf legend, dead at 81, leaves behind a legacy that helped birth a Tiger James Black, photographed at Sunset Hills Golf Course in Charlotte in 1997. LAURA MUELLER James Black, who grew up on the southwest side of Charlotte next to a golf course in the 1950s, taught himself how to play while caddying…
Swing coaches, statisticians and mental coaches can all try and decipher what made Tiger Woods so great, but what says the man himself? Every now and again, Tiger will drop little hints that help explain his success (see: “playing aggressively to my spots,” the “Tiger 5” stats he diligently tracked, etc.), but it was what he…