A golfer who took part in climate protests that disrupted the end of the US PGA Tour said he “feared for his life.” Akshay Bhatia was finishing the final round of the Travelers Championship in Connecticut with Scottie Scheffler and Tom Kim when Extinction Rebellion activists stormed the 18th green, scattering colored smoke and explosives….
This week’s senior opening in the United States is this week, but if Tiger Woods plays, tournaments will attract more attention in two years. Jack Mirko Jack Mirco has been playing golf since the age of five. Though he has yet to record a hole-in-one, he is earning a master’s degree in sports journalism from St. Bonaventure University. All eyes are on the U.S. Senior Open this week, with Bernhard Langer looking to defend his…
It remains one of the most mind-boggling blunders in the history of men’s major championship golf: Jean Van de Velde, Carnoustie, 18th hole. You don’t have to dig far into your memory banks to remember a major championship collapse, but typically they happen over a full round (Greg Norman at Augusta) or over a final…
It seems the time has come. Or at least it’s dreadfully close. After surviving the wrath of multiple injury-induced struggles in his professional career, the all-powerful Tiger Woods’s next stop seems to be the Senior Tour or so can be implied from Padraig Harrington’s recent revelation.Addressing his recent interaction with the 48-year-old, Padraig Harrington recently…
It seems the time has come. Or, at least, it’s terribly close. After the experience of the anger of the multiple struggle caused by injuries in his professional career, the next Tiger Woods stop, it seems, is a senior tour or as it can be able to hear from the recent revelation of Padreig Harrington. According to Golfweek , Padraig Harrington, 48, recently revealed: “He wants to win a Grand Slam and have another senior major on his CV. I saw him on the course (during…
Dave Schnider, CEO of Fujikura, a manufacturer of golf shafts, beat the odds to qualify for this week’s U.S. Senior Open at Newport Country Club. Dave Schnider, CEO of Fujikura Composites America, the company whose driver shafts have been used by the winners of more than half the events on the PGA Tour this year,…
Scottie Scheffler and Andy Weitz prior to the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in 2022. The PGA Tour has added another executive to its roster, announcing Monday that Andy Weitz has been named chief marketing and communications officer and executive vice president of investor relations. Weitz spent the past decade at Aon, where…
Camila Georgy became an expert in 2006 after the heroism on the Nike Junior Tour. She played in her first Grand Slam match in 2011, but lost to eventual quarterfinalist Tsvetana Pironkova. The following year, she was able to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon. In 2015, she won her first WTA title at the…
Connect Ventures led the investment groupProceeds will go toward research, development of new projectsTiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Mike McCarley.Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Mike McCarley.. TMRW Sports, the company whose co-founders include pro golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, secured backing from Dynasty Equity Partners, the investment firm co-founded by K. Don Cornwell and…
Scottie Scheffler continued his historic run on Sunday at the Travelers Championship by becoming the first player since Arnold Palmer in 1962 to win six times in a PGA Tour season before July. That’s right, not even Tiger Woods ever did what Scheffler has done this year. But his dominance has been felt even more in the…