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…
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…
CROMWELL, Conn. — It’s tempting to say what transpired was dramatic, and certainly the confluence of starpower and friendship and their refusal to let each other break away facilitated an ending whose issue required extra holes to be settled. That the coda was punctuated by a protest group storming the last hole of regulation made for a…
Camila Giorgi is under investigation in the lead-up to the Australian Open. Image: GettyCamila Giorgi’s family doctor has spoken out with bombshell claims amid an investigation into the Italian tennis star. Giorgi was named in a report in December about celebrities and public figures who are being investigated for using false Covid-19 vaccination certificates. Giorgi’s…
Bryson DeChambeau was left bemused during his 15th hole tee shot, as Greg Norman stormed onto the green and began tending the flag in an unusual stunt LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman left Bryson DeChambeau scratching his head with a peculiar stunt as he prepared to tee off in Nashville. Deep in conversation with his caddie, planning…
Jon Rahm and drones apparently are incompatible, to wit his tee shot and reaction at the par-4 sixth hole at the Grove, site of LIV Golf’s tournament in Nashville Sunday. Rahm was in second place, chasing Tyrrell Hatton, when his tee shot went straight left and into a pond, leading to a double-bogey 6 that…
Tyrrell Hatton was temporarily blinded by champagne when LIV Golf’s announcers stuck a microphone in his face to ask how his first win in the league, and first professional victory in more than three years, felt. “Pretty special,” the colorful Englishman said at LIV Golf Nashville, moments after his teammate, and close friend, Jon Rahm,…
Golfers are always on the hunt for something to upgrade their game, especially as we round into the meat of the summer golf season. So, we enlisted the help of a couple of our resident low handicap editors: Former college golfer Drew Powell and Senior Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen. The question was simple: What’s…