Jul 31st, 2023 Article
Lee Hodges Claims First PGA Tour Win
Lee Hodges earns his first PGA Tour title in his 65th career start as well as Collecting 500 points and moving from No. 74 to No. 33 in the FedExCup standings.
Lee Hodges earns his first PGA Tour title in his 65th career start as well as Collecting 500 points and moving from No. 74 to No. 33 in the FedExCup standings.
Rocket Mortgage ambassador Rickie Fowler defeats Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin with a birdie on the first playoff hole to record his long-awaited sixth PGA Tour title, and first since the 2019 WM Phoenix Open.
FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (June 15, 2023) – At the 1949 U.S. Open at Medinah Country Club, more players chose to put a Titleist golf ball in play than any other brand, with 32 (20%) of the 159-player field teeing up a Titleist. For the first time, Titleist was the #1 ball at the U.S. Open Championship.
2022 runner-up Scottie Scheffler enters the Charles Schwab Challenge as the No. 1 player in the Official World Golf Ranking after finishing T2 at last week's PGA Championship to regain the top position
Players on different sides of the planet used Nippon Shaft steel shafts in their irons and wedges on Sunday to win on the PGA Tour and on the Japan Golf Tour.
World number one Scottie Scheffler takes a five shot lead into the weekend at The Masters. The last four players who led by five shots going into the weekend went to claim the green jacket, with Jordan Spieth the most recent to do so in 2015. 15:20 Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Adam Scott (Aus) 15:30 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Min-Woo Lee (Aus) 15:40 Marc Leishman (Aus), Seamus Power (Irl)
Custom-engineered to offer milled putter performance, PING has today launched four tour-validated models in a series of Putting Lab Design (PLD) putters. The precision-milled putters are now available for pre-order at authorised PING retailers committed to selling premium, custom-fit putters.
The result was pretty much inevitable ahead of Rory McIlroy hitting the first shot of the Sunday singles. America had looked too strong for a misfiring Europe and it was a case of damage limitation.
Barring something quite extraordinary, it looks like the Ryder Cup will be staying in the USA after the 2020 Ryder Cup. It is difficult to see anything stopping Team USA from getting the 3½ out of the 12 points on offer in Sunday's singles to regain the cup.
Kerching! Patrick Cantlay went to wire-to-wire and saw off World number one Jon Rahm to win the Tour Championship, FedEx Cup and scoop the $15 million first prize. Cantlay closed with a one-under 69 at East Lake to finish twenty-one-under-par, a shot ahead of US Open champion Rahm, who carded a final round of 68.
Call me old fashioned and perhaps I am showing my advancing years but watching the Open isn’t what it used to be. That all-day free coverage on the BBC from the early hours until the early evening with the only requirement being to on occasion switch between BBC 1 and BBC 2.
There will be no Brooks and Bryson teeing it up together unless fate brings them together at the weekend. However, there are plenty of choice groups to follow at Torrey Pines when the U.S. Open gets under way tomorrow.