Courses
TPC Sawgrass: The Course That Was Built to Be Watched
Most great golf courses were laid out by men who wanted to find the best holes hiding in a piece of ground. Pete Dye’s Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass was …
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LPGA
Boutier Rallies From Four Back to Win the ShopRite LPGA
Celine Boutier started the final round of the ShopRite LPGA four shots off the lead, which on the Bay Course at Seaview is the sort of deficit that asks a …
Tips and Instruction
The Sidehill Lies That Quietly Wreck Your Card
The driving range is a flat lie machine. Every ball a club golfer hits in practice sits on a level mat or a level patch of turf, the feet square to a level …
Opinion
In Defence of Nine Holes
There is a particular look a certain kind of golfer gives you when you tell them you only played nine. It is somewhere between sympathy and suspicion, as though …
PGA Tour
The Memorial at Fifty: Scheffler Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody Has Managed Since Stricker
Jack Nicklaus’s tournament turns fifty this week, and it is doing so with a leaderboard threat that would have pleased the host in his own playing days. …
PGA Tour
Russell Henley's Four-in-a-Row: A Colonial Stolen at the Death
Russell Henley birdied the sixteenth, the seventeenth and the eighteenth on Sunday at Colonial, walked into a playoff he had no business being in with three …
Tips and Instruction
The Greenside Bunker Shot Most Amateurs Get Backwards
The greenside bunker is the only shot in golf where the player is, in the literal sense, trying not to hit the ball. Every other shot in the bag is a contest …
PGA Tour
Ryan Gerard's Six-Under Sixty-Four: The Right Game, the Right Course
Ryan Gerard signed for a six-under sixty-four at Colonial on Thursday and walked off the course with the outright first-round lead at the Charles Schwab …
Equipment
The Mini Driver: The Club Quietly Replacing the Three-Wood
The mini driver, for most of the last decade, was a club category most amateur golfers had heard of without ever seeing one in person. The category existed in …
PGA Tour
Ben Griffin's Defense Bid: The Trick Colonial Has Not Allowed Since Hogan
The statistic that has been quoted in every preview of this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge is the one in which Ben Griffin, who arrives in Fort Worth as …