Justin Thomas’ incredible comeback victory
Justin Thomas equalled the record for the largest final-round comeback at the PGA Championship to claim his second major title, in a playoff over Will Zalatoris with the overnight leader Mito Pereira double bogeying the 72nd hole to miss out. Thomas started the day seven shots behind 54-hole leader Mito Pereira and played the last […]
Players vote against green reading books
Pro Golf – PGA Tour In a significant trend reversal, the PGA Tour Players Advisory Council (PAC), headed by Rory Mcilroy and consisting of 16 players including the likes of Justin Thomas, Billy Horschel and Zach Johnson voted to ban green reading books starting with the 2022 season. The issue will be now voted on […]
Kuchar wins in Hawaii, how much prize money each golfer earned
“20 is the new 40”, Matt Kuchar quoted Jay-Z, post his four-strokes win over Andrew Putnam, at the $6,400,000 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club. This win was his second on the 2019 season and came in just 64 days gap for him, his last win was at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in […]
Are Top Golfers Getting Younger?
The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), known as SONY OWGR until 1995, was introduced on April 6, 1986, when Bernhard Langer became the first golfer to be crowned World No. 1. He was aged 29. The average age of the top-10 golfers at the end of 1986 stood at 30.3, not far from the current […]
2018 sees maximum changes atop Ranking summit
The World No. 1 ranking changed ownership nine times this year, the most in the history of the Official World Golf Rankings inception since 1986, when Bernhard Langer became the first World No.1 golfer. The most change happened previously in 2016 when the top rank saw a total of eight changes. Little would one have […]
100th PGA Championship – Trivia
28-year-old Brooks Koepka played largely on the European Challenge Tour (where he recorded 4 wins) and the European Tour (1 win) before moving on to the PGA Tour in 2014. He won his first PGA Tour title at the Phoenix Waste Management Open in 2015. Since then, the Florida native has not looked back and […]
Tiger Woods’ Impact on Golf
22 years ago, August 28, 1996. Less than 72 hours after capturing his third straight U.S. Amateur title—in a third straight come-from-behind victory in the championship match—Woods held a press conference at Brown Deer Park. From behind a three-foot-tall podium adorned with the PGA TOUR logo, the 20-year-old Stanford undergrad announced he would be […]
2017: A Year of Phenomenal Storylines
There certainly wasn’t a dearth of story lines in the year that we just bid adieu to. Golf not only welcomed a few new stars to the fairways but also witnessed pleasant surprises at the Majors.