By Austin Tymins The picturesque Whistling Straits, a course not unfamiliar with hosting major tournaments, will host this week’s PGA Championship. And like nearly all professional events, some skill sets will be more suitable...
Category - Golf
By Austin Tymins Since the early days of the game, golf enthusiasts have been inspired and amazed by the long ball. The herculean viciousness of the long drive has long enraptured fans with the captivating pop off the clubface...
By Kurt Bullard Before taking a leave of absence from the Tour for alcohol and suspected drug abuse, the biggest criticism of Dustin Johnson was his inability to close out a major. It first started when he entered the final round...
By Steven Rachesky In the first round of the 2014 British Open, 15 players out of the 18 total that shot 69 or better had teed off during the morning slots. During the afternoon, Royal Liverpool GC played much harder with...
By John Ezekowitz While other sports such as baseball and basketball have had statistical revolutions over the past decade or so, golf has been stuck in the stats dark ages. Watch a PGA Tour broadcast and you will see the same...
And that last part is kind of the point of this exercise. When Tiger does come back, the media is going to assign some causality to the current scandal, even if there is none whatsoever. If he's bad early, it'll because he's...
By John Ezekowitz The beauty of golf lies in its apparent simplicity: the goal is to get the ball in the hole in as few strokes as possible. So many factors go into getting the ball into that hole, however, that scoring is the...