Sunday afternoon marked the end of one of the more surprising runs of results in golf. Without a win in 14 months, Xander Schauffele finally bounced back with a victory in the Baycurrent Classic at the Yokohama Country Club. Following a solid three days of golf, Schauffele sealed the deal with a final-round 64 to…
The 2025 Ryder Cup was not one that the US golf team will want to remember, even if they fought back very well in the singles to lend the final score a veneer of respectability. They won the singles 8.5 to 3.5, although with a massive nine matches being settled on the 18th, the score…
At the start of the year, Rory McIlroy stated that he was going to focus on the things that really mattered to him in golf. He had three main aims for the weeks, months and years ahead. Those were to finally win the US Masters and thus complete the career Grand Slam; to win another…
“Fleetwood Mac” was the powerful combination of Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood that won both their matches at the 2023 Ryder Cup. Both players will be involved two years on at Bethpage Black, and both will head to New York in fine fettle. For every sporting fairytale, there is an unhappy ending, and for every…
On Sunday, Justin Rose beat US Open champion JJ Spaun in a play-off at the St Jude Championship, the first event of the 2025 FedEx Cup. Englishman Rose took home $3.6m from the total purse of $20m as he saw off US star Spaun on the third extra hole. It was a dramatic finish to…
The 125th US Open gets underway on Thursday the 12th of June, with historic Oakmont in Pennsylvania hosting the event. This will be the third major of the season after Rory McIlroy finally completed the career Grand Slam by winning the US Masters and Scottie Scheffler showed he was well and truly back to his…
Around two million people are in prison in the US, which is a staggering statistic, and many believe that the criminal justice system in the country simply doesn’t work. Which may seem like a strange way to begin an article about the US PGA Championship but bear with us! Perhaps, in a roundabout way, Scottie…
In the early hours of the 14th of April 2025 UK time, Rory McIlroy finally ended his long, long major drought. His last victory in one of the game’s big four events came way back in 2014, at that year’s USPGA Championship. Many, quite possibly including the man himself, had begun to believe that he…
Thomas Detry claimed his first win on the PGA Tour by taking the Phoenix Open in real style last week. The Belgian opened with a 66 and then proceeded to shoot three rounds even lower than that to saunter to the biggest win of his career. The man from Uccle (that’s Uccle, near Brussels, rather…
Golfers get to enjoy a bit of time off around Christmas, although some of them will be straight back at it in the New Year with The Sentry, previously the Tournament of Champions, getting started at the start of January. With a purse of $20m it is easy enough to see why players are prepared…