March 21st, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
The PGA Tour announced two significant changes on Tuesday, one of which alters the way players qualify for the Tour and the other changing when the Tour season begins. The official PGA Tour season will start in October beginning in 2013, instead of January 1.
March 21st, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
E THE RESORT: Troon North Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. THE LAYOUT: Considered the pioneer in high-end desert golf experiences, the 36-hole Troon North Golf Club remains a coveted destination for any Arizona golf excursion. The Monument Course was Tom Weiskopf’s first golf…
March 21st, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, saying it was “time to get better,” announced Tuesday sweeping changes that will end nearly 50 years of Q-school as a way to get to golf’s biggest tour. The policy board on Tuesday approved two significant components to the overhaul — the PGA Tour season will start in October, and the developmental Nationwide Tour will be the primary path to get a…
March 21st, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
ORLANDO, Fla. – Tiger Woods made it through two days of a golf exhibition without any trouble with his left Achilles tendon.
March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
One great round. One solid swing out of the rough. One clutch birdie putt. That’s what Luke Donald needed to win the Transitions Championship in a playoff and get back to No. 1 in the world. Donald was starting to feel overlooked in the two weeks since Rory McIlroy replaced him atop the world ranking, and he even allowed a few doubts about his game to creep into his head.
March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
Less than a month after losing the number one ranking in the world to Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald took it right back by winning the 2012 Transitions Championship in four-way playoff. It was really one of the more exciting tournaments to watch on the 2012 PGA Tour thus far, with…
March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
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March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
Third-round tee times for Toshiba Classic
March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
Luke Donald had lost his No. 1 ranking two weeks ago when Rory McIlroy took that ranking after a triumph at the Honda Classic. Donald said that he enjoyed staying the No. 1 spot for 40 weeks and that he wished McIlroy luck as long as he was in that spot.
March 19th, 2012 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art
Ernie Els is one of those rare athletes who became a champion while somehow remaining a favorite of the people, a guy who never seems to draw criticism or disdain. You want Ernie to do well and when he doesn’t, you ache for him.
Case in point: Sunday afternoon at the Transitions when Els, who had held a share of the lead for much of the afternoon, went bogey-bogey to finish his round one stroke out of a playoff. His round ended in the cruelest possible fashion: a missed 4-foot putt that he simply pushed wide.
Els consented to a post-round interview with NBC/Golf Channel’s Steve Sands, and it was surely one of the most awkward and painful interviews in recent memory because of the look of utter shock on Els’ face. Twenty minutes before — hell, two minutes before — he was preparing for a playoff and a possible win that would have punched his ticket to the Masters, and now … nothing.
Here’s the sum total of the interview: