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A very good start at The Players Championship turned into a very bad night for Ryan Palmer.
TPC Sawgrass has never been kind to Rory McIlroy until Thursday when the world No. 2 shot 66 to open The Players.
Although disappointed not to be announced as the Masters champion, Adam Scott carded a 69 at The Players and was tied for 11th as the afternoon wave set out in increasingly difficult conditions.
James Walton’s tee shot at the par-3 17th stopped 4 feet away from the hole on Wednesday to win the annual closet-to-the-pin caddie competition at TPC Sawgrass.
Fans may notice a handful of players with the initials ‘Z.H.’ etched into their hats on Thursday when play gets underway at The Players, including Johnson Wagner and Lucas Glover.
As news settled in across the TPC Sawgrass practice tee Wednesday afternoon that Vijay Singh had filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour for ‘violating its duty of care and good faith,’ player reaction was mixed and largely muted.
Vijay Singh’s lawsuit and the proposed ban on anchoring have overshadowed the Tour’s flagship event at TPC Sawgrass.
Brandt Snedeker, long considered one of the PGA Tour’s best putters, said that despite the fastest start of his career, his putting has not been up to his own lofty standards.
One of the most entertaining traditions on the PGA Tour begins Wednesday morning at the Stadium Course’s iconic 17th hole when caddies take a turn.
Long before Davis Love III resigned himself to neck surgery there was fear.
After locking up his Tour card at last week, Derek Ernst is poised to rack up plenty more miles on his rental car.
Derek Ernst’s win last week at the Wells Fargo Championship knocked Scott Langley out of The Players Championship. Langley is the first alternate and is preparing like he’s going to play.
Despite nearly 10 inches of rain over the last seven days, the bulk of which (about 7 inches) fell last weekend, the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass was surprisingly dry as players began arriving on Monday for this week’s Players Championship.
This week will mark the return to the PGA Tour for two high-profile players, although Davis Love III’s stay on the DL was markedly longer than Dustin Johnson’s.
Vijay Singh, Padraig Harrington and golf’s governing bodies seemed to be walking contradictions this week.
The Vijay Singh doping case was complicated from the start, but the verdict just adds to the confusion on Tour.
A tangled mess unfolded Tuesday in North Carolina. Vijay Singh will not be suspended and that’s the correct call.
Tiger Woods committed to next week’s Players Championship just past the lunch hour on the East Coast on Tuesday.
Billy Horschel has backed up the on-camera guarantee he made at last December’s Q-School, and is looking for more.
Davis Love III is not in the field for next week’s Wells Fargo Championship, but hopes to tee it up at The Players in two weeks.
From Tiger Woods’ return to No. 1 to an endless anchoring debate, mid-term reviews are out for the first half of 2013.
Right now. The governing bodies need conformity on the Rules of Golf, like they had in 1951, for the sport’s sake.
Merion and USGA officials are working to ensure that despite its lack of length, the course will be a fitting U.S. Open venue.
It was Stevie Williams’ grit more than his read that helped Adam Scott slip on the green jacket at the Masters.