McIlroy wins in Dubai, Ko and Kerr in Florida.
That’s basically a wrap on professional golf for 2015. The LPGA and European Tours held their championships this weekend and the PGA Tour’s last FedEx Cup points until January were handed out in Georgia. Over the next month, we only have Tiger’s event and a few silly season-type events to get our golf-viewing jones on, until it all starts again in Hawaii.
So enjoy some turkey and the holidays of your choice. Let’s hit the links.
Another first-time winner, a fifth-time winner and a Monday finish
Don’t look now, but 2015 is drawing to a close, particularly in golf.
The PGA TOUR is already on its 2015-16 season, and there’s only one more week of FedEx Cup points available until January. The Champions Tour is already on hiatus. Both the European and the LPGA Tours will conclude next week with their season ending championships. The Race to Dubai will crown a winner at the DP World Tour Championship in the United Arab Emirates. The women will gather a Tiburon in Florida for the CME Group Tour Championship, where a Lydia Ko and Inbee Park showdown is expected.
While we still can, let’s hit the links.
We now interrupt your football viewing for a WGC event…
Don’t look now, but many big names teed it up this week in the WGC event in Shanghai.
We’re already a month into the 2015-16 PGA TOUR season, the Champions Tour concluded this month, the European Tour and the LPGA are moving toward their finales. It’s true, golf’s Silly Season matters now.
Let’s hit the links.
Ko back to #1, Rose and rookie win.
Rookies are doing very well on the nascent 2015-2016 PGA TOUR season. Meanwhile the LPGA, European Tour, and Champions Tours are approaching their finales for 2015.
Let’s hit the links.
The PGA TOUR is back! Did you miss it?
Ready or not, it’s already next year on the PGA TOUR. Just a week after the U.S. won the Presidents Cup (again) in Korea, three of the competitors teed it up in Napa in the season opener.
So we’re already talking about FedEx Cup points for next year’s race and debating who will make their respective Olympic teams, not to mention the Ryder Cup.
It’s going to be (another) long, fun season. Let’s hit the links.
Arnie’s 80, Els yips, and Furyk’s wrist can’t go.
Even with the PGA TOUR over for a few weeks, there’s still plenty of golf. The European Tour marches on toward Dubai. This week’s Dunhill Links Championship featured Kingsbarns, Carnoustie, and the Old Course. That’s a hard to beat triple play.
Starting Friday, the Presidents Cup will be contested in South Korea, without Tiger Woods for the first time since 1996. It should be a fun week.
Let’s hit the links.
And he’s just 22…
Tiger Woods is recovering from another back surgery. Phil Mickelson bowed out of the FedEx Cup Playoffs after Chicago. But the excitement for golf’s young guns is overshadowing their absences.
Especially exciting is the leader of the pack’s performance this season. Jordan Spieth is the youngest, at 22, but also the poster child (if you will) for the youth movement on tour. With two majors, five PGA TOUR wins, and 15 top 10s, he has put together the kind of year that Tiger did in his heyday.
Joining him are Jason Day (with five overall wins including the PGA Championship, the WGC Bridgestone, and two FedEx Cup playoff events), Rickie Fowler (two wins), and Rory McIlroy (two wins). None of them finished higher than 15th in FedEx Cup points, with Spieth and Day going one-two. 2016 could be a lot of fun.
Let’s hit the links.
It’s Jason again, Tiger’s back (again), and the U.S. in a stunner!
There’s just one week left of the 2014-15 PGA TOUR season. Despite missing the cut twice in the FedEx Cup Playoffs Jordan Spieth remains in atop the standings, but Jason Day is closing in.
And in Germany, a possible breach of etiquette lead to a fired up U.S. team rallying from four points back in the Solheim Cup.
Let’s hit the links.
Ko’s major win, Haas’ picks, and Jenner’s tees…
It was an off week for the FedExCup playoffs, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t interesting golf stories to follow.
The LPGA held the final major of the year on Lake Geneva in France on one of the most gorgeous courses of the year, even when it’s playing barely 6,000 yards.
At Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s, the Walker Cup pitted the best amateurs from the U.S. against those from Great Britain and Ireland.
But wait, there’s more! Let’s hit the links.