Winners and Losers from the 2015 John Deere Classic

Jordan Spieth. What can you say? The 21-year-old Texan is pretty good at winning these golf-tournament things.  A day after Spieth lit up TPC Deere Run to the tune of a 61, he came out flat during the tournament’s final round before turning it on late (as champions are prone to do) to take down Tom Gillis in a playoff. He’ll head to St. Andrews as the first golfer to win four... 

British Open 2015: Ranking the Top 25 Golfers Ahead of the Open Championship

Whether you call it the British Open or The Open Championship, the season’s third major is here. The world’s best golfers are taking ocean liners across the sea to arrive at St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. Wait, that was 75 years ago. They’re all taking planes, many of them private, from all over the world. And a few gentlemen have a shorter commute: from within the United Kingdom.... 

Which English Star Could Break Through and Win a First Major at St. Andrews?

Of the Englishmen teeing it up at this British Open (or Open Championship) in Scotland, five stand out as potential contenders for the Claret Jug.  We’re limiting our list to England proper, so golfers such as Jamie Donaldson (Wales), Martin Laird (Scotland) and Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) aren’t included.  We’ll look at past play at St. Andrews, recent performance... 

The 10 Most Eye-Popping Stats on the PGA Tour in 2015

To the average golfer, the average PGA Tour pro’s stats are eye-popping relative to their own 20-handicap games. Could you imagine averaging 290 yards off the tee, hitting 66 percent of greens in regulation and one-putting 40 percent of the time?  Some pros, however, are well above (or below) tour averages and have amassed some truly eye-popping stats this year.  Click through for 10... 

Tiger Woods Is Now Merely Average, as Improved Play at Greenbrier Shows Us

Tiger Woods carded a bogey-free final-round 67 (his first since 2013) for a tied-for-32nd finish at the Greenbrier Classic.  Woods hit 12 of 14 fairways for his final round and 15 of 18 greens in regulation, although his putter was again cold; he lost 1.33 strokes to the field with the flatstick.  And suddenly, Tiger’s good to go for the season’s third major! When you’ve... 

The PGA Tour Golfers with the Shortest Tempers

If you play golf, you’ve almost certainly teed it up with one guy or gal who frequently becomes unglued. And here’s the thing: Your games of golf don’t matter. Imagine if that person was, say, missing out on a few hundred grand thanks to a missed putt or losing out on the prospect of collecting a paycheck for the week entirely.  Such is the situation for the PGA Tour’s... 

5 Things Tiger Woods Needs to Do to Make the Cut at the Greenbrier Classic

Tiger Woods has only teed it up at the Greenbrier Classic once since the tournament’s inception in 2010, missing the cut in 2012. In order to avoid the same outcome this year, Woods will have to do five key things. But first, some context. As SB Nation’s Brian Floyd indicated, Tiger Woods’ Chambers Bay performance was really, really bad. When he missed the cut at the U.S. Open, he... 

Preview and Predictions for the 2015 Greenbrier Classic

Following Bubba Watson’s playoff win at the Travelers Championship, the PGA Tour heads 600 miles southwest to TPC Old White in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, for the Greenbrier Classic.  Watson, Webb Simpson, Patrick Reed and Keegan Bradley lead the group of professional golfers arriving at the historic hotel this week.  The Charles Blair Macdonald track, known for its wide fairways... 

Winners and Losers from the 2015 Travelers Championship

Travelers Insurance, with its red umbrella logo, is an appropriate sponsor of the Cromwell, Connecticut, tournament at TPC River Highlands this week as the final round was played under steady sprinkles.  A pair of left-handers took center stage for most of the final round as Bubba Watson and Brian Harman dueled. As the latter faltered, however, Englishman Paul Casey caught the former with an inspired... 

The 10 Most Picturesque Golf Courses in America

What makes for a picturesque golf course? While the answer may be subjective, here’s the definition from Merriam-Webster: a: resembling a picture; suggesting a painted sceneb: charming or quaint in appearance We’ll stick with idea that these courses present many views worthy of commemorating in a picture.  Admittedly heavy on courses played on the PGA Tour as well as top-ranked courses... 

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