PGA Championship 2014: Separating Contenders from Pretenders Before Final Round

Heading into the final round of the PGA Championship, it’s anyone’s game…sort of. The narrative is a far cry from what the story seemed like it would be entering Sunday at Valhalla. It appeared after Friday’s round that Saturday’s action would be another act in the drama of Rory McIlroy‘s fourth career major, with the Ulsterman running away from the field as he’s... 

2014 PGA Championship: Updated Odds After the Cut

After the cut at the 2014 PGA Championship, the man oddsmakers favored to lift the Wanamaker trophy is in prime position. Looking for his third win in as many starts, Rory McIlroy leads the field at nine under after two rounds.  An impressive bunch is nipping at the Ulsterman’s heels, however, including Jason Day, Jim Furyk, Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson.  A few notable players found... 

10 Incredible Stats from the PGA Tour in 2014

In some sense, all stats from the PGA Tour are incredible to the average golfer. For example, can you wrap your head around swinging your driver an average of 123.5 miles per hour, as Bubba Watson does? Consider the fact that Watson is likely giving some thought to accuracy and finding the fairway when he tees it up—which means he’s not swinging at 100 percent—and the figure... 

Stock Watch for Golf’s Top Stars 1 Week Out from 2014 PGA Championship

The 2014 PGA Championship begins August 7. At last report, all 100 of the top 100 golfers in the world will be teeing it up at Valhalla, per the PGA of America. Not surprisingly, then, all of the game’s biggest stars will be in the field. Of course, not all of those casting the longest shadows are playing well heading into the home stretch, although some (including the guy in the picture above)... 

PGA Championship 2014: Golfers with Games Ideally Suited for Valhalla

Tiger Woods emerged victorious from an epic final-round duel with the unheralded Bob May at the PGA Championship at Valhalla in 2000.  Entering the fourth major of the 2000 season, Tiger Woods was in the midst of one of the best stretches of play in golf history. Now, 14 years later, a very different Woods is poised to again tee it up in a PGA Championship at Valhalla. Woods’ 18-under winning... 

Winners and Losers of the Week in Golf

The week after a PGA Tour major can be a dull affair and isn’t usually filled with high drama. Fortunately, these past seven days bucked that trend.  While many of the PGA Tour’s best were still recovering from jet lag, Tim Clark and Jim Furyk were battling it out at Royal Montreal.  Across the pond, Bernhard Langer dominated the field at the Senior British Open. Elsewhere,... 

Under-the-Radar Golfers to Watch in the Remainder of the 2014 Season

Some under-the-radar golfers are hidden in plain sight. That is, they’re sitting near the top of the FedEx Cup standings but haven’t seen a lot of time on television, or gotten a lot of attention from the press.  Other big names who we haven’t heard a lot from this season find their way onto this list.  Finally, some of our under-the-radar golfers are true diamonds in the... 

Which of Golf’s Majorless Young Stars Will Be First to Break Through?

If we aren’t yet in the final act of the drama that has been Tiger Woods‘ professional golf career, we are close.  In Woods’ wake comes a bevy of young talents. Rory McIlroy, of course, is chief among them.  Twenty-five-year-old Rory McIlroy just won his third major. He crossed himself off the list of golf’s majorless young stars with his win at the U.S. Open in 2011.  One... 

Stock Watch for US Ryder Cup Candidates After 2014 British Open

U.S. Ryder Cup candidates are running out of time to state their cases. The top nine Ryder Cup point earners (under the Ryder Cup points system) from the 2013 Masters through the 2014 PGA Championship punch their tickets to compete for country at Gleneagles at the end of September. Captain Tom Watson will announce his three picks in early September. With only three weeks until Ryder Cup rosters are... 

British Open 2014: Separating Contenders from Pretenders Before the Final Round

After an unprecedented two-tee start early Saturday morning with the expectation of bad weather that never came, things look much the same on the leaderboard as they did last night.  Entering Sunday’s final round at the Open Championship, the top of the leaderboard looks like this: Rory McIlroy: -16 Rickie Fowler: -10 Sergio Garcia: -9 Dustin Johnson: -9 Victor Dubuisson: -8 Edoardo Molinari:... 

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