Power Ranking the Top 25 Golfers Heading into the 2016 Open Championship

The season’s third major, and the oldest of the four by more than 30 years, adorns professional golf’s calendar this week. For the first time since Todd Hamilton’s surprise victory in 2004, The Open will be contested at Royal Troon in South Ayershire, Scotland, where it’s been held eight times previously.  From the field of 156 golfers, we’ll break down the top 25... 

5 Reasons the British Open Is the Best Major Tournament

In terms of viewership, the Masters has golf fans glued to their television screens in a way the other three majors can hardly approach. Augusta’s carefully orchestrated, well-protected mystique and prestige account for some of this, to be sure, as well as the splendor of the venue and history of entertaining finishes. The Masters, however, is not the best major. Rather, it is the least watched... 

Today’s Top Golf Stars and Their Legendary Equivalents

“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest. Applying that sentiment to the world of professional golf—as The Bard would surely never have anticipated—golf stars of the past are similar fixtures in the cast of characters to top golfers of the present.  “Similarity,” of course, is a broad term. There are multiple possible points of overlap... 

Winners and Losers from the 2016 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

After all that, Dustin Johnson is a winner again. A tournament that looked, for 69 holes at least, to belong to Jason Day ended as Dustin Johnson’s second victory in a row, banishing any suggestion of a major championship letdown. The long-hitting Carolinian is the week’s big winner, for obvious reasons, and he moves to the head of the pack for British Open contenders. The hole where Jason... 

Preview and Predictions for the 2016 WGC Bridgestone Invitational

The PGA Tour doesn’t usually make its way to Akron for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational until August. But thanks to the Olympics, the tour calendar was reshuffled, and here we are.  And unfortunately, because the July date coincides with the Open de France, the European Tour isn’t co-sanctioning the WGC event. So, European Ryder Cup points are awarded to the gentlemen playing in France,... 

Preview and Predictions for the 2016 Quicken Loans National

With Dustin Johnson’s breakthrough major victory at the U.S. Open in the books, the PGA Tour heads from outside Pittsburgh to outside the nation’s capital in Bethesda, Maryland, this week for the Quicken Loans National. Some big names will be following up the U.S. Open with a second week of golf in a row. Among them are Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk and Patrick Reed. James Hahn and Charley Hoffman,... 

Early Odds to Win the 2016 British Open Post-U.S. Open Edition

Last year, the post-U.S. Open British Open odds feature started off with, “The groans over Dustin Johnson’s 72nd-hole three-wack and cheers for Jordan Spieth’s triumph have barely subsided, and we’re already thinking about the next major.”  This year, we could say “the groans over Dustin Johnson’s controversial penalty ruling and cheers for his eventual... 

US Open 2016: Complete Guide to This Year’s Tournament at Oakmont

Oakmont’s green-and-white Tudor-style clubhouse watches over club founder and architect Henry Fownes’ Pennsylvania masterpiece, having seen eight U.S. Open contests, each with their component agonies and brilliance—most recently Angel Cabrera’s inspired and totally unforeseen 2007 victory over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk.  The course—where the USGA, with its official... 

Ranking the Top 25 Golfers Heading into the 2016 US Open

The U.S. Open returns this year to the venue where it’s been contested more than any other: Oakmont Country Club outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Regarded as one of the most difficult tracks in the world, and almost universally agreed to have the quickest, most difficult putting surfaces anywhere, Oakmont promises to provide the sternest of tests. Indeed, the winning score the last time the... 

Stock Watch for Golf’s Top Stars Ahead of the 2016 US Open

The season’s second major (not to mention a glorious summer of golf) is nearly upon us. Difficult, almost sinister Oakmont Country Club will play host to the U.S. Open for the ninth time and the first since Angel Cabrera’s victory in 2007.  And, whaddya know, the Big Three—Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy—lead the list of favorites, with the likes of Dustin Johnson,... 

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