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Australian golfer Robert Allenby was arrested outside a casino in Rock Island, Illinois, just hours after he failed to make the cut for the 2016 John Deere Classic. As reported by Katrina Lamansky of WQAD, the local police department confirmed the 45-year-old was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing, with his bond set at $1,500. Allenby missed the cut of the John Deere Classic by three strokes after shooting even-par 142. The two-time PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit winner has mostly made headlines for a series of incidents off the golf course...
Published: August 13, 2016
Miguel Angel Jimenez never won a major championship during his PGA career, narrowly missing out with a second-place finish at the 2000 U.S. Open. He’s 18 holes away from rectifying that on the Champions Tour. The eccentric Spaniard carded a one-under 69 in Saturday’s third round, giving him a one-stroke lead over Gene Sauers heading into the last 18 at the 2016 U.S. Senior Open. Barring either Jimenez or Sauers experiencing a collapse, the winner should come from the final group. The leaders are the only players currently under par at Scioto Country Club, with...
Published: August 12, 2016
After the second round of action at the U.S. Senior Open of Golf at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, Joey Sindelar holds the lead with an overall score of five under par after recording a four-under 66 on Friday. Here is what the leaderboard looks like after Friday’s action: Scioto Country Club usually plays as a long course, given its total distance of 6,960 yards. But due to the blustery conditions, the wind made those long holes shorter. With the difficult gusts along with the heat, only seven golfers kept their overall scores under par Friday. Sindelar put up the top...
Published: August 12, 2016
Looking for his first victory of the 2015-16 season, Vijay Singh got off to a rousing start at the U.S. Senior Open with a four-under-par 66 to take a two-stroke lead after 18 holes. There is a group of a five players tied for second place at two under par, highlighted by Jeff Gallagher and Miguel Angel Jimenez. Only 12 players finished the round under par, but there’s a lot of golf to be played and plenty of time for competitors to turn their tournaments around. Here’s how the top of the leaderboard from Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, looks following Thursday’s...
Published: August 9, 2016
After a 112-year absence, professional golf returns to the Olympics this year. And with the drama of the flow of golfers withdrawing from the competition now behind us, we can focus on the actual golf tournament, which runs from Thursday through Sunday, just like a standard PGA Tour event. The players who made the trip to Rio are getting excited. Anirban Lahiri of India said the following, per Golf.com’s Alan Shipnuck: Now that everyone is here we are all getting over the hype or the fear or the enigma that shrouded this event. You put on your country’s gear and right away you...
Published: August 8, 2016
Not a part of the Olympics since 1904, when George Lyon claimed the gold medal for Canada (as you’ve surely heard more times than you care to by now), golf makes its return with a four-round stroke-play tournament in Rio. In ranking the field, we don’t know how the Gil Hanse-designed par-71 course will play, so a “horses-for-courses” angle is out. Instead, we’ll look at the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), recent form and key statistical indicators (mainly the “strokes-gained” family of stats). “Key stats” are not included for golfers who...
Published: August 7, 2016
Jim Furyk turned in a historic day. Jerry Kelly made things interesting. None of it was enough to stop Russell Knox from tossing his hat and winning the 2016 Travelers Championship on Sunday. Knox made a 12-foot par putt on No. 18 to finish at 14 under overall, one stroke ahead of the hard-charging Kelly. Knock shot a two-under 68 on the day, overcoming a bogey on No. 16 and a field full of guys determined to go low and knock him off. The PGA Tour captured Knox’s winning moment: “Once it started kind of creeping left, I knew it was going in, and what an unbelievable feeling. It’s...
Published: August 7, 2016
Jim Furyk made history Sunday at the Travelers Championship, as he recorded the first round of 58 in the history of the PGA Tour. After hitting a long birdie putt for 57 within two feet of the hole on the 18th, Furyk easily converted par to preserve the 58, as seen in this video courtesy of the PGA Tour: He shot 12 under for the day in a round that included 10 birdies, one eagle and no bogeys, per Golf Channel: Six golfers have carded a 59 in a PGA Tour round, and the 46-year-old American is the most recent to do so, in 2013. He’s the only golfer to break 60 twice in PGA Tour events. PGA...
Published: August 6, 2016
Daniel Berger shot an eight-under 62 Saturday at the Travelers Championship to seize sole possession of the lead at 15 under overall entering Sunday’s final round. Berger entered the third round in a tie for first with Tyrone Van Aswegen, Russell Henley and Marc Leishman, but the unheralded American carded the best round of the day to carry a three-shot cushion into the fourth round. Here is a look at the leaderboard with three rounds of play officially in the books: According to ESPN Stats & Info, Berger’s dominance of TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, on Saturday...
Published: August 5, 2016
The 2016 Travelers Championship continued Friday with Tyrone Van Aswegen, Russell Henley, Marc Leishman and Daniel Berger concluding the second round in a four-way tie for the overall lead at seven under par. The quartet should not feel too comfortable in its spot, though, as four players are one shot behind at six under, and seven golfers sit at five under after 36 holes. Here’s the leaderboard after two rounds at TPC River Highlands: Van Aswegen fired a bogey-free 66 to move up eight spots Friday. His best run of the second round came from Nos. 9 through 11, where...