By Steve Eubanks of Global Golf Post For the first time since 2009, the Tour Championship winner did not win the FedEx Cup. The last time that happened, the two men on the podium at East Lake Golf Club were Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, good historical company for Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas, a…
By: Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post Marc Leishman’s wire-to-wire victory at the BMW Championship set the storyline for the final chapter of the FedEx Cup playoffs at the Tour Championship in Atlanta this week. With his victory at Conway Farms Golf Club, the 33-year-old Australian put himself in fourth place in the points…
https://youtu.be/BUMIQe2-6S4 By: Global Golf Post Lexi’s back. After a scrappy summer where she was more worried about her mother’s health than her scores (Judy Thompson underwent treatment for uterine cancer in late June), Lexi Thompson finally put three near-perfect rounds together and all but ran away with her second victory of the season, a win…
By: Global Golf Post If the winner of the PGA Tour’s player of the year race wasn’t determined Monday by Justin Thomas’ victory outside Boston, it’s close to over. In the second playoff event against his buddy/biggest challenger for player of the year – Jordan Spieth – Thomas turned in a gutsy performance in the…
By Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post If you wonder sometimes what separates the best players from the other players on the PGA Tour, what Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth did on the final two holes of regulation at the Northern Trust was a demonstration. Having spent the back nine effectively playing match play…
By: Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post It was a surprise to some that Henrik Stenson added the Wyndham Championship to his schedule but he needed the event to assure himself fulfilling the mandatory 15-start rule to retain playing privileges for next season, given his 75th-place standing in the FedEx Cup race entering the…
By: Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post For Justin Thomas, the moment finally arrived Sunday at the PGA Championship. The record-tying 63 at the U.S. Open at Erin Hills was nice, but Sunday there hadn’t played out the way Thomas imagined. When another chance came at Quail Hollow Club, Thomas delivered a golden performance,…
Matsuyama Delivers with Dominant Sunday By: Global Golf Post For all the understandable conversation about whether Jordan Spieth or Rory McIlroy will be the player to beat in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club this week, Hideki Matsuyama sent a simple message with his WGC Bridgestone Invitational victory at Firestone Country Club. He is…
Stroud Does Himself Proud in Reno By Global Golf Post As if 11 years and 289 PGA Tour starts weren’t enough, Chris Stroud had to wait a little bit longer to notch his first PGA Tour victory. It started with a final-round assault on par amid which the Texan collected 20 points in the modified…
Vegas Snaps Slump with Repeat in Canada By: Global Golf Post The win by Jhonattan Vegas is one more example of the strange way golf sometimes works. Vegas arrived at Glen Abbey Golf Club having missed the cut in his past five starts and having made the weekend just once in his past eight events.…
