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Jordan Spieth Wasn't Much For Talking After His Masters Collapse
Jordan Spieth lost the Masters by three strokes thanks to his collapse on the back nine, which included a quadruple bogey on a par 3. He recovered a bit and hit birdies on 13 and 15, but a bogey on 17 doomed him to a two-way tie for second with Lee Westwood. In the end, it was the worst collapse at ...
Jordan Spieth Blows Masters Lead With Disastrous Quadruple Bogey
Jordan Spieth had a fairly comfortable lead through most of the final round of the Masters, until he inexplicably blew the first few holes of Augusta’s back nine. After hitting four straight birdies, Spieth bogied on holes 10 and 11. Then he did, well, this on 12, which was a Par 3....
Louis Oosthuizen Shoots Hole-In-One Off J.B. Holmes's Ball
This certainly isn’t something you see very often. Hitting on No. 16, Louis Oosthuizen’s drive found the green—and J.B. Holmes’s ball—before rolling in for a hole-in-one, and almost giving Holmes a “hole-in-one” too....
Now Davis Love III Has Hit A Hole-In-One
Holes-in-one for everyone! Moments after Shane Lowry’s eight-iron tee shot found the hole, veteran Davis Love III repeated the trick using a seven-iron. Who needs guys named Spieth or McIlroy?...
Shane Lowry Hits Hole-In-One On 16
Wonderfully profane Irishman Shane Lowry may be tied for 42nd place in this final round of the Masters, but he took home a special moment today on the 16th when he became the first in four years to hit a hole-in-one from that tee. He seems pretty excited....
"These Guys Are Good"
Augusta National is turning the world’s best golfers into muni course hackers before our eyes. Here are the tournament leaders both playing the carom off the par-3 fourth hole seating section, bumper bowling-style....
Ernie Els Started The Masters With A 7-Putt, And It Was Excruciating
You know that sickly feeling you get you’re watching a particularly violent scene in a horror movie that just goes on for way too long? That’s how watching Ernie Els seven-putt his way to a sextuple bogey on the first hole of the Masters will make you feel....
Rory McIlroy Is A Shark
The following is excerpted from the New York Times bestseller Slaying the Tiger: A Year Inside the Ropes on the PGA Tour. The paperback version was released this week, and is available here....
Tiger Woods To Miss Masters, Again
Tiger Woods will be absent from Augusta National again as the four-time winner is simply too injured to compete, he announced tonight on his website. Let’s remember better times for Tiger:...
Jim Nantz Appears To Be Insane
In attempt to teach you what real pain is, Golf Digest decided to let Jim Nantz go Kerouac on everyone’s ass. You should never expose yourself to Jim Nantz’s stream-of-consciousness musings, but I would like to briefly draw your attention to his deeply disturbing anecdote about toast:...
Rory McIlroy Holes 59-Foot Putt
Rory McIlroy had a mediocre turn at this weekend’s Arnold Palmer Invitational—finishing in a tie for 25th place—but he closed his Sunday with an incredible long-range putt for birdie on the par-4 18th at Bay Hill. The Northern Irishman changed his putting approach earlier this month, and it might ju...
Fox Invades Golf Course, Steals A Dude's Wallet
Here’s a good thing to keep in mind if you ever find yourself fawning over a wild animal....
Golf Child Christens Tiger Woods's New Course With A Hole-In-One
Tiger Woods just opened a new golf course in Montgomery, Tex., and he played the course’s inaugural round with some kids. One of those kids was 11-year-old Taylor Crozier, who stepped up the first tee and dropped in an ace....
PGA Tour Pro Gary Woodland Removes His Pants And Takes A Shot In His Underwear
Golf is, allegedly, a gentleman’s game. Some may make the argument that thinly veiled ass is gentlemanly, and I’m in no position to debate them, especially considering that Gary Woodland’s trousers were white. Is showing your butt (but just a little bit) more noble than getting your pants all muddy?...
NBC Apologizes After Airing Irish Golfer Shane Lowry's "Ach.. Ye Fookin' Idiot. Fook!"
Today’s PGA event from Palm Beach Gardens features some of the best professional golfers in the world, and that includes a personal favorte: Shane Lowry. The Irishman’s never at a loss for words, as evidenced by his brief and profane response to finding the water on the 15th....
PGA Tour Golfer Jason Bohn Survives Heart Attack And Major Arterial Blockage
Jason Bohn left this weekend’s Honda Classic on Friday and headed to a hospital after reporting chest pains to the tournament’s medical staff. He was taken to a Palm Beach hospital in an ambulance shortly after finishing his round on Friday. According to the Golf Channel’s Tim Rosaforte, “had it hap...
Tiger Woods Posts Video Showing That Maybe He Isn't Old And Fucked Up
Tiger Woods is old, and depending how much stock you put into vaguely sourced Twitter reports, possibly too fucked up to play golf. But if this video Woods just posted to his Twitter account is to be believed, he is at least capable of swinging a golf club....
Tiger Woods's Agent Disputes Claim That Tiger Woods Is Old And Fucked Up
Tiger Woods hasn’t played in a golf tournament since August. The 40-year-old still has no timetable for his return, and his back is admittedly in depressingly bad shape. Over the weekend, a couple of tweets claimed to have details on his health, and the purported details were bleak....
Mookie Betts Drove A Golf Cart Right Into A Lake
Red Sox center fielder Mookie Betts is an adept baseball man, as well as an extremely skilled bowler. What he’s not good at is driving a golf cart, apparently. He and Travis Shaw went golfing this afternoon, and they got a bit more amphibious than they wanted to....
Mark Wahlberg From <i>Ted 2</i> Misses A Hole-In-One At Pebble Beach By Inches
Mark Wahlberg, famous for such movies as Ted and Ted 2, is, it turns out, a real damn good golfer. Look at the curve on this bad boy....