by foreUPwebsites | Mar 10, 2025 | Golf News
Russell Henley is not the prototypical PGA TOUR golfer, in game or attitude. He wasn’t built in a lab for the modern era – a relatively short, low-ball hitter in a sport that increasingly demands players hit it higher and further at all costs. Henley is still, by any...
by foreUPwebsites | Mar 3, 2025 | Golf News
The biggest putt of Joe Highsmith’s week was the exact type of putt he hates. Highsmith had just run his birdie try uncomfortably past the pin at the 18th hole and stood over the 5-foot comebacker knowing it was a must-make but one he always misses: a slick...
by foreUPwebsites | Feb 24, 2025 | Golf News
Brian Campbell cashed in on a huge break Sunday when his tee shot in a playoff bounced out of the trees and back into play, leading to a birdie on the second extra hole to win the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld over Aldrich Potgieter. Campbell, who closed with a 1-under...
by foreUPwebsites | Feb 17, 2025 | Golf News
The rough at Torrey Pines this week is thick – and especially dense, due to Wednesday rainfall – so some PGA TOUR players are adding high-lofted fairway woods to their bags. The added loft on fairway woods, such as 5-, 7- and 9-woods, typically help to...
by foreUPwebsites | Feb 10, 2025 | Golf News
Thomas Detry knew his talent was enough to win on the PGA TOUR, and his peers knew it too. “Freakishly talented,” said Justin Thomas, who first met Detry at the 2010 Junior Ryder Cup. First, though, Detry needed to win the battle against himself. Detry earned his...
by foreUPwebsites | Feb 2, 2025 | Golf News
In his first start of the season on the PGA TOUR, Rory McIlroy ran away from the field on the final nine at Pebble Beach Golf Links to capture his 27th victory on TOUR at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. McIlroy fired a back-nine 31 to break free from the pack atop a...