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The 144th Open Championship gets underway early Thursday morning on The Old Course at St Andrews. The Open Championship is the oldest of golf’s major championships, and The Old Course hosts the tournament every five years. It’s hosted The Open 28 times since 1873. Take note – locals don’t call it the British Open. They call it the Open […]

The Open Championship was founded in 1860 by pioneering golfers who had one guiding principle – to crown the Champion Golfer of the Year. From earlier greats such as Harry Vardon and Bobby Jones to modern legends such as Jack Nicklaus and Seve Ballesteros to exceptional talents of today such as Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, the greatest players

The last couple of shots we’re learning in Advanced Elements of the Short Game this semester are the flop shot and the lob. These are specialty, low-percentage shots that today’s players like to use and abuse. You can understand why. They’re fun. But you should use these shots as a last resort – only when

The Open Championship returns to St Andrews for the first time since 2010 Thursday. But has The Old Course really changed that much since Louis Oosthuizen last raised the Claret Jug there? Tiger Woods think so. In his first look since playing it five years ago, Woods was surprised to see green grass and slow fairways. Woods

Here comes that Jordan Spieth guy… again! Spieth birdied four of his final six holes and then beat Tom Gillis in a playoff to win the John Deere Classic Sunday. It’s the same venue where Spieth earned his first career PGA Tour victory as a 19-year-old in 2013. That year he needed three playoff holes. Yesterday, he