Professional caddies have a nearly impossible job, even when done right. Although they’re not the ones hitting the shots, they’re in charge of helping players dial in a yardage, figure out where the wind is coming from and how a certain slope is going to affect ball flight. And sometimes, caddies have to perform crowd…
Patrick Cantlay is not taking his role as a player director on the PGA Tour lightly. The American joined the tour’s Policy Board in January 2023 and a shocking framework agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia was on his lap a matter of months later. Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV…
The clubhouse at the site of the PGA Tour Americas’ ATB Classic went up in flames recently, and firefighters were contending with temperatures of 40 below while battling the blaze. The Northern Bear Golf Course in Sherwood Park, Alberta, one of just three Jack Nicklaus Signature Courses in Canada, has a deal to host the…
HONOLULU – Sony Open in Hawaii tournament director Ray Stosik has spearheaded the biggest sports charity fundraiser on any of the Hawaiian Islands since 1998 and seeing the impact the tournament makes in the community never gets old. “It’s a labor of love,” he said. “I always tell my staff, when we go out into…
After 36 holes in Hawaii, there are plenty of golfers in contention come the weekend. The first two days of the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii have come and gone, and there’s a three-way tie for the lead at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Carl Yuan, Austin Eckroat and Byeong Hun An, who are all…
Titleist’s much-vaunted Vokey design wedges are set for their latest update, two years after the last update. The new Vokey SM10 wedges were spotted in the bags of a few professionals as the PGA Tour teed off with the Sentry at Kapalua. If you’re looking for the lowdown on the SM10 wedges, you’re out of…
Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, site of the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii, originally was designed by famed golden-era architect Seth Raynor and opened in 1927 alongside Kāhala Beach. The private course has undergone multiple reconstructions, mostly in the 1960s as a hotel was added to the property. Architects Robert Trent Jones Sr., Desmond Muirhead…
Max Homa isn’t the biggest pro golfer and if you didn’t know better you might think he’d pass for an accountant playing in the pro-am. In short, his isn’t the first name that pops to mind when the PGA Tour’s longest drivers are mentioned. After all, he averaged “just” 305 yards off the tee during…
There weren’t any more obvious choices for the man to tee off the 2024 Sentry at Kapalua on the Hawaiian island of Maui than Collin Morikawa given his connection to the place and people. As the PGA Tour returns to Maui it does so aware that the island and its population are still healing from…
On cue, with the Christmas lights packed away and the winter wind biting at ears and noses in many places, the PGA Tour finds itself in Maui again. The Pacific Ocean shimmers in the south Pacific sunshine across the Hawaiian islands. The whales are breaching. Another golf season – this one confined to the same…
