Golf

A month ago Brooks Koepka choked on the final day of the Masters and vowed it would never happen again. On Sunday night, as the sun set on the US PGA Championship in Rochester, he delivered on his promise. He held his nerve, he holed his putts and across 67 strokes he bit down hard … Read more

Brooks Koepka hails ‘sweetest’ major of his career after ending four-year drought with PGA Championship triumph – and insists ‘as a kid he didn’t even dream’ about winning five Brooks Koepka finished two shots ahead of Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler American said he was ‘lost for words’ and talked about ‘blood, sweat and tears’  DailyMail.com … Read more

If there have been a pair of steady themes through the first two majors of this golfing season it is the prevalence of LIV rebels on Sunday leaderboards and a recurring question that tends to exist in close proximity. What exactly is the US Ryder Cup captain, Zach Johnson, going to do with them? It … Read more

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — On Saturday evening, Michael Block, the 46-year-old Everyman golf pro from a public course in California, learned that he would continue his enchanting run at this year’s P.G.A. Championship by playing the final round with Rory McIlroy, the four-time major champion. Block rolled his eyes at the news and spun around. “Are … Read more

Phil Mickelson turns heads at the PGA Championship as he insists he ‘knows things others don’t’ about PGA Tour lawsuit – and says LIV Golf’s biggest accomplishment is ‘providing the highest pay’ Phil Mickelson reportedly pocketed $200m for joining LIV Golf last year He made yet more comments about his old employers, the PGA Tour, … Read more

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Six weeks ago on Sunday, Brooks Koepka did not sleep. He had brooding to do and demons to chase. After everything — the ghastly knee injury, the agony of unfulfilled ambition, the taunts and the splenetic rift in professional golf that he helped personify — he had rallied to a Masters Tournament … Read more

‘Rory, did it go in?’: Club pro Michael Block hits INCREDIBLE slam-dunk hole-in-one during the final round of his fairytale PGA Championship run while playing alongside McIlroy Michael Block has been the talk of the course at Oak Hill East this weekend He made a remarkable hole-in-one on the 15th hole – and couldn’t believe … Read more

Rob Galbraith remembers, as a child in the early 1960s, regularly going to the Rochester, N.Y., home of his great-grandfather, John R. Williams who had been a pioneering physician in the area. Most memorable about those visits was seeing the byproduct of Williams’s amateur avocation: botany. In the backyard, there were several hundred nascent oak, … Read more

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — For a while during the third round of the P.G.A. Championship on Saturday, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and three or four other golfers were roaming the august grounds of the Oak Hill Country Club with their caps on backward. “It makes me feel cool,” Rose said. … Read more

LIV-ing atop the leaderboard! Brooks Koepka leads the PGA Championship after third round at -6 as tour-mate Bryson DeChambeau trails by only three strokes The LIV Golf star hammered home a 47-foot birdie putt at No. 17 to reach -6 Nearly 0.9 inches of rain fell at Oak Hill, mostly between 8 a.m. and 4 … Read more