Only one player, the legendary Bobby Jones, won all four major golf tournaments in a single season, back in 1930. Jones subsequently retired from professional golf to practice law but returned to the game as a player-host at the inaugural Masters in 1934. Who has won the most major champio...
Only Bobby Jones has ever pulled it off with a different set of major tournaments in 1930, and it has never been done in the modern era. Tiger Woods won four consecutive majors from 2000-2001, making him the closest of any modern golfer. His feat is sometimes referred to as the “...
4. It was only classified as a major when Arnold Palmer made an offhand comment to reporter Bob Drum after he won The Masters and the US Open in 1960. On the flight to England for the 1960 Open Championship Arnold Palmer said that if he won the Open Championship and the...
PGA Tour legend Gene Sarazen was the first professional golfer in golf history to record an albatross in one of golf's four modern major events, and he did so when the stakes were high. Sarazen earned this rare score in 1935 on the par-5 15th hole of the Masters tournament at the Au...
Rocco Mediate — who says Mr. Watson “has been and always will be my idol� — knows exactly what his hero is going through. Mr. Mediate, a 46-year-old golfer who has never won a major, lost the 2008 U.S. Open to Tiger Woods on the first sudden-death ...
Olympic Golfer and 2x Masters Champion Scottie Scheffler. Pete Werner was on the track team at Cathedral High School (Indianapolis) with U.S. Olympian Cole Hocker, who won the gold medal in the 1500m in Paris. A.T. Perry is from the greater Miami area (Lake Worth Beach), which is ...
“It will make no difference whatsoever to the average golfer and puts golf back on a path of sustainability. It will also help bring back certain skills in the pro game that have been eradicated over the past 2 decades.” Also, as McIlroy and others have pointed out, golf is already ...
A keen golfer from an early age, calling herself lucky to have Wentworth Golf Club as her home club growing up. Although her playing became sporadic, Emma’s love for golf has always been there, and after a degree in Sport Development & Coaching Sciences, she has spent her whole career ...
For Stephen Curry, Misty Copeland and Jordan Spieth, being a great basketball player, principal ballerina and PGA golfer was rooted in their ability to see beyond, to be prepared to not just be great but to be extraordinary, to plan and practice but also know when to take the risk. Our ...
In golf, a "skins game" is a gambling game played within a group of golfers in which eachholehas a set value. The golfer who wins the hole is said to win the "skin," and whatever that skin is worth. When a hole is tied, the value of that hole carries over to the next, increa...