Category: Golf Betting
Willie Mack III holds his own at The Genesis Invitational
LOS ANGELES – Willie Mack III has made the best start by a Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption recipient at The Genesis Invitational since a 23-year-old Harold Varner III made a splash in 2014. Mack III produced an eventful but ultimately impressive 1-under 70 on Thursday morning at Riviera Country Club as the iconic course showed…
Leaderboard: Round 1 of Genesis Invitational
Sam Burns dropped a 7-under 64 on Thursday for the day’s best round among a loaded field at Riviera. See who is in the hunt. Click here to read the full article…
Chatting with America’s Caddie: Howard coach Sam Puryear on HBCU golf, equality and Steph Curry
Howard golf coach Sam Puryear wants opportunity for HBCUs, but also wants to win. He’s done it before — at Stanford, at Michigan State. He has a plan for golf at Howard and beyond. Click here to read the full article…
TOUR Championship reserves tee time for Adam Sandler
It is one of golf’s burning questions, who exactly will earn a tee time for the season-ending TOUR Championship, but this year there’s a wrinkle. The tournament has invited Adam Sandler to play a round early in the week (Sept. 2-5) to commemorate the 25th anniversary of “Happy Gilmore,” the comedy in which he plays…
Joaquin Niemann boosted by cousin’s health ahead of Genesis
LOS ANGELES – Joaquin Niemann’s last two starts produced confidence-boosting runner-up results, but it is a victory of sorts from off the golf course that has the young Chilean star fired up ahead of The Genesis Invitational. Niemann’s quest to help raise over $2.1 million for treatment for his infant cousin Rafita Calderon, who suffers…
TGR Foundation celebrates 25 years, 2 million students reached
In 1996, Tiger Woods and his father, Earl, shared a vision. The vision was to build a foundation, built on the family motto of “share and care”, that focused on positive youth development, junior golf initiatives and supporting educational programs. As father and son, they planned out their mission and goals, dreaming of what TGR…
Two-time All-American Phillip Knowles takes his shot at LECOM Suncoast Classic as KFT returns
The two-time All-American at the University of North Florida will be among the field of 144 at the third annual LECOM Suncoast Classic. Click here to read the full article…
DJ riding a wave into Genesis Invitational
Dustin Johnson, who won two weeks ago at the Saudi International, heads to Riviera in the midst of a Tigeresque stretch and shows no signs of slowing down. Click here to read the full article…
Q&A with TaylorMade’s Adrien Rietveld on Collin Morikawa
Thoughtfulness and precision. They make Collin Morikawa who he is as a player and also keep him in the hunt despite being just above average in length. The point is, he may not be a bomber but he will rip your eyes out with the rest of it. Case in point: Morikawa is 104th in…
Cameron Champ, his foundation supporting Black-owned small businesses
For Cameron Champ, if it felt personal, it’s because it was. After all, it was a place where he’d been going for as long as he could remember. There were photos of him up as a 10-year-old there. Someplace where an hour, sometimes two, could pass by just like that. It was home. So, when…
Featured Groups roundtable: The Genesis Invitational
Defending FedExCup champion, world No. 1 and 2017 Riviera winner Dustin Johnson returns to action as a stacked field takes on famed Riviera Country Club at The Genesis Invitational. The tournament, an L.A. staple, has drawn 16 of the top 20 in the FedExCup standings and eight of the top 10 players in the world,…
Happy 25th, Happy Gilmore!
Complete coverage of Happy Gilmore’s 20th anniversary. Editor’s note: This story was originally published on February 16th, 2016. We can all agree that Adam Sandler’s movie “Happy Gilmore” – which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week — took several liberties with the Rules of Golf, flouted conventional wisdom and mocked some of the sport’s time-honored…