Category: Golf Betting
$10,000 up for grabs in winner-take-all for top Cactus Tour players
Talk about a belated Christmas gift. Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona, is putting up $10,000 in a winner-take-all exhibition on Sunday. Click here to read the full article…
Watch: Folds of Honor/Patriot Golf Day scholarship winners get Christmas surprise
A number of joyful Christmas tears were shed recently, thanks to some late contributions to Folds of Honor. Click here to read the full article…
Top 5 most viewed videos of 2020
What were we watching in 2020? What moments defied expectations and practically screamed to be shared and clicked again and again and again? We were fascinated by golf balls diving into holes – and in one case coming out like it was scared of the dark. We loved the interplay between Tiger Woods and his…
Top equipment stories of 2020
No platitudes are needed to emphasize the singularity of 2020—they’ve all been used, so let’s dive right into the subject at hand: On the golf equipment front, the COVID-19 pandemic saw not only an uptick in rounds played, but record-breaking equipment sales. Indeed, according to industry research firm Golf Datatech, Q3 equipment sales topped the…
Accessibility, cost and opportunity hurt golf
The financial, systemic, cultural and environmental barriers for entry shunt thousands of potential players into other, more accessible sports. Click here to read the full article…
Stirring trailer for ‘Tiger’ documentary drops
Tiger Woods is the latest talented but controversial athlete to get the documentary treatment. The upcoming feature on HBO looks like a must-watch. Click here to read the full article…
Euro Captain Padraig Harrington gearing up for extra year at the helm and PGA Tour Champions in his future
Padraig Harrington becomes eligible for PGA Tour Champions when he turns 50 on Aug. 31, but his focus is on retaining the Ryder Cup. Click here to read the full article…
Top 10 Under 25
Kids these days. They make it look so easy. The transition from schoolboy golf to the big leagues isn’t supposed to be so simple. Sure, there are always exceptions, but they come along once every few years. Not anymore. It’s fitting that Viktor Hovland won the final PGA TOUR event of 2020 because he and…
2020-21 Qualifiers for majors, THE PLAYERS, WGCs
It’s convenient practically for the end-of-year Official World Golf Ranking to be used to help fill the field at the next Masters, but it’s also a coincidence that it occurs during the holiday season. For all intents and purposes, it’s the gift that keeps on giving, even in an unprecedented year like 2020 as the…
Westwood voted European Tour golfer of the year
Lee Westwood was voted as the European Tour’s golfer of the year for 2020 on Monday, winning the award for the fourth time in his career after ending the season as the Race to Dubai champion at the age of 47. Click here to read the full article…
Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020
What were you reading in 2020? According to the metrics, it was a diverse lineup of stories that was by turns predictable (two of the top three stories featured Tiger Woods) and unpredictable (a feature about Rory McIlroy’s reading habits). There was triumph (the astounding comeback of Brendon Todd, among others) and tragedy (the courage…
A Logo Turns 40
Art West had a problem. He stared down at the glass-top table that served as his desk at the PGA TOUR’s makeshift headquarters inside a converted house in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Sitting atop the table was a book from that year, adorned with the TOUR’s logo and the words OFFICIAL PGA TOURMEDIA GUIDE 1979.…