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1 week ago | 
newsdirectory3.com | Michael Bamberger
Key PointsCharlie Woods, son of Tiger Woods, won an AJGA tournament at Streamsong. The win highlights the intense scrutiny and expectations he faces. Woods acknowledges the importance of this victory for his mental game.
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1 week ago | 
golf.com | Alan Bastable |Michael Bamberger
Charlie Woods is a winner. He won an American Junior Golf Association tournament on Wednesday that was sponsored by TaylorMade and held at Streamsong, central Florida’s answer to Bandon Dunes. Lots of familiar names there. Charlie Woods, son of Tiger and Elin, is only 16 but you’ve been aware of him, if you have been following this game closely for a while, for 16 years. His birth was news.
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1 week ago | 
golf.com | Michael Bamberger
Ben Hogan will turn 113 in August. Amazing. Right? True, Hogan died in 1997, but if you watched or attended the Colonial tournament last week — the Charles Schwab Challenge — you saw what everybody saw: Ben Hogan, his own self, making the rounds. The players, every last one of them, walked by the bronze Hogan statue, brimming with life, which turns the wee man into the giant he was.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Michael Bamberger
Entering the 2000 season, Tiger Woods, at age 24, had already made plenty of noise on the PGA Tour: 15 wins, two majors, the shattering intimidation. But what he did 25 years ago, in his astonishing turn-of-the-century campaign, redefined the game. Maybe forever. TIGER 2000 SOUNDS LIKE an Italian sports car but is actually a useful shorthand to describe the greatest season in the history of modern tournament golf.
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2 weeks ago | 
bvmsports.com | Michael Bamberger
News By: Michael Bamberger May 18, 2025 Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy at the PGA Championship this week. getty images CHARLOTTE, N.C. - These choice exclamations, in good times and in bad, they're revealing. Scottie Scheffler after his Thursday round here, offering a soliloquy from deep within his experience about . . . mud balls.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Michael Bamberger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — These choice exclamations, in good times and in bad, they’re revealing. Scottie Scheffler after his Thursday round here, offering a soliloquy from deep within his experience about . . . mud balls. Shane Lowry, playing out of somebody else’s pitch mark on Friday: “F— this place.” The place was the Quail Hollow Club, host site of the 103rd PGA Championship, with a $3.4 million payday waiting for the winner.
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2 weeks ago | 
bvmsports.com | Michael Bamberger
News By: Michael Bamberger May 17, 2025 Bryson DeChambeau on the 18th hole in the third round of the PGA Championship. getty images CHARLOTTE, N.C. - You like taking the backroads? You can make a 100-mile drive, most of it on two-lane highway, from the par-4 18th hole of the Quail Hollow Club to the par-4 18th hole at Pinehurst No. 2, where the U.S. Open was decided last year.
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3 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Michael Bamberger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — You like taking the backroads? You can make a 100-mile drive, most of it on two-lane highway, from the par-4 18th hole of the Quail Hollow Club to the par-4 18th hole at Pinehurst No. 2, where the U.S. Open was decided last year. That’s when Rory McIlroy closed with a Father’s Day bogey, and Bryson DeChambeau made a gutty sand-save par to win his second U.S. Open. On Sunday, this 103rd PGA Championship could be decided on the spectacular closing hole.
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3 weeks ago | 
bvmsports.com | Michael Bamberger
News By: Michael Bamberger May 17, 2025 Rory McIlroy in the third round of the PGA Championship. getty images CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The face of the modern driver is as thin as a dime. Much thinner, really. Thin, light, flexible - alive. For the best players in the world, digging length, the thinner the better. They want that golf ball jumping off the face like a kid bouncing on a trampoline. Trampoline effect is a term of the art.
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3 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Michael Bamberger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The face of the modern driver is as thin as a dime. Much thinner, really. Thin, light, flexible — alive. For the best players in the world, digging length, the thinner the better. They want that golf ball jumping off the face like a kid bouncing on a trampoline. Trampoline effect is a term of the art. So is COR — coefficient of restitution, a term of physics that turns this phenomenon into a number. Bryson DeChambeau is happy to explain the whole thing to you.
