Ryan Herrington
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Report: Tom Weiskopf diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
The 78-year-old former British Open champion and 16-time PGA Tour winner began treatment on Thursday. → Read More
U.S. Open 2020: How the 36-hole cut is determined at the U.S. Open
Who'll be playing on the weekend at Winged Foot? Here's how the USGA determines the 36-hole cut at the U.S. Open → Read More
U.S. Open 2020: Everything you need to know about the 13 amateurs competing at Winged Foot
Amateurs playing this week will experience a different major vibe without fans, but that doesn't diminish the importance of playing well in the biggest tournament of their lives → Read More
Germany's Aline Krauter follows countrywoman Sophia Popov's lead, wins Women's British Amateur title
Sophia Popov's Cinderella win at the Women's British Open is already helping inspire other German golfers → Read More
Brooks Koepka nearly makes hole-in-one on par 4, likes shot so much he retweets it during weather delay
After you watch Brooks Koepka drive the green on the 332-yard par-4 ninth hole at Harbour Town and leave himself a 3 1/2-footer for eagle, you just might retweet the shot too. → Read More
We quizzed Graeme McDowell about his 2010 U.S. Open win, but we're not entirely sure he passed
Winning a major is a big deal in a golfer's life, so you'd think they're remember everything about it. You decide if that's the case for Graeme McDowell → Read More
Seniors Natalie Srinivasan and Pepperdine's Sahith Theegala win a pair of college golf's national player-of-the-year honors
Furman's Natalie Srinivasan and Pepperdine's Sahith Theegala earn the Annika and Fred Haskins Awards as college golf's top players for the 2019-'20 season → Read More
7 players who were having underappreciated PGA Tour seasons before the coronavirus
Reviewing the PGA Tour season to date, we couldn’t help but notice a handful players who were having seasons that stood out better than we even remembered → Read More
TPC Harding Park, site of the 2020 PGA Championship, set to re-open on May 4
Changes to the San Francisco area's shelter-in-place orders are allowing golf courses to open again, and the site of August's PGA Championship will do so on Monday → Read More
Can you name golf's most famous courses from these satellite images? Take our quiz
Aerials of the best golf courses in the world are always fun to look at. But how many of these Google Earth shots can you correctly name? → Read More
If we hid the names and only gave you stats, who would you take as college golf's players of the year?
Organizations are starting to hand out college player of the year awards. If we gave you only stats and no player names, who would you pick to win the honors? → Read More
We uncovered a stat that quantifies Tiger Woods' career dominance in, well, dominating fashion
Since 1980, only two golfers have accomplished this in a single season on the PGA Tour. It's just that one of those golfers has done it at least seven times. Care to guess who? → Read More
Sounds like Rory McIlroy has already psyched himself up for a November Masters
Rory McIlroy says with the different feel of a Masters in November 'maybe that’s what I need to get the jacket' → Read More
To the winner goes the spoils: A brief history of the Masters prize money payout
Winning at Augusta National has become a very lucrative accomplishment, as you can see by the rise in the first-place prize money payout and the all-time career Masters money leaders → Read More
Curtis Cup, originally scheduled for June in Wales, postponed to summer 2021
The USGA and R&A agreed to push back the 2020 Curtis Cup until the summer of 2021 due to the coronavirus, but as of now aren't moving off the traditional schedule of playing in even-numbered years → Read More
Here are all the golf tournaments that have been canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus
A listing of all the significant professional and amateur golf tournaments impacted by the coronavirus → Read More
Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals rescheduled for 2021
Augusta National, the USGA and PGA of America announced they were pushing back the 2020 DCP to April 2021, and were canceling the 2020-'21 qualifying season → Read More
9 high-profile players who have work to do when the PGA Tour season resumes
A truncated PGA Tour schedule will mean fewer events left to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, leaving some big names scrambling when play (hopefully) resumes → Read More
R&A adds exemption into the Open Championship for the winner of the Latin America Amateur
The Latin America Amateur Championship winner already got a spot into the Masters, but starting this year also gets a full exemption into the Open Championship → Read More
Why 2019 U.S. Amateur champ Andy Ogletree's return home meant so much
We joined Andy Ogletree for his emotional first trip back to see family and friends in Union, Miss., after winning the Havemeyer Trophy last summer → Read More