By Sean Fairholm of Global Golf Post. In his first PGA Tour victory since the 2009 Houston Open, Paul Casey displayed exceptional resilience when the pressure became its greatest. The Englishman earned his way into the final pairing for the third round and birdied three holes on his opening nine Saturday, but a late water…
By Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post For weeks now, Mickelson has been talking about how his game has been trending in the right direction and on Saturday evening he said if he didn’t win this event, he was going to win again. Shooting 66 on Sunday to overcome a two-stroke deficit starting the…
By Sean Fairholm of Global Golf Post Justin Thomas never had his best stuff on Sunday, but he grinded through the final round of the Honda Classic with the savvy of a player who knows how to win. Starting the day one stroke behind 54-hole leader Luke List, with whom he was paired in the…
By Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post For all of his flamboyance, Bubba Watson had become an afterthought on the PGA Tour during the past year, gradually playing his way out of the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking. It wasn’t just that the two-time Masters champion hadn’t won since the 2016…
By Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post Take the No. 1-ranked player in the world, a guy who has won twice already at Pebble Beach, and he’s playing head to head against a left-handed guy ranked 246th in the world and it’s easy to figure out what happens. Until it doesn’t. Ted Potter Jr.’s…
By Staff and Wire Reports of Global Golf Post On a Sunday that started with Rickie Fowler leading and Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau bunched near the top, did anyone have Gary Woodland and Chez Reavie in a playoff? That’s the way it happens sometimes. While Fowler and Rahm did themselves in with…
By Staff and Wire Reports of Global Golf Post The victory was Day’s 11th on the PGA Tour, but it has a different feeling given that his last triumph came in May 2016 at the Players Championship. He has battled a bad back for much of that 20-month stretch, withdrawing from last week’s Wednesday pro-am…
By Staff and Wire Reports at Global Golf Post A year ago, Jon Rahm left the CareerBuilder Challenge as the 137th-ranked player in the world. Now, Rahm will be the second-ranked player in the world, heading back to Torrey Pines where everything started last year, riding the momentum of a victory in the California…
By Staff and Wire Reports of Global Golf Post Though the new PGA Tour season is only 10 events old, Patton Kizzire already has made a significant impact, winning twice to establish himself as a new force. Kizzire, 31, won the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in November and picked up his second trophy by outlasting…
By Ron Green Jr. of Global Golf Post Think back to last spring when Dustin Johnson was in the midst of winning three consecutive PGA Tour starts. Johnson did it in the way he tends to do it – by making it look simple. Johnson’s easy-rolling victory at Kapalua took on a similar look as…