TULSA — Friday has an inherent finality. Half know it’s going to be fired, packing with their dreams of everything that could happen this week. However, such an end usually has a paradox because it is short-lived: next week will bring a new event, with new challenges and new aspirations, requiring separation, if not complete … Read more
Tulsa — not so long ago — in fact, 2016 — Talor Gooch was on the brink of collapse in the second phase of the Web.com Qualification School, thinking about his future career at Best Buy. The Midwest, Oklahoma native has no profile to speak of, and at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas, he needs … Read more
TULSA — Saturday’s game at South Hills felt more like the third round of the British Open than the PGA Championship, with 60-plus temperatures and a breeze blowing away any chance of a super-low score. Chile’s Mito Pereira had a 1-under 69 to go from one behind to three with 18 holes to play. If … Read more
TULSA — Tiger Woods is playing because that’s what Tiger Woods does. He limps and scratches, grimaces and grunts—for what? for himself. Woods has little to gain from proving he’s got zero points and getting knocked out at this PGA Championship and struggling through another two grueling rounds. A normal person would make a double … Read more
TULSA — Bunkers on the PGA Tour are often only a danger in name. Gone are the days when bunkers were glorified as sandboxes, and good lies were a reward rather than an expectation. Modern bunkers are pearly white oasis that provide players with a blank canvas to handle the ball however they want. They’d … Read more
The second major of the year is here, and we’re as excited about the PGA Championship as any other major in 2022. The Nanshan site is as charming as the existing site. Gil Hanse and his team reverted to the classic Perry Maxwell design a few years ago, and if conditions are steady and fast … Read more
TULSA – If you’re looking for similarities between South Mountain and Craig Ranch, well, this is a doomed quest and we won’t bother sending out a search party. However, if Xander Schauffele lifts the Wanamaker on Sunday night, the providence found at the aforementioned TPC venue last Friday could inspire the rescue. Playing at AT&T … Read more