Sentences with phrase «in major championship golf»

It may be the most revered and famous course in major championship golf, but it's certainly not the hardest.

It was adventurous, but this time, he made sure he'd wrap his hands around the Jug with one of the great closes in major championship golf.

«Lexi Thompson trying to deal with an almost unprecedented moment in major championship golf,» Tirico intoned while Thompson played on.

And then there's those two finishing par - 5s, a completely unique course feature that you never get in major championship golf and could jumble the leaderboard at the end with birdies and eagles.

It's a really cool quirk of this course and one you never get in major championship golf, let alone PGA Tour golf.

Not exact matches

In the world of golf, Nicklaus added that despite intense competition, he expects Tiger Woods to break his record of 18 career major championships.

Meanwhile, Thursday marks the beginning of one of golf's major championships as the 80th Masters Tournament gets underway in Augusta, Georgia.

His greatest stretch of golf began in 1960 and lasted four years, with Palmer winning six major championships and 29 titles on the PGA Tour.

For casual golf fans that only tune in for the four major championships, the PGA often gets overlooked anyway.

So, on a day when Hiroshi Iwata matched the major championship - scoring record with a 9 - under 63 and other players golf fans had barely heard of (George Coetzee, 7 - under) scorched Whistling Straits, Woods played like the 286th - ranked golfer in the world.

There are just 18 holes left in golf's major championship season.

ABC will telecast at least 12 tournaments nationally in 1971, but it loses money on golf, even though it televises three of the four major professional championships, and urges its sponsors to buy an advertising package that includes several tournaments, not just the three prestige events.

After dominating the game from 1997 to 2008 with 14 major championships and a level of golf the sport has never seen, the 35 - year - old Woods has not won a major in three years or any PGA Tour event in nearly two.

Some big names are done for the year playing major championship golf after missing the cut in Louisville.

This is, of course, not the «British» Open but just The Open and the R&A is quick to remind you that it is the most international major championship in golf.

It's that one week of the year when we all get really philosophical about how many major championships there are in golf and what, exactly, makes a major.

The four golf major championships have a lot in common.

Tiger will miss his second straight major championship as the rest of the best in golf will tee off at Pinehurst without the former world No. 1, so we'll have to content ourselves with looking back at some of Woods» most memorable U.S. Open moments.

It was the most recent upheaval among those working for Ko, who ditched longtime swing coach David Leadbetter in December, changed from Callaway to PXG golf clubs in January, and fired caddie Jason Hamilton in October after the duo had won 10 tour events, including two major championships.

The USGA confirmed on Thursday that Woods, who finished T32 at Augusta last week in his first major championship since 2015, officially committed to try to win his fourth U.S. Open title in June at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

It was an all - world bogey, but what followed next was one of the great responses and charges in the history of major championship golf.

The Open is the most international major championship in golf, with qualifying opportunities on all six inhabited continents and 40 different methods of exemption.

It's a relatively new venue, if you considered 60 - plus years new for the oldest major championship in golf.

So learning that the winner of 14 major championships was back on the putting green and / or driving range took many in the golf world by surprise.