Sentences with phrase «major championships this year»

I've yet to see anything much to reassure me his game's in a better place than it's been at earlier major championships this year.

Golf fans get four major championships every year.

The Open Championship is underway in Hoylake, and Tiger Woods is off to a frustrating start in his fist major championship this year.

The 25 - year - old put together one of the most impressive performances we've ever seen in the major championships this year.

Not exact matches

It is the first of professional golf's four major championships to be played each year, and it is a sign that spring has sprung and golf season is officially open.

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.

One thing I was very definite about in my mind when I started the year was that I would try my best to win at least one major championship if I did nothing else.

He was a big part of Villanova's run to the 2016 national championship and made major strides as a shooter last year, jumping from 29 percent from three - point range to 39 percent.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

It's been a thrilling year for the major championships with a combination of great finishes and big names heavily involved in each.

But through the front nine, things seem set for the 23 - year - old's third major championship.

This year, we've done a great job picking golfers for the major championships.

Brian, 17, shot a five - over-par 293 to win the PGA junior title in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., becoming the first player to win both major U.S. junior boys» championships in the same year.

It's impossible to predict every little breakthrough (a hundred years ago, we'd never have envisioned painless dentistry, the designated hitter or Thighmaster), but we're expert enough (in sports, not so much medicine) to forecast that Vince McMahon's WWF will become the umbrella organization that regulates all major league sports (except for boxing, which will continue to be guided by good sense alone), and outcomes will be scripted to provide total fan satisfaction (read: fireworks, near - naked women on every sideline, no 8 - 8 playoff teams ever and especially no Yankees championships).

Remember, in his previous stint at Pitt, Majors took over a 1 - 10 team and four years later won the national championship.

He's the perfect bookend to the 2013 major championship season, which was about as good a non-Tiger winning year as we will ever have.

The field at the PGA Championship is competing for the Wanamaker Trophy and the final major championship of the year, but whoever comes away with the victory will also be rewarded handsomely.

Here's Alex Kirshner on Rickie — and his return to contention after a couple years of major championship struggles.

And in only eight years Anderson turned the Tradition into one of the so - called major championships on the Senior tour as well as a classy marketing tool for his fledgling Desert Mountain property.

The man who managed so many big teams but never won a major title until last year, when he managed a miraculous championship with Leicester.

But over the last four years, Cox has replenished the farm system — the Braves» top three minor league clubs all played in league championship series last year — and in the off - season he sought to improve the major league club's offense with the three AL imports.

So Augusta stepped in and offered him an exemption anyway and the 21 - year - old will obviously take it and play his first ever major championship next month.

If you make a run, or even backdoor it (looking at you Rory), at the other major championships, you also get a ticket to the following year's Masters.

and you've caught up with all the other major championships from last year.

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.

But a year later at the same major championship as that gentle rant, Spieth took the Claret Jug in a major performance that may be his most impressive yet.

Dustin Johnson has 11 - 1 odds and technically the favorite, but he's only played two rounds of major championship golf this year.

When his final putt dropped, Stenson matched the major record set by Jason Day last year at the PGA, and with his final - round 63 — just the second on the fourth day of a major after Johnny Miller's in 1973 at Oakmont — he also set a new aggregate total major championship scoring record of 264.

The 29 - year - old has never finished better than T9 in a major championship, but has looked the part of a major championship contender this week.

This year's edition produced a world - class winner in Brandt Snedeker, who has challenged for a major championship in the past but had just finished one of his worst seasons.

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

Major League Baseball revealed the bracket for the 2017 Home Run Derby on Wednesday, with defending champion Giancarlo Stanton set to defend last year's championship, this time on his home turf in Miami.

Despite that, Woods wrote on Thursday that he was psyched to revisit the 92 - year - old course that has hosted three major championships.

Not after he hit 11 of 14 fairways and 16 greens on the first day in a dazzling display of precision ball striking; appeared to be in total control of the Open for three days; and had a three - shot lead going into the final round of a major championship that he had won in two of the last four years.

The major championship scoring record of 63, which has been set 26 different times over the years, may finally fall here this week.

As his major championship resume this year shows, he is one of America's best bets.

The final men's major championship of the year is here, and it's the most hyped it's been in a long time.

Because of his win at last year's PGA (players get double points for major championships), he is still in the top nine, but he could be on the outside looking in if he doesn't put together some strong finishes in the next few weeks.

The season's third major is here, but it's the first time this year Tiger Woods will have a chance to pick up ground on Jack Nicklaus» major championships record.

The third major championship of the year has arrived and Tiger Woods will be among the players competing for the Claret Jug.

He finished in the top 5 in each of this year's major championships.

Jordan Spieth, who staged a furious comeback Sunday to win the British Open and avoid another potential major championship nightmare like the one he endured at last year's Masters, has the chance to become the first golfer in history to complete the career grand slam at the men's final major of the season.

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.

Teaming up with exercise guru Dr. Steve McGregor in 2010 changed all that, and McIlroy is hooked on training that helped him win four major championships in four years.

Brendan: Jason Dufner will get his second major championship in as many years.

Woods and Nicklaus both won in the years they finished top 5 in each major championship.

Xander's already had major championship leaderboard experience last year at Erin Hills, and I had him flagged as a dark horse to win this week at one point.

Just one year ago, our reigning Masters champ dropped in a massive eagle on the 15th hole to put himself in position over Justin Rose to finally get the major championship burden off his back.

Jordan Spieth is well on his way to claiming Player of the Year, with two major championships already added to the trophy case.

As for Nicklaus, the 75 - year - old winner of 18 major championships said he predicted he would add that first ever Augusta ace on his card.