Scottie Scheffler: Uncommonly Consistent, Unflappably Good

Before yet another atmospheric river interrupted the proceedings at early February’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—not rudely, mind you, but devastatingly—there was a crossing of paths with Scott and Diane Scheffler. Having been to Pebble Beach for glorious U.S. Open weather in June 2019, this was their first sojourn to the famed “Crosby Clambake” and they […]
Team Europe Captain Luke Donald is Not Done Competing

Insufferable, this obsession for analytics that have overrun our sports world. Meander into the statistics tab of a PGA Tour database that keeps track of tournaments and players and there’s a minimum of 39 categories where you can explore to your heart’s content. But for those of us who can respect that a 4-under 67 […]
Adam Scott: New Challenges for the Consummate Professional

Global locales of great splendor that are deep in family ties (Australia’s Gold Coast) and owed to travel convenience (Crans-sur-Sierre in the Swiss Alps) have afforded Adam Scott the chance to live where he can protect what is at the heart of his persona. Reserved, but hardly shy, and a deep thinker who doesn’t act […]
Billy Horschel is “Figuring it Out”

Against a backdrop of obscene gobs of cash for an inferior product (we’re looking at you, LIV), overtures from boorish lads who suggest their patriotic pride is for sale (ungrateful Ryder Cuppers), and a PGA Tour hierarchy that thinks the way forward is to separate the elite from the riffraff (Signature Events, for shame), there […]