PGA Tour golfer Billy Horschel is no stranger to offering strong opinions. The 37-year-old's latest frustration is how golf commentators repeatedly inform their audiences how much money players in the field are competing for. It go to the point where the American went to the Tour and asked if they...

PGA Tour golfer fumes at commentators: "I despise it, honestly, to tell you the truth"

With 18 holes remaining at the 2024 Paris Olympics, women’s World No. 1 Nelly Korda trailed by five shots at Le Golf National, and was hoping to channel some of her compatriot Scottie Scheffler’s magic from last week’s Olympic men’s competition, when Scheffler charged from six shots back to claim the gold medal.

Nelly Korda says untimely Olympic shank hints at larger problem

Orlando, FL

The stock market may be crashing, but the housing bubble refuses to burst. 12-time LPGA winner Paula Creamer is hoping to capitalize on that fact, listing her $6.9 million Florida villa this week. Sunshine State McMansions are a dime a dozen these days, but Creamer’s compound boasts a selling point most can’t: A coveted spot in Orlando’s Isleworth Golf & Country Club, one of the most exclusive golf neighborhoods in all of Florida. Let’s take the tour.

LPGA star Paula Creamer selling $6.9 million mansion in legendary golf neighborhood

Wedge or 9-iron? Should Nelly Korda hammer the former on Le Golf National’s par-3 16th? Or finesse the latter? Decisions, decisions. She held both clubs on the tee Thursday afternoon. Prior to that, the world No. 1 could have gotten away with playing a pole-vault stick during the Olympics...

Nelly Korda’s Olympic collapse? It started with 1 ill-fated, ‘hesitant’ move

South Carolina State

Community Voices represent independent, third-party users who have joined our contributor program but not yet verified their accounts. Community Voices are expected, like all users, to adhere to our Community Standards.

community_voice

Los Angeles County, CA

Herbie J Pilato

In 1981, pop-music sensation Andy Gibb was at the top of the charts. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a.k.a. The Bee Gees, commenced a tumultuous romance with actress Victoria Principle, who played Pam Ewing on Dallas, TV's then-Number 1 prime-time series. But after the relationship ended, Andy's life, already challenged by substance abuse, did as well. This is their tragic story.

The Tragic Death of Pop Star Andy Gibb & His Traumatic Romance with 'Dallas' Star Victoria Principle

Washington State

Kentucky Vibes.net

Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

It’s a cliché response to say that the only real expectation Mariajo Uribe carried with her into this week’s Olympic women’s golf tournament was to enjoy herself. Still, when you’re playing the last competitive event of a fulfilling 14-year LPGA career, enjoying yourself is as good a reward as any.

This LPGA veteran is retiring after the Olympics. A medal is looking like a possible going-away gift

Walking up to the best players in the world and handing them a prototype iron you’ve been working on for years can be a nerve-wracking experience. Everyone has their likes and dislikes, so there’s no guarantee the creation is going to satisfy all parties. Not to mention iron testing usually takes time before a final decision is made.

‘This never happens’: Why TaylorMade’s P7CB iron is stunning pros

Do a quick search for 7-woods on GOLF.com and you’re bound to find a few articles proclaiming it as the club du jour. I can’t recall exactly when high-lofted fairway woods started taking off in the professional ranks, but I do remember Bubba Watson and several of his colleagues opting for a 7-wood at the 2015 Players Championship, where it made sense to have a club that could extract the ball from the rough, with a towering launch to boot.

Lee Trevino helped put this popular club on the map

Greensboro, NC

USA TODAY Sports Media Group

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Webb Simpson’s wife, Dowd, knows the caddie mantra: show up, keep up, shut up.
“I’ve been reciting all of the things that a caddie does every night before I go to bed,” she said. “So it’s now just a matter of taking what I know and putting it into practice. You stay still, you keep quiet, don’t step in anyone’s line, and never pick up the ball.”
Dowd will be on the bag for her husband this week at the Wyndham Championship when it eventually gets under way – the first round was postponed until Friday due to Tropical...

They named a daughter after the Wyndham Championship and this week Webb Simpson will have wife Dowd on the bag

Kate Jackson began her acting career as a silent ghost on TV's classic 1960s gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows but remains alive and well years after two horrific battles with breast cancer. Jackson went on to small screen prime-time stardom on police/detective/crime drama/comedies like The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more. This is her triumphant story.

'Charlie's Angels' Star Kate Jackson Has Courageously Battled and Conquered Cancer Several Times

Beau Hossler fired a brilliant opening round of 10-under 60 to take the early lead at a weather-interrupted Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Thursday's play was completely washed out due to rainfall in the area caused by Tropical Storm Debby. Play eventually got under way...

Beau Hossler fires stunning 10-under 60 to hit front at PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship

Typically, 36-hole final days in big-time championship golf mean two golfers duking it out for a title, mono e mono. But this Sunday on the PGA Tour, not only will roughly 69 golfers be battling for a place atop the regular season-ending Wyndham Championship leaderboard, but many will be duking it out for places in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin next week in Memphis.

On a marathon PGA Tour Sunday, there’ll be 2 tournaments in 1

Nelly Korda cruised into contention to successfully defend her gold medal in the Olympic Golf Competition before disaster struck on the par-3 16th. Team USA's Korda, 26, opened with a level-par 72 on Wednesday and then moved serenely into contention on the front nine of her second round on Thursday.

Nelly Korda was cruising to another Olympic gold medal then disaster struck on 16

Nothing resurfaces childhood nostalgia like the thought of a delicious slushie, and with Bettinardi’s new line of special-edition “Slushie Swirl” putters, you can relive your best summer memories with a new flatstick in hand. Designed with a deep blue finish and “Fruit Punch” and “Blue Chill” accents,...

These special-edition Bettinardi ‘Slushie Swirl’ putters are selling out fast

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Midway through her six-birdie second round at the Olympics, which put her squarely back in the chase for her third straight Olympic medal, Lydia Ko remembered the important stuff, the things a veteran who at a different point in her career might have missed as she walked between shots.

Lydia Ko and the Olympic-size challenge that awaits

Raleigh, NC

The first round of the 2024 Wyndham Championship didn’t get underway until Friday morning at Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina, with the start of the second round pushed into Saturday. Here’s everything you need to know to watch the Wyndham Championship on Saturday, including full TV coverage, streaming info and updated tee times for the postponed second round.

2024 Wyndham Championship Saturday TV coverage: How to watch Round 2

FanSided

New Zealand’s Lydia Ko had her sights on achieving the one medal that had eluded her in her last two Olympics, the gold. She won silver at Rio in 2016. She came ever so close in Tokyo, only to watch American Nelly Korda pull ahead to clinch gold while she lost out to Japan’s Mone Inami in the playoff, settling for bronze.

Lydia Ko completes Olympic ‘cycle’ with Gold, achieves golf immortality

Mariajo Uribe originally planned to retire after the Tokyo Olympics thre years ago. But then she got pregnant in the midst of a global pandemic and by the time she got to Japan, six months postpartum, she didn’t feel that her game was ready for the moment.
“We didn’t really want to end my career that way,” said Uribe, who took a share of 50th in Tokyo.
So the family decided to give Paris a shot, and the exuberant player boldly told the world of her plans. Now she’s in contention to win a medal for Colombia, a country that to date...

Meet the LPGA mom who could win an Olympic medal on the day she retires

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Most players in the Olympics field are exhausted by how firm Le Golf National is getting in these sunny, arid afternoons. But Ashley Buhai loves it. The last thing she wants to see is a wet golf course. That’s because she has a hole in her left shoe.

She’s contending for an Olympic golf medal — with a hole in her shoe?

NewsBreak

Ex-NBA player reveals ‘most embarrassing’ story from LPGA pro-am

In addition to spending nearly a decade playing in the NBA, Chandler Parsons is quite a stick on the course — and he has a trophy...

Ex-NBA player reveals ‘most embarrassing’ story from LPGA pro-am

Comments / 0