Scottie Scheffler was laughing and joking in saying that new putting coach Phil Kenyon could not believe he’d won so many events, including a Masters green jacket, with the manner the World No. 1 putted.
Scheffler picked this week’s Ryder Cup to go public with a new putting coach in England-born Kenyon.
No sooner had Scheffler arrived at this week’s host Marco Simone course and the six-time PGA Tour winner was seen working with Kenyon, and why wouldn’t he given the American’s ...
Head-turning Sam Burns is among four rookies on Zach Johnson’s USA Ryder Cup team, and chosen by Johnson also as one of six ‘wildcard’ picks.
Burns, 27, earned his selection on the back of a strong PGA Tour season that included winning on the 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and his fifth PGA Tour title in March.
The Louisanna golfer also knows how to win at team level being a member of last year’s victorious USA Presidents Cup side.
However, it is Burns’ Cam Smith-looking ...
DP World Tour fans know much about this week’s host Marco Simone course with the Rome course having hosted the past three Italian Open Championships.
European Ryder Cup players – Nicolai Hogjaard (2021) and Bob MacIntyre (2022) – are past winners while their fellow Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick were runners-up in those two years.
However for many of the players, including a good few on the European Team, this week will be the first taste of formal competition ...
Younger blood is seemingly better when it comes to Ryder Cup knowledge than the worth of tried-and-tested experience.
Justin Rose this week brings the weath of six prior European Ryder Cup appearances, having made his debut in 2008 at Valhallla in Kentucky.
Rose was then aged 28 and now 15-years older he boasts the European Team the experience of contesting 23 matches, winning 13, losing eight and halving two for 14 career points.
And with the affable Englishman remaining loyal to the European Tour ...
A 30-year victory drought in any sport is a long time but that’s the glaring fact facing the USA Ryder Cup side teeing-up this week in Rome.
It was 1993 when a Tom Watson led American team last won the Ryder Cup on European soil with their 15-13 triumph at The Belfry.
However, when this was put to the now five-time USA Ryder Cup star Jordan Spieth he was having none of it and with the Texan declaring such a statistic does not rattle the visiting American’s cage.
“We’ve been made ...
European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald played the proper Ryder Cup straight bat, politely side- any questions relating to Sergio Garcia and being in anyway involved in this week’s 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup.
We know how fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm went into bat for Garcia, declaring it was ‘stupid’ not be pick someone of Garcia’s Ryder Cup record-setting credentials to be in Donald’s Marco Simone team.
More recently, we read stories of Garcia’s supposed bid to ...
USA Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson stressed he is unphased that it’s now 30-years since America won a Ryder Cup on European soil.
That was back in 1993 when Tom Watson captained the visiting Americans to a two-point victory over a Bernard Gallacher led European side at The Belfry in England.
Of course, the USA arrived in Italy earlier today having trounched a hapless European side two years ago at Whistling Straits but that’s now history and Johnson and his Stars and Stripes are in Europe ...