Articles: Golf

Viktor Hovland owns the lead. Ryan Gerard is one shot behind. Scottie Scheffler, Chris Gotterup, Adam Scott and Ludvig Åberg are three back. Rory McIlroy’s Saturday 63 dragged him within five. East Lake has one round left, and almost nobody near the top can afford to wait. Sunday’s matchup card offers four positions: Ryan Gerard […]

Two rounds have finally separated useful East Lake evidence from one hot Thursday. Viktor Hovland and Ryan Gerard share the lead at 10-under. Collin Morikawa and Chris Gotterup trail by one. Scottie Scheffler and Cameron Young sit another shot back. Nineteen players remain within five shots. Saturday’s matchup card for the Tour Championship Round 3 […]

Thursday gave us something the opening-round matchup board couldn’t: evidence from East Lake itself. That doesn’t mean chasing every 64 and fading every 70. Rain softened the course, the field averaged roughly 66.7, and all 29 players who completed the round finished at even par or better. Conditions helped everybody score. But a few performances […]

The Tour Championship 2026 outright board asks who can survive four days at East Lake. Thursday’s matchup board asks something much simpler. Who beats one golfer over 18 holes? That difference creates a few prices worth separating from the 15 available pairings. The four that stand out are Xander Schauffele +102 over Rory McIlroy, Collin […]

Thirty players arrive at East Lake with the same starting score. That matters more than any FedExCup position they carried into Atlanta. There are no starting strokes for the second consecutive year. Four rounds decide the Tour Championship 2026 and the FedExCup, which immediately makes outright prices more useful than they were under the old […]

The Rory McIlroy vs Tommy Fleetwood matchup at Oakmont features two players with very different reputations. Still, the more interesting question is whether either player will be allowed to play the style of golf they prefer. Most discussion naturally gravitates toward power. McIlroy remains one of the longest and most explosive drivers in the sport. […]

US Open 2026 Odds Preview: Nobody wins the U.S. Open by accident. The championship has a way of exposing shortcuts. A player can survive a loose driver for a few holes. He can survive a cold putter for a round. Surviving four days of missed fairways, demanding approach shots, brutal rough, and relentless mental pressure […]

Sunday at Colonial Country Club has a habit of making golfers look older by the back nine. Not physically, necessarily. More emotionally. Tee shots start holding their line a fraction less confidently, approach shots land pin-high but somehow still feel wrong, and players who looked comfortable for three rounds suddenly spend entire holes negotiating awkward […]

Colonial Country Club rarely announces its difficulty loudly. It does it quietly, through approach shots drifting six feet too far, through fairways missed by half a yard, through birdie opportunities that somehow become anxious pars after one cautious lag putt rolls a little farther than expected. By the time the weekend arrives at the Charles […]

Colonial Country Club rarely announces its pressure loudly. It arrives gradually through awkward yardages, hanging approach shots, and putts that seem harmless until they slide one cup-width farther than expected. The Charles Schwab Challenge has always rewarded players willing to accept uncomfortable pars, reset emotionally after missed birdie chances, and shape shots patiently through firm […]