PHILADELPHIA — The footsteps of giants were echoing behind him, each one louder than the last.

All Maverick McNeely could do was wait.

The PGA Championship co-leader was still 40 minutes away from teeing off when he walked off of the practice green and came face to face with the avalanche at his heels. On a giant video leaderboard rising in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Scottie Scheffler’s custom TaylorMade bag was made for Philly. Is his game the same?

Scheffler showed up at Aronimink this week with golf gear that would make Philly-ophile Bryce Harper jealous. His white leather bag, trimmed in red and light blue, has Independence Hall stitched on the big front zipper pocket, the Liberty ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Patrick Reed finished tied for 19th here at Aronimink Golf Club when the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship rolled through in 2018. It was his lone time on the 300-acre Donald Ross-designed complex, and the only thing he remembered about the course before this week’s PGA Championship was the eighth hole, a par-3 that played 245 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Shorts in golf (or the lack thereof, for that matter) has been a decades-long debate within the sport. While players are now allowed to wear shorts in practice rounds, the PGA Tour does not allow its players to wear them during competitive rounds.

But that doesn’t mean players haven’t tried to force a rule change. Forrest ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Gil Hanse went to Aronimink Golf Club to do a social media video ahead of this week’s PGA Championship, the hat he wore wasn’t from the venerable golf course he restored or the many other esteemed courses he either renovated or designed.

It was a kelly green cap with an Eagles logo. Before Hanse left his Newtown Square...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Scottie Scheffler shot himself into a crowd of seven players tied for the lead after the first round of the PGA Championship at 3-under par late Thursday evening at Aronimink.

Scheffler, who is seeking back-to-back wins at the PGA Championship, finished with five birdies. According to researchers at Elias Sports Bureau, it is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When superstars Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship and Bryson DeChambeau won the 2024 U.S. Open, it looked like LIV Golf was on its way to becoming a true force in the sports world and a real threat to the PGA Tour.

As it turns out, there was no real threat, either on the course or off it.

In the seven majors between ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The PGA Championship was in full swing on Thursday with the first round of competition. Aronimink Golf Club gave fans great views — even though some created their own. Among the fans, there were plenty of Eagles supporters, and a few even let Scottie Scheffler have it during the practice rounds earlier this week. Meanwhile, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nick Faldo was out for a morning walk around Aronimink Golf Club in 2011 during the AT&T National when he stopped at the 10th green and stared.

Faldo was in a sort of awe when club pro Jeff Kiddie, making his morning rounds, came by.

“If you built it today they’d think you’re nuts,” Faldo said to Kiddie of the green ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — They’re not exactly the odd couple, but Matt Fitzpatrick and his brother Alex certainly are not cut from the same cloth.

For one thing, Matt is four years older, which, as any little brother will tell you, always matters. For another, in the world of professional golf, filled as it is with pocket-protector types, Matt, 31, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen years ago, on the advice of Jack Nicklaus, a 22-year-old Rory McIlroy took an early trip to Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., to get a feel for the golf course ahead of the 2011 U.S. Open. He then won the first of his six majors by eight strokes.

Many of the PGA Tour’s stops are at sites the players see ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There are few images in golf that feel more like the beginning to both a dream and nightmare than heading to the Green Mile with a one-shot lead.

The 16th, 17th and 18th holes at Quail Hollow — so destructive they garnered a nickname — are more spine-chilling than a case of the yips. Heading into this week, the Green ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Fitzpatrick has won on the PGA Tour in the same way you aced the group project.

Yes, it happened. No, you’re not bragging about it — you take the grade and pray that no one bothers auditing who did what.

None of that seems to matter now that two weeks removed from not being on the PGA Tour, Fitzpatrick holds the 54...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Keeping it in perspective, after wrapping up second-round action, Sungjae Im refused to rubber stamp his place atop the board at the Truist Championship.

“I’m leading now, but there’s a few more players to finish the round,” Im said Friday. “So, I’m leading now, but it might change later. But I’m very happy ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Four short years ago, the PGA Tour seemed to be coming apart and the Travelers Championship was one of the scenes of the splitting seams. This was 2022, and Commissioner Jay Monahan was in the press shed decrying the “irrational threat” caused by LIV Golf and its Saudi money.

Players were jumping ship daily. As the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Jackie Endsley had what she called a “déjà vu moment” earlier this year when the call came to take on what sort of is a second job.

Endsley, the 2026 PGA Championship director, already was based in Bethesda, Md., preparing for the 2027 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club when Ryan Ogle, the ...Read more

DORAL, Fla. — Well, the right side won. Sometimes that happens in sports. The PGA Tour even returned to Doral on Thursday for its first tournament in a decade, as if to officially mark the LIV Tour leaving everyone with the sour smell of a flopped hustle.

The only question left is what to do with the bank-rich, morally-bankrupt LIV players ...Read more

Two weeks ago, LIV Golf did its best to conceal the fact that the Saudi Public Investment Fund would cease to bankroll the league after the current season, only to have LIV Chief Executive Officer Scott O'Neil let the truth slip during a television interview.

This week, the intentions of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, or PIF, and ...Read more