INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Suzy Whaley joined the PGA of America in search of more competitive playing opportunities, a modest ambition that 17 years later has morphed into her becoming the first female president of the 102-year-old association. Whaley, who for the last two years has served as its vice president, was formally be elected […]

With his nomination for a second one-year term as president, Mark Newell will continued to lead the USGA Executive Committee as the governing body ushers in its modernized Rules of Golf in 2019. And he’ll do it knowing who his successor is in 2020: current USGA Championship Committee chairman Stuart Francis. The USGA formally unveiled […]

Whetting his competitive appetite again this past summer at the Senior British Open, Brandel Chamblee appears to be hungry for more. The former PGA Tour pro turned outspoken Golf Channel commentator is laying out plans for 2019 that will include competing in upwards of a half dozen PGA Tour Champions event. “When I’m playing in […]

How did you celebrate your 25th birthday? We’re guessing you didn’t take the lead in a professional golf tournament while posting a six-under 66 that included your eighth career hole-in-one. OK, so Gaby Lopez has a leg up on most of us. The Mexico native jumped to the top of the leader board at the […]

Now that the Little League baseball brawls have dried up, we here at The Loop have been searching for some fresh parenting content to share with you. Recently we shared the Brees family bedtime routine, but now we've found something even better (and by better we mean much, much worse): AWelsh U-8 soccer dad literally […]

Matt Kuchar was an early leader at the Mayakoba Golf Classic on Thursday. It was his wife, however, who seemed to get most of the attention after the first round in Mexico. Sybi Kuchar wound up caddying for Zach Johnson over the final four holes Thursday after Johnson's usual caddie, Damon Green, had to get […]

There are a lot of fans and media members who are down on the upcoming Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson duel in Las Vegas, which is fine. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and no one is forcing you to watch, or pay $19.99 to watch, which seems to the naysayers the biggest knock on "THE […]

Tiger Woods won't need an exemption to compete in the Hero World Challenge this year. After two consecutive years of being (by far) the lowest-ranked player in the small, but star-studded field, Woods, currently No. 13, has played his way into this year's event. Although, his lofty ranking wouldn't even place the tournament host in […]

No sport's athletes chirp quite like NHL players, although, the NBA could be a close second if any of those guys ever got mic'd up (this would never happen because if you've ever read any Kevin Garnett stories, NBA players tend to get very personal). But for hockey players, it's an art form, and apparently […]

Sergio Garcia wasn’t having any of it. Sure his opening-round 64 at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa was the best first-day score the 38-year-old Spaniard has posted in a European Tour event since November 2015. And the four-stroke advantage over a trio of golfers at the Gary Player Country Club matched […]