Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. The sun is shining at Quail Hollow for the opening round of the 2025 PGA ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The PGA Championship put the top three players in the world together for the first time in three years on Thursday and the conversation turned to mud. Scottie Scheffler and ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Golf is a hard enough game with a perfect lie in the middle of the fairway. Add some mud ...

One of the big stories early in the week was the rain that poured on Quail Hollow Club on Monday and Tuesday, soaking the golf course and leading to questions about how it would play once the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Mud Balls! Like divot holes, the curious and the most unfair part of the game of golf. And neither are avoidable with any certainty. On Thursday, during the first round of the PGA ...

The PGA of America declined to allow preferred lies in fairways despite several inches of rain before the tournament, and the game’s top players took issue in Round 1. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Scottie ...

Fallout from TaylorMade’s lawsuit against rival golf equipment manufacturer Callaway has taken an intriguing twist in the form of a new marketing campaign for the 2026 editions of TaylorMade’s TP5 and ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Tiger Woods said Friday that mud, and not the potential for more rain tomorrow and Sunday, will be the biggest nuisance for the remainder of the U.S. Open. Woods finished his first ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. ' Tiger Woods would have liked to have been able to clean the mud off his ball Friday in the U.S. Open at soggy Bethpage Black. Jim Furyk knew it was a waste of time to even talk ...