TULSA — Tuesday serves as car wash day at the PGA Championship, with player after player paraded through the interview area at Southern Hills. Most discussions centered on the tournament and the course, the presence of a certain 15-time major winner and the absence of a defending champ. But sometimes the interview or interviewee takes …
12:53 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com It happens. Even with modern cars, you can, apparently, lock the keys inside. Often at the worst times. Just ask four-time major winner Brooks Koepka. The PGA Championship is at Southern Hill Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week, and Koepka is a two-time winner of this major. He was …
Anyone planning to drink at this week’s PGA Championship in Tulsa should brace themselves. The alcohol prices at Southern Hills are so exorbitant it prompted former PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas to speak out. “$18(!!!!!!) for a beer… uhhhh what. Gotta treat the fans better than that! 🤦🏽♂️,” Thomas wrote on Twitter Monday night. According …
TULSA, Okla. — Rickie Fowler does not offer many windows into his psyche. It has always been his greatest strength, particularly away from the golf course. He is measured, polite and never controversial — a marketing executive’s dream — which is one reason he’s been such a ubiquitous commercial presence in our lives for nearly …
Anderson, a performance coach with 27 years’ experience, was guiding the three-time major winner through a series of exercises for a photoshoot back in 2014 when he saw something click. “He went: ‘Oh, I love how that feels,’” Anderson recalls. “There are pictures and images from that photo shoot and you can see him in …
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TULSA, Okla. — There are several Oklahoma ties at this week’s PGA Championship being played at Southern Hills. Rickie Fowler, Victor Hovland and Talor Gooch all played college golf at Oklahoma State and Hovland, who’s from Norway, actually still lives in Stillwater, Okla., which is about 70 miles from Southern Hills. So, it’s a home …
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TULSA, Okla. — Everyone in golf knows Rickie Fowler is struggling. On Monday, speaking to reporters in advance of this week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills, Fowler was asked if he’s sought the help of a sports psychologist to help his mental game. “I don’t know if I should throw names out there or not,” …
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TULSA, Okla. — Bryson DeChambeau tweeted late Monday that he is headed to Southern Hills and will test how he’s feeling for a few days before deciding whether or not he’ll compete in the PGA Championship this week. “On my way to Southern Hills CC,” DeChambeau tweeted. “Going to test how I am feeling over …
TULSA, Okla. — As Tiger Woods prepares to try to win his fifth PGA Championship this week, he said his surgically repaired right leg is stronger than it was at the Masters five weeks ago, when he struggled to climb the sloping hills of Augusta National Golf Club, One of the most demanding walks in …
TULSA, Okla. — If the Saudi Arabian organizers of the LIV Golf Invitational Series had their way, Jack Nicklaus — not Greg Norman — would have been the face of their new breakaway circuit. In a story published on the Fire Pit Collective website on Monday, Nicklaus said he turned down offers to lead the …