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Scottie Scheffler Has Delivered One of Golf’s Great Seasons — and It's Not Over Yet
After winning the British Open, Scheffler’s 2025 campaign joins the ranks of the greatest in modern golf history — with more accolades still in reach.
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Scottie Scheffler Is Still Hunting Tiger's Prime
Scheffler leads the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained at a rate we haven’t seen since peak Tiger Woods — and his 2025 major record could nearly be as dominant.
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Tiger at Pebble Is Still Untouchable
Twenty-five years later, Tiger Woods’ 2000 U.S. Open remains the most dominant major performance ever — and I have a new metric, ELDRICK, to prove it.
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Rory McIlroy’s Career Grand Slam Was Hard-Earned — And a Very Long Time Coming
It wasn't easy... but maybe that was fitting, at the tournament that has beguiled McIlroy most.
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Anthony Kim Is Back. How Good Could He Have Been?
At age 38, the reclusive Kim is finally set to play again for the first time since 2012.
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Is the Big Three of Men’s Tennis Losing Its Grip for Good?
Maybe, with Novak Djokovic going down in Australia — but we've seen a dip before.
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What Would Happen If Men’s Tennis Grand Slams Were Best-of-3?
Want to introduce some chaos into a competition that’s often too predictable? This oughta do it.
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Michelle Wie West Didn’t Become Golf’s Biggest Star. That Doesn’t Make Her A Bust.
The former phenom made her mark in a different way than expected.
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Did Golf Just Avoid The Messiest Divorce In Sports?
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf's merger offers a counterfactual to what IndyCar racing did in the '90s and 2000s.
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Tiger Woods May Not Get A Better Shot At Another Green Jacket
As the world’s greatest golfers convene in Augusta, Georgia, this week for the Masters, it’s time for every sports fan’s annual rite of spring: wild…
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All Brooks Koepka Does Is Win Majors
Seriously, he’s barely won any events other than golf’s most prestigious titles.
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Tiger’s Back. But He’s Not The Same.
(co-byline: Terrence Doyle / 538)
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