Whether you have a home course or a home club, or you're a golfer who likes to play a wide variety of courses in your area or when you travel, you need to be able to chip to and putt on any kind of greens. Every golf course has greens with different speeds and firmness, and there are a variety of factors that go into making greens fast or slow, firm or soft. More importantly, whether greens are fast or slow, firm or soft are relative to the golfer. If the golf course you play the most has slow greens, then you'll have to acclimate quickly to a course with fast greens. If the reverse is true ..read more

Nelly Korda is taking a break from the LPGA Tour after a history-making run continued with her second-career major championship win at The Chevron Championship. Korda announced on social media on Monday, and the LPGA Tour confirmed, that she has withdrawn from this week's JM Eagle LA Championship. The tournament will be played April 25-28 at Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles and features a $3.75 million purse, the biggest on the schedule outside of the five major championships and the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Korda wrote in part, "The win still hasn't sunk in but I have ..read more

Rory McIlroy is set to make a surprising return to the PGA Tour Policy Board and join the board of the newly formed PGA Tour Enterprises, according to a report. The Guardian reported Monday that McIlroy will be voted back into a board member slot on Wednesday, replacing Webb Simpson, who is resigning his position. Simpson, the former US Open champion, specifically requested McIlroy replace him. The four-time major winner McIlroy resigned from the PGA Tour Policy Board in November 2023 in a move that surprised observers. He was replaced by Jordan Spieth, who is serving out the remainder of McI ..read more

In golf, there are two different types of bunkers: sand bunkers and waste bunkers. The Rules of Golf govern what golfers can and cannot do in sand bunkers and waste bunkers, and not knowing the difference can result in disaster and penalty strokes for a player. If you're not a golfer, you probably imagine bunkers on a golf course as pretty much any area where there's a bunch of sand. After all, golfers colloquially refer to bunkers as "playing on the beach," so why shouldn't every beach be a bunker? However, that's not the case. In fact, a waste bunker isn't really a bunker at all. Sand bunke ..read more

The 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans will start Thursday, with the PGA Tour-sanctioned event at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., welcoming 160 world-class players to the 19th event on the 2024 PGA Tour schedule. The Zurich Classic of New Orleans is the lone team event on the FedEx Cup portion of the schedule, with this event being converted to a team affair in 2018. Davis Riley and Nick Hardy are defending champions, leading the 80-team field. JOIN GNN: Access a winning PGA Tour model, unique tools and in-depth analysis for just $40/year! GNN Members-Only Tools JOIN NOW! PGA Tour results da ..read more

The 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans format is unique for this PGA Tour event, the only event on the FedEx Cup schedule to be played as a two-man team competition. The Zurich Classic field is 160 players as 80 teams of two. The top 80 players in the PGA Tour's priority ranking that committed to the field got to pick their partner, so long as they had some kind of PGA Tour status or garnered a sponsor exemption. Zurich Classic of New Orleans format The Zurich Classic format is still a 72-hole event. The first and third rounds will be played as best ball (fourballs) at TPC Louisiana. The seco ..read more

The Zurich Classic of New Orleans is the PGA Tour's New Orleans-area event, with the tournament having been played at different points in the schedule though now it's currently played in April as a the tour's only official team event. The event, which was first played in 1938 as the New Orleans city championship, originally started out as a 72-hole stroke-play event. The tournament struggled to garner strong fields in the 2000s and 2010s, creating doubt about the tournament's future. In 2017, long-time sponsor Zurich supported the transformation of the event to a two-man event, featuring play ..read more

PGA Tour one-and-done is a popular fantasy golf game, with private one-and-done leagues and public PGA Tour games. Each week, we offer PGA Tour one-and-done golf picks, taking into account past course history and current form to make one-and-done recommendations. We continue our 2024 PGA Tour one-and-done picks this week with the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, concluding at the 2024 Tour Championship, keeping track of our picks all along the way. JOIN GNN: Access a winning PGA Tour model, unique tools and in-depth analysis for just $40/year! GNN Members-Only Tools PGA Tour results datab ..read more

The 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans is the PGA Tour event this week, and we're back with our PGA Tour field rankings and expert picks for the tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La. Every week, we share our PGA Tour player rankings, and they are agnostic of competition. Whether you're playing in a fantasy golf leagues, betting on golf, or competing in a DFS (DraftKings, FanDuel) event, our picks highlight the top PGA Tour golfers to watch this week from our 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans rankings. JOIN FOREBUCKS: Access a winning PGA Tour model, unique tools and in-depth analysis ..read more

Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda are dominating golf in a way we haven't seen since Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam were simultaneously tearing apart the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour, respectively. In their last 10 combined starts, Scheffler and Korda have won nine times, with Scheffler winning four of five starts and Korda winning all five to tie the LPGA Tour's all-time consecutive wins record. In that span, Scheffler and Korda have combined to take on 1,129 total opponents. Between them, they have lost to exactly one player. Scottie Scheffler finished tied for second place at the 2024 Texas Ch ..read more