LPGA officials are concerned about health issues at the Mizuho Americas Open after 10 players withdrew from the event over the past two days, including seven with various illnesses. ... Read full Story
After posting his 11th consecutive round of par or worse in a major championship with a 6-over 77 in the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday, Tiger Woods is headed home on the weekend again. ... Read full Story
Aided by some improved putting, Collin Morikawa carded seven birdies and one bogey Friday to take the clubhouse lead at 11 under at the PGA Championship. ... Read full Story
Atthaya Thitikul birdied five of the final seven holes in a round of 7-under 65 to grab the halfway lead in the Mizuho Americas Open on Friday, with top-ranked Nelly Korda 3 shots back. ... Read full Story
Scottie Scheffler's "chaotic" day that featured a brief morning stay in jail ended with the world's top-ranked golfer shooting a 66 at the PGA Championship. ... Read full Story
The police officer who tried to stop Scottie Scheffler from entering Valhalla Golf Club on Friday morning was dragged to the ground and suffered "pain, swelling and abrasions" to his left wrist and knee after the car accelerated, per the incident report. ... Read full Story
World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested by Louisville Metro Police on Friday morning after trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week's PGA Championship. ... Read full Story
Xander Schauffele enters the second round of the 2024 PGA Championship in the lead, while some LIV golfers had strong showings. Here's a lookahead to Friday at Valhalla. ... Read full Story
Xander Schauffele broke the PGA Championship scoring record and tied the mark for any major, seizing on the rain-softened conditions at Valhalla with a 9-under 62 to set the early target. ... Read full Story
Rose Zhang withdrew from the Mizuho Americas Open on Thursday because of illness after completing only three holes of the opening round. ... Read full Story
With the event returning to Valhalla Golf Club, here's a look back at some of the most epic finishes from the last times the course hosted one of golf's majors. ... Read full Story
Scottie Scheffler is the favorite to win the PGA Championships at sportsbooks, while Rory McIlroy is right behind -- the fifth time in the past six events that they've been 1-2. ... Read full Story
"At the time, almost every comedy on air was filmed live in front of a studio audience—or at least pretended to be. Pretty much all of the biggest shows used a laugh track—The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres. Savvy viewers might have figured out that not all of the giggles and guffaws were real, but few people outside the industry understood the extent of the artifice." — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
Did you know?
Do great actors display artifice or art? Sometimes a bit of both. Artifice stresses creative skill or intelligence, but it also implies a sense of falseness and trickery. Art generally rises above such falseness, suggesting instead an unanalyzable creative force. Actors may rely on some of each, but the personae they display in their roles are usually artificial creations. Therein lies a lexical connection between art and artifice. Artifice comes from artificium, Latin for "artistry, craftmanship, craft, craftiness, and cunning." (That root also gave us the English word artificial.) Artificium, in turn, developed from ars, the Latin root underlying the word art (and related terms such as artist and artisan).