Thursday's winners in the LIV finale included Iron Heads over Smash, HyFlyers over Torque, Fireballs over Majestiks, 4Aces over RangeGoats, and Stinger over Cleeks. ... Read full Story
Matthew Baldwin, the No. 363-ranked journeyman from England, is the second-round leader by two strokes at the BMW PGA Championship and preparing himself for the biggest weekend of his career. ... Read full Story
Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa set the early pace at the Kroger Queen City Championship with a 7-under-par 65 in the first round Thursday in Maineville, Ohio. ... Read full Story
Rory McIlroy lost the clubhead on his 9-iron and then lost the lead by going out of bounds on the last hole, shooting an eventful 5-under 67 in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship. ... Read full Story
The PGA of America announced that LIV Golf players are eligible to compete in both the PGA Championship and U.S. Ryder Cup teams going forward. ... Read full Story
Rory McIlroy says the main sticking points holding up a deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi backers of the rival LIV Golf League are the U.S. Department of Justice and conflicting views from players on both sides. ... Read full Story
Rory McIlroy believes it will be difficult for Ian Poulter or Lee Westwood to be a future Ryder Cup captain because they no longer have a connection with Europe's emerging stars after defecting to LIV Golf. ... Read full Story
Heading into the BMW PGA Championship in his home country, the English golfer talked about the Olympics and playing in the United States. ... Read full Story
The BMW PGA Championship will be played at the club, where a bunker was built by the British military to be a site more secure from bombing than central London. ... Read full Story
The Masters and CBS are expanding television coverage for next year's tournament by five hours, which includes two hours on Saturday and Sunday through the Paramount+ streaming service of CBS. ... Read full Story
LIV Golf attempted to strike a deal with the DP World Tour over fines Jon Rahm faces for skipping events in favor of LIV, but the World Tour turned it down. ... Read full Story
Oakmont Country Club has restored more than 24,000 square feet of surface to its notoriously fast greens in preparation for next year's U.S. Open. ... Read full Story
Patton Kizzire ended a long victory drought Sunday in the Procore Championship with a tournament-record five-stroke victory in the FedEx Cup Fall opener. ... Read full Story
Steve Stricker ended a four-hole playoff with a shot out of the rough that banged into the pin and set up a tap-in birdie Sunday, his third straight Sanford International victory and his first PGA Tour Champions title of the year. ... Read full Story
“The Handel & Hendrix [House], on 23 and 25 Brook Street in central London, reopens 18 May.... The 18th century German composer George Frideric Handel called number 25 home for some 36 years, up until his death in 1759. Here, he manufactured hits like coronation/Champions League belter Zadok the Priest, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks with such voraciousness, his manuscripts were often bespattered with food and beer stains. Perhaps you'd equate such sloppiness with Jimi Hendrix; his tenancy in a flat at 23 Brook Street was altogether fugacious; he was only here from 1968-9—though in that time, used it for countless interviews, jam sessions—and referred to it as the only place he ever lived that felt like home.” — Will Noble, The Londonist, 18 May 2023
Did you know?
The word fugacious is too rare and unusual to qualify as vanilla, but the vanilla plant itself can be useful for recalling its meaning. Fugacious (which comes from Latin fugax, meaning “swift, fleeting,” and ultimately from fugere, “to run away”) describes the ephemeral—that is, those things in life that last only a brief time before fleeing or fading away. The word is often used to describe immaterial things, such as emotions, but botanists like to apply the word to plant parts (such as seeds, fruits, petals, and leaflets) that are quickly shed or dropped. Vanilla plants, for example, are said to have fugacious blossoms, as their flowers last only a single day during the blooming season. You may remember this the next time you’re baking with vanilla, and perhaps wishing that its rich, fugacious aroma would linger just a little bit longer.