How did Tiger Woods improve parts of his game? Through this 9-hour drill.

Rory Mcllroy, Tiger Woods, and Jordan Spieth made waves earlier in the week when it was announced the trio would be paired up together to kick off the PGA Championship on Thursday. It was certainly a treat for the fans on Thursday and Friday. Even Rory Mcllroy treasured the chance to watch Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods struggled to keep a calm head at the PGA Championships, losing his cool in an altercation with a cameraman. The golf legend didn’t have the best of starts on the opening day, stumbling to a 74 which is his worst start to a PGA since 2015. Woods...

ESPN reporter Sage Steele was struck and injured by an errant Jon Rahm tee shot at Southern Hills on Thursday, according to a report from Geoff Shackelford. Steele was struck in the face by the ball after Rahm hooked his tee shot left of the fairway at the par-4 3rd hole. An eyewitness told Shackelford they saw Steele “on the ground, holding her nose, mouth or chin area” and her hands [were] “covered in blood.”

Aaron Wise is OK. And was feeling well enough to post to Instagram. “Feeling okay. hopeful to be able to play tomorrow,” he wrote Friday night. His hat, however, had a red scar. Some two hours earlier, during Friday’s second round of the PGA Championship, Wise was in good...

TULSA, Okla. — For Justin Thomas, it all started with a simple question. Tiger Woods was on the other end. It was 2017 — JT was fresh off his first major championship victory — and the pair were playing together for the first time in competition at that year’s Hero World Challenge.

It has become a familiar sight whenever Tiger Woods is on the scene at a golf tournament: herds of fans tracking his every swing, step and smile through the lenses of their phones. If you were watching the second round of the PGA Championship from Southern Hills on ESPN on...

TULSA, Okla. — The signs start small, but they’re there. And the nature of covering Tiger Woods in 2022, still in the midst of his comeback from a near-fatal car crash, means you can never stop looking for them. On Thursday at the PGA Championship the signs started...

Welcome to “Seen & Heard at Southern Hills,” a daily compilation of insights and observations from our PGA Championship coverage team that is available exclusively to InsideGOLF members. Check this space daily — or your inbox, where we’ll also be sharing these dispatches to members in newsletter form — for inside scoops on the year’s second major championship.

TULSA, Okla. — Aaron Wise and Joel Dahmen were walking down the seventh hole — their 16th of the day — when they reached Dahmen’s golf ball. They’d each driven it down the right side, so Wise leaned over to make sure. And then…. “I...

UPDATE (7:33 p.m. ET): Tiger two-putts for par on 18, and he shoots an impressive one-under 69 and is three over for the tournament, one inside the cut line. Thirty-six more holes for Tiger this weekend. UPDATE (7:15 p.m. ET): Woods got up and down for par on 17, and...

Nick Faldo was asked for his thoughts. He answered that question in six words. “Well, it’s hard and it’s harsh,” he said. The six-time major champion then offered another six-time major champion one piece of advice. Outside of the play, the attention at this week’s PGA Championship...

TULSA, Okla. — As soon as tee times were released at the 104th PGA Championship, the buzz started to build. The 8:11 a.m. starting time off 10 jumped out immediately. Tiger. Jordan. Rory. Any time you get three players grouped together that are known only by their first names, that’s a hell of a cluster. On Thursday at the PGA Championship, that group was the main attraction.

He twice hit the lip. He hit himself. The TV analysts wondered if there would be a penalty on that one. Then Kramer Hickok holed out, raised his right hand, fist-bumped a smiling Jon Rahm and tried to count up all of his strokes. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen...

TULSA, Okla. — The hill behind the ninth green at this week’s PGA Championship is the steepest slope on property. It puts the “hills” in “Southern Hills,” leading from an elevated green to the even-more-elevated clubhouse beyond. And at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Rory McIlroy bounded up that hill, grin on his face, five-under 65 on his scorecard.

Welcome to “Seen & Heard at Southern Hills,” a daily compilation of insights and observations from our PGA Championship coverage team that is available exclusively to InsideGOLF members. Check this space daily — or your inbox, where we’ll also be sharing these dispatches to members in newsletter form — for inside scoops on the year’s second major championship.

Don’t get David Duval wrong. He says he’s disappointed in Phil Mickelson’s outburst. It’s just that Duval’s equally frustrated that Mickelson has said little since. “The silence is what is so loud right now,” he said Thursday. “You have so many strong things to say and then you’re not going to stand up and answer any questions to what you did say. That’s what we’re all waiting for. I mean, you have these feelings, be a man enough to stand up and answer the questions about it.”

Masters champ Scottie Scheffler showed a rare moment of public frustration on the final hole of his first round at the PGA Championship on Thursday — yet it turned into his best par save of the day. Scheffler, the 25-year-old World No. 1, was one under on the front...

TULSA, Okla. — Tiger Woods’ PGA Championship is officially over. Woods withdrew from the championship Saturday evening, hours after shooting nine-over 79 in Round 3 at Southern Hills. The PGA of America announced Woods’ decision shortly after the conclusion of third-round play. “Tiger Woods has informed us...

At 7,556 yards, Southern Hills is the epitome of a “big ballpark,” with two par 5s stretching over 600 yards. The additional length required to navigate several holes forced some big hitters in the field to reassess their bag setups for the PGA Championship, including former major winner Dustin Johnson.

Playing his favorite course? Yes. Winner of four of his past eight events? Yes. Winner of the Masters? Yes. World No. 1? Yes. Overall good guy? Yes, Scottie Scheffler is that, too. But is he playing on the weekend at the PGA Championship?. No. What happened? Golf. The game stays...