Heavy Driver

P ONTE VEDRA BEACH — No offense to Gary Young, chief referee of the Players Championship, but we're all getting a little sick of seeing him in the media center this week. Of course, we kid, though the announcement that Young was returning for a second t…

P ONTE VEDRA BEACH — They’re not technically squeegees. Squeegees, per the interwebs, have flat rubber blades. You use them to clean windows. Not golf courses. This is not a distinction we anticipated discussing come Friday afternoon of the Players Champion…

F riday is one of those days you just hope the weathermen are wrong. Forecasts call for thunderstorms and heavy rain all day throughout northern Florida. If the first round can wrap up, that would be considered a success. Of course, we’re not so sure that w…

P ONTE VEDRA BEACH — Tyler McCumer's sore shoulder and Thursday's stormy weather conspired to bestow on Michael Thompson a late, late, late date on the first tee Friday at the Players Championship. Thompson, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, was th…

P ONTE VEDRA BEACH — Brendon Todd stepped to TPC Sawgrass' 17th tee in fine position. He'd played the first 16 holes of his final round of the 2021 Players Championship in three under par and had crept up to T-24. He was inching closer to a very sol…

P ONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—Harold Varner III took a look down, took a look back, shook his head and shrugged it off. The man shrugs most things off, owning a carefree attitude that begets a swagger unmatched in these parts. Still, Varner had the right to feel…

M ax Homa is only 31 years old. His eyesight shouldn't be  that  bad. But apparently, he can’t track his ball from only 160 yards away. “I got terrible eyes,” he says. So, even as his tee shot tracked toward the flagstick on the par-3 14th hole at Bay H…