Paul Goydos

By compiling the results from every round of every stroke-play event on Tour—including the four majors—from 2003 to '09, North Carolina finance professors Robert Connolly and Richard Rendleman created a model showing...

Sure, the PGA Tour is all about the long ball. Last year, for example, Tour winners outdrove the field by an average of eight yards. But that's not the case at the Players and Sawgrass, which puts a bigger premium on...

The admittedly superb finishing holes at Sawgrass—the tricky par-3 17th and the brutish par-4 18th—get all the pub, but it is a seemingly innocuous pair of par-4s on the front side, the super-tight 6th and the long,...

A few years ago at the Players, I was the last guy to hit it into the water at 17. Did you know that I was also the first? When you've played the tournament a dozen times, as I have, you file away a lot of quirky...

For decades, 59 has been the magic number on the PGA Tour. That may be about to change