Author: Stephen Pisani

Stephen Pisani has worked at golf courses for eighteen years as a bag room attendant, caddie, starter, director of outside golf operations, and caddie manager, although one look at his golf game will make anyone question whether he's ever set foot on a course. Along the way he's collected two master's degrees in writing.

With the 2024 Masters set to begin tomorrow, you might be on the lookout for good bets to win the tournament. Big names like Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, and Rory McIlroy find themselves at the top of the betting odds, and for good reason. Scheffler’s been on fire of late, and if his wife doesn’t go into labor mid-tournament, his recent dominant play almost gives this edition of the Masters a “Scottie against the field” feel we really haven’t seen since Tiger’s zenith. As the defending champion and a recent convert to LIV, Rahm provides plenty of intrigue. And of course…

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In a sport rife with reality television show worthy drama the last few years, Chris DiMarco offered one of the most bizarre takes when he said LIV Golf should buy the Champions Tour because the purses those golfers compete for are too small. DiMarco spoke his mind on the Subpar Podcast, and he sure had a lot to say on the matter. For comparison’s sake, he pointed to the Players Championship, one of the PGA Tour’s signature events. “There were like seven guys last week from TPC…that made more money than our purses,” DiMarco said.DiMarco’s stance is interesting to say…

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When Anthony Kim, one of golf’s most enigmatic figures, returned to the sport after a 12-year hiatus, no one knew quite what to expect. Sure, Kim long ago captivated golf fans with 3 PGA Tour wins, a trio of top 10 finishes in majors, and a scintillating Ryder Cup appearance in 2008 that included a 5 and 4 singles drubbing of fellow LIV-er Sergio Garcia to help lead the United States to victory.But Kim went radio silent for almost 12 years. No one really knows how much golf he played during that time, except that he entered no professional tournaments.…

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When Tommy Fleetwood made a 10 on the sixth hole at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill on Friday, dumping his second, fourth, and sixth shots in the water before finally finding the putting surface with his eighth, it was a pretty safe bet his quintuple bogey—that’s 5 over par on one hole—would stand up as the worst score of the weekend. But if you placed a wager on someone making an even worse score, congratulations—you probably just made yourself a tidy chunk of change! Enter Jake Knapp, who’s already found the winner’s circle once this year, at the Mexico…

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