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Photos: David Duval through the years

David Duval now works for Golf Channel as an analyst, but before then, he had a tenured career on the PGA Tour.

David Duval has been an analyst on Golf Channel, but before that, he was a tenured master of the golf course.

The former World No. 1 won his first and only major at the 2001 British Open and came close to two Masters titles (second place in 1998 and T-2 in 2001) and a U.S. Open title in 2009 (T-2).

Duval, who was born on Nov 09, 1971, joined the PGA Tour in 1995 after playing college golf at Georgia Tech. One of Duval’s most memorable achievements was after earning his first Tour victory at the 1997 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, he went on to win his next two starts in consecutive weeks at the Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic and Tour Championship.

In the 30 years after he participated in his first Tour event, the 1990 U.S. Open, Duval accumulated 13 victories on Tour.

Here are a few of the highlights from his extensive career:

Photos: PGA journeyman Jay Don Blake through the years

His best year came in 1991, with his lone Tour win at the Shearson Lehman Brothers Open.

Jay Don Blake was inducted into Utah State University’s Hall of Fame in 1991. During his collegiate career, he won the 1980 NCAA Golf Championship, followed by a second-place finish the following year. Blake, a two-time All-American, was also named the Collegiate Player of the Year in 1981.

Blake made his first Tour start six years later in 1987. His best year came in 1991, with his lone Tour win at the Shearson Lehman Brothers Open, five other top-10 finishes and a top-30 money list placing. He also led the Tour in putting in 1991. Blake, who earned more than $5 million during his Tour career, went on to win three times on the senior circuit and $10 million overall. He most recently played in the Tour’s 2018 Barracuda Championship and competed in two PGA Tour Champions events last season. He last broke 70 at a Champions Tour event at the 2018 Sanford International.

Black Desert has presented local legendary professional Jay Don Blake, who will turn 66 on Oct. 28, 2024, with an exemption to compete at the inaugural Black Desert Championship. The tournament, which will be held Oct. 9-13, will mark Blake’s 500th career Tour event in his hometown of St. George, Utah.

Here’s a look at the journeyman through the years.

Photos: As she heads to retirement, here’s LPGA star Catriona Matthew through the years

Matthew is the winningest Scottish player to ever compete on the LPGA.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Catriona Matthew tried to quickly walk over the Swilcan Bridge one last time to avoid the spotlight. She was lured back for a proper sendoff, however, waving to fans who’d gathered on the 18th – on the ground and on the rooftops – to celebrate a long and successful career.

Matthew, the winningest Scottish player to ever compete on the LPGA, played her final round on the LPGA over the Old Course on Friday, closing with birdie to finish it off at the AIG Women’s British Open in style.

“Obviously had decided this was my last one, and to finish with a birdie,” said Matthew, “I couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

The 54-year-old shot 2-over 74 on Friday, in her 100th round at the AIG, to finish the tournament at 7 over, three shots outside the cut line. There’s no question she got the worse end of the draw.

“I think I’m just quite pleased that I actually came out and played respectably today, the last couple of days, and I don’t want to have to try and do that again next year,” she said. “So the right time.”

Matthew won four times on the LPGA and is the only Scot to ever win the AIG Women’s British Open. She did so only 11 weeks after giving birth to her second daughter in 2009.

In 2019 and 2021, the steady and sure Matthew led Team Europe to back-to-back Solheim Cup victories.

Next week, she’ll captain the Great Britain and Ireland team at the 43rd staging of the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale Golf Club.

Here’s a look at her storied career through the years:

See every single Olympic medal design dating back to the 2000 Games

Olympic medals have transformed quite a lot over the last few decades.

The first modern Olympic medal was awarded in 1896, with designs varying from mundane to ostentatious. Since the beginning of the 2000s, we’ve seen more than a fair share of unique Olympic medal designs that show off what the host country wants to share with the world.

For the Paris Olympics, the medals are fascinating! Each of the medals has a piece if iron from the Eiffel Tower! Pretty amazing, right? And the design is a hexagon in the middle surrounded by radiant precious metal.

Here’s how the Olympics website breaks down the design of the current Olympic medal as the Games begin:

Paris 2024 called on LVMH jeweler Chaumet to design its medals. Globally renowned for its craftsmanship, Chaumet has made the medal into a veritable jewel, with a construction conceived around three sources of inspiration: the hexagon, radiance, and gem-setting. …

The Eiffel Tower has also inspired the unique design of the ribbons for the medals. For the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, the medal ribbons will be adorned with the Eiffel Tower lattice work. The Olympic medal ribbons will be dark blue, while those of the Paralympic medals will be a deep red—a mix of the first two coats of paint (“Venice red” and “red-brown”) used on the Eiffel Tower.

Here are all the Olympic medal designs for both the Summer and Winter Games dating back to 2000.

Photos: Min Woo Lee through the years

The persona of the native of Perth, Australia, has resonated with fans across multiple continents.

Social media phenomenon Min Woo Lee has yet to win on the PGA Tour but he did collect two international victories in 2023 at the SJM Macao Open and Fortinet Australian PGA Championship.

Lee, whose sister is LPGA player Minjee Lee, is a social media star with nearly a half-million Instagram followers and 275,000 more fans on TikTok.

And the persona of the native of Perth, Australia, has resonated with fans across multiple continents. He signed a deal with clothing company lululemon, which spawned an interesting campaign at the WM Phoenix Open, and he also played with the guys from Good Good prior to the 2024 American Express.

“They’re hitting this age range of like 18 to 30, young people that are starting to get into golf and it’s amazing for the sport,” Lee said of the round. “It only boosts the game. A lot of people love Good Good, and it’s nice to collab with them.”

Here’s a look at the phenom through the years:

Photos: Pat Perez through the years

Here’s a look at Perez, who turned 48 on March 1, 2024, through the years.

Arizona State University product Pat Perez has never been shy about speaking his mind.

The Phoenix native famously called Phil Mickelson’s apology about Saudi Arabia “such horseshit,” then piled the fellow Sun Devil. “In the fact that he thought he was trying to make it better for the players. He was in it for one reason. If anybody thinks he wasn’t in it for his own pocket, and his pocket only, is (blanking) high. They are (blanking) crazy.”

Perez, a winner of three PGA Tour titles who made over $28 million in career Tour earnings, added that he didn’t think a Saudi league would ever come together — and then he signed with the league in 2022.

After winning his first team event as a member of LIV Golf, Perez was equally as outspoken.

“All the push-back, all the negative comments, everything we’ve gotten, at this point I really don’t care. I mean, I don’t care. I’m paid. I don’t give a damn,” Perez said with a laugh in the media scrum after the 4Aces won the event to take home the top prize of $16 million at LIV Golf’s 2022 Team Championship in Miami.

Perez also split with his wife Ashley after nine years of marriage in 2023. he was also famous for releasing this YouTube music video.

Here’s a look at Perez, who turned 48 on March 1, 2024, through the years.

Photos: Brittany Lincicome through the years

An eight-time winner on the LPGA, Brittany Lincicome has been one of the longest hitters on tour for years.

An eight-time winner on the LPGA, including two majors, Brittany Lincicome has been one of the longest hitters on tour for years.

A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, Lincicome turned pro before her 20th birthday, earning her tour card for the 2005 season.

Her first win came at the 2006 HSBC Women’s World Match Play Championship, when she went on a fantastic run, edging stars Michelle Wie, Lorena Ochoa, and Juli Inkster in the final three matches.

She has played in six Solheim Cups and was added as an assistant captain for the 2024 event under captain Stacy Lewis.

Lincicome, who has two children, has a dozen top 10 finishes in majors and won the same event twice, referred to as the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2009 and then the ANA Inspiration in 2015. She’s earned nearly $9.7 million in her playing career.

Here’s a look at the golf career of Lincicome in photos.

Photos: Remembering three-time Masters winner Jimmy Demaret through the years

Known for his loud apparel, “The Wardrobe,” as he was often called, won a total of 31 times on the PGA Tour.

Jimmy Demaret bounced from club pro jobs in Houston to Noroton, Connecticut, to Detroit and back to Houston in the space of under three years in the early 1940s.

But after honing his swing near the windy Gulf of Mexico, the best was yet to come for the vivacious and colorful Texas native. He rolled off a total of three victories at Augusta National (and a runner-up finish) to go with three appearances in the Ryder Cup, where he compiled a perfect 6-0-0 record. He was named to a fourth American squad, but in 1941 the competition was canceled due to World War II.

Known for his loud apparel, “The Wardrobe,” as he was often called, won a total of 31 times on the PGA Tour and reached the semifinals of the PGA Championship on four different occasions, although he never advanced past that point.

Demaret befriended movie stars, royalty, heads of state and astronauts, and was known as perhaps the closest friend on the PGA Tour to Ben Hogan. He also co-founded Champions Golf Club in Houston with buddy Jack Burke Jr. It was at Champions where Demaret suffered a heart attack on Dec. 28, 1983, and was later pronounced dead. He was 73.

Here are some of our favorite pictures of the World Golf Hall of Famer through the years.

Photos: 2023 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas

Golf’s silly season is upon us, and it begins this week in the Bahamas.

The 2023 Hero World Challenge is set to begin Thursday at Albany, where Tiger Woods will make his first start since the Masters in April. In addition, 19 of the world’s best players will be in the field, including Will Zalatoris, who is also returning for the first time since also withdrawing from the Masters and having back surgery.

Viktor Hovland, the 2023 FedEx Cup winner, is the two-time defending champion at the event.

Albany is No. 25 on Golfweek’s Best list of courses in Mexico, Carribean, Atlantic islands and Central America. Ernie Els designed the course, which opened in 2010.

If you want to see photos from Tiger Woods’ return at his event, click here.

Here’s a look at the best photos from the 2023 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Photos: Tiger Woods at the 2023 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas

Tiger is back on the course this week at the event that benefits his foundation.

Tiger Woods is back on the golf course this week to kick off his silly season return to competition.

The 15-time major champion is teeing it up at the 2023 Hero World Challenge at Albany in the Bahamas, the unofficial PGA Tour event hosted by Woods that benefits his TGR Foundation. Woods, 47, will then once again team up with his state-champion son, Charlie, for the annual family hit-and-giggle at the 2023 PNC Championship in Florida next month.

Woods is a five-time winner at the Hero (his last win came in 2011) and he has also finished runner-up on five occasions. He has yet to win the event since it moved to Albany.

Here are the best photos of Woods on the course at the 2023 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Photos: Tiger Woods at the 2023 Hero World Challenge

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