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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Stars struggle in first round of PGA Championship
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee reacts to the first day of the 2025 PGA Championship where Johnattan Vegas has jumped out to a stroke lead over Ryan Gerard and Cam Davis. View more Video Transcript Hello from Quail Hollow, where it was a very bad day to be a star at the first round of the PGA Championship. Advertisement Your leader at -7, Jonathan Vegas, who caughttered an incredible 5 birdies in his final 6 holes, 2 strokes ahead of Ryan Gerrard and Cam Davis. Guys. You know a little bit better guys like Masters champion Rory McIlroy, who's at + 3, Xander Schaffley, the defending champion here is at plus 1. Brooks Kepka at + 4. A lot of stars struggled on the day today. Why? Well, as you may be able to tell, behind me, the course was soaked by about 5 inches of water and there's still a lot of mud in the area that was causing a lot of problems for the players. Now there were some highlights, we had some chip ins, we had a hole in one, but a lot of big names struggled with the. Advertisement Conditions here and we're not shy about talking about it. Shfly called it stupid. Scotty Scheffer, who finished at -2, was not happy with the rules committee for the way that they set up the course. They're gonna have 3 more chances to go at it assuming that they make the cut, but for right now it's been a bit of a tricky first round for a lot of the big names at the at the PGA Championship. We'll see how it goes in the next 3 days from Charlotte, Jay Bussby for Yahoo Sports.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PGA Championship: Steep beer prices, but free water
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Augusta National is well known for its inexpensive concessions, but there's one item — maybe only one — that the PGA Championship offers at a better rate. A bottle of water will cost you $2 at the Masters, but at Quail Hollow this week, a bottle of Aquafina comes at the low, low cost of free. And you can't beat free! Considering how hot it's likely to be in Charlotte in May, that's a wise move by PGA of America, hopefully heading off some potential heat strokes. The other concessionary offerings, though ... they're going to cost you a bit more. Yes, that's $14.50 for 16-ounce "American lagers" and $13.50 for a chardonnay, and up to $18.50 for cocktails ... and that's before you get a souvenir cup. Compare that to the six bucks it'll cost you at Augusta National: You have $20. What are you buying today? #MASTERS — Jay Busbee (@jaybusbee) April 9, 2025 However, the PGA Championship does offer advantages that the Masters doesn't, starting with their all-you-can-eat "Championship+" ticket. Yes, tickets ran from $69 on practice days up to $362 on Friday and Saturday, but with that you receive the opportunity to hammer down as many cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches and country sausages as you can hold down. Golf isn't yet at the six-pound-burger stunt-food era that baseball is, but that's probably coming. For now, as with everything else involved with high-level golf outside Augusta National, a meal on the course is gonna cost ya.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PGA Championship: Steep beer prices, but free water
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Augusta National is well known for its inexpensive concessions, but there's one item — maybe only one — that the PGA Championship offers at a better rate. A bottle of water will cost you $2 at the Masters, but at Quail Hollow this week, a bottle of Aquafina comes at the low, low cost of free. And you can't beat free! Considering how hot it's likely to be in Charlotte in May, that's a wise move by the PGA of America, hopefully heading off some potential heat strokes. The other concessionary offerings, though ... they're going to cost you a bit more. Yes, that's $14.50 for 16-ounce "American Lagers" and $13.50 for a chardonnay, and up to $18.50 for cocktails ... and that's before you get a souvenir cup. Compare that to the six bucks it'll cost you at Augusta National: You have $20. What are you buying today? #MASTERS — Jay Busbee (@jaybusbee) April 9, 2025 However, the PGA Championship does offer advantages that the Masters doesn't, starting with their all-you-can-eat "Championship+" ticket. Yes, tickets ran from $69 on practice days up to $362 on Friday and Saturday, but with that you receive the opportunity to hammer down as many cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches and country sausages as you can hold down. Golf isn't yet at the six-pound-burger stunt-food era that baseball is, but that's probably coming. For now, as with everything else involved with high-level golf outside Augusta National, a meal on the course is gonna cost ya.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Korda settles for 71 after early third-round push
Rory McIlroy survives final round rollercoaster, playoff to win Masters Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee checks in from Augusta following Sunday's final round in which McIlroy took a big lead, lost it, regained it, then bogeyed the 18th hole to fall into a playoff -- but then birdied the first extra hole to beat Justin Rose, claim his first green jacket and become the sixth golfer ever to secure the career grand slam. 1:42 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
'Home Turn' shows a side of Daytona you won't see during the Daytona 500
If you're looking to get a sense of what Daytona Beach is actually like ahead of the Daytona 500, you can do it in under 30 minutes instead of booking a trip to Florida. 'Home Turn,' a show hosted by Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee, debuted on NASCAR's YouTube channel on Tuesday. The documentary — available at the top of this post — is about the city and culture of Daytona and was a partnership between NASCAR Studios and Bluefoot Entertainment, the group behind the 'TrueSouth' series on the SEC Network. The show has plenty of nuggets for those who haven't been to Daytona at all or those of us that have been to the area too many times to count. Even Busbee said he learned a lot while filming. 'I'd always known the history of the area, but the way you can draw a literal straight line from the sands at the waterline right to the start-finish line at Daytona International Speedway, both literally and metaphorically, is pretty great — the same drive that pushed men to rip down the beach at 300 miles an hour a century ago pushes them to claim the lead coming out of Turn 4 on the final lap today,' Busbee said. 'Plus, I learned why DIS is shaped the way it is ... there used to be a dog track beyond what is now Turn 1, and so they created the tri-oval so they could have both the size and the banking they wanted. The dog track is long gone, but the tri-oval shape remains.' Daytona is a city known for NASCAR, of course, but also its role as a host for MTV's 'Spring Break' for many years. The area is trying to get past that now, and like any community looking to remake its image, it's not an easy process. In a conversation near the end of the show, lifelong Daytona resident and Daytona Beach News-Journal writer Ken Willis notes that Daytona is caught in the past while also attempting to modernize itself. It was easy to see how that situation applies to NASCAR too. The stock car series has experienced a lot of turnover in the past decade as the boom years of the 2000s get further and further away. Its new crop of drivers aren't on the star paths the likes of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were on, and NASCAR is attempting to figure out how to navigate its new and much more niche place in the sports world. 'It's a great connection, because both NASCAR and Daytona Beach had such mountainous highs in the past, and those highs cast a long shadow," Busbee said. "Both of them are having to adjust to new tastes — people aren't as interested in massing at a beach and sleeping 10 to a hotel room for Spring Break anymore, and people aren't as interested in sitting for four-plus hours to watch racing any more. Plus, you always romanticize your past over the allegedly less-colorful present, and that's what both NASCAR and Daytona Beach have to contend with — people's memories versus current reality. Both are in the process of reinventing themselves, and both are now recognizing that what worked in the past won't work to carry them into the future.'
