Eamon Lynch

Jordan Spieth of the United States Team holds the Presidents Cup for teammates during the closing ceremony after defeating the International

The estimable British author and critic Peter Ackroyd has written on an astonishing array of subject matter, though not (yet, at least) on golf's global landscape.

Some storylines recycle through golf's ecosystem with the dreary predictability of a Patrick Reed lawsuit filing.

Pity the PGA Tour's proletariat, who are now fretting about two votes in November that could jeopardize much of what they feel entitled to.

The first Wednesday of November during leap years is a perilous time for public commentary as U.S. Presidential election results are debated in a manner just as partisan as the campaign that preceded it. This one is no different. Depending on whom you ask, one political party peddled faux populism and racism while displaying an astonishing appetite for conspiracy theories, while the other is woefully incapacitated by its indulgence of identity ideologues, Hamas groupies and gender jihadists. Which is to say there was already plenty to pick over without wondering if the election of Donald Trump would help professional golfers get paid more.

What has made McIlroy likable is the sense that he has a sense of the world and its issues outside of his privileged bubble.

Just days after the birth of his first child and on the brink of losing his status, career journeyman Rafael Campos came up with a ‘Hail Mary' moment

Optics matter in business, and even moreso in our current polarized moment when believing is seeing, when any detail can be twisted in support of a bias we already hold.

Some wit once quipped that the defining trait of American politics is the belief that someone out there is getting something for less than retail that by rights ought to be coming to you.

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka has split with his longtime swing instructor, Claude Harmon III. Koepka, 34, confirmed the move Friday afternoon in a text message to Golfweek