Rory Sabbatini wasn’t sure he wanted to play the PGA Tour Champions. The last of his six PGA Tour titles came at the 2011 Honda Classic and before turning 50 in April he had taken more than two years off from competition. But he decided to give it a go and has had moderate success Read more…
A 34th-place tie never felt so good. In this case, it was just good enough to give Sean Crocker a DP World Tour card for 2027. The 30-year-old journeyman who played his college golf at USC ended the week at exactly 100th place, the very last position in the Race to Dubai standings that earns Read more…
A report in The Athletic says that the group claims it’s owed more than $US100 million in payments and is looking for what essentially would be “severance deals”.
Blades Brown didn’t win the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, but the 19-year-old made history anyway, becoming the youngest Korn Ferry Tour graduate to earn a PGA Tour card.
The weather was awful on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Virginia, but they got all 72 holes in and thus, the season-long list has been finalised, giving the top 20 players PGA Tour cards for 2027.
It had been exactly 1,078 days since Adrian Meronk won on the DP World Tour. He ended that streak in grand fashion by shooting a final-round 68 at the Old Course in St Andrews to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by two shots.
Ex-pros playing, and winning, big amateur events has made headlines over the past few months. The topic of reinstated amateurs mostly was reignited though when CBS Sports golf broadcaster and former amateur standout Colt Knost made it known that the USGA turned down his bid to give up his professional status. Early last month, Mike Read more…
By lunchtime on Sunday, U.S. Presidents Cup captain Brandt Snedeker may have had a pit in his stomach. If that was the case, by the time dinner came around, that indigestion had likely subsided. J.J. Spaun talked all week from England about how he felt snubbed, that at No. 17 in the world and having Read more…
This was J.J. Spaun on Saturday: “I’m definitely carrying a bit of a chip on my shoulder this week. I’ll just do my best and try to win.” Well, he won. The major champion birdied four of his last five holes to jump up and capture the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Read more…
A new year is supposed to begin with hope for what’s to come. It’s a new start. A clean slate. On January 1, Brendan Valdes didn’t feel well and decided he should go to an emergency room in Orlando. He thought he had, in his words, a “regular ole sickness.” Hours later, he was told Read more…
Angela Stanford took off the red, white and blue and promptly donned purple and white. The U.S. Solheim Cup captain, whose team lost 15-13 to Europe last week, was named an assistant coach for her alma mater, TCU, less than 24 hours after the matches ended at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands. Stanford, 48, was Read more…
Match pairings for Friday’s opening foursomes session were announced at the opening ceremony. Both captains, understandably, opted to lead with their top players.
Turns out Luke Poulter may not be the most popular Poulter at Lahinch. And that’s saying something. While Luke, 22, was a stalwart for the GB&I Walker Cup team, helping them come from three points down to beat the Americans 13½ to 12½, his father Ian walked into an Irish bar late Sunday and, well, Read more…
Karl Stenson has often been the little blond-haired kid posing with his father Henrik with trophies years ago when he was in his prime. Now 16, Karl has committed to play golf at the University of Florida. Ian Poulter’s son Luke is a senior for the Gators and is competing for Great Britain & Ireland Read more…
Scottie Scheffler didn’t just dominate the FedEx Cup Playoffs, he finished the season No.1 in more than 20 PGA Tour statistical categories. Here’s every one of them.
Scottie Scheffler started Sunday $608,505 behind Tiger Woods in career PGA Tour earnings. Four-plus hours later, after shooting a smooth 66 to win the Tour Championship, Scheffler collected $10 million as the FedEx Cup champion and suddenly led Woods by almost $9.4 million in career earnings. Sure, it’s a sign of the times. Money and Read more…
Joe Dean started the final round of the British Masters seven shots off the lead. Five hours later he had made nine birdies to shoot a bogey-free 63 at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England, and won fairly easily by three shots over four others. While impressive, it’s not the most impressive part of his Read more…
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