While holding its annual meeting, the USGA announced that the US Open and US Women’s Open will be held a week apart in 2036, and both will be contested at Shinnecock.
The three-hole stretch of PGA National is called “The Bear Trap” for good reason. With water, water everywhere, the 15th, 16th and 17th holes are among the toughest gauntlets anywhere on the PGA Tour. The 434-yard, par-4 16th, with wet stuff entirely down the right side, generally plays the easiest of the three, and this Read more…
In a field packed with recognizable names from a variety of professions, the vaunted Seminole Pro-Member tournament that is set for Monday boasts the biggest figure in all of golf: Tiger Woods. On the tee sheet posted on X by @5ClubsGolf for the two-person best-ball competition, Woods is teamed with PGA of America CEO Seth Read more…
[PHOTO: Francois Nel] Apparently, Anthony Kim’s ragged first round in LIV Golf Jeddah was an indication of more rough play to come. For the second straight day, the 38-year-old coming off a 12-year absence from the professional game shot a six-over-par 76 and sits last among those heading into the final round in Saudi Arabia. Read more…
Jake Knapp, the 54-hole leader of the Mexico Open at Vidanta after a third round of 63 that iincluded blitzing the front nine for 28, has a tattoo below his left bicep that is visible during the follow through of his golf swing. And that’s just the way he wanted it. The tattoo features four Read more…
There are plenty of professional athletes who could take a lesson from how Matt Wallace handled what turned out to be a brutal walk-and-talk with NBC on Saturday in the third round of the Mexico Open at Vidanta. Wallace, a burly 33-year-old Englishman who has a combined five wins on the PGA Tour and DP Read more…
Citing multiple sources, Golf Channel reported on Saturday that 38-year-old Kim, who hasn’t played pro golf since 2012, will start in next week’s LIV Golf’s event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Three South Africans, competing in their home country at Leopard Creek Country Club in Malelane, were knotted in a tie at the end of 72 holes, and it was Altin van der Merwe who made a birdie on the first playoff hole to capture the inaugural Africa Amateur Championship.
LOS ANGELES — The word has long been out on the PGA Tour. If you’re looking for a Tuesday game during tournament week, setting up a little money game with Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay comes with a caveat: They are a package deal. “People needle us, you know what I’m saying,” Schauffele said on Read more…
LOS ANGELES — It was a conversation years in the waiting. Chase Johnson grew up in Ohio idolizing and copying the routines of Tiger Woods, and on Wednesday at Riviera Country Club, he finally got to look him in the eye and have a chat. Johnson, 28, is a current mini-tour pro who was awarded Read more…
Tiger Woods had to withdraw from the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club during the second round for an apparent and not yet disclosed illness, according to PGA Tour Communications.
LOS ANGELES — Believe it or not, Tiger Woods gets nervous. Still. Fifteen major championship wins, 82 victories, and 374 starts into his PGA Tour career, he stood on the elevated first tee at Riviera Country Club on Thursday morning, a large crowd gathered around him, and if Woods looked calm, he was not. Nowhere Read more…
LOS ANGELES — In the Zoom calls and board-room meetings at PGA Tour headquarters last year, as plans were being formulated for eight $20 million “signature events” with limited fields for 2024, there was a wrinkle that needed to be ironed out. Would all of these tournaments be no-cut events, considering that their starting fields Read more…
The third round of the WM Phoenix Open is scheduled to begin today at 1 p.m. MT, with the final group of leaders not going off until 3:45 pm. And that says it all about what a nightmare the weather has been this week at TPC Scottsdale. Once again, water accumulation from an overnight rain Read more…
Wyndham Clark got an enormous rules break during his otherwise spectacular, record-breaking round of 60 in the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. And on the day after Groundhog Day in the US, he has some kind of critter to thank for it.
Clark’s 60 eclipsed the professional competition course record at Pebble Beach by two shots and the overall competitive record of 61, set by current DP World Tour player Hurley Long in the 2017 collegiate Carmel Cup.
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