The Open champion capped a remarkable year by taking Europe’s season-long prize.
To maintain his European Tour status, McIlroy needs to compete in four regular tour events outside the Major championships and WGC tournaments.
Kuchar’s victory at the Mayakoba Golf Classic was his first on tour since 2014, and his first anywhere since 2015.
With one tournament remaining in the 2017-’18 European Tour season, Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood will become rivals in the quest to claim the Race to Dubai title.
Garcia arrived with momentum, having won the Andalucia Valderrama Masters in his previous European Tour start.
Sybi Kuchar wound up caddieing for Zach Johnson over the final four holes in the first round after Johnson’s usual caddie, Damon Green, had to get an IV for dehydration.
With the US and European Tours juggling their marquee events on the calendar, how will it shake out for the game’s best players?
The win is the fifth of DeChambeau’s career, and his fourth in the past five months, a remarkable stretch that began with a win in a playoff at the Memorial Tournament in June.
As we’ve noted in this space before, it’s bad enough to give unsolicited advice to a playing partner on a golf course. It’s a different animal of awfulness when that counsel is wrong.
Admittedly, it is only a VERY slim chance.
Sergio Garcia’s triumphant Monday at the Andalucia Valderrama Masters’ marked his second win since he joined Callaway at the beginning of the year
The win is only the Spaniard’s third (the Singapore Masters on the Asian Tour is the other) since he donned the green jacket at Augusta National 18 months ago.
Previously reduced to 54 holes due to bad weather early, the tournament was further delayed by thunder and lightning storms.
Brooks Koepka is a man with plenty of confidence in his game. That’s what happens when you make it look so easy.
Yelling “Fore!” can work, but it tends to provide the illusion of safety more than actual protection.
The Hall of Fame golfer did not mind upsetting tour pros as a TV analyst. It was all part of the job.
Paul Azinger is set to be named as Miller’s replacement
Yes, these guys are good. But are they really that good? Or, has the tour, in its zeal to prove week in and week out how good they are, gone too far with sometimes laughably easy course setups?
Stenson was plagued with the elbow issue throughout 2018, missing a handful of tournaments in various parts of the season.
Koepka continued to deny anything took place between he and Johnson overnight when he went on the Dan Patrick Show.