Diminutive star matches LPGA record in nine-stroke win

Diminutive Japanese star Miyu Yamashita has matched the LPGA Tour’s 72-hole scoring record in a wire-to-wire, nine-stroke victory in the Canadian Women’s Open in Edmonton. The 150cm (4-foot-11) Yamashita made a birdie putt on the 18th for a four-under 66 and 23-under 257 total. Sei Young Kim also shot 257 in the 2018 Thornberry Creek Read more…

Big on talent: Miyu Yamashita eyes runaway LPGA Tour win

Japan’s Miyu Yamashita is on track for a wire-to-wire victory in the Canadian Women’s Open after firing a five-under 65 third round to claim a six-shot lead in Edmonton. Yamahita rebounded from a bogey on the par-3 17th with a birdie on the par-4 18th to get to 19-under 191 at Royal Mayfair, the tree-lined Read more…

Adam Scott eyes Tour Championship as Wyndham Clark skips clear again

Only a final-round collapse can deny Adam Scott a 14th appearance at the rich Tour Championship as Wyndham Clark threatens to run away with the PGA Tour’s penultimate FedExCup playoff event. RELATED: Rickie Fowler living on the bubble again in tour playoffs In the same ruthless manner in which he won a second US Open Read more…

Aussie Richard Green, Labritz tied for lead in Classic

Australian Richard Green and American Rob Labritz are tied atop the leaderboard at the Rogers Charity Classic after shooting matching seven-under-par 63s in Calgary, Alberta. At the only Champions Tour event held annually in Canada, Labritz ‌surged out to an early advantage, sinking six birdies over his first 17 holes ‌before grabbing one more on Read more…

LPGA rivals feel Yamashita sting in mosquitoe-hit Open

Miyu Yamashita has opened up a five-stroke lead in the Canadian Women’s Open, as players again fought mosquitoes on the tree-lined course tucked in a bend in the North Saskatchewan River. A stroke ahead Thursday after an opening eight-under 62, the four-foot-11 Yamashita shot 64 in the afternoon to get to 14 under at Royal Read more…

Adam Scott holds spot in race for Tour Championship

Adam Scott has produced another solid round at the FedEx Cup playoffs’ middle event to maintain his position for the lucrative, year-ending Tour Championship. With only the top 30 progressing to the $US40 million PGA event, the Queenslander shot a second successive two-under 68 to be four under for the tournament at Bellerive Country Club Read more…

Cam Smith fights back to stay in LIV contention

Cam Smith is determined to end the season on a high after shooting a two-under 68 in LIV Golf’s season finale at Indianapolis. The Australian is sitting at nine under for the tournament, two behind new leader Richard Lee at The ‌Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield. After promising to put his “head down and Read more…

World No.1 still the man to catch in Memphis

Scottie Scheffler has settled in after a rough start for a two-under 68, giving him a two-shot lead over Sam Burns and Sungjae Im at the PGA Tour’s St. Jude Championship going into a final round where so much is at stake from the top to the bottom of the leaderboard. Scheffler is trying to Read more…

Grace Kim fights back to remain in LPGA contention

Grace Kim has fought back from a mid-round stumble to remain in contention at the LPGA Tour’s Portland Classic. The Australian followed her opening-round 66 at Colombia Edgewater Country Club with a 69 on Saturday (AEST) to be nine-under for the tournament. Kim is three shots adrift of Thai leader Arpichaya Yubol (66) and two Read more…

Australia’s Grace Kim makes fast start at LPGA event

Australian golfer Grace Kim has continued her hot run with a stellar six-under-par opening round at the LPGA Tour’s Portland Classic. Fresh off two straight top-10 finishes, Kim is just one stroke behind Colombian leader Mariel Galdiano after Thursday’s first round at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club. Playing all-out attack, the major champion collected seven birdies Read more…

Frankie Harris goes low with a 59 on his way to Korn Ferry playoff victory

Young American golfer Frankie Harris has made a big statement, closing with a rare 12-under-par 59 before winning the Korn Ferry Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in a playoff. Harris’s maiden victory came in just his sixth tour start this year. The 23-year-old made an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole to get to 22-under Read more…