Tiger Woods excited by new matchplay format for Tour Championship

Tiger Woods has given a thumbs-up to the PGA Tour’s new format for its Tour Championship, which will feature a 32-man match play competition. PGA ‌Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp announced overnight (Australian time) ahead of the Tour ‌Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta that the new season-ending format will begin ‌in 2028, Read more…

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…

Little Ripper: Cam Smith stays in LIV title contention

Cameron Smith has ridden an emotional rollercoaster to remain “right there” in the mix for a drought-breaking victory at LIV Golf’s season finale in Indianapolis. The chance of a first tournament win in more than three years looked to be slipping away before Australia’s one-time world No.2 steadied to post a third-round three-under-par 67 on 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…

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…