Chris Gotterup surged late with a seven-under 64, then beat Hideki Matsuyama in a play-off to win the 2026 WM Phoenix Open. His second victory in three starts this season.
Brooks Koepka is back on the PGA Tour, but not everyone is getting the same second chance. While Koepka returned after a four-year LIV Golf hiatus, former tour pro-turned-YouTuber Wesley Bryan remains sidelined.
LIV events will be ranked based on OWGR’s standard classification of ‘Small Field Tournaments’ with a ‘Ranking points distribution cutoff’ applied to award points to players who finish in the top 10 (and ties).
LIV Golf has grabbed attention once again with a bold and slightly unhinged teaser featuring some very familiar faces ahead of the league’s return this week.
Even after Rose’s blowout seven-shot win yesterday at the Farmers Insurance Open, there’s an argument to be made that we’re not appreciating enough just what he’s doing.
Many people were surprised by PGA Tour rookie Marco Penge revealing on Wednesday that a couple of Florida golf clubs “turned him away” after moving to the US in the offseason. Michael Kim was not one of those people.
On the PGA Tour’s policy board, Scott was part of what he said was a unanimous vote for the Returning Member Program policy that also included Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith, all of whom decided to stay at LIV Golf. For Reed’s return, there was no vote needed.
Despite indicating that he expected to tee it up at LIV Golf’s season-opening event next week, overnight Reed and the PGA Tour announced that he is seeking a return to the American-based circuit.
When he’s not on tour, Marco Penge will be working on his game at Old Palm Golf Club in Florida, where he recently became a member. Apparently, it was the only place that would take him.
Ahead of the start of the last San Diego tournament that will be sponsored by Farmers Insurance, Schauffele admitted that he’s hardly the guy tying himself to a Torrey pine tree to save the event. But he also doesn’t seem overly concerned that the event is in danger of going away.
Koepka, wearing a sweatshirt and his Nike hat low over his eyes, spoke almost solemnly and for the first time at length about his stunning return in front of a larger-than-normal gathering of reporters at the annual PGA Tour stop near San Diego.
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