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The best 72-hole score in relation to par Jordan Smith had shot on the DP World Tour prior to this week’s Portugal Masters was 22 under at the MyGolfLife Open in South Africa. It came last March and left him into a three-way playoff that he ultimately lost to Pablo Larrazabal. It’s this context that

CHONBURI, Thailand — Amata Spring Country Club just outside Bangkok doesn’t have much in common with the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. But the two do share one thing that strikes fear into the hearts and minds of even the most accomplished golfers. So it was that the island green at Amata—one reached

5:54 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Seamus Power knows the wind and Port Royal well enough to realize he’d better do his scoring early. He did just that Saturday, added a few birdies late and had another 6-under 65 to share the lead with Ben Griffin in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Power holed

Since 1980, only five players have pulled off the accomplishment on the PGA Tour. On Sunday at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Aaron Baddeley will look to become the sixth player to win a tour event after Monday qualifying. Baddeley, a four-time PGA Tour winner but without a victory since 2016, will start the final round

6:11 PM ET Associated Press DORAL, Fla. — Dustin Johnson‘s season of big LIV money will finish with another seven-figure check. Johnson and his 4Aces GC team are one of four squads that will play in the finals of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf team championship Sunday, with $16 million — $4 million for each of

CHONBURI, Thailand — A bit like World No. 11, Viktor Hovland, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers has the sort of face that, even when he isn’t actually smiling, strongly hints that one is about to appear. But this week at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC), the Englishman is looking even happier than normal. This year

7:27 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Ben Crane took advantage of a rare start on the PGA Tour with his lowest score in 10 years, a 9-under 62 that gave him a one-shot lead going into the weekend of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Crane’s last victory was in 2014 at the FedEx St.

CHONBURI, Thailand — At last. Amidst the heat and humidity that is part of life in Thailand, a little bit of daylight has appeared. On the leaderboard at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship that is. With one more circuit of Amata Spring Country Club to play, Australia’s Harrison Crowe on 13 under par has a two-shot

8:36 PM ET Associated Press DORAL, Fla. — Phil Mickelson‘s long year that led him to being a central figure in Saudi-funded LIV Golf ended on Friday when British Open champion Cameron Smith holed a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Mickelson and eliminate his team. The LIV Golf Team Championship-Miami at

DORAL, Fla. — Among the most commonly used reasons for players signing with LIV Golf was a longer, more definitive offseason—in addition to the lure of large, guaranteed-money contracts. Their sentiment was rooted in the PGA Tour’s wraparound schedule, created in 2013-14, which compelled even some of the biggest stars to play events in the

Ben Crane wasn’t sure he was going to play. Given the chance, he’s made the most of it. Crane, in the field on a sponsor exemption, turned in a 62 on Friday to take the clubhouse lead at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. “I mean, couldn’t be more encouraged,” Crane said following a two-day total of

CHONBURI, Thailand — In the minds of many, the best thing about the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship is not the invitation to the Masters or the exemption into the Open that go to the eventual winner. No, what sets this now 13-year-old event apart from just about every other is the range of abilities on display.

5:32 PM ET Associated Press Despite feeling unwell, Jordan Smith shot a 9-under 62 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead at the Portugal Masters. The Englishman made seven birdies and a 30-foot eagle in a bogey-free round on a low-scoring opening day at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course. “I’m really happy with the way

In the first seven events of LIV Golf’s inaugural season, the Saudi-backed circuit has prize money payouts of $25 million for its individual and team components. For its eighth and final event of 2022, the upstart tour is doubling that. The overall purse for the LIV Golf Team Championship – Miami is $50 million, with

6:12 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Arjun Atwal went to Bermuda without having competed in the three months since his father died and without the guarantee of a tee time. He walked off Port Royal on Thursday with an 8-under 63 that left him one shot behind in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Atwal

2:34 PM ET MIAMI — Bryson DeChambeau told ESPN on Thursday that he remains a plaintiff in LIV Golf’s federal antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour because the PGA Tour won’t pay him a $1.75 million bonus it owes him as part of its Player Impact Program. DeChambeau, speaking to ESPN before playing in the

Unlike Bermuda Championship leader Austin Smotherman, who came into the week well-prepared, Arjun Atwal was coming in ice cold. Three months ago, the 49-year-old from India lost his father, the first loss of an immediate family member Atwal had ever experienced. During the mourning period, Atwal put the clubs away, not playing a single round

CHONBURI, Thailand — The biggest news on Day 1of the 13th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship concerned the 14th edition of the event. Oct. 26-29 next year and for the first time since 2014, the AAC will be played over the storied composite course—12 holes from the West course; six from the East—at Royal Melbourne in Australia.

7:37 AM ET Associated Press Phil Mickelson has responded to Rory McIlroy‘s most recent criticism of LIV Golf by saying the Saudi-backed breakaway series is “a force that’s not going away.” This week The Guardian published an interview in which McIlroy — the world’s No. 1 player again — said the game was not benefitting

For a fourth consecutive year, Port Royal Golf Course will be the site of the PGA Tour’s Bermuda Championship. But it’s going to be tough for the Robert Trent Jones track to create as much drama as it did when it used to host a major. Or, rather, an exhibition for major champions. Remember the

There are two simple reasons why Australian Lucas Herbert will not defend his title at the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship this week: He’s a member of the bridal party for a close friend’s wedding in his native Australia, and he’s also taking some rest before a last-minute bid to make the DP World Tour

1:59 PM ET Bob McClellanNFL Joe Biddle, whose Nashville sportswriting career spanned five decades, died early Wednesday. He was 78. Born June 13, 1944, in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he was a high school classmate of Heisman Trophy winner and legendary coach Steve Spurrier, Biddle rose to prominence as the sports editor and columnist of

The Butterfield Bermuda Championship begins a two-event stretch away from the continental U.S. on the PGA Tour (next week players head to Mexico). Lucas Herbert won last year’s event at Port Royal Golf Club, holding off a late-charging Patrick Reed. It was the Aussie’s maiden tour title, and he won it behind a strong putting

5:33 AM ET World No. 1 Rory McIlroy said the feud between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf Series is “out of control” and warned it could leave the sport fractured for a long time. In an interview with The Guardian, McIlroy described the atmosphere in the game as “us vs. them” and said the

One of the benefits that came with Adrian Otaegui’s Andalucia Masters win at Valderrama was a phone call from Joaquin Niemann late last week. Niemann, a young Chilean star who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf and is now captain of the Torque GC team, invited Otaegui to come back to LIV and contest

Record purses seem to be everywhere in professional golf and the PGA Tour Champions is no different. The tour announced its 2023 schedule on Tuesday and it’ll feature 28 events—25 regular season and three postseason to determine the Charles Schwab Cup—and more than $66 million in total prize money, the most in the 43-year history

8:50 AM ET Just over a year ago, Rory McIlroy was at a low point. The four-time major champion was moved to tears at the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits, after he went 1-3 and could do nothing to stop the U.S. team’s historic 19-9 beatdown of the Europeans. At one point in 2021, McIlroy

In its latest legal filing, LIV Golf is asking the PGA Tour for any communication tour officials have had with golfers, media companies, sponsors and other entities regarding the Saudi-backed circuit. And one of the names that has found its way into this mess has generated headlines. This is a bit complicated, so stay with

The second stage of Korn Ferry Q school wrapped up last week. It is a huge hurdle to clear, as everyone who makes it to the final stage is guaranteed at least conditional status, but there is still work to do. Only the top 40 (and ties) at the final stage will earn guaranteed starts

There’s been so much focus on Rory McIlroy’s major championship drought the past eight years that all his accomplishments have a tendency to get overlooked. The PGA Tour Player of the Year Awards. The FedEx Cup trophies. And, yes, the strong finishes in majors despite still searching for that elusive fifth title. But it’s the