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The PGA Tour has opted against granting conflicting-event releases for the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series tournament, the tour told its membership in a memo distributed on Tuesday evening. Players who opt to still play in the LIV event at Centurion Golf Club outside London on June 9-11 will thus be deemed to be in

6:42 PM ET ESPN News Services The PGA Tour has denied releases to the players looking to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. The debut tournament, set to take part in London from June 9-11, coincides with

When the topic of Greg Norman comes up these days, most people want to talk about the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series. When Rick Reilly is asked about The Shark, though, he has a flashback to a long ago ride in Norman’s car. A heartpounding ride, that is. “He was friends with this race car driver

When you’re grandfather has a green jacket, it’s tough to do anything golf-related that’s going to really impress the rest of your family. But Parker Coody managed to do just that at a U.S. Open local qualifier on Monday. The University of Texas senior and grandson of 1971 Masters champ Charles Coody made not one,

Editor’s Note: Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan’s new book, The Cup They Couldn’t Lose: America, the Ryder Cup and the Long Road to Whistling Straits goes on sale May 10 (Hachette Books, $29 hardcover). The book explores the modern history of the matches between the U.S. and Europe that led to the showdown at Whistling

If Ken Duke is in 32nd place when this disaster happened, we’d have never seen it. But that’s what made it all the more painful. Duke was leading the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Saturday, and thus giving himself a chance for his first PGA Tour Champions victory. What happened then, at the 15th hole at

2:35 PM ET Associated Press Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie for the second straight day to win the British Masters by one shot in a dramatic fashion Sunday, earning his first European tour title in nearly four years and igniting his career after a damaging court case. Olesen shot 1-over 73 to finish a stroke ahead

Keegan Bradley entered the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship Sunday with a two-shot advantage over Max Homa, but Homa birdied the first hole at TPC Potomac and Bradley made double-bogey on the par-4 second hole and the see-saw battle continued for the next four hours. Ultimately, Homa shot a final-round 68 and walked

6:49 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Steve Flesch rallied from four shots behind Sunday with a 7-under 65 for a one-shot victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, his second title at the TPC Sugarloaf. Flesch also won this tournament in 2018, his only other win on the PGA Tour Champions. Flesch finished the

These are the days Max Homa used to dread. The combination of a saturated golf course, juicy rough, swirling winds and layer-up temperatures expose any player not in full command of his swing and his emotions. And while it might feel like another lifetime, it wasn’t so long ago that Homa had little control of

6:38 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Max Homa kept hearing from his coach, caddie and other supporters that he needed to carry himself with more confidence, an attitude befitting a multiple PGA Tour winner. With his fourth win overall, third in 15 months and second since he gave up his popular podcast to

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — When Thorbjorn Olesen reached the 17th tee on The Belfry’s Brabazon Course in the final round of the Betfred British Masters, victory looked unlikely. Leader since day one, the Dane was four over par for the day, seven underfor the tournament and two shots adrift of Sebastian Soderberg. With a closing

3:28 PM ET Associated Press SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — German golfer Hurly Long was the halfway leader at the British Masters by a stroke on Friday. Tournament host Danny Willett was among seven players within two strokes of Long, who is in his first season on the European tour. But consecutive finishes of third and

Anybody who’s attended a professional golf tournament has been there. You’re standing by the green, whispering to a friend or rustling the pairings sheet a bit, and you think to yourself: How much do these guys hear of what goes on outside the ropes? For some, apparently, all it takes is chewing. Yes, chewing! James

7:09 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — David Toms flipped the script Saturday at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic with a four-shot swing on the 15th hole and closed with pars for a 1-under 71 that gave him a two-shot lead over Ken Duke going into the final round on the PGA Tour Champions. Toms

They were out there because they are paid to be. There was no other justification for playing golf on Saturday at TPC Potomac, which was pounded with ceaseless downpour for the second consecutive day—only this time, the rain brought the cold and the wind with it. The vast majority of fans opted against ruining a

7:26 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Keegan Bradley did nothing special on the only easy scoring day this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, opening with an even-par 70 that left him around the cut line. Since the conditions got tougher, Bradley has been the best player at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — It’s been almost seven years since Paul Dunne was on the verge of something akin to golf immortality. With one round to play in the 2015 Open Championship at St. Andrews, the then 22-year-old amateur was tied for the lead alongside the winner of the previous Open played over the Old

1:11 PM ET Associated Press SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie to shoot 3-under 69 and take a 3-stroke lead into the final round of the British Masters as he bids for his first win in four years amid a career rebuild. The Danish golfer broke a four-way tie for the lead on

POTOMAC, Md. — Max Homa figured they’d get eight holes in, and even that felt optimistic. The radar forecast around TPC Potomac on Friday showed green, yellow and some more green, promising to make the second round of the Wells Fargo Championshiip a slog that could well bleed into Saturday, when the weather’s supposed to

4:46 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — David Toms ran off three straight birdies after a rain delay and closed with a short birdie when he judged the wind right, giving him a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with Ken Duke after one round of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Duke was

Perhaps more than any player in the world, Jason Day has been on the career roller coaster since the very start, with extremely high highs—his wins at the 2015 PGA Championship and 2016 Players Championship—and some shocking low lows, marked by totally unexpected droughts. Since his last resurgence in 2018, when he won at the

7:55 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Jason Day shook his head vigorously after holing an 11-footer for birdie on his ninth hole at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm — not out of disgust, but to whip the excess water off his cap. For the rest of the round, Day shed the hat entirely.

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — He’s not leading. He’s not even on the medal podium at the halfway stage of the Betfred British Masters at The Belfry. But no one was happier on day two than two-time tournament host Danny Willett. After a mildly disappointing opening round of 73, the former Masters champion nipped round the

7:50 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Three years and 364 days since his last victory, Jason Day describes himself as “obsessed” with honing his new swing and improving his results, even if he never gets back to No. 1 in the world. There wasn’t much room for improvement Thursday as Day shot a

Thursday was not short on fireworks. There were bright bangs from Jason Day, Matthew Wolff and Rory McIlroy, along with a someone-knocked-over-the-cannister-and-the-bottle-rocket-hit-dad’s-Camry mishap of Sergio Garcia as the Spaniard was caught on camera saying “I can’t wait to leave this tour” after a ruling didn’t go his way. Lost in the booms was the work

2:55 AM ET Associated Press Former Ryder Cup player Thorbjorn Olesen and Ryan Fox shared a one-shot lead following the first round of the British Masters on Thursday. Both shot rounds of 66 to finish the day on six under par, while a trio of players — Hurly Long, Richie Ramsay and Ashun Wu —

At TPC Potomac’s par-5 10th hole, Garcia snap-hooked his drive into marsh on the left side of the hole, which was marked as a penalty area with red stakes. Garcia, having to wade across a creek and trudge through tall grasses, eventually spotted his ball, but a rules official deemed he found it outside the

6:17 PM ET Sergio Garcia‘s frustration over a ruling on a lost ball in the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Thursday might have caused him to reveal where he’s soon headed. After driving his tee shot on the 10th hole into a hazard at TPC Potomac in Potomac, Maryland, Garcia became frustrated

POTOMAC, Md. — Paul Casey withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship with a back injury on Thursday morning and was replaced in the field by Jason Dufner. If Paul Casey withdrawing from a PGA Tour event is sounding awfully familiar, it’s because this has become a bit of a pattern recently. After coming in third