6:51 PM ET Associated Press Matthew Jordan and Adrian Meronk share the lead heading into the final round at the Qatar Masters, with Kalle Samooja one stroke back after shooting 6-under 66 on Saturday. Jordan (70) and Meronk (72) have 54-hole totals of 8-under 208 at Doha Golf Club as both search for their first
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Maybe it’s a Texas thing. Or a match-play thing. Or a young-guy-being-oblivious thing. Whatever. Whether you bet on golf, have a stake in fantasy games, or just plain love to pick a guy to root for every tournament, if you didn’t hitch yourself to Scottie Scheffler’s well-oiled wagon in Texas this week, we have a
9:46 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen was tied for the lead in the JTBC Classic when she teed off Saturday on the par-4 18th. She two-putted for par and a 3-under 69 — and walked off with an unexpected 3-stroke lead over Na Rin An. Coming off a breakthrough victory
The LPGA Tour set up the par-3 third hole at Aviara Golf Club for some excitement on Saturday. Still, it probably got more than it wished for in the third round of the JTBC Classic. The gorgeous third—easily among the most picturesque in women’s golf—was set at 97 yards. That put a wedge in every
6:12 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Ben Martin shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday to hold onto a 2-shot lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship. Martin had five birdies and three bogeys as the wind dropped a bit at Corales Golf Course to take a 14-under 202 total into
It already had been a rough day for Lucas Herbert on Friday at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship. A win in his match with Takumi Kanaya at Austin Country Club would have pushed the 26-year-old Aussie to a 3-0-0 record in group play and secured a spot in the Round of 16 in his first
10:20 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the JTBC Classic in a bid to win in consecutive starts. Two weeks after breaking though in Thailand to become the LPGA Tour’s first Danish champion, Koerstz Madsen was back on top
AUSTIN—The action was nonstop on a wild Friday at the WGC-Dell Match Play, particularly when the group playoffs began around 2:30 p.m. local time. Among the borderline ridiculous moments of drama: • Scottie Scheffler, last year’s runnerup, beat Matt Fitzpatrick in a six-hole playoff that tied the record for longest playoff since group play was
8:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Jon Rahm lost his match and still made it to the weekend. Scottie Scheffler needed only 14 holes to win his match against Matt Fitzpatrick, and then six more to beat him in a playoff. The third full day of endless action in the Dell Technologies Match
AUSTIN—After Richard Bland finished tied for 54th in the DP World Tour’s Ras Al Khaimah Classic in mid-February, he fell to 61st in the World Ranking, and with 64 players qualifying for the WGC-Dell Match Play, his inclusion seemed in jeopardy. Bland, the definition of a late bloomer, never had to worry about his world
6:16 PM ET Associated Press Pablo Larrazábal had an eagle and three birdies on the back nine to erase a bad start Friday at the Qatar Masters, allowing the Spaniard to take a one-shot lead into the weekend. The 122nd-ranked Larrazábal, seeking his seventh DP World Tour title, shot 1-under 71 at Doha Golf Club
Sixty-four of the world’s top 69 players are set to play in the PGA Tour’s only match-play event of the season. The field at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play will be divided into 16 groups of four before the round-robin play begins on Wednesday. Players will earn a full point for a win and a
9:06 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The format is fickle enough even before that notorious Texas wind arrived. Kevin Kisner, Mackenzie Hughes and even Sergio Garcia showed how quickly fortunes can change Thursday in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Kisner added to his record of most matches won since the move to Austin
Pace yourself. If you’re doing it right, the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship is a long, but rewarding, week of golf—whether you’re a competitor or a fan watching at home. The eventual winner of the Walter Hagen Cup will have battled through seven individual matches over five days, including back-to-back double sessions of single-elimination play on
10:13 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Jin Young Ko picked up where she left off three weeks ago in Singapore on Thursday in the first round of the JTBC Classic. The top-ranked Ko shot a bogey-free 7-under 65 at Aviara Golf Club to take a one-stroke leader over Nanna Koerstz Madsen in the
AUSTIN — Let’s get theoretical here: If you were a golf writer, and you saw Collin Morikawa leading 3 up with five holes to play, and you considered the fact that he won his opening match on Wednesday and went 3-0-1 in the Ryder Cup, you may—just may—have been planning to write a story about
Morgan Pressel has played many different roles at the Solheim Cup: player, winning point-scorer, broadcaster. Now, she gets to add another title to that list: assistant captain. Stacy Lewis, the recently named American captain, has picked Pressel as her first assistant captain for the 2023 match in Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain. Team USA will
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9:00 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Golf’s most fickle tournament delivered its usual dose of oddities Wednesday in the Dell Technologies Match Play, including the fortunes of Maverick McNealy. The last man to get in the 64-man field, he was the first to close out his match. McNealy, who only got into his
The vagaries of match play have nothing on the vagaries of the Rules of Golf. Early during Wednesday’s action of the WGC-Dell Match Play Thomas Pieters’ second shot from behind the green of the drivable par-4 13th hit and ran through the putting surface, seemingly en route to water. However Pieters’ ball did not reach
11:54 AM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Oakland Hills Country Club, reeling from a fire that destroyed its century-old clubhouse last month, has landed the U.S. Open in 2034 and 2051. The USGA made the announcement Tuesday at the Detroit Athletic Club. The governing body also says Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, previously scheduled to
AUSTIN — The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play begins tomorrow at Austin Country Club in what can safely be called the most exciting Wednesday in golf (there’s not much competition). Aside from team events like the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, it’s essentially our only chance to see the world’s best golfers competing in this unique
5:01 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau has been away from competitive golf for nearly two months because he was recovering from a fractured hamate bone in his left hand and a torn labrum in his left hip. DeChambeau disclosed the severity of those injuries during an interview with Golf Channel on Tuesday, ahead of his competitive
World No. 2 Nelly Korda, who revealed on March 13 that she was suffering from a blood clot in her arm, will not play in the LPGA Tour’s first major of the season, the Chevron Championship next week in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The deadline for entry into the field was 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday,
12:42 PM ET The PGA Tour takes a break from its normal routine this week at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. In this event, a bad hole doesn’t mean as much — because all it is now is one hole. Instead of the usual stroke play that takes place nearly every week on tour, when
Reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama withdrew from the Players Championship earlier this month less than an hour before his first round was scheduled to begin, and the question since has been whether lingering back issues would be resolved in time for him to return to defend his Masters title in April. On a conference call with
10:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is the first World Golf Championships event of the season and the only match play tournament on the PGA Tour. The round-robin tourney with feature 64 golfers from Wednesday to Friday with the top 16 advancing to the knockout stage over the weekend.
Listen to enough LPGA major winners’ press conferences and you’ll hear players thank two women again and again for their role in the victory: Pia and Lynn. Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott are performance gurus, coaching players not only on the technical aspects of golf, but the intangible, mental side, too. Plenty of coaches work
6:45 PM ET Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson will not compete in next month’s tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, marking the first time since 1994 that he won’t compete there. Mickelson, 51, had been listed among the participants until Monday, when his name was included among past champions who won’t participate. An Augusta National
Phil Mickelson’s sabbatical will keep him out of the 2022 Masters Tournament. On Monday fans noticed that Mickelson’s name was no longer listed in this year’s field on the tournament website. Instead Mickelson is listed under “Past Champions Not Playing.” As this development spread on social media, a source confirmed to Golf Digest that Mickelson