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So what if your bracket is busted. The real madness in March is happening this week on the PGA Tour. The 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play pairings were announced Monday morning and though the reveal lacks the gravitas of college basketball’s selection show, the drama that lies ahead does not disappoint. Austin Country Club has

12:57 PM ET Associated Press Sam Burns withdrew from the Dell Match Play on Monday, one day after outlasting Davis Riley in a playoff to become a back-to-back winner at the Valspar Championship. The 64-man field at Austin Country Club will be missing four golfers from the top 12 in the world ranking. Cameron Smith

Sam Burns withdrew from the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Monday. Burns, who captured the Valspar Championship Sunday by defeating Davis Riley in sudden death, cited a need to rest as the reason for the WD. “After three long weeks of golf, I feel that taking this week to rest and prepare for the busy stretch

5:54 AM ET Britain’s Georgia Hall carded a one-under-par 71 to win the Saudi Ladies International in Jeddah on Sunday. Hall, who had a five-shot lead overnight, scored three birdies on the first four holes to give her an eight-shot advantage, but bogeys on the 15th and 16th set her back, before she finished strongly.

Good golf, winning golf, takes long hours, a short memory and an even keel, which pretty much sums up Sam Burns in the last seven days. It also takes a clutch shot at the right time, and while a 32-footer for birdie on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff is definitely in the clutch

7:27 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns is a winner again in the Valspar Championship, this time with a lot more stress and plenty of more emotion. Burns holed a birdie putt from just over 30 feet on the 16th hole to beat Davis Riley on the second playoff hole, giving

It didn’t help matters that the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort was playing almost a shot and a half tougher on Sunday than it has the previous three days at the Valspar Championship. Wesley Bryan was going to need a better round than the 68-71-70 he’d posted if he was going to leave the event

11:16 AM ET Shaun Norris overcame a poor start to his final round to card a 70 and win the DP World Tour’s Steyn City Championship with 25 under par on Sunday, his first victory on the European circuit. South African Norris, who carded a remarkable 62 on Friday, held a four-shot lead going into

We promise we’re not trying to jinx Davis Riley. Still, we can already hear now what Dan Hicks and Paul Azinger will be saying late on Sunday’s NBC broadcast of the Valspar Championship should the 25-year-old PGA Tour rookie who holds the 54-hole lead at Innisbrook Resort outside Tampa fail to close things out and

6:50 PM ET Associated Press Shaun Norris opened a four-shot lead after three rounds of the Steyn City Championship on Saturday, putting the South African in prime position for his first European tour title. Norris shot 5-under 67 and moved to 23 under par overall at low-scoring Steyn City, where players have been benefiting from

A look at the contenders heading into the final round of the Valspar Championship: 1. Davis Riley (18 under) The buildup: After charging up the leader board with a 62 on Saturday that included just 20 putts, the 25-year-old PGA Tour rookie out of Alabama seems like another one of the young guys destined for

7:29 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Davis Riley made three birdies from tough spots to close out the front nine and then kept right on rolling Saturday until he had a 9-under 62, a tournament scoring record and a two-shot lead in the Valspar Championship. And just like that, a Masters invitation

Prior to his career on the PGA Tour Wes Bryan was a trick-shot artist. He needed to tap into that former life Friday to get two more rounds at the Valspar Championship, two more rounds he needs to save his tour card. This week marks Bryan’s final start on a major medical exemption, and with

Bryson DeChambeau has gotten good at entering PGA Tour events of late. The question, though, remains when will he finally play in one again? The former U.S. Open champion, who hasn’t competed on tour due to injury since missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in January, was listed on Friday among the participants

In the last eight seasons, three-time PGA Tour winner Scott Stallings has finished the season ranked no higher than 101st on tour in strokes-gained/putting. As of this writing, he currently ranks 60th in that same category for the 2021-22 season. On Friday at the Valspar Championship, Stallings revealed that he’d stolen a trade secret from

1:39 PM ET Associated Press Shaun Norris opened a three-shot lead with a second-round 62 at the Steyn City Championship in South Africa on Friday. The home player moved to 18 under par with a near flawless round that contained eight birdies and an eagle. He picked up four shots in his last four holes

Local authorities say evidence from an ongoing investigation points to a propane torch used by construction workers as the cause. Bloomfield Township Fire Chief John LeRoy spoke at a news conference on Thursday and described surveillance camera footage that showed the workers using the torch to install rubberized flashing during a rebuild of a patio

4:13 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Hadwin won his first PGA Tour title at the Valspar Championship five years ago, and 125 starts later, the Canadian is still looking for his next one. This week might be as good as any. Hadwin got off to a sluggish start on a spectacular

Six members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams, along with their coach, died on Tuesday night when the passenger van they were in was involved in a two-vehicle collision in West Texas. The teams were competing in the TankLogix Collegiate at Ranchland Hills Golf Club in Midland, Texas, and driving

4:38 PM ET Associated Press HOBBS, N.M. — A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said Thursday. The truck’s left front tire, which was a spare tire, also blew out before impact,

Brooks Koepka is off to an auspicious start at the Valspar Championship thanks to a four-under, bogey-free performance Thursday. “I felt like I played pretty solid. It was very, very easy. No stress. Stress-free,” Koepka said. “Three more of those, I should be right there.” But, in all due respect to the fine folks at

8:10 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns prefers to look at what’s next instead of what happened, and that was a big part in how he responded for a 7-under 64 and a share of the lead Thursday in the Valspar Championship, his first time as defending champion. He used the

Last Sunday, Matthew Wolff delivered us the most casual club toss in club-toss history at the Players Championship. On Thursday at the Valspar Championship, Charl Schwartzel gave us the most vicious club toss in club-toss history. Needless to say, it’s been a huge five days for tossin’ sticks. Actually, this was more of a throw

7:59 AM ET Nothing about golf on the PGA Tour has been easy the past few weeks. The Arnold Palmer Invitational was challenging, so much so that Rory McIlroy said he left the event “punch-drunk.” The Players was a marathon that stretched into a Monday thanks to wind and rain that made the tour’s marquee

It was a sign of maturity, surely, though incongruously, that a mature college golfer somehow concluded he was not yet mature enough to leave the friendly confines of the university for the cutthroat world of professional golf. This despite an impressive résumé that includes a 59 at Oakmont Country Club. OK, not that Oakmont. The

Editor’s Note: In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re shining a light throughout March on women who have created, own and run businesses in golf—from apparel, to golf schools, to golf courses. Good golf instruction is a mixture of art and science—building a player up while obeying the laws of physics that govern a swing.

On the heels of the biggest win of his career at the Players Championship, Cameron Smith released a statement Wednesday announcing he has decided to withdraw from next week’s WGC-Dell Match Play Championship in Austin, Texas. “We had a long, extended week at the Players and we needed a little break,” he wrote, in a

12:49 PM ET The Saudi Arabian-financed breakaway golf league isn’t going away. LIV Golf Investments on Wednesday announced an eight-event series that will start in London in June and will feature four tournaments played in the United States. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will include seven-regular season events and a team championship match-play finale at

When Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts conceived of the golf club that became Augusta National, their plans were ambitious: two 18-hole golf courses, one for women; tennis courts, a pool, outdoor squash courts and a bridle trail; an extensive real-estate development with at least two dozen large building lots overlooking the course; and 1,800 members,

6:33 AM ET ESPN News Services A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing multiple people, authorities said. The vehicles collided Tuesday night in Andrews County. Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Department of Public Safety told KWES-TV there were fatalities