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7:03 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Smith was unflappable as ever on a TPC Sawgrass stage that causes so much anxiety. Through 13 holes in the final round at the Players Championship, Smith had only one par. With a 2-stroke lead on the par-3 17th hole and staring at an

You may be recovering from the Players Championship—we know we are—but the PGA Tour never stops, and a strong field is set to take on Innisbrook Resort outside of Tampa, Fla., for the Valspar Championship. Defending champion Sam Burns will return to tame the Copperhead Course for a second straight year, and five of the

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—If Netflix was hoping for drama in the upcoming PGA Tour docuseries, the streaming service got all of it and then some from the group of Daniel Berger, Viktor Hovland and Joel Dahmen in the 16th fairway on Monday at TPC Sawgrass. The video clip, which took over Golf Twitter immediately, features

9:35 AM ET Associated Press Henrik Stenson is Europe’s choice to be the Ryder Cup captain for the 2023 matches in Italy, with an announcement Tuesday indicating he has decided not to join a Saudi-funded rival league. Stenson was a logical choice for Europe. A former champion at The Open who has won top honors

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The week that would not end finally did. Cameron Smith won a peculiar Players Championship with a roller coaster final round, birdieing his first four holes and getting up-and-down at the last for a clinching bogey. There is much to discuss. Here are 18 Parting Thoughts from TPC Sawgrass. 1: We

3:07 AM ET Coming into the final round with a one-shot lead, Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fell short by a stroke to finish second at The Players Championship at Ponte Vedra Beach. Lahiri (69) needed a birdie on the 18th hole, the 72nd of the tournament, to force a play-off with Cameron Smith of Australia,

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—The meteorologists were wrong. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised given it’s a profession synonymous with inaccuracy. But the weather reports said there was a 1 percent chance of rain for Monday, which in forecast parlance means no chance of rain, and those reports were 100 percent wrong. It poured during Round 4

7:43 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Around 4 p.m. ET on Monday, after rain started falling again at the Players at TPC Sawgrass, Sepp Straka was the leader in the clubhouse with a 72-hole total of 7 under. For a tournament that stopped and started more than the traffic on state highway A1A,

We should be crowning a champion Monday at The Players. The weather is rather benign—although not hot like Thursday, it is not cold, windy or stormy—so we will take it. (Scroll down for the latest updates) This wild Players Championship has set up another marathon day—with the leaders playing the back nine of their third

8:16 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — In what already was the toughest pre-cut round at the Players Championship in 15 years, Justin Thomas and Bubba Watson managed to play bogey-free Saturday in ferocious wind on a day of far more spills than thrills. The rain finally cleared out and TPC Sawgrass

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — A wet and wild (and cold and windy and just plain crazy) week at TPC Sawgrass is finally set to come to an end on Monday (!). Thanks to a great weather forecast, seemingly rare around these parts, that we know. As for who is going to actually win the tournament,

3:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — LPGA star Nelly Korda will be sidelined for an undisclosed amount of time after doctors diagnosed her with a blood clot, she announced on social media on Sunday. Korda, 23, was in Ponte Vedra Beach on Friday for a photoshoot and commercial appearance. After working out that

There’s no denying the drama that Pete Dye’s Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass lends itself to each year at the Players Championship. In particular, the closing stretch of the par-5 16th (reachable in 2), par-3 17th (the famed island green) and par-4 18th (water left the whole way home) brings with it a level of

9:07 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Anirban Lahiri showed up at the TPC Sawgrass in darkness Sunday morning wearing four layers of clothes — with a fifth layer just in case — to cope with near freezing temperatures he never experienced growing up in Bangalore, India. He walked off the course

PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Saturday’s blustery conditions at TPC Sawgrass conjured comparisons to the Open Championship, comparisons that, to be frank, were somewhat lazy. The Open is a tournament played on the ground, the Players a contest very much played in the sky. There is one correlation, however, that does hold up between these two championships, and

11:00 AM ET Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal claimed victory over Jordan Smith on the second playoff hole at the DP World Tour’s MyGolfLife Open at the Pecanwood Country Club in Haartbeespoort, South Africa on Sunday. The pair had been locked on 22 under-par with another Spaniard, Adri Arnaus, after 72 holes, but the latter dropped out

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The old man tried to mask his smirk but couldn’t, so he turned his back to the driving range out of respect. The practice area had been open for 10 minutes but that was all the time needed to sense what lay on the horizon. “I’m not trying to be mean,”

2:29 PM ET Some advice for Zach Johnson: Step away from the ball for practice swings going forward. Johnson, who has a history of accidentally hitting the ball during practice swings, was at it again when golf resumed on Saturday at The Players. And this might have been the worst one yet. Zach Johnson did

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — There were 40-mph gusts and 120-yard 7-irons, tops and slices, club slams and more club slams. It was one of those days at TPC Sawgrass, when an even-par round catapults you up the Players Championship leader board. Brooks Koepka did not break 80. Jordan Spieth posted 79. Xander Schauffele shot 78,

8:22 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Shortly after noon ET on Saturday, the first victims of the 17th hole of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass arrived. Scottie Scheffler, who had won in two of his past three starts on the PGA Tour, drew the short straw as the Players resumed and was

Rainy, windy chaos might be the best way to sum up the 2022 Players Championship thus far, with the first round slated to resume Saturday at noon. In all likelihood, though, the chaos is just about to get started on the actual golf course. (Scroll down for the latest updates) Though the course is finally

Friday is one of those days you just hope the weathermen are wrong. Forecasts call for thunderstorms and heavy rain all day throughout northern Florida. If the first round can wrap up, that would be considered a success. Of course, we’re not so sure that will be the case. (Scroll down for the latest updates)

6:56 AM ET The Players stands as the crown jewel on the PGA Tour’s schedule. It brings together a strong field, with a huge payday — the total purse has grown to $20 million. A few of the marquee names won’t be around. Phil Mickelson is out, as his break continues. More on that in

3:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Play was suspended again because of heavy rain at The Players Championship on Friday and won’t resume until at least 11 a.m. ET on Saturday, the PGA Tour announced. The first round was delayed for more than four hours on Thursday, and the last group of players

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — No offense to Gary Young, chief referee of the Players Championship, but we’re all getting a little sick of seeing him in the media center this week. Of course, we kid, though the announcement that Young was returning for a second time on Friday was met with plenty of groans. Young

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — It’s been said that “you’re still away” are the three worst words in golf. “Monday finish likely” might take exception. That’s precisely what’s staring at the field at this week’s Players Championship, something that hasn’t happened at TPC Sawgrass since 2005. That year, play was suspended in the second, third and

6:59 AM ET Associated Press CHONBURI, Thailand — Oh Su eagled her final hole to grab a share of the lead alongside Nasa Hataoko after the second round of the LPGA Thailand on Friday. Oh, who represents Australia but was born in South Korea, had five birdies through 15 holes before play was suspended because

9:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — In what seemed like a formality from the first time he played in a PGA Tour event at the Greater Milwaukee Open in August 1996, or perhaps even before then, Tiger Woods was officially inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Woods, 46, was

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — One of the last players in was one of the first players finished and finished the day first on the leader board, which, last we checked, was the first real sign that things are turning around after last year’s disappointing results. Tommy Fleetwood, who hasn’t necessarily fallen on hard times but

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—Harold Varner III took a look down, took a look back, shook his head and shrugged it off. The man shrugs most things off, owning a carefree attitude that begets a swagger unmatched in these parts. Still, Varner had the right to feel salty after an auspicious start at TPC Sawgrass was