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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
1:21 AM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com HOBBS, N.M. — More than 100 people gathered for a vigil on a putting green behind a University of the Southwest dorm Monday night and remembered the seven members of the men’s and women’s golf teams who were killed in a two-vehicle crash on a West Texas highway last Tuesday.
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