7:12 PM ET Annika Sorenstam has entered this year’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in North Carolina. The USGA said Thursday that Sorenstam filed her entry to compete in the June event, which will mark her first time playing in the Open since 2008. The 51-year-old Sorenstam ended a 13-year retirement last year when
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The hole, unsurprisingly, was the sometimes-treacherous par-4 10th, where many rounds have gone to die with a double bogey or “other” or be revived with an eagle or a birdie. Pieters started his round at the 10th with driver, a bold play as Golf Digest’s Brendan Porath pointed out in the tweet below. Unfortunately, there
4:39 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods said he will be back playing golf on the PGA Tour; he just doesn’t know when. As Woods, 46, nears the one-year anniversary of the car wreck that nearly cost him his right leg and led to multiple surgeries, he said Wednesday that he’s making progress —
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Add Adam Scott to the list of players highly interested in the rumored Saudi-backed golf league that hopes to lure stars away from the PGA Tour with huge paydays. The 41-year-old former Masters champion said on Wednesday in advance of the Genesis invitational that he is “sworn to secrecy” as far
6:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy is tired of talking about the proposed Saudi-backed Super Golf League, which may or may not strip the PGA Tour of a handful of its best players. “Not-so-super league,” McIlroy said, under his breath, when asked during a news conference at Riviera Country Club on Wednesday about
The threat of a competing Saudi-backed professional golf league has floated like a storm on the game’s horizon for the better part of two years. Due to an overabundance of rumor and lack of substantiation, that’s where the storm has stayed—in the distance. However, its thunder has never ceased, and in recent months it has
7:31 AM ET There will be a Tiger Woods sighting this week on the PGA Tour. No, he won’t be playing, but the Genesis Invitational benefits his charitable foundation. So, this week, Woods will host a loaded field at Riviera Country Club when the event begins on Thursday. As always, this event will have four
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — The PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council gathered on Tuesday night for a regularly scheduled meeting that included a discussion of ways that the tour can improve its model in the face of an existential threat from a proposed Saudi-backed league offering players millions to make the jump. A player with direct
6:49 AM ET ESPN betting analysts The PGA Tour makes its final stop on the West Coast swing for the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. Max Homa is the defending champion, but Jon Rahm enters as the favorite in a star-studded field. Which players are the favorites this time around?
Famed Riviera Country Club outside Los Angeles is set to host the Genesis Invitational, where each of the top 10 players in the World Ranking are in the field at the event that benefits Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation. Southern California native Max Homa is set to defend his hometown title after a dramatic playoff victory
2:54 PM ET PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Collin Morikawa, winner of two of golf’s past seven major championships, said he is committed to playing on the PGA Tour after listening to an offer from organizers of the Saudi-backed Super Golf League. “I’m all for the PGA Tour,” Morikawa said Tuesday, during a news conference ahead
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — He does not have any majors, nor has he been particularly close, and majors remain the currency of elite professional golfers. The big four, however, comprise a small percentage of golf tournaments. And in the events outside the major bubble, there’s a not-ridiculous case to be made that Patrick Cantlay has
8:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Defending FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay isn’t a fan of the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program, which awards $50 million to players for their appeal and popularity on social media. Cantlay, the No. 3 player in the world, said he would rather see the money go to players for
The USGA announced on Tuesday the local qualifying sites for the 2022 U.S. Open. Canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, local qualifying returned for last year’s championships. Local qualifying will be conducted over 18 holes at 109 venues in the United States and Canada. Competition will run from April 25 to May 23. Those
8:32 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sam Ryder watched his playing partner Chris Kirk tee off first on the iconic 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale during Saturday’s third round of the WM Phoenix Open and was able to get a good read on how the green was playing. Then he stepped up to the par-3,
Bryson DeChambeau took to Twitter Monday to clarify his absence from this week’s Genesis Invitational. Amid speculation regarding his relationship and future with the PGA Tour, DeChambeau wrote that he’s missing this week’s tour event at Riviera Country Club outside Los Angeles due to injury and addressed what he calls “false reports.” “I am very
8:51 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — With around 200,000 fans packing firm and fast TPC Scottsdale on another sunny, 80-degree day in the Valley of the Sun, Sahith Theegala overcame a double bogey on the par-4 second to shoot a 69 and remain atop the WM Phoenix Open leaderboard. “What a day,” Theegala
Golf fans of a certain vintage are likely to recall the memorable nickname. But Eduardo Romero—known as “El Gato” (The Cat) for the way he “prowled” around his opponents on the course—had a notable career to go with it. The native of Argentina won more than 80 tournaments worldwide during his professional career, including eight
4:27 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Bryson DeChambeau says he isn’t done playing on the PGA Tour. After reports surfaced Monday that DeChambeau told players at the Saudi International earlier this month that he wasn’t playing in any more PGA Tour events, he released a statement on Twitter in which he disputed saying that. “There
SCOTTSDALE — Sahith Theegala’s eyes bulged as he trailed his ball screaming through the thin desert air. He’d escaped the cauldron of adrenaline and beer-throwing at TPC Scottsdale’s madhouse 16th hole with a dry shirt and a par, his focus now solely on winning a truly hectic golf tournament. The drivable par-4 17th has a
Carlos Ortiz had hit the green in regulation on the par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale just 12 out of 21 times at the WM Phoenix Open prior to stepping to the tee on Sunday. No doubt he will always remember the swing that made it 13 out of 22. For the second straight day,
9:22 AM ET After a weekend of beer showers, aces and shirtless celebrations at the biggest party of the season at the WM Phoenix Open, the PGA Tour returns to normalcy with this week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. Scottie Scheffler became the third straight first-time winner on tour, beating Patrick Cantlay in a
7:08 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Eduardo Romero, the Argentine golfer who won European Tour events over three decades, has died. He was 67. The tour announced Romero’s death on Monday, without giving any more details. Nicknamed “El Gato” (The Cat), Romero was best known for winning eight titles on the tour
7:47 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler outlasted Ryder Cup teammate Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a playoff Sunday in the WM Phoenix Open, making a 25-foot birdie putt that had just enough momentum to tumble in. Cantlay missed an 11-foot birdie try after Scheffler holed his putt. Scheffler birdied
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods will be back on the PGA Tour this week. Just not inside the ropes. The 46-year-old 15-time major winner returns to Southern California to serve as host for the Genesis Invitational, the elite tour event at Riviera Country Club that benefits his TGF Foundation. Woods, who suffered traumatic leg
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — David’s supposed to be smaller than Goliath, but Sahith Theegala isn’t smaller than many people. The 24-year-old, six-foot-three-inch PGA Tour rookie has a (very noisy) mountain to climb Sunday if he’s to win the WM Phoenix Open. Number one is never easy, especially at a tournament that drains energy like no other.
8:24 AM ET Associated Press Ryan Fox secured the biggest title of his career by winning the Ras Al Khaimah Classic by five shots on Sunday. It was the 211th-ranked New Zealander’s first victory in a 72-hole format on the European tour. His only other title was in a Super 6 tournament in 2019 that
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sixteen gets the hype, and for good reason. It is, after all, the hypest hole on the PGA Tour — a 150-odd yard par 3 transformed, by human engineering, into a cauldron of adrenaline. It’s the logo of the WM Phoenix Open, the reason the event has carved out a truly unique
A caddie master at one of the most exclusive clubs in the country is dead following an argument at a coworker’s house. According to police, Kevin Somers, the caddie master at Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y., was killed by fellow Maidstone employee Marc Dern on Feb. 5. Somers was at Dern’s residence when an
Charley Hoffman called out the PGA Tour and USGA Friday night following the second round of the WM Phoenix Open. Hoffman made the cut at the TPC Scottsdale event but his Day 2 score of 72 was soured by a double-bogey 7 at the par-5 13th, statistically the easiest hole on the course. After hitting