9:55 AM ET Tiger Woods, who hasn’t played in a PGA Tour event for more than a year while recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck, won the tour’s inaugural Player Impact Program bonus. The program measures a player’s popularity based on a set of criteria. Woods, a 15-time major champion, collected the $8
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No player has been as outspoken against a Saudi-backed golf league as Rory McIlroy, and his candor has extended to those toying with jumping to the proposed breakaway circuit. One of those targets was Phil Mickelson, with McIlroy calling Mickelson’s now infamous comments “naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant” at the Genesis Invitational. But in the wake
8:13 AM ET The PGA Tour heads to Arnie’s place, Bay Hill Club & Lodge, this week for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau pulled out this week, citing an ongoing hand injury. Play begins Thursday. But a strong field will be at Bay Hill, a week before the Players Championship and a
6:44 AM ET The PGA Tour’s Florida swing treks on this weekend with the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. The tournament usually attracts some of the best golfers in the world, and this year will be no different. While 2021 champion Bryson DeChambeau withdrew from the tournament on Monday because
Despite not playing a single round on the PGA Tour in 2021, Tiger Woods won the inaugural Player Impact Program and its $8 million first prize. Players were notified Wednesday morning of the results from the first year of the program, enacted at the beginning of 2021 to reward the 10 players who bring the
It remains one of the great “golf nerd” moments on the calendar each year – the reveal of the Seminole Pro-Member tee sheet, usually tweeted out by Andy Johnson of The Fried Egg. When it hit social media on Monday, most golf fans had a similar thought: is this a better field than the Honda
Even with defending champion Bryson DeChambeau’s Monday withdrawal from Bay Hill, there will be quite a collection of PGA Tour stars at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. Set to compete in Orlando this week are several high-profile players, from World No. 1 Jon Rahm to FedEx Cup leader Hideki Matsuyama. With a $2.16 million first-place
Nelly and Jessica Korda, Minjee and Min Woo Lee, Preston and Grace Summerhays. The list of golf sibling duos is numerous, these being just some of the most recent prosperous pairings at the pro and amateur levels. Many of those pairs have succeeded at each other’s side, at least at some point during their careers.
IN 2017, BRYSON DECHAMBEAU WAS struggling to make short, soft putts. It didn’t take a genius to realize he needed to start sinking them if he wanted to stay on the PGA Tour beyond his rookie season, and he began his typically exhaustive efforts to fix the problem. After experimenting with a range of approaches,
11:34 AM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The Americans recorded the biggest blowout over Europe in the Ryder Cup last year, and their new captain doesn’t see a need to change much of anything. Zach Johnson was introduced as the 30th U.S. captain on Monday, next in line to try to end
The date was April 4, six days before the first round of Woods’ first Masters appearance as a professional. As was his custom back then, Woods was set to play a casual-but-competitive round—every round, under any circumstance, comes with a healthy dose of competition when Woods is involved—at his home course, Isleworth Country Club in
12:16 PM ET Defending Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Bryson DeChambeau won’t try to defend his title at Bay Hill Club & Lodge this week because of a lingering left hand injury. DeChambeau won the 2021 event by 1 shot over Lee Westwood for his eighth career PGA Tour victory. DeChambeau withdrew from the API on
This PGA Tour Champions season, though early, is shaping up as one for the ageless, led by a pair of graybeards who seem to have matured better than the fine red wines they enjoy. On this Sunday, it was Miguel Angel Jimenez’s turn. Again. Jimenez, 58, won the Cologuard Classic at Omni Tucson National on
6:55 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Miguel Angel Jimenez had his second hole-in-one of the tournament and closed with a 7-under 65 on Sunday to win the Cologuard Classic. Jimenez started the final round with a two-shot lead and got off to a birdie-eagle start at Tucson National. Reigning Charles Schwab Cup champion
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.—What can you say about Sunday at the Honda Classic except that it was our latest lesson in the wild unpredictability of professional golf? What looked like a serene runaway in the Florida sunshine around 2 p.m. on Sunday turned into a dark, rain-soaked melee in which the palm trees bent to
6:44 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Sepp Straka is going back to Georgia in a few weeks. He’s headed to his first Masters, after pulling off a huge comeback to win the Honda Classic. Straka, down by 5 shots entering the final round, tapped in for birdie in the rain on
7:22 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Daniel Berger no longer needs to answer questions about how his back is feeling. The scorecard is telling the story. Berger — playing what amounts to a home tournament for him, with his residence a 15-minute drive away in Jupiter — had a 3-shot lead
Phil Mickelson is out as host of The American Express that is played each January in California’s Coachella Valley. The Palm Springs Desert Sun reported on Saturday that the PGA Tour confirmed that Mickelson won’t be the future host after serving the event in that capacity for the past three years. The charitable arm of
Two bogeys over 54 holes. That’s impressive anywhere on the PGA Tour. At PGA National, with its plentiful water and The Bear Trap waiting to gobble up hopes, it’s almost unimaginable. But that’s what Daniel Berger has achieved in the first three rounds of the Honda Classic. And with that kind of precision comes a
6:27 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Daniel Berger wasn’t flawless. He just kept avoiding big problems, which almost nobody has managed to do at PGA National this week. That’s why he remains the leader of the Honda Classic. Berger started with a three-shot lead and ended with a five-shot advantage, after
7:22 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Miguel Angel Jimenez pulled his penultimate drive of the day into the water and still saved par. The next drive stopped so close to the water he couldn’t take a regular stance, leading to a bogey. Jimenez’s driver might have let him down late, but his putter
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.—Daniel Berger is one of just six top-25 players in the world at this year’s Honda Classic, and if that fact represents a kind of opportunity, he has seized it with both hands. Following a pair of 65s that propelled him to a 36-hole lead, consistency was the name of his game
3:08 PM ET Phil Mickelson‘s controversial comments about the PGA Tour and organizers of a Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league continue to create backlash, as the six-time major champion will no longer serve as host of The American Express event in La Quinta, California. The PGA Tour on Saturday told The Desert Sun that in addition
Despite the Saudi golf league speculation and some recent health issues, it appears we may see Bryson DeChambeau defend his title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational next week. At least, that’s the plan. Just after 5 p.m. ET on Friday evening, the weekly deadline for players to commit to the following week’s event, the PGA
For some players, the abrupt switch from the West Coast swing to the Florida swing can be a difficult adjustment. The cross-country flight, the time change, the weather difference, and, perhaps the most underrated factor, the switch from Poa to Bermuda grass greens. But for Chris Kirk, all those challenges could not have come soon
7:45 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Miguel Angel Jimenez felt the breeze at his back and pulled a 6-iron, believing it would be the perfect club at Tucson National’s 196-yard seventh hole. He was dead on. Jimenez’s ace propelled him to a 6-under 66 in breezy conditions Friday to match Jeff Sluman for
8:58 PM ET Callaway Golf paused its relationship with Phil Mickelson on Friday, becoming the fourth longtime sponsor to either end or halt its partnership with the six-time major champion after his controversial comments about the PGA Tour and organizers of a Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league became public last week. KPMG and Amstel Light announced
Workday has joined the list of Phil Mickelson’s sponsors who have dropped the golfer after his controversial statements and involvement with a prospective Saudi-backed golf league. “At this time, Workday and Phil Mickelson have mutually and amicably agreed to not renew our brand sponsorship that ends this March,” a Workday spokeperson told Golf Digest on
Nick Seitz, 82, died this week and took a piece of me with him. He was my boss, the Editor of Golf Digest, when I got hired as an intern 45 years ago. He interviewed me in the Pan Am terminal at JFK when he was flying off to some exotic locale like Dayton, Ohio,
2:54 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — David Duval, who hasn’t played a full schedule in nearly a decade, said he’s “just getting the rust off” entering his third PGA Tour Champions start this weekend. After turning 50 in November, Duval started to get the competitive itch again and is planning to play a