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6:33 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA tour heads to Arizona this week for the 2022 WM Phoenix Open as some of the best golfers in the world compete TPC Scottsdale. The tournament, historically has been a strong event on tour with a loaded field including last year’s winner Brooks Koepka and top ten

The focus was on Lydia Ko and Danielle Kang vying for victory at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio this past weekend, but there was another story happening a little lower on the leader board. For a moment, broadcasters took the focus away from Ko and Kang trading the top spot—with Ko ultimately coming out

For the 10th consecutive year, Golf Digest is celebrating Golfers Who Give Back, partnering with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation and the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. Our joint committee has selected legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood, the PGA Tour’s Brandt Snedeker and the LPGA Tour’s Morgan Pressel as this

SAN DIEGO—Add one more quirky circumstance to the lore of the 18th hole of the Torrey Pines South Course: the cart-path bounce. Tied for the lead with Tim O’Neal as they stood on the 18th tee on Sunday in the APGA’s Farmers Insurance Invitational, Patrick Newcomb hit his worst drive of the day, way right

Lydia Ko came into the press room after her win on Sunday at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio smiling. She admitted to having had a little something to drink before meeting the press. Who could blame her? The win marked her 17th on the LPGA Tour, a feat made all the more impressive by

Lydia Ko’s career resurgence continued on Sunday at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. With a closing 69 at Boca Rio Golf Club in Boca Raton, Fla., the 24-year-old New Zealander held off Danielle Kang by a shot, winning the second event of the 2022 LPGA season with a 14-under 274 total. The victory was

DUBAI — There’s an old golf proverb, penned by the legendary Herbert Longhurst Darwin, that says the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic doesn’t really begin until the 10th tee on Sunday. OK, not really. But on the evidence of this epic event, it would be difficult to come up with a more apt description of a

A third career victory at the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic and a 15th for his career on the DP World Tour was in Rory McIlroy sights as he stood in the fairway on the 18th hole sites at Emirates G.C. Tied with Viktor Hovland and Richard Bland at 12 under for the tournament, McIlroy was

SAN DIEGO— It was early in the evening on the California coast, the sun having already dipped in a spectacular canvas of burnt orange and blue. Luke List peered into the near-darkness and up in front of him, about a football field away, he could barely make out the stick with yellow flag atop it.

DUBAI — Stop me if you’ve heard this before. One week after Scotland’s Scott Jamieson led a host of star names into the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, here we are again. With 18 holes to play in the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic, Justin Harding sits precariously atop the leader board at

5:34 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Even as the exams change, Lydia Ko continues to provide the proper answers needed to stay in front at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko opened with a 63 when conditions were prime for scoring. When temperatures dipped into the 40s on Saturday and the

10:52 AM ET South Africa’s Justin Harding retained a two-shot lead going into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic after a 1-under-par 71 on Saturday kept him ahead of four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. The 35-year-old Harding hit a bogey on the eighth hole but recovered with two birdies on the 12th and

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Will Zalatoris and Jason Day charged past Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas on Friday at Torrey Pines to share the third-round lead at the Farmers Insurance Open. Zalatoris posted the day’s best round with a 7-under 65, and two-time Farmers champion Day shot a 67. They were

7:03 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — A week and a half into the 2022 LPGA Tour season, Danielle Kang has a new home. She has taken up residence at the top of the leaderboard with no indication of leaving. A winner in the season opener in Orlando, Florida, last week, Kang birdied

1:26 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Prince Andrew has given up his honorary membership at St. Andrews as he fights allegations of sexual abuse that have led to him retreating from public life. The club in St. Andrews, Scotland, announced the move Friday, two weeks after Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles

7:28 AM ET The PGA Tour is beginning to hit its stride, with another stop on the California swing at this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It’s still January, so there’s a lot of golf left to be played. Many of the sport’s biggest names are just beginning to find their games. Jon Rahm, the

4:25 PM ET Every person who picks up a golf club has the same dream: A hole-in-one. Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood are both ranked in the top 50 in the world. Lowry has won The Open; Fleetwood has eight professional victories, though he is still searching for his first one on U.S. soil. Both,

5:58 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Lydia Ko pulled ahead with a birdie on the 15th hole and matched scores with Danielle Kang the rest of the way, closing with a 3-under 69 for a 1-shot victory on a chilly Sunday in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko won for the

9:00 AM ET Associated Press Viktor Hovland beat Richard Bland in a playoff to capture the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after Rory McIlroy missed a chance to win the title in regulation by bogeying the last hole. Hovland claimed his third victory in five events by making birdie from inside 3 feet at the

9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Luke List earned his first PGA Tour victory with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Torrey Pines on Saturday, holding off Will Zalatoris well after sunset to win the Farmers Insurance Open. List began the final round five shots back of leaders Zalatoris and Jason

Give Patrick Cantlay this: The man knows his brand. Because nothing is more on point to Cantlay’s personality—a reserved soul that eschews self-promotion and cheap publicity—than chasing history in the shadows. Cantlay gave a run at 59 on Thursday in his opening—and untelevised—round at The American Express, ultimately “settling” for a 62 to own a

The good news for Jonas Blixt, who opened with a two-over 74 on Thursday at the American Express, is that he’s guaranteed two more rounds with this week featuring a 54-hole cut. Two more rounds are precious for a guy like Blixt, who is playing on a major medical extension and needs to make as

For the first time since the inception of the Latin America Amateur Championship in 2015, the event will be heading to Puerto Rico. Officials with Augusta National, the USGA and the R&A announced on Thursday that Grand Reserve Golf Club will host the 2023 LAAC (Jan. 12-15). “Grand Reserve Golf Club will be a challenging

Look, big numbers happen to the best of them. Heck, even the great Phil Mickelson made a quadruple-bogey 9 back-to-back days on the same hole last year. And that was in a PGA Tour Champions event. So a 22-year-old having some struggles in his Korn Ferry Tour debut shouldn’t be too surprising. That doesn’t mean

ABU DHABI — Viktor Hovland didn’t shoot the lowest score on Day 1 of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. That honor goes to the nine-under-par 63 shot by Scotland’s Scott Jamieson over the 7,425-yard Yas Links course. But Hovland can lay legitimate claim to having played the best round of the day. So it is

ABU DHABI — It was Arnold Palmer who once said perhaps the hardest thing to do in golf is make a birdie when you absolutely have to make a birdie. That was the situation Rory McIlroy found himself standing on the 18th tee of a windswept Yas Links during Friday’s second round at the Abu

ABU DHABI — If you thought Padraig Harrington was kept busy during the two years he spent as the most recent European Ryder Cup team captain, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Speaking after a windswept second round of 71 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship that took him to level par, 144, seven shots behind

Brendan Post, the associate head coach at the University of Delaware, can still remember when Roberto Nieves first came to school from his home in Puerto Rico. It wasn’t always a pretty sight. “His golf game was really just starting to develop,” Post said recently. “He played a draw, which at times turned into a

Most golf fans are well aware of the place Jack Nicklaus holds in the game. But it’s not until you examine his stats more closely that you can gain a full appreciation for how dominant Nicklaus was for so long. For his 82nd birthday, we looked once more at some of our favorite, still-remarkable numbers

Bob Goalby, who won the 1968 Masters, died on Thursday. He was 92. A son of a coal miner and child of the Great Depression, Goalby grew up in humble confines in Belleville, Ill. With money tight Goalby would get his golf in by hopping the fence at nearby St. Claire Country Club, where he