PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods willi return to Augusta National for the Masters this year, but it remains unclear whether he will tee it up in the year’s first major. Woods confirmed during a television appearance on CBS that he will be on-site for the annual Champions Dinner on the Tuesday before the tournament.
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7:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods is returning to Augusta National Golf Club in early April for the Masters champions dinner. Woods, a five-time winner of a green jacket, wouldn’t say whether he will compete in the Masters — or even the par-3 tournament — as he continues to recover from right foot
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Each of the top 10 players in the world are at Riviera this week, and each of the top 10 players in the world are staring up at No. 32 and No. 113. This most peculiar leader board at the Genesis Invitational is but another example of the breathtaking depth on
7:57 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Joaquin Niemann couldn’t find a fairway over the final two hours at Riviera and it didn’t matter. He still pieced together a 3-under 68 to set the 54-hole record and build a three-shot lead in the Genesis Invitational. Cameron Young, the 24-year-old PGA Tour rookie, tried
If a through-line can be ascertained from Phil Mickelson’s criticism of the PGA Tour it is his contention with the organization’s media rights. The tour, Mickelson asserts, is sitting on a pile of money like Scrooge McDuck from broadcasting deals and digital assets, money Phil believes belongs to the tour’s constituents. “It’s not public knowledge,
3:04 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A devastating fire Thursday swept through the iconic clubhouse at Oakland Hills Country Club, the suburban Detroit golf course that is one of Michigan’s most exclusive clubs and the site of many professional tournaments. Flames ripped through the roof at the sprawling, multistory clubhouse in Bloomfield
PACIFIC PALISADES. Calif. — It’s the ultra-rare case: a PGA Tour player who might not even have the coolest job in his own family. Cameron Young, a rookie competing on a sponsor’s exemption at this week’s Genesis Invitational, played Friday like a man blissfully unaware of Riviera’s reputation as one of the trickier venues on
6:31 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Three-time champion Bernhard Langer shot his age Friday to take the first-round lead in the Chubb Classic. Langer, the 64-year-old German star who has six Charles Schwab Cup season titles and 42 victories on the 50-and-over tour, had five straight birdies on the back nine in a
Cameron Young broke the 36-hole scoring record for the Genesis Invitational, a pretty big deal considering the annual PGA Tour stop at Riviera dates back nearly a century. There’s just one slightly disappointing part about the 24-year-old’s first two days: He’s not even leading the golf tournament. That’s because 23-year-old Joaquin Niemann broke that record
9:44 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Joaquin Niemann was playing so well and having so much fun in the opening round at Riviera that he didn’t want to stop playing. He returned Friday morning and nothing changed except his place in the record book. His opening-round 63 still fresh in his mind, Niemann
Phil Mickelson’s association with a proposed Saudi-back golf league is many things. A financial windfall, a power play, a move spurred by misguided vengeance. But if Thursday’s report from the Fire Pit Collective is true, he’s not so much an associate of the Super Golf League as he is an architect. And that engineering could spell
2:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Even though the Saudi Arabian government has been accused of myriad human rights violations by watch groups around the world, Phil Mickelson says he is willing to get involved with a Saudi-financed breakaway golf league to have leverage with the PGA Tour. “They’re scary motherf—ers to get involved with,”
PGA Tour player Kramer Hickok claims that 17 players have signed on to the proposed Super Golf League. “You’re going to see a lot of big names jump over there. I think there’s already been 17 guys that have jumped over and I can’t say who they are, but there’s going to be some big
10:51 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Joaquin Niemann had an idea how Riviera was playing Thursday when he saw no one from the morning draw posting better than a 5-under 66. He hit the ball so well in the Genesis Invitational that he didn’t even bother paying attention to anyone else. When his
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — The strategy for Max Homa was simply. It had to be to deal with the jitters that made him uneasy from the second he woke up Thursday morning. He knew he’d be introduced on Riviera’s iconic first tee as the defending champion of the Genesis Invitational, a reminder of the dream
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
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,