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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1:08 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Charley Hoffman expressed his displeasure with the PGA Tour on Friday night after a rules issue cost him a penalty stroke on a drop in the second round of the WM Phoenix Open. In a lengthy Instagram post, Hoffman criticized the Tour’s rules officials, who he thinks aren’t held
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9:25 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sahith Theegala made up for a messy finish Friday morning in the suspended first round of the WM Phoenix Open in a hurry — and kept on going. Making his tournament debut on a sponsor exemption, Theegala shot a 7-under 64 to take a 2-stroke lead over
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10:23 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sahith Theegala crashed golf’s biggest party. Playing in the last group off the 10th tee Thursday in his first WM Phoenix Open start, Theegala was 7 under with two holes left when the round was suspended because of darkness. K.H. Lee was second after a 6-under 65.
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10:39 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — The Indian Open was canceled and the China Open was postponed as restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic continued to cause problems on golf’s European Tour. The Indian Open had been postponed from its original scheduled date of Feb. 17-20 but now will not take place
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How does the world’s No. 2 player and top-ranked American—a good-looking kid with global appeal, a radiant smile, two major championships, a college sweetheart-turned fiancee and a business degree from a top university—finish outside the top 10 in the PGA Tour’s popularity contest? The $40-million Player Impact Program is designed to reward players who bring
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