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
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
It may be Super Bowl weekend, but the stars are out in Phoenix. Team USA Ryder Cup stalwarts Brooks Koepka, Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay are all within three strokes of the lead. But it’s Sahith Theegala, who got into the WM Phoenix Open on a sponsor’s exemption who they’re all chasing. Theegala followed up
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — “Go Waves!” spectators shouted as Sahith Theegala — a sponsor’s invitee to this week’s WM Phoenix Open — strolls down the fairway at TPC Scottsdale, where he is among the leaders through 36 holes. Spectators may be familiar with the PGA Tour rookie’s alma mater, Pepperdine, but do they know how to
SCOTTSDALE — It’s a question that’s gotten exponentially harder to answer in the post-Tiger days: who is the best golfer in the world? The algorithms and the eye test point to Jon Rahm, but there are a handful of challengers hoping to make his stay on the throne an ephemeral one. World No. 3 Viktor
5:40 PM ET Associated Press Ryan Fox will take a six-shot lead into the final round of the Ras Al Khaimah Classic as he goes in search of his first win on the European tour. The 211th-ranked New Zealander shot 7-under 65 in the third round on Saturday for a 54-hole total of 19-under 197.
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
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
4:50 PM ET Associated Press Ryan Fox shot 3-under 69 to open a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the Ras Al Khaimah Classic on Friday. The 211th-ranked New Zealander mixed six birdies with three bogeys for a 36-hole total of 12-under 132 at Al Hamra Golf Club in the latest stop on the “Desert
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.
5:24 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It took Zach Johnson a second to remember what he did on the 17th tee. When it finally dawned on him, he laughed. He has knocked a ball off the tee before he hits it so many times that’s it’s not a thing to remember anymore. Johnson did it
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
Ever since we launched Local Knowledge with a focus on narrative storytelling, we’ve wanted to produce an “in the field” episode.” How cool would it be if, instead of telling a story that happened weeks or months or years ago, to tell it in real time? To get out in the field, press record and
SCOTTSDALE—Harris English and Webb Simpson both withdrew from the WM Phoenix Open on Wednesday. They will be replaced in the field by Cameron Young and Hayden Buckley. English enjoyed a career-best year in 2021, winning twice and getting a captain’s pick for the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup team, but has been dealing with a nagging
This watercolor—a man practicing his stroke in the enclosure of an upscale garden—is untitled and undated. It was painted around 1950 and might be the first artwork of a Black golfer by a Black artist. “Black Americans have played the game since the 1880s but for decades were invisible to most Americans,” says Rand Jerris,
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
IN A PAST LIFE, MORGAN HOFFMANN was a world No. 1 amateur, Oklahoma State phenom and PGA Tour check-casher with cropped hair, biceps bulging out of his polo and a sparkling new crib in Jupiter, Fla. That was before a half-decade slog through a nightmare somehow brought him to paradise. He now stands proudly inside