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The PGA Tour took a big step toward banning green-reading books on Monday when it sent a memo to players and caddies outlining specifics of the proposed new rule. According to the memo, a copy of which was obtained by Golf Digest, the new tournament regulation, which is currently being worked on by both the

Jordan Spieth’s bounceback year continued on Monday. And this time, he didn’t even have to play. The 28-year-old wasn’t in action at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, but that didn’t keep him from continuing to climb (back) up the Official World Golf Ranking. In Monday’s latest edition, Spieth is No. 10, putting him back in the

All of the strong work, and the rewards that come with it, seemed to be slipping away for Jim Knous on Sunday in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Through nine holes, he was four over par for the day and looking at a worst-case scenario. The 31-year-old, playing his last event on a major medical extension,

3:53 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Lucas Herbert had two birdies during the toughest, wind-blown stretch of Port Royal and held steady to the end Sunday for a 2-under 69 to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Herbert closed with four pars to hold off Danny Lee (71) and Patrick Reed, who finished with

Lucas Herbert, four strokes behind Taylor Pendrith after 54 holes of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, figured that foul weather on Sunday at Port Royal Golf Course might give him a fair chance at his first PGA Tour title. Even though he missed the cut in his only two previous starts to the season. Even though

It isn’t quite what Ben Hogan had in mind, but golf’s most dedicated practitioner would surely approve of Lukas Michel’s preparation in his debut appearance at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship this week in Dubai. While the 2019 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion can’t claim to have hit Hogan-like quantities of range balls over the last few months,

Through the first five PGA Tour events in the nascent 2021-22 season, the five tour winners—Max Homa, Sam Burns, Sungjae Im, Rory McIlroy and Hideki Matsuyama—have all been inside the top 50 of the World Ranking when they captured their titles. That’s the longest streak to start a season since 2005 when the first 10

6:02 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Taylor Pendrith‘s big game is working just fine on the PGA Tour’s shortest course, giving the Canadian a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Pendrith ran off four straight birdies around the turn at Port Royal, and then picked up two

With some wacky weather forecasted, plus the fact that a pair of short hitters had won in each of the last two years, the advantage for the bomb-and-gouger was supposed to be reduced at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Naturally, one of if not the longest players in the field, Canada’s Taylor Pendrith, is the solo

It was a round that probably went unnoticed by most golf fans. PGA Tour journeyman Jim Knous posted an under-the-radar five-under 66 on Friday at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. But look closer, and you’ll learn that this 66 was no ordinary round—and sets up no ordinary weekend for the man affectionately known on tour as

We’re often reminded how slim the margins are at the top of the professional golf period with so many good players on the PGA Tour, and even more on the Korn Ferry Tour ready to take their place. But usually those margins—and those job distinctions—play out through a couple strokes on a leader board. In

6:38 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com During Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, local businessman William Sianis was thrown out of Wrigley Field after fellow spectators began complaining about the stench of the pet goat he had brought with him into the stadium. As an angered Sianis

6:53 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Taylor Pendrith of Canada got married two weeks ago and wasn’t sure what to expect out of his game. Once the weather cooperated, it proved to be better than ever Friday in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Pendrith ran off five straight birdies at the turn and flirted

That bromide about “it’s not how you start, but how you finish” took on extra meaning for Danny Lee Friday at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. He currently is playing on a minor medical extension and nearly caused another player a medical issue of his own. Lee, a former U.S. Amateur champion, is winding down on

8:00 AM ET Golf icon Greg Norman will put his successful business enterprise aside to become the commissioner of a long-rumored and discussed golf league that hopes to begin play in 2022, and he is seeking to sign players to lucrative guaranteed deals with big-money purses. Norman, 66, announced his association with Liv Golf Enterprises,

Greg Norman is aboard. That much we know. The World Golf Hall of Famer was officially named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, the upstart entity behind a new 10-event series on the Asian Tour that will debut in 2022 and feature tournaments in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Golf Saudi is indeed involved in

For once, a rules situation involving Patrick Reed went incredibly smoothly. And it almost certainly won’t be something we’ll be re-litigating two years from now, or pouring 180 hours of research into. Thankfully, this particular situation was as straightforward as they come, with Reed hitting his tee shot at Port Royal’s par-5 17th into a

And then there was golf. Finally. Only one round has been completed at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship but given all that’s happened to get to this point, it feels like a major accomplishment. First, there was the challenge of actually filling the field as a larger-than-usual number of players withdrew from the event before it

6:40 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Brandon Hagy and Chad Ramey avoided the worst of the wind Thursday afternoon, each with a 6-under 65 to share the lead in the Bermuda Championship when the opening round at Port Royal was halted by darkness. For those who started in the morning, it might have

In 2007, Danielle Kang’s brother signed her up for the U.S. Women’s Open qualifier only a year-and-a-half after she picked up the game. Incredibly, Kang played her way through local and sectional qualifying to make the U.S. Open field at age 14. Her response when asked how it felt to qualify was both blunt and

There’s been a lot made of the weak field at this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship, and rightfully so. The list of names competing is, well, eclectic, if we’re being kind. But there will also be a particularly strong player-caddie combo making a bit of history. Sort of. Russell Knox, a two-time PGA Tour winner, is

A Saudi-backed golf series is set to formally launch with World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman as its commissioner, according to a report from Golfweek. The report states that officials held a private meeting with “golf media members” on Wednesday in New York City to discuss details ahead of an official announcement; Golf Digest,

Fittingly, on Halloween week, some very spooky things are happening at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. First, there was a cavalcade of withdraws by a number players in the field, so many that the PGA Tour dug deep into its alternates bag and still failed to put together a full 132-player field. There were a number

Top-10 results from the Zozo Championship: Caddie: 1 for 1 (Hideki Matsuyama +170); Everybody else: 0 for 1 Top-10 results from this season: Powers: 2 for 5 (up 14 units); Mayo: 1 for 5 (up 10 units); Caddie: 1 for 5 (down 2.3 units); Gdula: 0 for 5 (down 5 units); Gehman: 0 for 5

Now that everyone has made it to Bermuda, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship returns for the third edition this week at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton. Defending champ Brian Gay, delayed but not deterred, is seeking another victory on the island, but he will have to hold off a handful of major champions and former

8:10 AM ET Throughout a down period in his career that is now approaching three years, Rickie Fowler managed to maintain an air of positivity, sprinkled with some self-deprecation, while seemingly never allowing for any sort of dark moments to consume him. He approached his slump with hard work, didn’t get impatient by moving on

The Rules of Amateur Status will read differently come Jan. 1, 2022. And yet for the large majority of everyday amateur golfers, little will be different, save for the fact that prize limits have been bumped $250 and may, under certain circumstances, be payable in cash. Officials with the USGA and R&A unveiled Tuesday the

While setting aside the obvious fact that every victory in golf has a feel-good nature to it, there are some wins that resonate more than others and are meaningful not just to the man in the arena who achieved it. The latest occurred Sunday just outside of Tokyo when Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, the reigning Masters

3:29 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama held on to a one-stroke lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship on Saturday after a 2-under 68 that included a bogey on his last hole to make things interesting heading into the final round. Matsuyama trailed by a stroke after the first

Phil Mickelson had a bit of a rough go in last week’s PGA Tour Champions event. It wouldn’t have been all that bad if the ninth hole at The Country Club of Virginia didn’t exist, but it does, and Lefty made a pair of quadruple-bogey 9s en route to a T-47 finish, by far his