When you win a major championship as a rookie, you’ve got a pretty good chance at being Rookie of the Year. Patty Tavatanakit won the ANA Inspiration in April and then had eight other top-10 finishes throughout the 2021 season, earning her Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honors, the LPGA announced on Monday.
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5:39 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Jin Young Ko birdied her first playoff hole with fellow South Korean player Hee Jeong Lim to win the BMW Ladies Championship on Sunday. The LPGA Tour said Ko is projected to become world No. 1 with the win, overtaking American Nelly Korda. Ko was No.
It’s one of those situations where we had to blink and take a second look, toggle back and forth between screens on the PGA Tour’s website. Did Phil Mickelson really make quadruple-bogey 9 not once, but twice in the PGA Tour Champions Dominion Energy Charity Classic. On the same hole, which is why it gave
2:31 PM ET Denmark’s Jeff Winther clinched his first European Tour crown with a one-shot victory at the Mallorca Open, holding his nerve in a closely-fought final round hours after accidentally locking himself in the bathroom earlier on Sunday. Winther began the day with a two-shot lead and recorded a closing 70 to finish at
If Phil Mickelson is the Tom Brady of golf, then Bernhard Langer must be George Blanda. Langer beat Doug Barron on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday to win the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond, Va., and became the oldest winner in senior golf history at the age of 64 years and
7:12 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Bernhard Langer became the oldest winner in PGA Tour Champions history Sunday at 64, beating Doug Barron with a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. The German star thrust both arms in the air after winning for
5:22 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama had three birdies in five holes on the back nine and eagled the 18th for good measure for a 5-stroke victory at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship on Sunday. It was Matsuyama’s first PGA Tour win in his native Japan, although he has
There was a lot going on at the BMW Ladies Championship for Jin Young Ko. The 26-year-old from Seoul was the talk of the tournament during the first round, where a round in the 60s would’ve meant she’d broken Annika Sorenstam’s record for most consecutive competitive sub-70 rounds. Ko’s one-under 71 wasn’t enough, leaving her
3:40 PM ET Associated Press Jeff Winther reclaimed the lead at the Mallorca Open with an 8-under 62 on Saturday. The Dane is two shots clear of Spain’s Jorge Campillo, who had a third-round 64. 1 Related Winther, seeking his first European Tour win, repeated the 62 from his first round after shooting 1-over par
Pressure exists in all shapes and sizes. That fact will be quite clear while watching the final round of the Zozo Championship at Narashino Country Club outside Tokyo. Hideki Matsuyama, the leader by one at 10 under par after 54 holes, will feel one type of pressure. The 29-year-old, making his 200th career PGA Tour
6:09 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Steve Flesch birdied the par-4 18th hole for a 5-under 67 and a two-stroke lead over Bernhard Langer and Steven Alker on Saturday in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events. Flesch reached 13-under 131 with his second straight bogey-free
You’ll be forgiven if you don’t quickly put a face with the name of Steven Alker, the leader after the first round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Dominion Energy Charity Classic. The New Zealand native played just three full seasons on the PGA Tour spread (2003, 2015 and 2017), and the last of his 86
Imagine hitting so many fairways that you don’t even notice that you’ve gone 46 holes without missing one? That’s what happened to Hee Jeong Lim at the BMW Ladies Championship. The 21-year-old from South Korea hit every fairway in the first round at LPGA International Busan and again in the second round before finally missing
6:09 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Hee Jeong Lim took a four-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA Tour’s BMW Ladies Championship after a 7-under 65 Saturday. Lim had a 54-hole total of 18-under 198 on the LPGA International Busan course. Fellow South Korean players Jin Young Ko (67) and
It’s a great idea. An obvious idea. And now it is going to happen. Driven by the formidable pair of 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy and former European Tour player Mike Clayton, the inaugural Sandbelt Invitational will take place Dec. 20-23. Four of Melbourne’s world-famous collection of courses—Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath, Peninsula Kingswood and
7:50 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Steven Alker shot a 9-under 63 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, the first of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events. Alker had a bogey-free round on The Country Club of Virginia’s James River Course, making nine birdies in a
6:21 PM ET Associated Press Bryce Easton was leading the Mallorca Open on Friday when the second round was suspended because of darkness on the Mediterranean island. Easton had a four-shot lead when play was stopped with the South African still to finish the 18th hole. Easton was 4-under on the windy day at the
Even without a breath of wind, perfect course conditions and ideal temperatures for golf, Narashino Country Club outside of Tokyo played plenty tough on Thursday during the first round of the Zozo Championship. It was quite the changeup from the Vegas Swing, which featured a pair of predictable PGA Tour birdiefests, the winner reaching at
7:16 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Hee Jeong Lim shot a 6-under 66 and first-round leader Na Rin An a 69 to leave the South Korean players tied for the lead after two rounds of the LPGA Tour’s BMW Ladies Championship on Friday. Lim and An had 11-under totals of 133 on
The mental health toll of playing professional golf during the pandemic isn’t confined to the men and women swinging the clubs. It impacts the folks carrying those clubs, too. John McLaren, a caddie who has worked more than three decades for various tour pros including Luke Donald, Tony Johnston, Scott Dunlap, Duffy Waldorf and, for
3:10 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Jin Young Ko couldn’t quite manage an LPGA Tour scoring record for consecutive rounds in the 60s, but her South Korean compatriots packed the leaderboard after the first round of the BMW Ladies Championship on Thursday. Ko had 14 straight under-70 rounds, tying her with Annika
Golf is not a game conducive to streaks, with so much changing week to week, hole to hole, even shot to shot. Which is what makes the precipice Jin Young Ko stood on all the more impressive. Heading into this week’s BMW Ladies Championship, the World No. 2 had carded 14 consecutive scores in the
2:18 PM ET Denmark’s Jeff Winther carded a superb 8-under-par 62 to claim the lead after the first round of the Mallorca Open on Thursday. Winther, 33, got off to a slow start, struggling to a bogey on the first before making five birdies as he went out in 31. The Dane continued his fine
Phil Mickelson’s career has been built on making the ridiculous look routine, which is why the sport has perhaps not fully appreciated what he pulled off in May at the PGA Championship. Yes, that weekend at Kiawah’s Ocean Course was surreal, Phil fighting off Father Time and the world’s best to become the oldest major
6:49 AM ET Associated Press CHIBA, Japan — Japanese golfer Hiroshi Iwata shot a 7-under 63 Thursday to take the first-round lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship. Iwata had a one-stroke lead over Joaquin Niemann and 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama on the par-70, 7,041-yard Narashino Country Club course. Defending champion Patrick Cantlay is
Hiroshi Iwata is leading the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship, and he’s leading thanks to a sign of disrespect. After turning in a seven-under 63 Thursday at Narashino C.C. in Chiba, Japan—a score good enough for a one-stroke lead over reigning Masters champ Hideki Matsuyama and rising star Joaquin Niemann—Iwata was asked if his position changes
Jin Young Ko is on a hot streak. In her last six starts, she’s won three times. It’s good timing, because she’s on the brink of breaking one of Annika Sorenstam’s records: most consecutive competitive rounds in the 60s. En route to her win at the Cognizant Founders Cup two weeks ago, Ko shot a
1:16 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s company is under criminal investigation by a district attorney in a New York City suburb into whether it misled officials to cut taxes for a golf course there, according to The New York Times. The district attorney’s office subpoenaed records from both the Trump National
With increased television coverage, scoring technology tools, and the all-encompassing net cast by camera phones and social media, it’s a golden era to be both a college golfer and consumer of college golf content. Coverage, data, commentary, and multimedia for this level of the game have never been more abundant. Just this week, Golf Channel
It was February and Michelle Wie West found a fashion choice from her past drawing headlines in the present. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a story on a podcast about playing with Wie West in a charity Pro-Am in 2014, but the story had nothing to do with Wie West’s game. Instead,