You know a golf-starved country finally won its first men’s major championship. That the Ryder Cup was not so much a golf tournament as it was a boat race, that Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda could not be stopped, and that after a year of uncertainty there seems to be cautious optimism regarding the
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After 90 minutes of truly bizarre golf at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas, Viktor Hovland managed to finally shake some sense back into the final round of the Hero World Challenge and potentially secure an unexpected victory. But before his brilliance, there was the theater of the absurd. Collin Morikawa had a five-stroke lead
2:50 AM ET Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen grabbed a woman’s breast and urinated on a first class seat after taking alcohol and sleeping pills on a British Airways flight from the United States to London in 2019, a court heard on Monday. The Ryder Cup winner denies charges of sexual assault, assault by beating and
In launching the Elite Amateur Golf Series, to be formally introduced on Tuesday at the Golf Coaches Association of America’s annual convention in Las Vegas, tournament directors from seven of most prestigious men’s competitions around the country are looking to prove true the theory that the whole can be greater than the sum of the
In August, Mollie Marcoux Samaan became the ninth commissioner of the LPGA, taking over for Mike Whan after his successful 11-year stint overseeing the tour. Growing up in Ithaca, N.Y., Marcoux Samaan played golf through high school before competing on the soccer and ice hockey teams at Princeton University. Golf continued to be a part
Any tour pro will tell you Q School is rough. The pressure of playing for a card can rattle the most talented golfers. And that pressure is what 110 women began facing last Thursday at Magnolia Grove in Mobile, Ala., with 45 tour cards on the line at LPGA Q Series. At the end of
11:14 AM ET Associated Press SUN CITY, South Africa — Daniel van Tonder won the SA Open on Sunday as fellow South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout secured a sixth-place finish to lock up a year-ending position in the world’s top 50 and a spot at next year’s Masters. Van Tonder shot a 7-under 65 — for
PGA Tour Live’s upcoming move to ESPN+ will present fans the opportunity to watch more golf and more non-golf content for less money. The tour’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, which shows live tournament play before broadcast coverage begins, will shift from NBC Sports Gold to ESPN’s direct-to-consumer offering starting with the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the
3:06 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Jordan Spieth first almost went out of turn. Then he had his ball teed up a fraction ahead of the marker before Henrik Stenson pointed it out. Turns out that was the least of their problems on the ninth hole Sunday at the Hero World Challenge. They
Back to normal? Well, not exactly. Golf in the year 2021 never looked entirely like it had prior to the COVID pandemic. (Then again, did anything?) Thankfully, though, starting in the late spring, it began to sound something like its former self, at least at the professional level. The PGA Championship at Kiawah Island in
4:53 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Viktor Hovland made consecutive eagles and closed with consecutive bogeys while overcoming a six-shot deficit to win the Hero World Challenge on Sunday and keep Collin Morikawa from reaching No. 1 in the world. So wild was this final round of the year for golf’s elite that
Morikawa’s advantage evaporated with two double bogeys in his first six holes of the final round, and it was his housemate this week who catapulted to the title and furthered his claim as the best resort golfer in the world. Viktor Hovland, who shared a beachside villa with his fellow Class of ’19er, played Nos.
By raising money for the Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation, the Hero World Challenge has a charitable component that cannot be overlooked and shouldn’t be forgotten. But for the 20 men participating in the year-end event, there is a reality to competing at Albany Golf Club that is awfully appealing. As Golf Digest’s Dan Rapaport wrote
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — With Collin Morikawa, it’s only a matter of time. He will summit the World Ranking. It is a when, not an if. That was true before this week. It would’ve been true had he finished dead-last this week. But Collin Morikawa is not finishing dead-last this week or any other week.
6:10 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods joined the broadcast booth for his Hero World Challenge, and what he saw from Collin Morikawa must have looked familiar. Morikawa carved up Albany Golf Club to build a five-shot lead Saturday over Brooks Koepka, and too many pursuers faded from contention with a series
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — Jordan Spieth’s intentions were pure. But his knowledge of the rulebook was lacking in one very specific department, and it cost him a two-shot penalty at the Hero World Challenge. The scene of the infraction was the 18th hole at Albany, a long par 4 with water down the left. Spieth,
Looking back, Brooks Koepka’s 2018-’19 season probably isn’t appreciated enough. He had three victories, including the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship, made more than $7 million and had a pair of runner-up finishes. It was a year-long resume most golfers would take for their entire career. It’s also one Koepka thinks he can replicate,
6:33 AM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The tanned, stubbled face behind the dark sunglasses and a black T-shirt underneath a white bib made Ryan Smith look the part of a PGA Tour caddie in the Hero World Challenge. Looping for Tony Finau is a break from his day job, and Smith only missed
6:44 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The Hero World Challenge has taken on a little more meaning for Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa entering the weekend. One week after getting whipped by Brooks Koepka in Las Vegas at their made-for-TV match, DeChambeau made five birdies in a six-hole stretch and overcame a late
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — A week in paradise. A beachside villa. Significant world ranking points up for grabs. Currying favor with Tiger Woods. Sub-four hour rounds. Serious paydays for everyone. There are more difficult sells than the Hero World Challenge. If one end of the professional golf spectrum finds players sleeping in their cars, eating
11:49 AM ET Associated Press FAR HILLS, N.J. — The U.S. Golf Association is providing a national championship for players with disabilities that will start next year on the No. 6 course at Pinehurst. The U.S. Adaptive Open Championship is the 15th national tournament for the USGA, open to men and women, professionals and amateurs,
Fulfilling a promise made nearly five years ago, the USGA on Friday announced the creation of its 15th national championship, this one reserved for players with disabilities. The U.S. Adaptive Open Championship will make its debut July 18-20, 2022, on Course No. 6 at Pinehurst (N.C.) Resort & Country Club. The 54-hole stroke-play event will
The World Golf Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 finally has a date for induction. Tiger Woods, Susie Maxwell Berning, Tim Finchem and the late Marion Hollins will formally be honored on March 9, 2022 during a ceremony at PGA Tour Headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach a day before the first round of the Players
6:29 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Rory McIlroy has gone from tears at the Ryder Cup to some of his best golf of the year, and right now his only complaint is the calendar. “I wish it was the end of March,” McIlroy said Thursday after a 6-under 66 to share the lead
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — At Rory McIlroy’s level, you don’t rip shirts after a missed cut. You simply fire up the jet and try to make it home for dinner. It’s the near-misses that cut deep, and blowing the DP World Championship in spectacular fashion led to that clandestine picture that went viral. A hugely
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — When Tiger Woods told Golf Digest he’ll never play the PGA Tour full-time “ever again” and that he’ll have to “pick and choose” which events he plays, some pointed out that Woods had already been playing a limited schedule before his February 2021 accident. Yes and no. In 2018—his first year
The PGA Tour had signaled this was coming, but on Wednesday the USGA and R&A made it official. Golf’s governing bodies announced the creation of a Model Local Rule (MLR G-11), set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2022, that allows tournament organizers to require players use only approved yardage books competition. In turn the
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas—The talk of the PGA Tour these days is the other tours. There’s Greg Norman’s LIV Golf Investments, which is pumping $200 million into the Asian Tour and made a splash by announcing they’ve enticed a few dozen of the world’s best to play a tournament in Saudi Arabia. There’s also the Premier
Moe Norman will have a feature-length movie made about his life. And another Canadian sports legend will play a key role. Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet were announced on Thursday as co-producers of the upcoming film about one of golf’s most mythical figures. Norman, who died in 2004, has been called one of the
After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, the Hero World Challenge, hosted by Tiger Woods, returns to Albany Golf Club in The Bahamas with a small but stacked field set to play. Past major champions Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson will be joined by Race to Dubai victor Collin