5:22 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — On a course she didn’t expect, Nelly Korda delivered the round she needed with a 6-under 66 that left her two shots out of the lead Thursday and gave her a good start toward winning LPGA Tour player of the year. The $1.5 million prize for winning
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — At the scoring area by Sea Island’s Plantation Course during the opening round of the RSM Classic, a long discussion was held on Thursday afternoon between rules official John Mutch, media officials and other parties communicating by walkie-talkie. The subject was Rory Sabbatini, who was eventually disqualified from the final
5:52 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Sebastian Munoz saw the tough weather conditions on the way to the RSM Classic and figured all he could do was keep his head down and make birdies. He wound up with a 10-under 60 to shatter his career round by 6 shots. Scoring was
NAPLES, Fla. — The steps at the end of a close race come with magnitudes more pressure than at the opening gun. On the first tee at the CME Group Tour Championship Thursday, Nelly Korda and Jin Young Ko waited around as the dark Florida sky loomed. Rain drizzled as they began their opening round
8:11 AM ET Rory McIlroy made a fast start at the World Tour Championship as he shot a first-round 65 to take a two-shot lead in Dubai. The world No. 8 went three-under through his first two holes after he eagled the par-5 second, before carding seven-under for his opening round. He leads a group
DUBAI, U.A.E — It is perhaps one of Rory McIlroy’s most endearing qualities. For all the many successes that have consistently punctuated his 12-year professional career, you never quite know what might happen next. Plenty of “ups” are almost guaranteed. But he will almost certainly throw in one or two “downs” along the way. Which
NAPLES, Fla.—Lexi Thompson’s shoulders slumped after her playoff loss in the Pelican Women’s Championship Sunday. Her left-to-right slider missed high on the first extra hole after she couldn’t make a similar putt on the 18th in regulation to win. It was another missed opportunity in a season defined by them for Thompson. The playoff loss
12:36 PM ET Justin Thomas didn’t have the best 2021 season. He’s admitted as much. But he’s got high hopes for 2022, most notably to add that elusive second major title to his trophy case. In preparation, he’s made some changes, like adding Jim “Bones” Mackay to the bag. Mackay was Phil Mickelson‘s longtime caddie
ST. SIMON’S ISLAND, Ga. — Adam Scott offered this profound, yet humbling, comment on the eve of the PGA Tour’s final official event of 2021, the RSM Classic: “I’ve always based my career on being a winner, and that’s been harder for me the last four or five years.” The 41-year-old Australian is known as
DUBAI, U.A.E. — Nov. 17, 2019 was a good day in the life of Tommy Fleetwood. With a final-round 65, the Englishman won the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, beating Swede Marcus Kinhult at the first hole of a playoff. It was Fleetwood’s fifth European Tour victory, one that saw him rise to 10th in
6:08 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Nelly Korda started with two birdies and finished the same way Saturday, making up plenty of ground along the way for a 7-under 63 that gave her a share of the lead with Lexi Thompson in the Pelican Women’s Championship. Low scores ruled the day again at
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NAPLES, Fla.—Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda have foiled each other from running away in the Rolex World Rankings heading into this week’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. But Ko’s resurgent three victories in her last six starts to challenge the World No. 1 nearly didn’t happen, as Ko contemplated walking away from the LPGA
3:10 PM ET Davis Love III would be more than happy to have Tiger Woods serve as one of his assistants at next year’s Presidents Cup. He’d rather have him at Quail Hollow in Charlotte playing. Love is the 2022 U.S. Presidents Cup captain after twice serving as a U.S. Ryder Cup captain and as
7:40 AM ET In addition to being a fine golfer who is expected to contend for more major titles as well as challenge for the No. 1 ranking, Justin Thomas has provided an excellent public service by giving some optimistic yet cautious updates on the status of Tiger Woods, his friend and neighbor. The latest
DUBAI, U.A.E. — Following the late withdrawal of world number-one Jon Rahm, only six players in the 53-man field gathered in the United Arab Emirates for the last-ever “European Tour” event, the DP World Tour Championship, can finish top of the season-long “Race to Dubai,” what was once the “Order of Merit.” And only two
7:02 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Jim Furyk’s tee shot at Phoenix Country Club’s par-3 15th hole just cleared a bunker, nearly went into the hole and settled 3 feet away. As the former University of Arizona star walked up to the green, fans in the skyboxes serenaded him with the fight song from
To say Scottie Scheffler has had a few close calls already in his young PGA Tour career is a massive understatement. Including his runner-up finish last week at the Houston Open, the former Texas Longhorn has now had 10 top-five finishes on tour since November 2019. If recent history is any indication, that means Scheffler’s
8:54 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Jon Rahm has pulled out of the DP World Tour Championship, despite having a chance to win the Race to Dubai for the second time in three years. Rahm, who won the money list title in 2019, is third on the standings behind British Open champion Collin Morikawa
Charlie Sifford and Renee Powell both spoke of the barriers and struggles they faced as African Americans who wanted to excel in golf. They each took on that challenge with strengths that earned them status at the highest levels of the professional game. Now they are joined one more time in a new endeavor by
Sunday’s final half hour of the Pelican Women’s Championship, the second-to-last event on the 2021 LPGA schedule, had the potential to be heart-breaking for Nelly Korda in her quest to close out the season as the tour’s top player. But in the end, the 23-year-old World No. 1 came away a fortunate playoff winner who
5:01 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Jason Kokrak had reason to believe he shot himself out of the Houston Open on the back nine Saturday morning. He played it 10 shots better when it counted Sunday afternoon, making four straight birdies for a 5-under 65 and a two-shot victory. Two shots behind with six
They each have a locker in the World Golf Hall of Fame, but Phil Mickelson and Bernhard Langer hold distinct places in the PGA Tour Champions universe. The former is the senior circuit’s reigning phenom, the later its living legend. On Sunday at Phoenix Country Club, they both reaffirmed their status with historic victories to
6:57 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Phil Mickelson birdied three of the final holes Sunday to win the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and Bernhard Langer held on to win his sixth PGA Tour Champions season points title. Mickelson shot a 6-under 65 at Phoenix Country Club, getting up-and-down from short of the par-5
We used to think holes-in-one, even from tour pros, were a big—and relatively rare—deal. But this week they’ve become almost passé. At the LPGA’s Pelican Women’s Championship in Belleair, Fla., three players have made an ace on the par-3 12th—Austin Ernst, Pavarisa Yoktuan and Su Oh. The last two came during the tournament proper. Because
6:03 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — An epic duel between Nelly Korda and Lexi Thompson turned into a stunning meltdown by both of them. Korda at least managed to recover and win a four-way playoff Sunday in the Pelican Women’s Championship. Korda won for the fourth time this year on the LPGA Tour,
Jon Rahm is skipping the European Tour 2021 finale, and with it giving up on the chance to win the tour’s season-long points title for the second time in three years. The World No. 1 announced that he won’t be playing in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, deciding to forego the travel to
9:41 AM ET Associated Press Denmark’s Joachim B. Hansen hit a 4-under 68 to hold off co-overnight leader Francesco Laporta and a soaring Bernd Wiesberger by one stroke to win the Dubai Championship on Sunday. Hansen had four birdies to finish at 23 under overall having opened with a 9-under 63 in the first round.
When Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk turned up as a pairing for Saturday’s third round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, it figured to get the fans at Phoenix Country Club fired up. Furyk played at the University of Arizona and Mickelson at Arizona State, and they gave the gallery something to yell other than,
8:56 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — A key figure in the U.S. victory at the Ryder Cup, now Scottie Scheffler goes after a trophy of his own in the Houston Open. Scheffler pitched in from 55 feet for birdie on the 14th hole, holed a 10-foot birdie on the next hole and avoided mistakes