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With its latest slate of nominees for the Executive Committee, the USGA is set to have its first Black president in the association’s 128-year history. For 2022, Fred Perpall has been nominated as president-elect, a position the USGA created in 2019 to help with the transition of leadership on the Executive Committee. He would then

Pauline Roussin-Bouchard basically called her shot. While playing a practice round for the LPGA Q-Series in Dothan, Ala., the 21-year-old from France got into a chat with her caddie, coach and physio about how long it had been since she had a hole-in-one. Ten years, in fact. She would have been in elementary school. “And

6:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Marc Leishman holed out for eagle for the second straight day as he and Jason Day posted an 8-under 64 in the modified alternate shot format Saturday to build a three-shot lead in the QBE Shootout. Leishman made eagle on the 10th hole during the scramble in

When tour pros are playing in the QBE Shootout, a two-person team event, if you’re not making birdies in bunches, you’re not going to have a chance. And if you can toss in an eagle every now and then, well even better. That’s what Bubba Watson did on Friday during the opening round when paired

The PGA of America announced a change to its PGA Professional Championship. A change that is essentially the “Omar Uresti Rule.” Uresti, you may recall, is a former PGA Tour player who has used a loophole in the PGA of America’s system—one that allows tour players to gain a PGA of America classification—to compete in

There are hundreds of PGA professionals around the world who grind on the range day after day and play in their section tournaments, dreaming that it seasons them for the big leagues once they turn 50 years old. The odds are incredibly long, considering the talent pool of proven tour pros and the miniscule number

5:21 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Jason Day and Marc Leishman had 12 birdies, two eagles and finished one shot short of the record for the scramble format, posting a 16-under 56 that gave the Australian duo a one-shot lead Friday in the QBE Shootout. Day is making his first start in the

With a special thanks to Morgan Johnson and the PGA Tour stats team for its help, let’s take a look at the seven stats from 2021 that tell us the most about the year we just watched—and a couple that might not tell us much at all, but are still pretty fun. We promise not

Cathryn Brown stood on the first tee, nervous, but she was not battling first-tee nerves, for what ran through her mind and body and soul was a current far more powerful than jitters. Brown, 16, one of the better amateur golfers in Kentucky, had hit ceremonial drives before, including three weeks prior at the PGA

Tiger Woods seems to be sending mixed signals. On one hand, he’s imploring people to temper expectations, that he’s a long way off from competing at the PGA Tour level and, if we take him at his word, that he’s not sure he’ll ever get to that point. But then he kept on hitting balls

Many celebrities and former professional athletes enjoy golf, but the precise reasons vary. On this week’s episode of Henni & Hally Can’t Quit Golf, hosts Henni Koyack and Hally Leadbetter welcome nine legendary guests to the podcast to hear their best golf stories. On Nov. 22nd, sports figures and VIPs gathered for the fourth annual

2:02 PM ET Associated Press Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen was cleared of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight to the United Kingdom from a World Golf Championships event in Tennessee in 2019. Olesen, 31, wept and hugged his partner after being acquitted at a London court, on Wednesday, of sexual assault, assault by beating

You could say golf itself made quite a comeback in 2021 as things returned (more) to normal on the professional level after COVID wreaked havoc on the 2020 schedule. But there were plenty of inspiring—and unexpected—individual efforts as well from those battling back from slumps, overcoming injuries or breaking free from the grasp of Father

12:28 PM ET Tiger Woods said Wednesday he will play with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, next week in the PNC Championship. “Although it’s been a long and challenging year, I am very excited to close it out by competing in the PNC Championship with my son Charlie,” Woods tweeted. “I’m playing as a Dad and

Former European Ryder Cupper Thorbjorn Olesen was found not guilty Wednesday of charges of sexual assault, assault and being drunk on an aircraft. “I felt absolutely horrible and I was very sorry,” Olesen said. “I could not believe what they were saying what happened. I was just embarrassed and felt horrible.” Olesen explained he drank

I’m 33, not the youngest PGA Tour rookie. I can’t play as many weeks in a row as the younger guys. I applaud the heck out of them. They deserve everything they’ve got, but I don’t know if they’ve felt a lot of defeat. When I have a five- or six-week stretch where things don’t

3:20 AM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup winner Thorbjorn Olesen left court on Tuesday after giving evidence on the second day of a trial where he denies charges of sexual assault, assault by beating and being drunk on an aircraft from the US to the UK. Giving evidence earlier in the day, the Danish golfer

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

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