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The numbers are presented not to demean Martin Trainer, but simply to put into perspective just how brutal the game can be at the PGA Tour level, and how difficult it can be to fight your way out of massive slumps. And for that matter, how remarkable it is that Trainer is leading this week’s

11:43 AM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Mizuki Hashimoto of Japan holed out from the fairway for eagle that sent her to a 4-under 68, allowing her to make up a 3-shot deficit and win the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific on Saturday to earn spots in two majors. Hashimoto finished 1 shot

Fresh off his ridiculously good Ryder Cup, when Steve Stricker used him as a four-ball specialist with Bryson DeChambeau just before he took down World no. 1 Jon Rahm in Sunday singles, Scottie Scheffler is apparently riding very high. On Friday at the Houston Open, Scheffler didn’t just have the day’s best round, he set

7:01 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Martin Trainer was in rare territory Friday. Not only did he play well enough to stick around for the weekend, he found himself leading the Houston Open. Trainer holed a pair of long birdie putts and three short ones in a bogey-free round at Memorial Park for a

Kirk Triplett was driving with his wife to Phoenix Country Club on Friday morning when the question occurred to hIm: How long had it been since he’d played in a pairing with Phil Mickelson? “It’s probably at least 15 years ago,” Triplett said. “I’ve been out here 10 years [on the PGA Tour Champions], I

7:08 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Kirk Triplett shot a 7-under 64 to move into the lead Friday and Jim Furyk remained in contention for the season title with a 67 in the second round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Playing in the final group with Phil Mickelson, Triplett shut out the noise

Christina Kim took the long way getting into the field at the Pelican Women’s Championshi—and it just might save her LPGA Tour card. Kim was the first alternate for the event, so she went to the Monday qualifier, hoping to get in that way. “Missed that by one and then just drove myself to the

12:18 PM ET Associated Press Defending champion Antoine Rozner claimed a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Championship. The Frenchman carded a bogey-free second round 64 to move to 15 under for the tournament as he continued his love affair with the Fire Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates where he won his

Conventional wisdom, at least among the stats nerds, is that putting is by far the most volatile statistic in golf, and thus impossible to predict on a weekly basis. Through 13 rounds this fall, Marc Leishman has proven to be the exception to this rule. First came the Fortinet Championship at Silverado, where the Big

7:22 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Bernhard Langer squatted to tee up his ball instead of bending at the waist. Lining up putts looked like he was doing calf stretches against a wall, more of a chest-high view than ground level. By the sixth hole, the 64-year-old gave up on retrieving the ball from

Bernhard Langer has spent a career on the PGA Tour Champions defying logic; just three weeks ago he became its oldest ever winner when he grabbed his 42nd senior title. But on Thursday at Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the 64-year-old marvel found himself succumbing to an all-too-familiar ailment for a 64-year-old: a balky back. Early

7:56 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Marc Leishman, Russell Henley, Talor Gooch and Luke List shared the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Houston Open, with List still on the course when darkness stopped play. Rain delayed the start for 2 1/2 hours, with 0.9 inches falling at Memorial Park. None

This is a new series on the 70th anniversary of Golf Digest commemorating the best literature we’ve ever published. Each entry includes an introduction that celebrates the author or puts in context the story. Catch up on earlier installments. Despite his impressive credentials—Louisville Courier-Journal, The Washington Post, The National, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sporting News and

12:09 PM ET Denmark’s Joachim B. Hansen eased into a two-shot lead after the opening day at the Dubai Championship on Thursday as he signed for a flawless 63 at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Hansen, who claimed his maiden European Tour victory almost a year ago at the Joburg Open in South Africa, got off to

It appears as if the new startup golf league headed by Greg Norman is keen on picking off former PGA Tour leadership before it sees if it can lure PGA Tour players. On Tuesday, LIV Golf Investments, the newly formed company Norman is heading as CEO, added three more names to its leadership team. One

It might be a stretch to say that golf saved Joe Steadman’s life, but it wouldn’t be a big one. There is no doubt that the game has become much more than just a diversion to the former Army Special Forces combat soldier. He started to realize that during a casual round in 2013 after

5:55 PM ET Rory McIlroy has reunited with Michael Bannon, his longtime coach from Northern Ireland who is now allowed to travel to the United States following COVID-19 restrictions. McIlroy, a four-time major winner, had been working with Pete Cowen for most of this year. Bannon, who began working with McIlroy when he was a

With this week’s Pelican Women’s Championship followed by the CME Group Tour Championship, there are two tournaments left in the 2021 LPGA Tour season. There is, however, really just one competition that has most people’s attention: Jin Young Ko vs. Nelly Korda. They’ve traded the World No. 1 ranking in the past month—Korda has it

7:54 AM ET Slugger White, a longtime PGA Tour rules official who retired earlier this year, is coming back to serve in an executive role with Greg Norman’s new company, LIV Golf Investments. White, whose given name is Carlton White II, becomes the most prominent person after Norman to join the organization, which is set

Phil Mickelson isn’t playing in the latest iteration of “The Match,” the exhibition series instead shifting its focus to Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau. But while Mickelson will be on the sidelines, he’s still very much a part of the proceedings. On Tuesday Turner Sports announced that Mickelson, along with Charles Barkley, will provide commentary

This week, we like our chances again, even with just one year of course history at second-year Houston Open host venue Memorial Park. Not sure if you’ve heard, but Brooks Koepka did have a little bit of input on the massive renovation project, which was largely overseen by Tom Doak. It’s made Koepka anything but

Viktor Hovland became the first defending champion to repeat as a winner on the PGA Tour in more than two years at last week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. But it’s a trend that won’t continue at this week’s Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open. On Tuesday, defending champions Carlos Ortiz announced that he was withdrawing

7:45 AM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After 50 years, the European Tour by name is no more. Starting in 2022, it will be rebranded as the DP World Tour in a deal that is set to double the total prize money to more than $200 million. European Tour chief executive Keith

We’re seven tournaments deep into the nine-event fall season on the PGA Tour, and that means it’s time to take a look at some of the players who have made the most of their forays into autumn golf. We’re not talking about the winners—the winners have had plenty of attention—but the guys who have quietly

7:21 AM ET Justin Thomas pointed to the positives after his third-place finish at World Wide Technologies Championship, a tournament where he was in contention through three rounds but could not close the gap on Sunday and finished 5 shots behind winner Viktor Hovland. That has — save for the Players Championship — been the

There are a number of very good reasons to not bet on Brooks Koepka this week. Chief among them – he’s playing poorly of late, and in a surprise twist it’s actually bothering him to the point where he admitted he’s seriously grinding and trying to play his way through it, contrary to much of

DUBAI, U.A.E. — Creating heroes: It all starts here. The slogan/motto/legend/promise that dominated just about every aspect of the landscape around the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club is one the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship can more than justify, no matter the definition of choice. A stepping stone. A life-changing moment. Call it what you will,

3:35 PM ET Associated Press Thomas Pieters and Matthieu Pavon will enter the final round of the Portugal Masters sharing a four-shot lead after the pair rose to the top of the leaderboard on Saturday. The two leaders both carded a third round of 6-under 65. Pavon of France hit eight birdies to go with

The unexpected, inexplicable rise of Steven Alker from PGA Tour Champions outsider to a force in senior golf was completed Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla., when the 50-year-old New Zealand native won the TimberTech Championship by two strokes over reigning U.S. Senior Open champion Jim Furyk and fast-closing Miguel Angel Jimenez. Biding his time on

5:17 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Steven Alker had to qualify for his first PGA Tour Champions event three months ago, and he kept playing all the way to the Charles Schwab Cup final. Alker capped off his amazing run Sunday when he closed with a 4-under 68 for a 2-shot victory