It has been among golfers’, professional athletes’ and the general public’s worst nightmares during the COVID-19 pandemic: traveling to a far-off place and not being able to get home. That came closer to reality on Friday for the pros playing in the Joburg Open in South Africa. The Associated Press in Johannesburg reported that more
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7:35 AM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — A batch of British and Irish golfers withdrew from the Joburg Open before Friday’s second round after the U.K. government announced it was banning flights from South Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant. The inaugural season of the DP World Tour started Thursday but
A trying situation continued for DP World Tour officials at the Joburg Open in South Africa when thunderstorms forced third-round play to be suspended on Saturday. With worsening weather coming and looming concerns over the new COVID variant surfacing in the country, officials decided to cancel the round entirely and called the tournament after 36
9:31 AM ET Associated Press South African golfer Thriston Lawrence won the Joburg Open on Saturday after the third round was abandoned because of bad weather, meaning the result was called after 36 holes of the inaugural event on the DP World Tour. The event had been reduced to a 54-hole tournament late Friday to
7:06 PM ET The match between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka turned into a rout on Friday, as Koepka throttled his rival in a 4-and-3 victory in a 12-hole match at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas. Koepka, a four-time major winner, had four birdies in the match for charity, while DeChambeau didn’t have
“Tough to draw it out of the bark,” Phil Mickelson said, just before Bryson DeChambeau took his second shot of The Match in Las Vegas, and that was not nearly the weirdest thing that was done or said on the first hole of the 12-hole showdown between DeChambeau and his tormentor, Brooks Koepka. It started
2:11 PM ET After months of feuding, trading jobs during interviews and on social media, then seemingly making up at the Ryder Cup — there was even a bro hug! — until that unraveled earlier this week, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are finally taking this rivalry to the golf course. Today, in the latest
Advantage, Brooksy. If a sporting conflict can only be properly settled on the field of competition, we have no option but to deem Mr. Koepka the winner of the beef that dominated golf discourse in 2021. The four-time major winner—whose eye roll tweeted ‘round the world threw gasoline on a simmering mutual disdain—embarrassed his rival
12:45 PM ET South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence claimed a four-shot lead at the Joburg Open on Friday as imminent travel restrictions and a thunderstorm meant for a turbulent second round at the season-opening DP World Tour event. Rain and lightning halted play for over two hours, meaning half the field were yet to complete the
There are a handful of names golf fans might recognize in the field at this week’s Blue Canyon Phuket Championship in Thailand, the first official Asian Tour event held in 20 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And one name they might want to potentially remember. American John Catlin, a three-time winner on the European
1:50 AM ET South African sport faced a shutdown on Friday due to the detection of a new coronavirus variant, with British rugby teams scrambling to leave before travel restrictions are imposed, and the first event of golf’s new-look DP World Tour under threat. Four rugby teams were due to play South African opposition in
Editor’s Note: This story first ran in early June ahead of the U.S. Open. In the meantime, the public spat between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka took plenty more twists and turns, leading up to the eventual announcement that the two would square off against each other in a 12-hole competition in Las Vegas the
It seems like only yesterday that Rickie Fowler was a kid himself, adored by other kids who aspired to be just like him. Now he has a kid of his own. On Thanksgiving day, Fowler, 32, and his wife Allison Stokke, 32, announced the birth of their daughter Maya, who was born on Nov. 11.
1:59 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Two-time major winner Martin Kaymer is taking three months off for the birth of his first child, he told a German golf magazine Thursday. Kaymer expects to become a father in January at home in Germany and says he’s looking to live in Florida with his family after
12:04 PM ET South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence and Spain’s Angel Hidalgo had a share of the lead at 6 under par before a thunderstorm suspended play for the day in the first round of the DP World Tour’s Joburg Open at the Randpark Country Club on Thursday. It was the opening day of the newly-styled
Donnie and Jamie Solesbee had no intention of getting their soon-to-be-daughter Autumn into golf. She was a 7-year-old in the foster care system, and the Solesbees were a couple on a journey to adopt. They met and fell in love with the young girl, unaware the game was about to become a big part of
Apparently, the COVID golf boom has made it harder for everyone to get a tee time. Even if you’re an MLB All-Star. San Diego Padres outfielder Will Myers finds himself in quite the interesting legal battle, according to The Charlotte Observer. Myers, who lives in Charlotte during the off-season, has been taken to court by
7:41 AM ET His résumé is heavy with major championship accomplishments, and Brooks Koepka has somewhat famously let it be known that the regular tournaments are not much of a priority to him. So a couple of missed cuts late in a long year that has seen its share of injury struggles for Koepka might
Maybe we should have seen this coming all along, that the Brooks Koepka-Bryson DeChambeau tift spat row quarrel argument battle feud would ultimately play itself out in a made-for-TV duel on the golf course. For those with such clairvoyance, you’ve probably had Friday, Nov. 26 circled on your calendar even before the fifth iteration of
If you’re reading this post, you are considering making a bet on the Bryson vs. Brooks match. Which means you are in the right place, as we have picks from some of the best golf handicappers in the industry, who comprise our Golf Digest betting panel (which makes picks every week during the PGA Tour
7:39 AM ET It would be tough to top the kind of drama that Bryson DeChambeau found himself part of in 2021. He won just once on the PGA Tour, but the man who transformed his body in less than two years to become the tour’s longest driver certainly was a major topic of discussion
There is a course with a driving range up the street, and for years I believed the range was no good. The balls are beaten to hell and painted with a cheap protective coating that leaves a nasty mark on your irons. There’s no grass, and with little cushion between the mats and concrete underneath
Sam Bennett’s start to the 2021-22 college season showcased what happens when you take an already impressive golf game and you add consistency and patience. The Texas A&M senior shot par-or-better in all nine of his stroke-play rounds, posted two top-three finishes and is No. 1 in the PGA Tour University ranking entering the winter
The PGA Tour announced to its membership Monday significant increases coming to its prize money and payout structures for the new year. The financial details were explained to PGA Tour players in a memo sent to them by commissioner Jay Monahan and first reported by the Associated Press and Golfweek followed by multiple other media
After a year of following verbal jabs and one viral eye-roll, golf fans will finally see Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau settle their feud on the golf course this week. But they’ll also get a nice, even if not complete, look at one of the country’s most interesting—and pricey—layouts. The Wynn Golf Club, just off
When The Match between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau was announced on October 5, it felt like poor timing. A week earlier at the Ryder Cup, the two hugged it out, Ari Gold-style. Beef squashed. Feud over. Whatever juice this thing had was squeezed out the moment these so-called enemies embraced at Whistling Straits. In
5:46 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour is raising purses even higher in five of its biggest events, with two FedEx Cup playoff events now offering $15 million in a schedule that pushes prize money closer to the $500 million mark this year. The increases, which include $12 million purses in the three invitational
7:50 AM ET Associated Press British Open champion, Ryder Cup winner and now the first American to finish a season as the European Tour’s No. 1 player. It’s been quite the year for Collin Morikawa. The 24-year-old Californian showcased his world-class iron play down the stretch in making five birdies in his last seven holes
NAPLES, Fla. — For those successful on the LPGA Tour, the offseason comes like a brief reprieve. The CME Group Tour Championship finishes near Thanksgiving, and a mere six weeks later, the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions kicks things off once more. The constant grind causes Lydia Ko to only take a month off