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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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