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
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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
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