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It was February and Michelle Wie West found a fashion choice from her past drawing headlines in the present. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a story on a podcast about playing with Wie West in a charity Pro-Am in 2014, but the story had nothing to do with Wie West’s game. Instead,
As much as we all love Vegas, we’re not sad to see the PGA Tour bounce Sin City in favor of the Asian Swing. Our experts failed to cash a winner in the desert, which only makes us hungrier to get it done at this week’s Zozo Championship. The field is noticeably weaker than a
Not unlike the way the PGA Tour dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA Tour Champions combined its 2020 and 2021 campaigns into a “super season” of 36 tournaments that culminates with the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs. The three-event series played over the next four weeks begins Friday in Richmond, Va., with 72 players trying
The field will feature 78 golfers with no cut, similar to last week’s CJ Cup. Neither previous winner (Patrick Cantlay nor Tiger Woods) will be teeing it up this week, but headliners like Collin Morikawa, Hideki Matsuyama and Xander Schauffele provide plenty of starpower. Note: Japan is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, meaning
Eighty junior golfers earned an invite to the 2022 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals. The event, held at Augusta National the Sunday before the Masters, features players from 30 different states, with six former DCP contestants in the field. Among the 80 are: -Brothers Mason and Tanner LaTorre from Nassau, N.Y. “It’s pretty cool
6:23 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm‘s woes back in Spain worsened when he failed to make the cut at the Andalucía Masters on Friday. The top-ranked Rahm shot 3-over 74 through the second round, finishing with a share of 99th place and 14 strokes off the lead of Romain Langasque. That was an improvement
6:39 PM ET Associated Press English golfer Laurie Canter is eyeing his first European Tour win after taking a 3-shot lead of the Andalucía Masters heading into the final round. Canter carded 4-under 67 on Saturday after making eight birdies to double up his four bogeys. That left him 7 under after three days at
If you’re a recreational golfer, especially one who likes to spend time on the range, you’ve likely had this experience at some point: A single swing thought clicks into place and you start hitting the ball very well—and very consistently. Your confidence grows with the success, and after another dozen great shots, it becomes irresistible
5:56 PM ET Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Lee Janzen made a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Miguel Angel Jimenez on Sunday to win the PGA Tour Champions’ SAS Championship. The 57-year-old Janzen also birdied the par-4 18th in regulation in a closing 5-under 67 in the regular-season finale.
Rickie Fowler did not cash in on his 54-hole lead at the CJ Cup, an uneven Sunday leading to a T-3 finish at the Summit Club, but the week was still a victory for the five-time tour winner. For a man who’s spent the past few seasons stuck in neutral, a T-3 finish—his first such
8:25 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Rory McIlroy capped a big weekend in Las Vegas on Sunday by surging past Rickie Fowler and holding off Collin Morikawa to win the CJ Cup at Summit for his 20th PGA Tour title. McIlroy seized control with a 35-foot eagle putt from just off the green
The man has 20 PGA Tour wins at 32 years old. Twenty. Think on that for a minute. Because with Rory McIlroy, the temptation is to view things through the lens of what he has not accomplished. It’s a shame, but an understandable one—he’s the most gifted player of the post-Tiger Woods era, and he
2:13 PM ET Associated Press SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Patience paid off for Matt Fitzpatrick at the tough Valderrama course in Spain on Sunday. The Englishman made 15 straight pars then rallied with two birdies on his last three holes to win the Andalucia Masters by 3 shots. “Amazing, particularly the way I did it,” Fitzpatrick
Never let it be said that the European Tour does not offer a little bit of everything to players and public. One week after all 75 of the competitors who completed 72 holes in the Spanish Open at Club de Campo in Madrid finished under par (38 of those 10 under or lower), only 14
7:22 PM ET Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Miguel Angel Jimenez eagled the par-5 17th in a 4-under 68 for a share of the second-round lead Saturday with Alex Cejka in the PGA Tour Champions’ SAS Championship. “I hit a beautiful 7-wood there, like 3 1/2 meters or less,” Jimenez said about the eagle. “All
There was always going to be something historic about this week’s Aramco Team Series-New York event at Glen Oaks Club on Long Island given it was the first Ladies European Tour event ever to be played in the United States. But the finish on Saturday created its own novelty. The tournament pitted four-player teams (three
8:54 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Rickie Fowler returned to the spotlight Saturday in the foothills above Las Vegas with his best round in three years, a 9-under 63 that gave him a 2-shot lead over Rory McIlroy going into the final round of the CJ Cup at Summit. Fowler hasn’t had an
Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy are set for a Sunday duel in the desert. Adam Scott is lurking. Hell, even Ian Poulter is (sorta) in the mix. The CJ Cup at The Summit Club is turning into quite the throwback event. Those guys are the main event, of course, but with scores as low as
3:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Casey Martin, the Oregon golf coach who successfully sued the PGA Tour for the right to use a cart because of a rare circulatory disease, had his right leg amputated in what he told Golf Digest was always going to be “my destiny.” The magazine, which has
Following a final-round 69 at last week’s Shriners, Harry Higgs promised to get “properly drunk” on the Las Vegas strip. No, not in celebration of his T-27 finish, which he was actually quite frustrated by. It was to celebrate a big win by his favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles. This week at the CJ Cup,
8:07 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Rory McIlroy was trying to illustrate how deep the talent pool is on the PGA Tour by sharing a story about how impressed he was with Keith Mitchell the first time they played together. Mitchell is providing McIlroy and everyone else with plenty of more fodder through
Casey Martin is in recovery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. His right leg, or his trail leg as he’s known it in his life as a golfer, was amputated above the knee in a three-and-a-half-hour surgery the afternoon of Oct. 15. That infamous leg afflicted with a circulatory disorder since birth, that won
11:31 PM ET His putter finally cooperating, Adam Scott has surged into contention for a 15th US PGA Tour victory with a scintillating second round at the CJ Cup in Las Vegas. With two back-nine eagles and seven birdies, Scott carded a nine-under-par 63 to soar to 13 under for the championship to be in
He has perhaps the prettiest swing in golf, he is impossibly talented, he might be the most universally liked player in the world—and yet it’s time to attach yet another superlative to Rory McIlroy’s name: he can see the future. On Wednesday, McIlroy was asked about the depth of fields on the modern PGA Tour.
On a Thursday filled with great scoring at the CJ Cup, Dustin Johnson’s two-over-par 74 stood out like a priest on the Las Vegas strip. After all, the two-time major champ had gone a perfect 5-0 at the Ryder Cup the last time we saw him. But it didn’t take long for him to look
6:16 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm’s struggles at home continued on Thursday with a 7-over 78 that matched his second worst round ever as a professional and left him 11 shots off the lead at the Andalucía Masters. He had also shot 78 in the second round at the British Open in 2018. His
LAS VEGAS — She had no idea at the time, but Aaron Wise’s girlfriend Reagan Trussell pulled off an expert gambling move at the 15th hole at The Summit Club. It was the elusive reverse mush, where you basically say something isn’t going to happen in the hopes of it actually happening, hence “reverse.” In
Early reports from the CJ Cup at this first-time PGA Tour venue said to expect plenty of birdies, especially at the start of rounds. Boots on the ground, both reporters and players, have been hinting that this strong field would post plenty of low numbers at The Summit Club, a tony still-in-development model of American
9:08 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Robert Streb went from making putts to wondering if he would ever miss Thursday in the CJ Cup at Summit. It led to his best start to any tournament and his lowest score on the PGA Tour. And on this day at The Summit Club, his 11-under