RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico — Matthew Wolff’s off-course journey has been covered ad nauseum. Articles and interviews and podcasts, including on this very website. It has largely been cited, including by the man himself, as the source of a slump that’s on its very last legs, if not already vanquished. But mental-health struggles don’t cause bad
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7:33 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Matthew Wolff was on the verge of building a big lead Friday at Mayakoba until a pair of late bogeys forced him to settle for a 3-under 68 and a two-shot lead over fast-closing Scottie Scheffler in the World Wide Technology Championship. Wolff had no
RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico — If a competition derives legitimacy from the quality of its champions, the FedEx Cup gets a solid A-. Tiger and Rory each have two, but Phil’s been shut out. DJ’s got one, and so do J-Rose and Spieth, but not Brooksy. JT, Furyk, Stenson and Vijay nabbed one to bolster their
12:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Keita Nakajima of Japan made a pair of 15-foot putts over the last three holes Friday, the last one for par on the 18th hole, for a 4-under 67 and a 1-shot lead going into the final round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. That set
2:38 PM ET Italy’s Nino Bertasio carded a bogey-free 61 to claim a four-shot lead after the opening round at the Portugal Masters on Thursday. Bertasio went on a hot streak on the back nine at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, carding six birdies over the last seven holes to move to 10 under
What does it mean to have a breakout year on the PGA Tour? You’d typically connote that term with wins, awards, and consistent contention. It’s reserved for on-course success. But it doesn’t have to be, and while Matthew Wolff watched many of his contemporaries add wins, and even majors, to their resumes last year, he
RIVERA MAYA, Mexico — Brooks Koepka missed the cut at this tournament last year and hardly seemed to care. Assuming you live online like the rest of us, you’ll recall his then-girlfriend now-fiancee Jena Sims feeding him grapes just a few hours after his week came to an abrupt end. He hardly had time to
7:33 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Matthew Wolff arrived at Mayakoba and quickly realized El Camaleon might not be a good course for what he calls his “rip dog” length. Then again, he’s playing so well it doesn’t matter. Wolff hit only one driver Thursday, followed his script of keeping the
RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico — He doesn’t get headlines like Mr. DeChambeau, but Danny Lee is just as all-in on the speed chase as his beefier colleague. The 31-year-old from New Zealand has made a concerted effort to add distance over the past couple years, and you won’t find anyone swinging harder in competition. Check out
11:59 AM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oklahoma State sophomore Bo Jin took a big step toward following in his brother’s footsteps by making five birdies over his last eight holes on Thursday for a 7-under 64, giving him a one-shot lead in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. Jin, a 19-year-old from Beijing,
RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico — Greg Norman is fronting a group that will pump money into the Asian Tour, but its eventual goal is to start a new tour that will compete with the PGA Tour, and it’s complicated because it’s Saudi money, and there’s also another upstart tour without Saudi money, but its backers want
3:40 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Defending champion Yuxin Lin of China and top-ranked amateur Keita Nakajima of Japan were among seven players who shared the lead at 4-under 67 as the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship began Wednesday with some of the biggest stars off to an ideal start. Lin is trying
Beginning Nov. 8, PGA Tour players and caddies who are not U.S. nationals will be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to enter the United States. The tour alerted its membership of the CDC’s new policy in the informational “Green Sheet” it sends to players and caddies each week, a copy of which
5:34 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Bellerive Country Club has been selected to host the Presidents Cup in 2030, making it the seventh American course to host the biennial event. It adds to the list of big events Bellerive has hosted, from Gary Player completing the career Grand Slam in the 1965 U.S.
Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, the site of one U.S. Open and two PGA Championships, will host the 2030 Presidents Cup, the PGA Tour announced on Wednesday. “St. Louis is a passionate and iconic sports town and one which embraces teams and events such as the Presidents Cup with tremendous enthusiasm. The combination of
10:10 AM ET The head of the Premier Golf League said his group is not swayed by Hall of Famer Greg Norman joining another entity seeking to start a different circuit that would attract top players in small-field events for large monetary guarantees. But Andy Gardiner told ESPN that his original plan of 48-player, 12-team,
Last year, in addition to hitting Hovland, these authors also cashed a ticket on Brooks Koepka missing the cut. Now, the headline for this column endorses betting Koepka. What gives? One of our experts is relying on a philosophy that has served some golf bettors well recently: Betting on a golfer with high win equity
Golf fans who tune out the fall PGA Tour season events are missing out this week. Mayaboba, now called the World Wide Technology Championship, boasts its best field ever, drawing seven of the top 20 players in the world this week, including defending champion Viktor Hovland; Justin Thomas (the betting favorite); Brooks Koepka; Tony Finau
7:24 AM ET Along with an ability to drive a golf ball better than anyone with a persimmon club, Greg Norman had a keen awareness of his own worth as a golfer, especially as it applied to securing fees for his participation. Norman makes no secret of this. The Australian golfer who earned the nickname
The sunsetting of NBC Sports Network at the end of the 2021 is causing NBC Sports to migrate its various sports programs—Premier League soccer, NASCAR, Olympic sports to name a few—to another one of its cable properties, USA Network. On Tuesday, NBC Sports executives announced that the reshuffling would also impact four of their golf
The same number of Division I golf teams (72) will earn spots in the NCAA Women’s Regionals next May. And the same number of schools (24) will advance to the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. But instead of holding the 54-hole qualifying tournaments at four locations, the NCAA announced on Monday that
The PGA Tour took a big step toward banning green-reading books on Monday when it sent a memo to players and caddies outlining specifics of the proposed new rule. According to the memo, a copy of which was obtained by Golf Digest, the new tournament regulation, which is currently being worked on by both the
Jordan Spieth’s bounceback year continued on Monday. And this time, he didn’t even have to play. The 28-year-old wasn’t in action at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, but that didn’t keep him from continuing to climb (back) up the Official World Golf Ranking. In Monday’s latest edition, Spieth is No. 10, putting him back in the
All of the strong work, and the rewards that come with it, seemed to be slipping away for Jim Knous on Sunday in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Through nine holes, he was four over par for the day and looking at a worst-case scenario. The 31-year-old, playing his last event on a major medical extension,
3:53 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Lucas Herbert had two birdies during the toughest, wind-blown stretch of Port Royal and held steady to the end Sunday for a 2-under 69 to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Herbert closed with four pars to hold off Danny Lee (71) and Patrick Reed, who finished with
Lucas Herbert, four strokes behind Taylor Pendrith after 54 holes of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, figured that foul weather on Sunday at Port Royal Golf Course might give him a fair chance at his first PGA Tour title. Even though he missed the cut in his only two previous starts to the season. Even though
It isn’t quite what Ben Hogan had in mind, but golf’s most dedicated practitioner would surely approve of Lukas Michel’s preparation in his debut appearance at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship this week in Dubai. While the 2019 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion can’t claim to have hit Hogan-like quantities of range balls over the last few months,
Through the first five PGA Tour events in the nascent 2021-22 season, the five tour winners—Max Homa, Sam Burns, Sungjae Im, Rory McIlroy and Hideki Matsuyama—have all been inside the top 50 of the World Ranking when they captured their titles. That’s the longest streak to start a season since 2005 when the first 10
6:02 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Taylor Pendrith‘s big game is working just fine on the PGA Tour’s shortest course, giving the Canadian a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Pendrith ran off four straight birdies around the turn at Port Royal, and then picked up two
With some wacky weather forecasted, plus the fact that a pair of short hitters had won in each of the last two years, the advantage for the bomb-and-gouger was supposed to be reduced at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Naturally, one of if not the longest players in the field, Canada’s Taylor Pendrith, is the solo