Already grieving the recent death of a caddie, the PGA Tour Latinoamerica suffered another tragedy on Thursday when a caddie collapsed on the course and died at a hospital in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. The tour issued a statement on Friday reporting that caddie Alberto Olguin, of Mexico City, collapsed on the ninth tee box as
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7:51 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 66 on Friday for a share of the first-round lead with Matt Gogel in the PGA Tour Champions’ Constellation Furyk & Friends Invitational. Trying to win for the third time in four career starts on the 50-and-over tour, Mickelson had seven birdies
Matthew Wolff was one of the most talked about players on the PGA Tour entering last year because he was one of the biggest question marks. If his last four rounds are any indication, though, the 22-year-old may be close to rejoining the ranks of fellow Class of 2019 stars, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland.
On a more difficult golf course, a first-round one-over 72 is something that can be overcome. At TPC Summerlin, it puts you in a tie for 124th, effectively ending the week before it even started. That’s the current situation for Rickie Fowler, who was in dire need of a fresh start to the 2021-22 PGA
12:03 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former NBA guard J.R. Smith is set to make his debut next week as a golfer for North Carolina A&T. The school announced that Smith will play his first collegiate tournament Monday and Tuesday at the Phoenix Invitational hosted by Elon. The tournament will take place at
One and done was not how Cameron Champ envisioned the fall portion of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season would play out. But the 26-year-old California native announced on Instagram Thursday that he is shutting things down for the rest of 2021, citing an injury to his left wrist, after playing in just one tournament. “In
8:46 PM ET Associated Press WEST CALDWELL, N.J. — Jin Young Ko put a tough loss behind her quickly and ran off six birdies over a seven-hole stretch on the back nine for an 8-under 63 on Thursday to build a three-shot lead in the Cognizant Founders Cup. It was her 11th consecutive round in
Brooks Koepka will feature a new look when he makes his first start of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season this week. Make that a new way of looking at putts. After struggling with reading the greens recently, the four-time major champ shared with reporters at the Shriners Children’s Open that he made a significant change
9:07 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sung Kang found the missing piece to his game and put everything together Thursday in the Shriners Children’s Open for a 10-under 61 that gave him a two-shot lead after the first round. Kang already had nine birdies against one bogey when he hit 7-wood from a
There is no doubting the grit of Tony Finau. This is a man, after all, who dislocated his ankle the day before the start of the 2018 Masters and turned in a 68 in his opening round. But this tale about Finau’s lead-up to the recent Ryder Cup underlines how tough he truly is. Chalk
1:16 PM ET The Asian Tour is set to return from an 18-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the golf circuit said on Tuesday it will stage two tournaments in Thailand before the end of the year. The Tour, which stopped play in March 2020, will hold the Blue Canyon Championship from Nov.
1:24 PM ET The European Tour on Tuesday added the AVIV Dubai Championship to its 2021 schedule, with the $1.5 million event returning for a second straight season and replacing the cancelled Nedbank Golf Challenge Hosted by Gary Player in South Africa. The event will be played on the Fire course at Jumeirah Golf Estates
Turns out, there was some Ryder Cup drama on Sunday at Whistling Straits. Just not the kind anyone saw coming—especially Harris English. Apparently, it was in such bad shape that someone called a rules official about it possibly being non-conforming. And as English arrived at the Whistling Straits clubhouse on Sunday ahead of his singles
2:42 PM ET A day after the announcement that he would be taking on Bryson DeChambeau in a made-for-TV match, Brooks Koepka didn’t have much to say about it. Koepka said he is looking forward to the Nov 26 match in Las Vegas but stopped short of going into much detail. Asked at the Shriners
Scottie Scheffler has done a lot in little time. The 25-year-old won Rookie of the Year in his freshman campaign in 2020 and put any worries of a sophomore slump to bed by making the Ryder Cup team in 2021. He is also something of a big game hunter, finishing T-8 or better in four
11:05 AM ET World No. 1 Jon Rahm is hopeful that he can emulate compatriot Seve Ballesteros by becoming only the second three-time winner of the Spanish Open when he tees off on home soil on Thursday. Rahm, 26, is aiming for a hat trick of titles at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, having
That recent rout at Whistling Straits notwithstanding, Europe has been the dominant force at the Ryder Cup for the past three decades. But when it comes to firepower from the gallery during the biennial event, the Americans have held a decisive advantage during that time. It helps to have the GOAT in your corner. If
4:52 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau hinted at it during the Ryder Cup, and now it is going to happen: a golf match between DeChambeau and year-long adversary Brooks Koepka. The 12-hole match (not 18) between the two golfers who feuded for much of 2021 will take place on Nov. 26, the day after Thanksgiving, at
The Shriners Children’s Open is one of the marquee events of the fall season. Aside from the CJ Cup and the Zozo, this will be the best field before 2022, with 11 of the top 25 in the world rankings teeing it up at TPC Summerlin. Accordingly, our Golf Digest betting panel is pumped to
It is the matchup golf fans have desperately wanted, but it is not the match they were hoping to get. For two years the sport waited for a battle between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau. Two years of animosity and eye-rolls and trolling, of speculation and dissection and discourse. All of it drama in its
8:04 PM ET Associated Press Next year will be the final leap into “Poppie’s Pond,” ending 40 years of the only LPGA major held on the same course and still known in some corners simply as the Dinah Shore. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday that Chevron is taking over as title sponsor of the year’s
Much like a marriage, the player-caddie relationship in professional golf has its fair share of ups and downs, requires give and take, push and pull, insert another cliche about being married here. The key difference between real marriage and the player-caddie marriage, though, is that the latter isn’t ‘til death do us part. RELATED: America’s
9:31 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Toto Japan Classic is no longer part of the LPGA Tour schedule because of the pandemic, leaving only one tournament as part of the tour’s Asian swing in the fall. The Toto Japan Classic is scheduled for Nov. 4-7. The LPGA Tour now has only
Twenty-five years ago, audiences fell in love with a fresh face on the golf scene. He had power, he had swagger, and he loved going for par 5s in two. No, we’re not talking about Tiger Woods, but rather Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy. It turns out one of the most famous golf movie characters hit
Though Scheffler has yet to earn a PGA Tour win, most expect that to change very quickly. Oddsmakers think it might happen this weekend—as most sportsbooks tabbed him as one of the favorites at this week’s Shriners Children’s Open. Scheffler has teed it up in the past two editions of the event, missing the cut
12:54 PM ET Tyrrell Hatton overcame three bogeys on a frustrating back nine to card a two-under 70 and take a one-shot lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship second round on Friday. The Englishman, who has twice won the tournament, started the day at 8 under and looked in control with two early birdies
When he hung up the phone after Steve Stricker called last month breaking the news that he wasn’t going to be a captain’s pick for the 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup team, Sam Burns felt a twin set of emotions. “Definitely kind of gut wrenching,” was how the 25-year-old Louisiana native characterized being one of the
2:00 PM ET Associated Press Danny Willett celebrated his birthday by winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by two strokes on Sunday. The Englishman took a three-shot lead into the European Tour event’s final round, which was played over the Old Course at St. Andrews. Willett shot a 4-under 68 and finished on 18 under
The Yosemite Sam mustache is no more, the whiskers falling like leaves at the turn of the calendar. The outlaw disposition? Very, very much alive. While all eyes were elsewhere on welcoming the latest young gun to the sport, Sam Burns quietly and confidently captured the Sanderson Farms Championship. “Yeah, I think it’s, it hasn’t
4:47 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Celine Boutier birdied two of her last three holes for an 8-under 63 and won the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Sunday when South Korea’s two best players faltered down the stretch. Starting the final round five shots behind, Boutier ran off six birdies on the front nine