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Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, has made his feelings known for a while now about LIV Golf and the disruption the upstart league has brought to the professional game. Two years ago during the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, when the Saudi-backed circuit was still only in the “talking” stages, Waugh

Associated Press May 14, 2023, 03:02 PM ET ANTWERP, Belgium — Swedish golfer Simon Forsström held off countryman Jens Dantorp for a wire-to-wire victory at the Soudal Open on the European tour on Sunday. The 34-year-old Forsström was one stroke ahead of Belgium’s Thomas Detry overnight, but Dantorp’s late charge from third proved the main

Once known as the black sheep of golf’s four big events, the PGA Championship has arguably been the most entertaining major championship over the past decade, and the tournament will look to continue that good fortune as the golf world descends on Rochester, N.Y., for the 105th edition of the championship. No, there will be

Associated Press May 13, 2023, 07:29 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Robert Karlsson and defending champion Steve Stricker surged into the lead Saturday at the Regions Tradition, with Karlsson shooting a 9-under 63 to match the low score since this PGA Tour Champions major moved to its current venue. Stricker closed with four straight birdies

The shot that summed up Scottie Scheffler’s entire third round of the AT&T Byron Nelson came at the par-5 18th at TPC Craig Ranch, which is the type of hole where par feels like bogey and bogey feels like triple bogey for PGA Tour-level players. Up to the point Scheffler arrived at the tee, only

Associated Press May 13, 2023, 07:42 PM ET CLIFTON, N.J. — Defending champion Minjee Lee of Australia overcame an opening bogey for a 5-under 67 and a three-stroke lead Saturday, heading in the final round of the Founders Cup. No. 6 in the world, Lee had four birdies and an eagle after dropping a stroke

There is something about the PGA Championship, a quality that doesn’t make the event any less entertaining than the Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship, yet provides it with its own distinct identity. Often this is viewed pejoratively—the cliché is to call the PGA “the “Ringo” of men’s majors. But the PGA counts every bit

May 12, 2023, 06:30 PM ET Branden Grace of South Africa holed nine birdies during a bogey-free 61 to take a two-stroke lead after the opening round at LIV Golf Tulsa on Friday in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In the Saudi-backed league’s inaugural event in the Tulsa area, Grace put up a two-shot lead on Dustin

Every year, some tourists still arrive in the town of Woodstock, N.Y., hoping to see where the legendary rock ‘n roll festival took place in 1969. When they get there, they’re disappointed to learn that the “three days of peace and music” that featured 400,000 rain-soaked members of the counterculture generation grooving to the sounds

Associated Press May 12, 2023, 08:11 PM ET CLIFTON, N.J. — Two-time LPGA Tour player of the year Jin Young Ko shot her second straight 4-under 68 on Friday in the Founders Cup and shared the halfway lead with 37-year-old non-winner Sarah Kemp. Kemp, whose best finish on tour is a tie for second in

Another day, another tournament Scottie Scheffler may end up winning. Scheffler followed his seven-under 64 in the first round of the AT&T Byron Nelson with another 64 in his second to vault into the 36-hole lead. Both Scheffler and Jon Rahm, unlike any players we’ve seen for a good while, have an air of inevitability

Associated Press May 12, 2023, 08:31 PM ET McKINNEY, Texas — Scottie Scheffler says he tries not to put too much emphasis on winning one tournament over another, even when his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson is in play. Ryan Palmer isn’t keeping any secrets. Win the Nelson not far from his home in another Dallas-Fort

A Division III women’s champion was crowned in Florida, although no one could’ve imagined what would’ve happened during the week to get to that point. George Fox University from Newberg, Ore., shot 12-over 304 Friday during the final round of the NCAA Division III Women’s Championship at Mission Inn Resort’s El Campeon Course to claim

Associated Press May 11, 2023, 04:21 PM ET Equipped with a favorable court ruling, the European tour has expanded its sanctions against players who competed in LIV Golf or Asian Tour events without permission over eight months. The tour already has issued fines of 100,000 pounds ($125,000) to 17 players who played in the first

The NCAA canceled the third round of the 2023 Division III Women’s Golf Championship on Thursday after one of the pin placements was deemed “unplayable.” And when you watch a collection of videos that went viral on Golf Twitter, you’ll understand why. Things got silly on the 308-yard, par-4 sixth at Mission Inn and Resort’s

Associated Press May 11, 2023, 06:05 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Billy Andrade, Timothy O’Neal and Paul Broadhurst each shot a 5-under 67 to take the first-round lead Thursday at the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors, with defending champion Steve Stricker one shot back. Joining Stricker at 68 were Ernie

Say what you will about the non-designated events, but they have had enough star power to be interesting and enough storylines to be compelling. And when Scottie Scheffler started out six under after his first six holes, well, it looked like Seung-Yul Noh’s 60 in the morning wave might not be the low round of

Associated Press May 11, 2023, 07:54 PM ET CLIFTON, N.J. — Sei Young Kim shot a bogey-free 6-under 66 on Thursday at tree-lined Upper Montclair Country Club to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s Founders Cup. Kim had four straight birdies – on the par-5 12th, par-4 13th, par-5 14th and par-3 15th

After a quiet stretch on the PGA Tour schedule, the season heats up once again with the 2023 PGA Championship, which will be held at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y. This will be the fourth time this course will host the vaunted major, placing it second in total PGAs only behind last year’s host, Southern

Associated Press May 11, 2023, 02:36 PM ET ANTWERP, Belgium — Unheralded Swedish golfer Simon Forsstrom shot 7-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead in the Soudal Open on the European tour on Thursday. The No. 429-ranked Forsstrom, who came through qualifying school at the end of last year to get his tour card, made

Rose Zhang once again made the historic feel routine Wednesday at the NCAA Women’s Regional in Pullman, Wash. At Palouse Ridge Golf Club, the Stanford sophomore claimed medalist honors, breaking the NCAA record for the low 54-hole score at Regionals by three shots with her 19-under 197 showing. In the process, Zhang also helped the

May 10, 2023, 01:26 PM ET World No. 8 golfer Brooke Henderson will sit out this week’s Cognizant Founders Cup on the LPGA Tour because of an illness, TSN reported Wednesday. Henderson began the season by winning the Tournament of Champions in January. The 25-year-old has 13 LPGA Tour victories, including major wins at the

The LPGA Tour confirmed that LaCava, 59, will work this week for the No. 1 player in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings during the Cognizant Founders Cup at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J. The opportunity arose as Korda’s usual caddie, Jason McDede, had his first son on Saturday, April 29. It was the

May 10, 2023, 09:39 PM ET After nearly a month off, Scottie Scheffler is back. Scheffler, who sits at No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking, hasn’t played in a PGA Tour event since the RBC Heritage. However, after an extended period of rest, the six-time winner is eager to get back on the

According to Columbia University student Will Knauth, who is on a path to earn his PhD in statistics, a 24-year-old amateur who played Division III golf and is probably more accomplished as a violinist than he is a golfer has a 4-in-1 chance of making the cut in his PGA Tour debut at this week’s

The PGA Championship, golf’s second major championship of the season, is just a week away. Before the world’s best players tee it up at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, a handful of the game’s elite are competing in the AT&T Byron Nelson outside Dallas this week. The LPGA Tour returns to the

My idea of the perfect golf trip is unoriginal and goes something like this: four or eight buddies travel to the famous links of somewhere—Scotland, Ireland, maybe Oregon—pack full rain gear hoping not to use it, play 36 every day, then every night recharge with a substantive and sedative blend of beef and alcohol. Repeat.

May 7, 2023, 02:51 PM ET Don January, winner of the 1967 PGA Championship, died Sunday at age 93, the PGA Tour announced. The Texas native won four straight NCAA Division I titles (1949-52) before embarking on a pro career. He won 10 times and was a runner-up 17 times on the PGA Tour, and

Over the years it has become a familiar narrative, one favored by generations of leading American golfers soon after their initial introduction to the game as played adjacent to the Scottish shoreline. Pressed to elucidate their enthusiasm for the variety and virtues of links golf, most take refuge in a small cluster of clichés. “Loved

Associated Press May 7, 2023, 07:29 PM ET DULUTH, Ga. — Stephen Ames capped off his dominant week on the TPC Sugarloaf with a 4-under 68 on Sunday that gave him the tournament scoring record and a 4-shot victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Ames joined David Toms as the only multiple winners on the