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May 4, 2023, 11:36 AM ET J.B. Holmes withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship before the start of the first round on Thursday. The 2014 tournament champion has a back injury and was replaced in the field by Austin Cook. Holmes finished at 14-under that year at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, N.C., beating

Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Illinois, Arizona State, Texas Tech and Pepperdine earned top seeds when the NCAA men’s golf committee announced on Wednesday the 81 schools and 45 individuals to play in the six 2023 NCAA Men’s Regional tournaments being held around the country May 15-17. The top five teams from each regional and the low

Associated Press May 3, 2023, 04:20 PM ET Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia were among four players with Saudi-backed LIV Golf who resigned from the European tour instead of facing fines of 100,000 pounds ($125,000) for playing LIV events without permission. The tour said 50-year-old Richard Bland also resigned. They were among those

And so it goes on. In the wake of the DP World Tour’s arbitration-hearing victory over LIV Golf last month, four long-standing members—Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, Richard Bland and Ian Poulter—have resigned from the Old World Circuit. All four were in breach of the tour’s tournament release regulation and so were liable to the sanctions

Associated Press May 3, 2023, 08:06 PM ET SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — Pennsylvania club pro Braden Shattuck capped his PGA Professional Championship debut by making a 12-foot par putt on the final hole for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory that sends him and 19 others to the PGA Championship in two weeks.

CHARLOTTE — You could be forgiven for thinking that Rory McIlroy put the PGA Tour in a bit of a pickle when he opted to skip the RBC Heritage to rest and reset after a disappointing Masters. That was the second designated event he missed in 2023, one more than is allowed for any player

9:33 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Another week, another designated event on the PGA Tour. The Wells Fargo Championship returns to Quail Hollow Club this week, after a one-year hiatus while the club prepares to host the 2023 Presidents Cup. As a designated event on the revamped PGA Tour schedule, the tournament will have a

CHARLOTTE — When Rory McIlroy shot five under on the back nine in Wednesday’s practice round at Augusta National in April, he allowed himself a thought that he knew he should never have: This is going to be my best Masters ever. For a player who has registered seven top-10s at the Augusta National, including

9:00 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Asked to describe his disappointment about missing the cut at the Masters, after he entered the first major championship of the season as a favorite in early April, Rory McIlroy offered a blunt two-word answer: “It sucked.” “It sucked. It sucked,” McIlroy said Tuesday, during his first meeting with

Annika Sorenstam is ready to give the U.S. Women’s Open another go, saying she just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to play at Pebble Beach. The 72-time LPGA winner and 10-time major champion accepted a special exemption into the Women’s Open July 6-9, making it her 17th appearance in the championship. The USGA made the

5:11 PM ET The Houston Open is officially returning to the spring portion of the PGA Tour schedule and will be played March 28-31 in 2024, tournament organizers announced Tuesday. The PGA Tour had previously announced that the longtime tour stop would be moved back to the spring next year after it wasn’t included in

CHARLOTTE — If you’ve ever attempted a gluten-free, dairy-free diet even for a month, you probably have a sense of what Justin Thomas is going through right now. The difference for Thomas is that he’s been doing it for three months, and on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship, the way he spoke about pizza

10:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Furyk, a 17-time winner on the PGA Tour, has been named captain of the U.S. team for the 2024 Presidents Cup, according to an announcement by the PGA Tour on Tuesday. Furyk will make his debut as a Presidents Cup captain after playing in the event seven times

If nothing else, it’s an appropriate venue. Around five months before the Marco Simone Country Club just outside Rome hosts the 44th Ryder Cup, the venue for this week’s Italian Open is doubling as the site of the latest meeting of the DP World Tour’s tournament committee. Led by the chairman, former Ryder Cup player

10:11 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Cheyenne Knight shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead through three rounds of the LA Championship at Wilshire Country Club. Knight was at 9-under 204 through 54 holes, and her best round of the week had special significance. Knight made a 20-foot

Keeping busy isn’t something Annika Sorenstam has struggled to do since she stepped away from her Hall of Fame career on the LPGA Tour back in 2008. In the ensuing years, she made an impact on the game through her Annika Foundation, as an entrepreneur and as president of the International Golf Federation, among numerous

10:19 PM ET Associated Press VALLARTA, Mexico — Tony Finau had a terrific stretch at the Mexico Open on Saturday, posting five birdies over his last seven holes for a 6-under 65 that gave him a two-shot lead over Masters champion Jon Rahm and 21-year-old Akshay Bhatia. Rahm, the defending champion, matched his lowest round

The strong form of Georgia Hall and Charley Hull so far in 2023 gave Team England hope it could be a bit of a sleeper this week as the LPGA relaunches the Hanwha LifePlus International Crown for the first time in five years. But last-minute decisions by both players to skip the event left officials

6:53 PM ET Associated Press VALLARTA, Mexico — Tony Finau never gave Masters champion Jon Rahm or anyone else much of a chance Sunday, closing with a bogey-free round of 5-under 66 that gave him a 3-shot victory in the Mexico Open. Finau earned a small measure of redemption at Vallarta Vidanta, where last year

The climax of the JM Eagle L.A. Championship Sunday befit a Hollywood-scripted show. The logjam at the top of the leaderboard oscillated, with up to a five-way tie at one point down the stretch Sunday at Wilshire Country Club in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. In the end, a three-way playoff emerged at nine

10:35 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Hannah Green of Australia made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole to join a three-way playoff and then made par on the second extra hole to win the JM Eagle LA Championship on Sunday at Wilshire Country Club. In a wild finish that featured a

Just a week ago, Alejandro Tosti and Wilson Furr were among those caught up in one of the more bizarre rules gaffes in recent memory. Playing together in a Korn Ferry Tour event, both took a shuttle from the 18th green to the first tee mid-round and were hit with two-shot penalties for breaking an

7:37 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steven Alker won the Insperity Invitational for the second straight year Sunday, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-shot victory over Steve Stricker and his first title of the year on the PGA Tour Champions. Alker pulled away from Stricker on the back nine with

But the 31-year-old brushed aside his frustration—and rode the high from claiming his first victory in 17 months just days before in Australia—to win the LIV Golf event at Sentosa G.C. in a playoff with Sergio Garcia. In becoming LIV’s first individual champion in back-to-back events, Gooch finished the trip to the Asia Pacific region

6:16 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — Pablo Larrazábal shot a tidy 5-under 67 in the final round of the Korea Championship to complete a two-shot victory over Marcus Helligkilde on Sunday. The Spaniard’s 12-under 276 at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea was good enough to secure his eighth European tour title

When you finish a round on the PGA Tour first in strokes gained/approach, second in SG/putting and fourth in SG/off-the-tee, you know you’ve had a special day. For newly minted Masters champ and World no. 1 Jon Rahm, that special day almost became a historic Saturday at the Mexico Open, where stood on the par-5

3:32 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Talor Gooch became the first player to win back-to-back LIV Golf titles after a playoff hole victory against Sergio Garcia at the LIV Singapore tournament at Sentosa Golf Club on Sunday. Gooch and Garcia shadowed each other for most of the opening two rounds and the final round

In the Mexico Open this week, Akshay Bhatia has been like the kid who is hooked on a new video game. His current obsession, and maybe his ultimate salvation on the PGA Tour, is the AimPoint green-reading system that has been employed by the likes of Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka.

12:20 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Aditi Ashok made enough good swings to balance out her mistakes on a difficult day at Wilshire Country Club, shooting a 1-under 70 on Friday to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the LA Championship. Ashok holed a sand wedge from about 85 yards on

For the second time this month Brooks Koepka finds himself in the middle of a rules question. Oddly enough, it was the announcers at LIV Golf who seemed incredulous at what they saw. Koepka is one stroke back going into the final round at LIV’s event in Singapore this weekend. The display continues a strong