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With nine players among the top-10 teams on the leaderboard through 54 holes seeking their first PGA Tour victories, chances were good for a breakthrough story at the Zurich Classic, and Davis Riley and Nick Hardy, former AJGA All-Americans almost a decade ago, wrote the final chapter in a record-setting win in Avondale, La. With

4:04 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch saw his double-digit overnight lead almost evaporate but rallied late to win the inaugural LIV Australia tournament Sunday at the Grange Golf Club. After two bogey-free 10-under 62 rounds, Gooch shot a 1-over 73 to clinch his maiden LIV Golf tournament victory by three strokes

Chase Koepka was cruising along, in the middle of the pack Sunday at LIV Golf’s Adelaide event in Australia, when he suddenly helped produce the wildest moment of the week at The Grange Golf Club. The 29-year-old had made three birdies in his first seven holes when he stepped to the tee of the par-3

6:59 AM ET Associated Press OMITAMA, Japan — Australian Lucas Herbert outlasted Aaron Cockerill to win the Handa Championship on the second extra hole Sunday for his third world tour title. The pair finished the final round tied on 15-under 265 after Herbert just missed a birdie putt from 20 feet on the 18th for

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Weather has been looming over most of Carlton Woods’ debut as the home of the LPGA Tour’s Chevron Championship. Delays marred the opening 36 holes, forcing the second round to finish Saturday morning and groups to go out in threesomes during the third round. But the climate finally cleared, with the

8:13 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin shared the Chevron Championship lead at 10-under 206 after the third round Saturday. Corpuz and Yin each shot 5-under 67 at The Club at Carlton Woods in the major tournament that moved from the California desert to suburban Houston this

There is only one place in professional golf where players try to intentionally skip the ball off the water and onto a par-3 green. That would be Augusta National Golf Club, where the golfers (and sometimes their caddies) entertain the gallery during practice rounds for the Masters by acting like kids skipping stones across the

4:19 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — In Gee Chun of South Korea hit a million-dollar shot at the Chevron Championship. Chun won $1 million for charity with a hole-in-one on the 17th at the first major of the season Saturday. She jumped around and high-fived members of her team after watching the

Eighteen birdies, one eagle and not a single bogey. That’s how Talor Gooch built a 10-shot lead through 36 holes at LIV Golf’s highly anticipated Australian event. In front of 23,000-strong crowd in Adelaide, the Oklahoma State alum and one-time PGA Tour winner signed for his second-straight 62 at The Grange G.C. to sit at

3:08 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch continued his bogey-free run at the inaugural LIV Australia tournament Saturday and shot his second consecutive 10-under 62 to increase his lead to 10 strokes after two rounds at the Grange Golf Club. Gooch had a 36-hole total of 124 going into Sunday’s final round.

Congrats to everyone playing in this week’s Zurich Classic for finishing the first two rounds in time! Even with Mother Nature rearing her ugly head and delaying play for two-and-a-half hours! OK, so it helped a LOT that the guys were playing in the speedier foursomes format, AKA alternate shot, but it’s the weekend and

10:21 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — A Lim Kim birdied the final two holes for a 7-under 65 and the lead Friday in the suspended second round of the rain-delayed Chevron Championship. Thirty-one players were unable to finish the round before dark in the first women’s major tournament of the season, with

Mac Meissner will enter the third round of the 2023 LECOM Suncoast Classic trailing by at least four shots. But no matter what happens over the weekend, he’s already entered golf’s record book. On Friday, the SMU graduate became just the eighth player to shoot a sub-60 score in Korn Ferry Tour history. And the

9:42 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Peiyun Chien shot a 5-under 67 on a rainy Thursday in the transplanted Chevron Championship to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year. Unable to find a sponsor willing to add to the half-century run at Mission Hills, the tournament

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Brittany Lincicome’s newest ball marks remind her of her most significant remaining LPGA Tour dream. Using one with the name Sophia on it Thursday, in honor of her eight-month-old daughter, she’ll rotate to one engraved with Emery, her eldest daughter’s name, on Friday. Both were in attendance as Lincicome posted a

6:16 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch upstaged the more-fancied names on the LIV Golf tour by shooting a 10-under 62 Friday to take a four-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural Australian tournament at The Grange. The 31-year-old American started with a par on his opening hole in the

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Team USA Solheim Cup Captain Stacy Lewis set the stakes for possible players on her team in her press conference Tuesday ahead of the Chevron Championship. Considering that Carlton Woods and Finca Cortesin in Spain, the Solheim’s home in 2023, both use Bermuda grass, the performance at the major is crucial

9:50 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — The teams of Wyndham Clark and Beau Hossler, and Sean O’Hair and Brandon Matthews, each shot an 11-under 61 in the better-ball format on Thursday to tie for a one-shot lead through the first round of Zurich Classic. The 40-year-old O’Hair has four PGA Tour wins, the

Sungjae Im’s got that dog in him. Even if he doesn’t quite know what that means yet. Im, who’s paired with Keith Mitchell at the team-centric Zurich Classic, chipped in for par on the duo’s final hole Thursday to turn in a 10-under 62, good enough for the early lead at TPC Louisiana. “Sungjae’s golf

3:06 PM ET LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman said Thursday that talks are ongoing on a “regular basis” about adding a women’s tour at some point in the future. Norman made the comments at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia, site of LIV’s next event. “That is a discussion we have internally on a

After making the cut at Augusta National earlier this month, Tiger Woods cut his Masters weekend short due to soreness in his right foot. Now it appears the rest of his major championship season will suffer the same fate. In an announcement that took the golf world by surprise, Woods revealed that he underwent a

10:38 PM ET LIV Golf players might be allowed on the U.S. Ryder Cup team this fall, according to captain Zach Johnson. “No decisions have been made,” Johnson said, speaking Wednesday at the TPC Louisiana in suburban New Orleans, where he is competing in the Zurich Classic. “There’s still a lot of time left in

Another week, another jaw-dropping accomplishment for Rose Zhang. Actually, make that two. The Stanford sophomore isn’t even halfway through her college career, and yet on Wednesday it became official that she has been ranked the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer longer than any other women’s golfer. Zhang has now spent a total of 136 weeks at

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Chevron Championship isn’t being played this week at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. The first major of the women’s golf season has moved to The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. With the relocation, many wondered whether one of the

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lexi Thompson’s making an LPGA Tour start. That sentence, typically, would be nothing out of the ordinary. But the 2023 LPGA Tour season, entering its seventh tournament, has only seen Thompson once—at the LPGA Drive On Championship a month ago. Even then, Thompson didn’t stay for the weekend, missing the cut.

Despite the lack of teamwork between the PGA Tour and the upstart LIV Golf League over the past two seasons, it’s all about the team in men’s professional golf this week. The PGA Tour heads to New Orleans for the Zurich Classic, the only two-man team event on the schedule. The LIV Golf League heads

I hope so! It would be so fun to get more heavyweight teams. The key part of your question is “the Zurich”—that banking conglomerate has been a stalwart for the PGA Tour, and the elevated events are going to have to be spread around to keep the sponsors happy. So the answer is yes, it’s

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Do you remember the taste of mac and cheese as a child? The delight when your parents start making it as the aroma wafts through the kitchen? Defending Chevron Championship winner Jennifer Kupcho never let go of that sensation. The blue-and-yellow boxed Kraft Mac & Cheese, ironically a past sponsor of

Golf fans and tour pros are in for a change of pace this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where the standard 72-hole individual stroke-play tournament is replaced with a team competition. TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., once again hosts 80 two-man pairings that will play in four-ball (best ball) and foursomes (alternate-shot)

As the LPGA Tour moves forward from 51 years of history at Mission Hills Country Club, it is packing a $5.1 million purse alongside whatever tradition can fit in its bags on the journey from Southern California to the Club at Carlton Woods near Houston, where the Chevron Championship will be played this week. After