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10:06 AM ET Proposals to limit the distance golf balls travel when struck by elite players have received the surprise backing of four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. Several players, including world No. 2 Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas, have criticized the model local rule (MLR) proposal outlined last week by golf’s rules makers the R&A

After more than nine decades in the unpaid ranks, the Curtis Cup is going pro. Well, in a manner of speaking. In a groundbreaking move by the R&A, two-time Solheim Cup captain Catriona Matthew has been named to lead the Great Britain & Ireland side against the United States at Sunningdale when the 43rd edition

Mar 20, 2023 The 2023 PGA Tour continues with the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, which begins on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Austin Country Club, a par-71 course in Austin, Texas. It is the seventh time the Austin Country Club has hosted the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event. The purse is $20

AUSTIN — It can be difficult to ask a golfer if he’s “sad” about something, which is why it was so nice that Jon Rahm said it first. “It’s too bad that this is the last edition of this tournament,” the World No. 2 said on Tuesday. “I obviously love match play, so I’m hoping

5:00 PM ET If you had Kansas, Arizona, Marquette or Purdue in the Final Four and have already lost interest in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the PGA Tour is offering another bracket to keep you occupied this week. The final iteration of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play is being played at Austin

Know this first about teenager Anna Davis when she talks about what seemed like an out-of-nowhere victory in last year’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Before her win, the San Diego native had little knowledge of Masters history or the revered challenges and subtleties of Augusta National Golf Club. Her dad has said her only exposure

It’s been a struggle of late for Bryson DeChambeau on the golf course as he tries to find the once stellar form that made him a behemoth on the PGA Tour. Since jumping to the LIV Golf League last summer, the former U.S. Open champion has played in 10 individual events but finished no better

So what if your bracket is busted. The real madness in March is happening this week on the PGA Tour. The 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play pairings were announced Monday morning and though the reveal lacks the gravitas of college basketball’s selection show, the drama that lies ahead does not disappoint. Austin Country Club, hosting

One of the longest and most successful player-caddie relationships on the PGA Tour has officially come to an end. Even more surprising is which bag that caddie will have next. Webb Simpson announced on Monday that he and longtime looper Paul Tesori are parting ways. And if that wasn’t surprising enough, the seven-time PGA Tour

7:10 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Taylor Moore delivered the clutch shots to move into contention, closed with a 4-under 67 and won the Valspar Championship on Sunday when he avoided the mistakes that cost Jordan Spieth and Adam Schenk. In only his second year on the PGA Tour, the 29-year-old who

There are times when the narrative of a golf tournament is too enchanting to not end with the fundamental storybook finish, one that is satisfying to both the man who achieved it and those who watched it happen. The Valspar Championship was just that kind of tournament. Until it wasn’t. Anyone who followed Sunday’s final

7:58 PM ET Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — Danny Lee birdied his final two holes for a 2-under 69 and then won LIV Golf Tucson on the second hole of a four-man playoff on Sunday by making a 25-foot birdie putt from off the 18th green for his first win in nearly eight years. It

Danny Lee thought he was done with winning. The New Zealander had played 11 seasons on the PGA Tour, keeping his card in nine while battling injuries. He never fulfilled the potential he promised when, in a 12-month span, he overcame Tiger Woods’ record as the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur (in 2008) and

8:32 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Ernie Els kept making birdies no matter how he gripped the putter Sunday, and it carried him to a 6-under 65 to win the Hoag Classic and deny Bernhard Langer a chance at setting the career victory mark on the PGA Tour Champions. Els started the

Season 2, Episode 2 of the LIV Golf League takes place this weekend at The Gallery Golf Club in Tucson with the usual pomp and circumstance we’ve got to expect from the upstart Saudi-backed circuit. The field in the no-cut 54-hole event is the customary 48 players. And the prize money payout continues to be

1:27 PM ET Associated Press ST. FRANCIS BAY, South Africa — Matthew Baldwin claimed his first title on the European tour in style Sunday by storming to a seven-shot victory at the SDC Championship in South Africa. Baldwin finished with a 4-under 68 on the St. Francis Links course for 18 under overall as his

7:37 PM ET Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — Marc Leishman opened with an eagle and held it together in the middle of his round for a 5-under 66 on Saturday, giving him a two-shot lead over Sergio Garcia going into the third and final round of LIV Golf Tucson. Leishman said he had fallen into

The quirky tradition at Valspar Championship of players and caddies creating their own names and phrases on the back of the looper bibs is well-documented. We had a post earlier this week about Max McGreevy brilliantly roasting himself with “Mr. 89” after he shot 89 in the second round of last week’s Players Championship. Another

7:56 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Schenk looked as though he and everyone else would get passed by Jordan Spieth on Saturday at the Valspar Championship. When a wild and windy round finished, Schenk was still the player everyone was chasing. Schenk hit his approach to the 18th hole to 5

If this year’s Valspar Championship is a harbinger of what non-designated events will be like on the PGA Tour, we have three words: Sign. Us. Up. With a cramped leaderboard that includes enough players with a life-changing opportunity, a course stubborn enough to make par matter (at a not-obscene 7,340 yards), and enough star power

After a number of defeats in its litigious battle against the PGA Tour, LIV Golf has earned a win. Last month a federal magistrate judge ruled that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and its governor can be deposed and must produce documents in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit and countersuit between the tour and LIV. However,

2:51 PM ET Associated Press ST. FRANCIS BAY, South Africa — Kristian Krogh Johannessen and Matthew Baldwin shared the lead at the SDC Championship in South Africa on Saturday when the third round was suspended because of fading light. The pair had moved to 11 under par through 13 holes when players were called off

It has been a great year to be a caddie on the PGA Tour (or LIV, for that matter). If Ted Scott (Scottie Scheffler) and Adam Hayes (Jon Rahm) have standard deals with their players, they are each approaching $1 million in earnings, and we haven’t even played the year’s first major. All “I’d take

7:32 PM ET Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — Marc Leishman holed a series of long birdie putts and even a few big putts for par to post a 6-under 65 for a one-shot lead Friday in the LIV Golf League in the high desert of Arizona. The second LIV Golf event of the season is

The PGA Tour’s rank-and-file members lead the Valspar Championship, but starpower is lurking. Through two rounds at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course outside of Tampa, Adam Schenk stands at seven under after shooting two-under 69 on Friday and leads Kramer Hickock (68) by one stroke. At two behind are Ryder Cuppers Jordan Spieth (69) and Tommy Fleetwood

7:57 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Schenk is playing for the 10th consecutive week on the PGA Tour and finally seeing some good results, making enough putts Friday for a 2-under 69 that gave him a 1-shot lead going into the weekend at the Valspar Championship. Schenk had four birdies, all

It’s a Masters ad that begins predictably enough with a Jim Nantz voiceover, but then what follows is something you thought you’d never see produced by Augusta National Golf Club. A tradition unlike any other? How about a Masters promo like no other? There is a caddie gnome in his white overalls. There is a

In all levels of caddieing, there are a few very simple rules to live by: keep up, shut up and do not, under any circumstances, lose one of your players’ clubs. In a country club setting, the third rule sometimes, understandably, gets broken. On the PGA Tour? Unheard of. Or at least, that’s what we

8:02 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Ryan Brehm turned a good round into a memorable one Thursday, making a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th hole at Innisbrook for a 5-under 66 that led to a three-way share of the lead at the Valspar Championship. Stephan Jaeger also had a 66, while Adam

The late golf writer Charles Price said it best: Augusta National was never the most revolutionary golf-course design in America, but it certainly was the most evolutionary. Of course, it was evolution sped up considerably by man. The moment the inaugural tournament concluded in 1934, club officials were assessing ways to improve their Georgia peach. They