Some recent maneuvers on the PGA Tour bring to mind the time Howard Hughes, the richest man in America, tried to buy pro golf. He wanted Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to play in Las Vegas at his Desert Inn but was turned down. “They didn’t need gambling on the landscape of the careers they
IN A PAST LIFE, MORGAN HOFFMANN was a world No. 1 amateur, Oklahoma State phenom and PGA Tour check-casher with cropped hair, biceps bulging out of his polo and a sparkling new crib in Jupiter, Fla. That was before a half-decade slog through a nightmare somehow brought him to paradise. He now stands proudly inside
How does the world’s No. 2 player and top-ranked American—a good-looking kid with global appeal, a radiant smile, two major championships, a college sweetheart-turned fiancee and a business degree from a top university—finish outside the top 10 in the PGA Tour’s popularity contest? The $40-million Player Impact Program is designed to reward players who bring
The PGA of America announced on Tuesday legendary photographer David Cannon as the second recipient of their recently created Lifetime Achievement Award in Photojournalism. Cannon follows Leonard Kamsler, who was named the inaugural recipient of the award at the beginning of 2020. Cannon, from Sussex, England, has been a fixture at the biggest events in
With the new year came a new title sponsor for the LPGA developmental tour. Epson has replaced Symetra, and on Tuesday, officials released the tour’s 2022 schedule, making good on a promise of significant purse increases throughout the season. A total of 21 events are on the new schedule, and not one event has a
After last year’s muted event—COVID-19 restrictions forcing a reduced gallery—the traditionally raucous Waste Management Phoenix Open will return to full roar this week with a loaded field set to play TPC Scottsdale. Brooks Koepka, a two-time winner of the event, returns to defend his 2021 title. Joining him are World No. 1 Jon Rahm, FedEx
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.— Monday qualifiers are having a moment. Much of that is due to the work of one man: Ryan French, known in the Twitterverse as Monday Q Info, who has shined a light on the colorful characters and rich storylines percolating below the glitz and glamor of the PGA Tour. Nothing like them exists
It’s not a surprise Team USA has decided to go with a new captain for the 2023 Solheim Cup—but the name might be a little different than expected. On Wednesday, the LPGA announced Stacy Lewis has been selected to lead the Americans at the 2023 matches in Andalucia, Spain Lewis, a 13-time LPGA Tour winner
6:06 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history Saturday, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory in the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony. “It’s huge for Irish golf,” Maguire said. “There was never an Irish player on the tour,
7:44 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jordan Spieth put himself into the mix Saturday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and he lived to tell about it. On a day when Seamus Power went backward to allow a half-dozen other players back in the game, Spieth went backward just to make sure
10:32 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Overnight leader Harold Varner III eagled the par-5 18th by sinking a long putt to overtake clubhouse leader Bubba Watson and win the Saudi International in dramatic fashion Sunday. The 31-year-old American shot a 1-under 69 in his final round at Royal Greens
11:54 AM ET Associated Press Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard held his nerve to win his second DP World Tour title at the Ras al Khaimah Championship in United Arab Emirates on Sunday. The 20-year-old had led by three shots overnight, but a mid-round wobble on Sunday left him trailing Jordan Smith by two on the back
7:38 PM ET ESPN News Services PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Another cliff-hanger at Pebble Beach, this one memorable for Tom Hoge delivering all the right shots on the back nine to surge past Jordan Spieth and win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for his first PGA Tour title. Hoge, one of seven players who had
6:42 PM ET SiriusXM has fired former PGA Tour pro Mark Lye, who made controversial comments about women’s basketball during a show on Saturday. “You know the LPGA Tour, to me, is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago,” Lye said Saturday on PGA Tour Radio. “You couldn’t pay me to watch.
10:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Two-time major champion and 13-time LPGA Tour winner Stacy Lewis has been named captain of Team USA for the 2023 Solheim Cup. Lewis will lead a team of the top 12 American golfers who will seek to reclaim the cup when they face a Team Europe squad captained by Suzann
6:33 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA tour heads to Arizona this week for the 2022 WM Phoenix Open as some of the best golfers in the world compete TPC Scottsdale. The tournament, historically has been a strong event on tour with a loaded field including last year’s winner Brooks Koepka and top ten
7:04 AM ET Are you ready to party? That’s the vibe at the WM Phoenix Open, which begins Thursday, Feb. 10 at TPC Scottsdale. This PGA Tour event boasts some of the biggest, loudest galleries in all of golf. And, of course, there is the famed 16th hole, that has more of a football stadium
7:05 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s one of the most iconic shots in PGA Tour history, not as much for the feat itself but for the celebration that ensued. After Tiger Woods‘ hole-in-one on the par-3 16th hole on the Saturday of the 1997 Phoenix Open, there were the missed high-fives, beer showering the
Launcher XL Lite features a head that weighs 12g less than the standard model and is aimed at players who prefer a lightweight option in order to add speed to their swing. It features the same head design and Rebound Frame structure to maintain maximum forgiveness. Meanwhile, for those players fighting a slice, the Launcher
SRIXON has expanded its range of tour-level golf balls with the launch of the all-new Z-STAR DIAMOND, which goes on sale from March 11. Offering a blend of greenside control and long-game distance, the new Z-STAR DIAMOND also delivers the unique benefit of increased spin on long and mid-iron shots and is the ideal ball for high
Callaway Golf has revealed its full line-up of DP World Tour staff players for the 2022 season ahead of the opening event in Abu Dhabi. Finn’s Kalle Samooja and Sam Valamaki (left and right) and Frenchman Federic Lacroix, are among eight new signings for Callaway Golf’s tour staff for the 2022 season on the DP
Titleist has introduced the third iteration of its AVX golf ball, promising improved short game spin and control, increased driver distance and an even softer feel. The original AVX was first launched in 2018 as an alternative to its flagship Pro V1 and Pro V1x models by offering the lowest flight, lowest spin and softest feel
FootJoy has expanded its popular Premiere Series range of shoes with the launch of an all-new spikeless model named after one of the brand’s founders – Fred Field. This modern classic design which complements the three Premiere Series models launched last year – Packard, Tarlow and Flint – features an all-new blucher construction upper pattern
Wilson has launched a new three-piece urethane golf ball which is designed to provide all-pound performance from tee to green for golfers seeking to break 80. The new Wilson Triad ball is designed to produce reduced spin with the driver off the tee, while increasing speed through the air for a long and stable ball
The top plate is offered in a choice of four anodized finishes – silver, black, red and white for the Spider GT women’s model, which also features a three-dot sightline for alignment. Spider GT’s design has the Pure Roll² co-molded insert for improved forward roll and ball speed consistency across the face. Pure Roll² is
Titleist has launched a new range of wedges designed by Bob Vokey that offer the most comprehensive range of lofts, grinds and bounce combinations in the brand’s history. Titleist says the new SM9 wedges are Vokey’s most versatile, accurate and forgiving yet, offering six grind options and a total of 23 different models, ranging in
DUBAI — Stop me if you’ve heard this before. One week after Scotland’s Scott Jamieson led a host of star names into the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, here we are again. With 18 holes to play in the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic, Justin Harding sits precariously atop the leader board at
SAN DIEGO— It was early in the evening on the California coast, the sun having already dipped in a spectacular canvas of burnt orange and blue. Luke List peered into the near-darkness and up in front of him, about a football field away, he could barely make out the stick with yellow flag atop it.
A third career victory at the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic and a 15th for his career on the DP World Tour was in Rory McIlroy sights as he stood in the fairway on the 18th hole sites at Emirates G.C. Tied with Viktor Hovland and Richard Bland at 12 under for the tournament, McIlroy was
DUBAI — There’s an old golf proverb, penned by the legendary Herbert Longhurst Darwin, that says the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic doesn’t really begin until the 10th tee on Sunday. OK, not really. But on the evidence of this epic event, it would be difficult to come up with a more apt description of a