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The DP World Tour Championship hasn’t had a repeat winner since its inception in 2009, and that will remain the case for at least another year. Collin Morikawa, who became the first American to win the then European Tour’s season finale in 2021—and, in the process, claim the Old World circuit’s year-long points title—announced via

Nov 13, 2022 Associated Press SUN CITY, South Africa — Tommy Fleetwood saved his best for last with a final-round 67 to come from behind and retain his title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge on Sunday as he ended a three-year winless drought. The Englishman moved up from a tie for seventh overnight to finish

The final few regular-season LPGA events each year are especially stressful if you’re hovering around Nos. 60 and 100 in the CME Globe standing. Points are accrued at every LPGA event throughout the season, and at the end of the year the top 60 and ties get into the CME Group Tour Championship, and the

7:01 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Steven Alker played golf around the world on whatever tour would have him. He started at home in New Zealand in 1989, had stints on the PGA Tour, in Europe, Asia, Canada, minor league circuits — anywhere he could keep alive the dream of playing professional golf. Alker’s

Steven Alker had just lost the 2022 season finale on the PGA Tour Champions by eight shots, but you wouldn’t know it from the smile on his face and the celebratory fist pump. Walking off the 18th green at Phoenix Country Club on Sunday, the 51-year-old New Zealander congratulated Padraig Harrington for winning the Charles

8:10 PM ET Adelaide has won the race to host the first LIV Golf tournament in Australia, with international stars including Cameron Smith teeing up at The Grange GC in April next year. The Adelaide course has been chosen by the Greg Norman-led breakaway league to host the three-day tournament from April 21-23 as part

It’s been exactly a year since Nelly Korda won on the LPGA, winning the Pelican Women’s Championship last year as part of four-win season that included her first major and, on top of all of that, she won the Olympic gold medal. Defending her Pelican crown this year was a completely different experience for Korda.

6:22 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — A year Nelly Korda would like to forget is ending with the American star in a familiar position as the No. 1 player in women’s golf. Locked in a battle with Lexi Thompson along the back nine, Korda pulled ahead with birdies on the 16th and 17th

2:47 AM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Allisen Corpuz is closing out a solid rookie year on the LPGA Tour, and now the Hawaii native has a chance to make it even better at the Pelican Women’s Championship. Corpuz made four birdies in a six-hole stretch in the middle of her second round Saturday

Despite competing just six times on the LPGA Tour during her rookie season in 2022, Linn Grant has four top-10 finishes and played well enough to rank 51st on the season-long points list, qualifying her for the next week’s CME Group Tour Championship. The accomplishment is all the more impressive given that the 23-year-old Swede

Anybody who has spent time around pro golf for the last 20 years knows Padraig Harrington is one of the best blokes out there. He’s affable, thoughtful and always a little bit goofy—which makes for a combination that most people usually adore. He’s also had a very fine playing career, what with three major championship

10:15 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Tony Finau had his highest score of the week, and it felt as though it was his best in a cold wind Saturday. He kept bogeys off his card, had a 2-under 68 and kept his lead at 4 shots going into the final round of the Houston

Six years apart in age, Phil Mickelson and Pat Perez grew up only a few miles apart in San Diego. They played the same golf courses in junior golf. They both went to Arizona State, though each had very different experiences there. They both reached the PGA Tour and were out there for more than

Nov 10, 2022 Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Two years after it first invested in women’s golf, Golf Saudi is raising the prize money of the Aramco Saudi Ladies International from $1 million to $5 million, making it equal to the men’s prize fund and the seventh-highest in all of women’s

Amid reports that Greg Norman is on the outs with LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed circuit insists he remains with the organization. Earlier this week the Telegraph reported that Norman may be outed as LIV Golf CEO in favor of Taco Bell executive and former TaylorMade CEO Mark King. It is a rumor that has existed

6:58 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Steven Alker began his PGA Tour Champions career as a Monday qualifier, the goal every week right in front of him: post top-10 finishes to keep playing. Alker kept pulling it off until a win secured his full card. His path to winning the Charles Schwab Cup is

7:26 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Maria Fassi always knew a good putting stroke to go along with her explosive power would lead to low scores. She picked a good time for it to finally come together. Fassi powered her way across the rain-softened Pelican Golf Club and rode a smooth putting stroke

Mark Hubbard was disqualified from the Cadence Bank Houston Open on Friday for knowingly putting a 15th club in his bag. Hubbard, 33, posted an opening 75 and was three over for the day when making the turn during Round 2 when, according to a statement from the PGA Tour communications team, Hubbard “knowingly added

5:25 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Tony Finau finished his opening round with a string of birdies and then took the momentum right into Friday, making 10 birdies to match his career low with an 8-under 62 and build a big lead in the Houston Open. Finau was at his best late in the

Tony Finau raced into the lead early during the second round of the Cadence Bank Houston Open, courtesy of an eight-under-par 62 that included run that saw him birdie seven of 10 holes and four straight between the seventh and 10th. It’s always fun when an elite-level talent like Finau gets hot. Usually, during a

Perhaps predictably, certainly unluckily and surely understandably, any first mention of David Drysdale tends to include the fact that the Scot has never finished first in any of the 574 tournaments he has played so far on the DP World Tour. Only 22 men have teed it up more often, all having pulled out a

7:30 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Steven Alker matched Padraig Harrington‘s early birdies and kept playing steady golf, giving him a 1-shot lead over the only player who can pass him for the Charles Schwab Cup. The Kiwi couldn’t have asked for a better start. Alker shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 on Thursday to

Fall Saturdays are sacrosanct to most students at the University of Texas, those precious times reserved for their beloved Longhorns on the gridiron. This is especially true of home games, and with the undefeated TCU Horned Frogs heading into town this week you best believe Austin will be a wild scene. And if Travis Vick

7:46 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Tony Finau wants to end his big year in a big way, and he took a step Thursday by biding his time and delivering late birdies for a 5-under 65 that gave him a share of the lead in the Houston Open. Finau used a 60-foot birdie putt

11:53 AM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — The Pelican Women’s Championship will be 54 holes because of heavy rain from Tropical Storm Nicole and will not start until Friday at the earliest, the LPGA Tour says. The one development from washing out the opening round: Hye-Jin Choi decided to withdraw, meaning Atthaya Thitikul has

Michelle Wie West doesn’t hesitate to give an honest answer regarging what life is like for her after the LPGA, saying, “I’m still going through an identity crisis.” It’s been three years of adjustments for the 33-year-old. She got married, gave birth to her first child and stepped away from professional golf. For someone who’s

The PGA Tour Champions takes center stage this week as it looks to crown two champions—the winner of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and the season-long winner of the Charles Schwab Cup. The 72-hole Charles Schwab Cup Championship is back at Phoenix Country Club (Nov. 10-13) this year, where 33 players are in the field.

At 51, he’s a golf star, words which have never been written about him before, after decades of toiling in anonymity on golf’s fringes. And now he’s sitting in front of a camera, a microphone hanging above his head, with Phoenix Country Club laid out beyond a window behind him, answering questions about coming out

The money that professional women golfers can earn is seemingly growing by the day. And not in small numbers. On the heels of Tuesday’s announcement by the LPGA Tour that next year’s The Annika (formerly Pelican Ladies Championship) will offer a $3.5 million purse that will be the largest among non-major events outside of the

11:45 AM ET Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf for the first time in nearly five months when he tees it up in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Dec. 1-4, he announced on his Twitter account Wednesday. Woods, 46, hasn’t played since missing the cut at the 150th Open Championship at