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8:08 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — California rookie Sahith Theegala carved his tee shots into play and made it look easy from there Thursday for an 8-under 64 and a one-shot lead over Nick Watney and Harold Varner III in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Theegala missed three fairways but was out of position

Move over, Jim Furyk, there’s a new “Mr. 58” in professional golf. Alejandro Del Rey joined an exclusive club on Friday by firing a 58 in the second round of the Challenge Tour’s Swiss Challenge. OK, so it’s not quite the same as pulling off the feat on the PGA Tour, but Del Rey actually

They have been like the brothers in the neighborhood who are wrestling in the dirt one minute, about to send each other home bloodied and crying, and the next moment they’re united against the world. Bubba Watson and his caddie, Ted Scott, are among the most recognizable pair on the PGA Tour, and they’re also

9:32 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau is on to the final round of the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championship after finishing tied for fourth in the third round of the tournament on Thursday in Mesquite, Nevada The event began Tuesday, when the field was narrowed down to 64. It went down to 32 on Wednesday,

Visualization is common among elite golfers, but it seems unlikely that either of the finalists in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship might have visualized how the week would unfold, including the end on Thursday. The winner was Blakesly Brock, 5 and 4, over Aliea Clark on the North Course at Berkeley Hall Club in Bluffton,

2:16 PM ET Justin Thomas has lured Jim “Bones” Mackay away from his full-time broadcasting job to be his full-time caddie. The sixth-ranked player in the world who won the Players Championship in March and was a member of the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup parted ways with long-time caddie Jimmy Johnson, who had been with

In the summer of 1993, as I was beginning my research for A Good Walk Spoiled, I wanted to put together a group of players who would be the core of the book, pros able to describe life on the PGA Tour from every possible vantage point, ranging from the world’s best players (Nick Price,

Bryson DeChambeau is clearly getting the feel for this long-drive contest thing. A day after making his debut at the LDA World Long Drive Championship with five bombs of more than 400 yards, the 2020 U.S. Open champion had to adapt to an unfriendly wind in the golfers’ faces on Wednesday at the Mesquite Regional

8:54 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau advanced to the next round of the Professional Long Drivers of America World Championships after finishing second in his group Wednesday in Mesquite, Nevada. DeChambeau moved on for the second straight day, with Wednesday’s cut seeing the field go from 64 to 32. Set Yds 1 344 336 327 343

The broadcast of the ShopRite LPGA Classic is going to sound a little different this year. For the first time ever in a U.S. golf television broadcast, you’ll only hear female voices. When you tune in to Golf Channelf for the 54-hole tournament that starts on Friday, Cara Banks will host, with Judy Rankin working

5:47 PM ET Associated Press ROGERS, Ark. — Nasa Hataoka survived a nervy finish for a one-shot victory over Minjee Lee and Eun-Hee Ji on Sunday in the Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship. Hataoka, a 22-year-old from Japan, shot a final-round 4-under 67 to finish at 16-under. She three-putted the par-5 18th hole after reaching the

There’s a running joke in the gambling world that when someone hits an incredible bet, they must know how sports events are going to turn out like Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II. Well, what we’re about to show you might be the best proof that time travel is actually possible. One

4:46 PM ET Associated Press SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The Americans won back the Ryder Cup and perhaps a whole lot more Sunday, sending a strong message to Europe with a powerful performance from their youngest team in history. Scottie Scheffler, one of six Ryder Cup newcomers for the Americans, took down the No. 1 player

Well, that was a pretty fun week at Whistling Straits, wasn’t it? If you tailed some of our pre-event and live Ryder Cup bets, it was a really fun week. As usual, though, we don’t point to past success—it’s onto the next betting opportunity—the 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in

5:14 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau finished tied for second place in his group after the first day of the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships in Mesquite, Nevada, averaging 406.2 yards on his five longest tee shots. DeChambeau hit drives of 412, 408, 407, 403 and 401 yards on Tuesday to advance to the next

Steve Stricker should be retained as U.S. Ryder Cup captain for the 2023 matches in Rome. There. Said it. Flatly. Unapologetically. This is nothing against Zach Johnson, who is the presumed successor to Stricker for the 44th edition. This ignores the captaincy jumble that results from keeping Sticker as Team USA skipper. This dismisses the

6:10 PM ET Associated Press The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines had an ideal spot on the West Coast Swing as the weekend between the NFL conference championship games and the Super Bowl. That changed when the NFL added a game to its regular season. That led the tour to adapt by starting the

This has been a season of comebacks. The sport got an assist from the pandemic as new and old golfers doubled down on their play—it started in 2020 and continues this year. The industry has benefited in every metric of participation and consumption. I give you two examples: If you invested $1,000 in Callaway stock

8:58 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Things went so well for the U.S. Ryder Cup team this week that by the end of the 19-9 blowout victory, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka were hugging. Several times. The superstars — who had a months-long spat play out on social media, causing U.S. captain Steve Stricker to

The party is still raging among U.S. golf fans after the enormous Ryder Cup triumph in Wisconsin, but the new PGA Tour season resumes this week in Jackson, Miss. Even Spaniard Sergio Garcia, the defending champion at the Sanderson Farms and a rare bright spot for the European Ryder Cup team, plans to tee it

9:46 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — K.J. Choi shot a closing 4-under 68 on Sunday for a two-shot victory over Bernhard Langer and Alex Cejka at the PURE Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach for his first PGA Tour Champions win. Choi, 51, reeled off four consecutive birdies on Nos. 5-8 and played

The Ryder Cup narrative completely shifted in a matter of 57 hours. Before Friday morning’s first tee shot at Whistling Straits, the Americans were a highly talented squad with chemistry issues and a distinct lack of success in the biennial matches. The Europeans were an aging but cagey side counting on a battle-tested core to

3:46 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Delayed a year due to the pandemic, the much-awaited Ryder Cup delivered, even if the final-day drama was missing. Plenty of passion and pageantry, a slew of impressive shots and putts, the usual nitpicky irritation between both sides and — in the end — a joyous winning team and

8:56 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — As the United States team celebrated wildly around the 18th green after winning the Ryder Cup in a record-breaking 19-9 rout at Whistling Straits on Sunday, the 12 European players and captain Padraig Harrington sat on stools in a nearby tent for postmatch interviews. With Queen’s “We Are the

HAVEN, Wis. — The Americans embarrassed the Europeans and took great joy in doing so. The blowout was truly historic; the 19-9 score is the most lopsided victory since the Ryder Cup has been the United States vs. Europe. And there is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting thoughts from Whistling Straits.

8:15 PM ET SHEYBOYGAN, Wis. — United States Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker is a crier. It’s known enough that he gets considerable, good-natured grief about it. You could have made money if you bet the under on when the tears would start flowing during his opening ceremony speech. He is one of golf’s good

Tiger Woods might not have been physically present at the 43rd Ryder Cup, but his presence was felt throughout the week among members of Team USA. On Thursday night, Woods sent U.S. captain Steve Stricker a text message to try to pump up the team ahead of Friday’s opening session. Stricker passed it along to

1:04 PM ET It took a grand total of one swing — his very first of the day — for Bryson DeChambeau to take over Sunday at the Ryder Cup. In his singles match against Europe’s Sergio Garcia, DeChambeau grabbed his driver — to the delight of the thousands of fans in the bleachers surrounding

Few things are left to be decided on Sunday at Whistling Straits. Of them: A) the final margin of victory for Team USA and B) what to call this American beatdown. We have a few ideas, ala “War by the Shore” and “Miracle at Medinah”: “Slaughter at the Straits,” “Dire Straits” (for the Europeans) or

HAVEN, Wis. — Dustin Johnson didn’t just beat Europe four times over the last two days at Whistling Straits. He gave a middle finger to everyone who has continued to ridicule him for a rules blunder 11 years earlier here of which no one wants to let go. He should raise another middle finger. For