12:55 PM ET Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat produced a scorching 8-under-par opening round at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Thursday to take a share of the lead alongside South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout while those vying for Ryder Cup spots experienced mixed fortunes. Aphibarnrat and Bezuidenhout carded rounds of 64, handing them a one-stroke lead
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3:09 PM ET Steve Stricker’s at-large picks for his U.S. Ryder Cup team did not include Patrick Reed, one of the few American players with a winning record in the competition that has frustratingly seen Europe capture nine of the last 12 events. The decision drew plenty of complaints on social media and a good
The Tour Championship is over, Patrick Cantlay is $15 million richer and the 2021-22 PGA Tour season awaits. Before we dive fully into the fall schedule (much less into the Ryder Cup), let’s take a moment to look back at the “super” season that was and pay homage to a few spectacular, impressive and even
The early look at the incredible Wisconsin venue should accomplish two goals: 1. familiarizing the players with the course, and 2. getting a feel for which pairings might work prior to the opening tee shot on Sept. 24. Those decisions will ultimately be Stricker’s, with some help from vice captains Phil Mickelson and Fred Couples.
10:20 AM ET U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker filled out his 12-man team on Wednesday by adding Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth, Harris English, Daniel Berger and Scottie Scheffler. Stricker made the announcement at Whistling Straits Golf Club in Haven, Wisconsin. The 43rd Ryder Cup begins at the site Sept. 24. Former U.S.
On Tuesday, the PGA of America announced that Jon Rahm had won its Player of the Yearr award. This was hardly a surprise since the PGA of America honor is based strictly on a points system, and Rahm’s numbers were pretty overwhelming. The 26-year-old Spaniard only won once during 2020-21 PGA Tour season, but that
5:40 PM ET Tiger Woods won’t be one of Steve Stricker‘s assistants at the Ryder Cup, but the U.S. captain, who has been in touch with the golfer, gave the most optimistic update since Woods was involved in a serious car accident on Feb. 23. Speaking to SiriusXM Radio after making his six picks for
2:01 PM ET Steve Stricker called himself old school. He is, after all, a big part of the U.S. Ryder Cup effort over the past decade. Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Stricker have been a constant in just about all of the U.S. team competitions for the better part of
Another successful Solheim Cup—Europe pulling off the 15-13 road upset of the Americans at Inverness Club—highlighted once more the intrinsic drama and excitement that comes with team events and playing for one’s country. It’s easy to make the argument that the 31-year-old matches represent the most impactful event on the LPGA calendar, when combining player
6:23 AM ET Associated Press The Open Championship is heading back to Royal Portrush in 2025, the R&A announced on Wednesday. The world’s oldest major championship will return to the Northern Irish venue after a successful staging of the event there in 2019 when Irish player Shane Lowry won by six shots. That marked the
Steve Stricker has made his captain’s picks. And Stricker is going with youth. The United States Ryder Cup captain named Jordan Spieth, Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Harris English, Daniel Berger and Scottie Scheffler as his six captain’s picks Wednesday morning. The six join automatic qualifiers in Collin Morikawa, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Patrick
9:44 AM ET Associated Press The LPGA Tour is returning to Cincinnati for the first time in more than 30 years with the first new tournament announced since Mollie Marcoux Samaan took over as commissioner. The Kroger Queen City Championship is scheduled for Sept. 8-11 in 2022 at Kenwood Country Club with a $1.75 million
Fifty events, 43 winners, 14 playoffs, 641 players competing in total, 1.3 million strokes taken, 58,000 miles traveled. These are just some of the numbers the PGA Tour compiled to help provide context to the 2020-21 campaign that wrapped up at the Tour Championship. It was a season unlike any other, given the additional events
5:09 PM ET Associated Press Turns out that birdie Jon Rahm made on the final hole of the Tour Championship earned him a trophy. Rahm won the points-based player of the year award from the PGA of America, and it was that birdie putt on the 18th hole at East Lake that made the difference.
JJon Rahm finished second to Patrick Cantlay at East Lake on Sunday, but two days the World No. 1 is back on top. On Tuesday the PGA of America announced Rahm as its Player of the Year. Unlike the PGA Tour, which awards POY based on player voting, the PGA of America uses a year-long
8:09 AM ET ATLANTA — One golf tournament should not make a player’s bid for a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Then again, with the flexibility of having six at-large picks, shouldn’t U.S. captain Steve Stricker be looking at more subtle reasons for putting together the last pieces of his team? And more
A European player could win on the LPGA Tour during a Solheim Cup year and still not make the Solheim Cup team. Sounds strange, right? But it almost happened this year, to the player who ultimately sunk the putt that retained the cup for Team Europe. Matilda Castren captured the LPGA Mediheal Championship in June,
6:00 PM ET Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio — Europe retained the Solheim Cup on Monday, clinching just its second victory on U.S. soil when Matilda Castren closed out Lizette Salas 1 up to give the visitors the decisive point in a 15-13 victory. Castren calmly curled in a 10-foot par putt on the 18th to
TOLEDO, Ohio — “This is what victory smells like,” shouted an enthusiastic American fan parked beside the second tee Monday afternoon at Inverness Club as bright young U.S. Solheim Cup rookie Jennifer Kupcho marched after her tee shot. There was definitely something in the air. Turned out to be a barbecue. On a balmy and
Consider the Solheim Cup Leona Maguire’s official arrival to professional golf. If you haven’t met the 26-year-old Irishwoman, the Solheim Cup certainly introduced you. If you’ve been following amateur golf, however, you’ve known about Maguire for years and were likely guessing it was only a matter of time before she had a moment like she
6:45 AM ET Golfer Rory McIlroy has backed Naomi Osaka’s decision to take a break from tennis following the Japanese world No. 3’s elimination from the U.S. Open last week, saying that it was important that athletes did not let results define them. A tearful Osaka told reporters that she would be taking some time
9:35 PM ET A week ago, as Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was going through warm-ups for his team’s final preseason game, a golf epic was unfolding on televisions inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Patrick Cantlay held off Bryson DeChambeau in a six-hole playoff for the BMW Championship and in doing so, picked up the moniker “Patty
TOLEDO, Ohio — It was still early Sunday morning at the Solheim Cup when an American fan suffered a fainting spell, and, well, if you’d seen the board plastered in blue and watched the European team emphatically—and quite regularly—plucking the ball out of the cup, you might get light-headed, too. Somehow, though, America’s team members
8:52 PM ET ATLANTA — The system is one Patrick Cantlay still dislikes, one that saw him earn $15 million on Sunday as the PGA Tour’s season-long champion despite not shooting the lowest 72-hole score at the Tour Championship. No matter. Cantlay followed the format, and he hit the big shots when necessary to hold
Jon Rahm was nine holes away from winning the Northern Trust, and with it Rahm would have secured Player of the Year. But Rahm stumbled down the stretch at Liberty National, and a mere 13 days later the POY title is very much a debate with Patrick Cantlay inserting himself in the conversation with a
3:46 PM ET Associated Press GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — The man who contributed the most to Europe’s team in the 2018 Ryder Cup triumph will almost certainly be missing from this month’s competition at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin. Still recovering from a back problem that kept him out of this year’s PGA Championship and Tokyo Olympics,
ATLANTA — On Sunday morning, those near the top of the Tour Championship leader board had $15 million on their mind. For the man on the bottom, however, the magic number was 1 hour and 59 minutes. That’s how long it took Kevin Na to play his final round at the 2016 Tour Championship, which
8:09 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Patrick Cantlay finished with a 25-foot birdie putt that gave him a two-shot lead over Jon Rahm in the Tour Championship on Saturday and set the stage for a sprint to the $15 million prize. It might not be a two-man race at East Lake, anymore. Cantlay’s final
ATLANTA—After Justin Thomas missed his five-foot par putt on the 18th hole, slipping from 16 under to 15 under, he fielded questions from the media stoically, with just a hint of irritation. As he stood in front of the microphone, a hanging TV showed Patrick Cantlay hitting a 23-footer on the 18th green to finish
TOLEDO, Ohio – Beware Spanish dancers on American soil in these biennial match-play events. A Senorita in a red flamenco dress, waving the European colors, danced beside the first tee at Inverness Club Saturday afternoon as the second session of the Solheim Cup commenced, a fair representation of Europe’s mood on an opening day it