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9:42 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Peiyun Chien shot a 5-under 67 on a rainy Thursday in the transplanted Chevron Championship to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s first major of the year. Unable to find a sponsor willing to add to the half-century run at Mission Hills, the tournament

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Brittany Lincicome’s newest ball marks remind her of her most significant remaining LPGA Tour dream. Using one with the name Sophia on it Thursday, in honor of her eight-month-old daughter, she’ll rotate to one engraved with Emery, her eldest daughter’s name, on Friday. Both were in attendance as Lincicome posted a

6:16 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch upstaged the more-fancied names on the LIV Golf tour by shooting a 10-under 62 Friday to take a four-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural Australian tournament at The Grange. The 31-year-old American started with a par on his opening hole in the

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Team USA Solheim Cup Captain Stacy Lewis set the stakes for possible players on her team in her press conference Tuesday ahead of the Chevron Championship. Considering that Carlton Woods and Finca Cortesin in Spain, the Solheim’s home in 2023, both use Bermuda grass, the performance at the major is crucial

9:50 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — The teams of Wyndham Clark and Beau Hossler, and Sean O’Hair and Brandon Matthews, each shot an 11-under 61 in the better-ball format on Thursday to tie for a one-shot lead through the first round of Zurich Classic. The 40-year-old O’Hair has four PGA Tour wins, the

Sungjae Im’s got that dog in him. Even if he doesn’t quite know what that means yet. Im, who’s paired with Keith Mitchell at the team-centric Zurich Classic, chipped in for par on the duo’s final hole Thursday to turn in a 10-under 62, good enough for the early lead at TPC Louisiana. “Sungjae’s golf

3:06 PM ET LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman said Thursday that talks are ongoing on a “regular basis” about adding a women’s tour at some point in the future. Norman made the comments at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia, site of LIV’s next event. “That is a discussion we have internally on a

After making the cut at Augusta National earlier this month, Tiger Woods cut his Masters weekend short due to soreness in his right foot. Now it appears the rest of his major championship season will suffer the same fate. In an announcement that took the golf world by surprise, Woods revealed that he underwent a

10:38 PM ET LIV Golf players might be allowed on the U.S. Ryder Cup team this fall, according to captain Zach Johnson. “No decisions have been made,” Johnson said, speaking Wednesday at the TPC Louisiana in suburban New Orleans, where he is competing in the Zurich Classic. “There’s still a lot of time left in

Another week, another jaw-dropping accomplishment for Rose Zhang. Actually, make that two. The Stanford sophomore isn’t even halfway through her college career, and yet on Wednesday it became official that she has been ranked the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer longer than any other women’s golfer. Zhang has now spent a total of 136 weeks at

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Chevron Championship isn’t being played this week at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. The first major of the women’s golf season has moved to The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. With the relocation, many wondered whether one of the

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lexi Thompson’s making an LPGA Tour start. That sentence, typically, would be nothing out of the ordinary. But the 2023 LPGA Tour season, entering its seventh tournament, has only seen Thompson once—at the LPGA Drive On Championship a month ago. Even then, Thompson didn’t stay for the weekend, missing the cut.

Despite the lack of teamwork between the PGA Tour and the upstart LIV Golf League over the past two seasons, it’s all about the team in men’s professional golf this week. The PGA Tour heads to New Orleans for the Zurich Classic, the only two-man team event on the schedule. The LIV Golf League heads

I hope so! It would be so fun to get more heavyweight teams. The key part of your question is “the Zurich”—that banking conglomerate has been a stalwart for the PGA Tour, and the elevated events are going to have to be spread around to keep the sponsors happy. So the answer is yes, it’s

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Do you remember the taste of mac and cheese as a child? The delight when your parents start making it as the aroma wafts through the kitchen? Defending Chevron Championship winner Jennifer Kupcho never let go of that sensation. The blue-and-yellow boxed Kraft Mac & Cheese, ironically a past sponsor of

Golf fans and tour pros are in for a change of pace this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where the standard 72-hole individual stroke-play tournament is replaced with a team competition. TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., once again hosts 80 two-man pairings that will play in four-ball (best ball) and foursomes (alternate-shot)

As the LPGA Tour moves forward from 51 years of history at Mission Hills Country Club, it is packing a $5.1 million purse alongside whatever tradition can fit in its bags on the journey from Southern California to the Club at Carlton Woods near Houston, where the Chevron Championship will be played this week. After

The idea of a Ryder Cup- or Presidents Cup-style event for senior tour players has been bandied about for years. And, in fact, the inaugural playing of such a tournament was supposed to take place in late 2022. That didn’t happen, but many of the same organizers have kept pushing forward, and the event will

10:03 PM ET The PGA Tour Champions is getting its own team competition in the form of the World Champions Cup. The inaugural three-way competition between players from the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world is slated for Dec. 7-10 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. Jim Furyk, Darren Clarke of

With the announcement that the Netflix documentary “Full Swing” will return for a second season, now is a great time to revisit one of our favorite inside stories from the production of Season 1. In the show’s fifth episode, camera crews follow Matt Fitzpatrick across the globe as he strives to make the next great

Spencer Levin has been a golf content generator for nearly two decades. It’s just rarely been because of how well he’s played. That changed Sunday in Texas when the former amateur wild child shot a final-round 63 to erase a six-shot deficit and win the Korn Ferry Tour’s Veritex Bank Championship at Texas Rangers Golf

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Matt Fitzpatrick’s caddie, Billy Foster, summed up what it felt like when his boss pulled out a playoff victory over Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage with one brilliant, very English line. “At six o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, everyone’s tanked up to the hill, chanting ‘U-S-A.’ It was like

7:47 PM ET Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Matt Fitzpatrick defeated defending champion Jordan Spieth on the third playoff hole at the RBC Heritage on Sunday, stuffing his approach in close on the par-4 18th at Harbour Town to secure his first victory since the U.S. Open last June. Fitzpatrick hit 9-iron to

Patrick Reed said he was too busy playing in the first round of the Masters, so he hadn’t had time to look at the decision released earlier that day by a U.K. arbitration panel that gave the DP World Tour a legal victory over LIV Golf. The April 6 ruling upheld the DP World Tour’s

8:50 AM ET On this date in 2019, something akin to a miracle happened. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Tiger Woods, once the most dominant golfer any of us have ever seen, was in what appeared to be the twilight of his career. Injuries and scandal had diminished his once-unassailable game, and he hadn’t won a

Matt Fitzpatrick leads by one heading into the final round of the RBC Heritage. However, trying to predict whether the reigning U.S. Open champion can close things out at Harbour Tour Golf Links—and claim the $3.6 million first-place prize money payout in the PGA Tour’s latest $20 million designated event—is tricky business given the conflicting

12:16 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Australian rookie Grace Kim won the LOTTE Championship on Saturday at breezy Hoakalei Country Club for her first LPGA Tour title, beating Yu Liu and Yu Jin Sung with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. While Liu and Sung scrambled after hitting their second shots

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — There was plenty of conjecture before this week’s RBC Heritage. Giving the event held the week after the Masters a $20 million designated status was not the most popular move. There were withdrawals, too. Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy pulled out after missing the cut at Augusta National. Former World No.

7:07 PM ET Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick shot his best round on the PGA Tour with a 63 on Saturday for a 1-shot lead over Patrick Cantlay through three rounds at the RBC Heritage. Fitzpatrick had six birdies and an eagle when he holed out from 149

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — Halfway into the PGA Tour’s 12 designated events this year, Brian Harman is truly over discussions about schedules and the Player Impact Program (PIP). He and other pros just want more transparency about rules and repercussions. “I’ve spent so much time worrying about elevated events and PIP money and all this