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Quibble if you’d like about the legitimacy of the Official World Golf Ranking and whether it needs a few tweaks or to be blown up and rebuilt from the ground up. This much is true: In this calendar year, the OWGR has offered the black-and-white evidence of what has been a fantastic battle at the

2:42 PM ET Tiger Woods‘ former longtime girlfriend is asking a judge to remove her from a nondisclosure agreement that she claims the 15-time major champion forced her to sign when their relationship started in August 2017, according to court records obtained by ESPN. The civil complaint filed Monday in the Circuit Court of the

A complaint by Erica Herman, Tiger Woods’ former girlfriend, filed against Woods this week was preceded by litigation filed in October against the golfer, according to court documents. On Oct. 26, 2022, Herman filed a complaint against Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust—a trust that Woods controls—that the entity was in violation of the Florida Residential

5:33 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington of Ireland, the late Tom Weiskopf and the remaining founders of the LPGA Tour were among those elected Wednesday for the World Golf Hall of Fame. The induction will be June 10, 2024, the Monday ahead of the U.S. Open

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — One of the best traditions at the Players Championship occurs on Wednesday morning, when all the first-timers are made available to the media just outside TPC Sawgrass’ sprawling clubhouse. Most of them are wide-eyed and eager to get the week started, well aware that one of the toughest tests of their

9:30 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players has never had a back-to-back champion, and it won’t again this year with defending winner Cameron Smith playing in the LIV Golf League. Top stories of the week from Get exclusive access to more than 3,000 premium articles a year from top writers.• Kiper picks

Rory McIlroy gave an honest, thoughtful answer Tuesday at the Players Championship when he admitted that the arrival of a certain Saudi-backed rival golf league has elevated the professional game as a whole. “I’m not going to sit here and lie, I think the emergence of LIV or the emergence of a competitor to the

10:00 PM ET Rory McIlroy called it “a slap in the face” for James Hahn to miss Tuesday’s player meeting after Hahn had strongly criticized the PGA Tour’s new format of play announced for 2024. “Like, you say all this s— and you’re not even in the meeting?” McIlroy said of Hahn. “If you want

Phil Mickelson has made it abundantly clear that he believes if the PGA Tour leadership had latched onto some of his ideas to emphasize its marquee players, it wouldn’t find itself in the position of contending with LIV Golf. And to take it a step further, maybe the upstart Saudi circuit wouldn’t have come into

3:19 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods isn’t the only familiar name missing at the Players Championship this week. Defending champion Cameron Smith, who had eight one-putts in the final nine holes to win by a stroke over India’s Anirban Lahiri last year, also isn’t at TPC Sawgrass to defend what was

PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Even if Rory McIlroy has been the most vocal critic of LIV Golf since its emergence last year, he is giving the rival league credit where it’s due. The radical changes made to the PGA Tour in the past 12 months—spearheaded by creating a series of “designated” events that next year will have

7:03 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A year ago, Cameron Smith captured what was then the richest winner’s purse in men’s golf history when he one-putted eight of the last nine holes to win the Players in a Monday finish. Smith collected $3.6 million after surviving rainy and windy conditions, along with a

Jariah Beard, the longtime Augusta National caddie who carried the bag for Masters rookie Fuzzy Zoeller when he won in 1979, died Friday. Beard’s son, Eric Beard, sent an email to Golf Digest confirming the news, saying that his father succumbed to cancer. He was 82. “My father was an amazing man,” Eric Beard wrote,

The Players Championship has its traditionally standout field in place with 43 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking making the trip this week to TPC Sawgrass. While defending champion Cameron Smith is missing, having joined the LIV Golf League, eight past Players winners are competing—Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Webb Simpson,

Mar 5, 2023 Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Colombian rookie Nico Echavarria seized control with two straight birdies on the back nine and closed with a 4-under 68 for a 2-shot victory in the Puerto Rico Open for his first PGA Tour title. Echavarria was soaked on a sunny day at Grand Reserve,

If you’ve followed professional golf for some defined period of recent history—let’s say since the year 2000—it might have seemed as though the LIV Golf breakaway came out of nowhere. Sure, it’s obvious that players like Phil Mickelson had some serious issues with the PGA Tour, but at no point in the prime of his

8:15 AM ET Golf fans won’t get to see Tiger Woods at The Players, the PGA Tour’s signature event, but they won’t have to wait long to see him back on the course. Woods is expected to return at the Masters, the first major championship of the season. The start of the tournament at Augusta

ORLANDO — Tim Tucker thought his days as a PGA Tour caddie were over after he parted ways with his former boss, Bryson DeChambeau, abruptly on the eve of a tournament in 2021. Their split came only a few months after DeChambeau bashed his way to a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And yet

8:00 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Arizona — David Toms got up-and-down for his third bogey of the week on the par-4 18th hole at Tucson National on Sunday to beat Robert Karlsson by one stroke in the Cologuard Classic on the PGA Tour Champions. The 56-year-old Toms was surprised to learn that his tee

ORLANDO — If only everyone had an opportunity to figure out exactly how they’d react if they were about to win $3.6 million. That’s the situation that Kurt Kitayama found himself in late Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, only a couple hours after it looked like an ugly triple-bogey 7 on the ninth hole

6:26 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama let an All-Star cast of contenders back into the tournament with a triple-bogey, only to beat them all with a clutch birdie and the best lag putt of his life to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. With five players tied for the lead

The Players Championship has long been known to boast the best field in golf. That’s not quite true in 2023, thanks to the ongoing schism in professional golf, one that leaves this year’s Players without last year’s Players champ, Cameron Smith. Nevertheless, the PGA Tour’s flagship event remains one of the marquee tournaments on the

3:42 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Jin Young Ko won for the first time in a year at the HSBC Women’s World Championship and hopes this signals a new start from a year of battling injuries that cost her the No. 1 ranking. Ko answered an early charge by Nelly Korda, held her nerve

ORLANDO — Since this PGA Tour season started last fall, the focus has been put on big names getting together more often. Designated events with $20 million purses. The “product.” Kurt Kitayama has no issues with that. He’s trying to become a big name himself. A maiden PGA Tour victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational

7:29 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama had to leave home to find his way in golf by playing circuits in Europe, Australia and Asia, all for a chance to get to the highest level. Along with three worldwide titles, he learned how to battle. That might come in handy Sunday at

ORLANDO – At the $20 million Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, prize money and the possible extinction of 36-hole cuts in some of the PGA Tour’s biggest events next year dominated discussion this week. For that reason, Orlando club pro Greg Koch is savoring both. The teaching pro from Orlando’s nearby Ritz Carlton Golf

6:40 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — PGA Tour rookie Nico Echavarria of Colombia ran off four straight birdies early in his round Saturday and finished with a 7-under 65 for a two-shot lead in the Puerto Rico Open as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory. Carson Young, who led

To cash in on the big money being offered at most of the PGA Tour’s newly minted designated events—at least for the time being—a pro golfer must first make the cut in those events. Which is why Greg Koch decided not to rush things on Friday night as the sun was setting at the Arnold

6:10 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Defending champion Jin Young Ko shot a second consecutive 7-under 65 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead over Nelly Korda into the final round of the LPGA’s Women’s World Championship. Ko had a 54-hole total of 14-under 202 after another weather-delayed day at the Sentosa Golf Club.

ORLANDO — Old habits may die hard, but Jordan Spieth is trying to talk less on the golf course. The three-time major winner, renowned for nervously talking to his golf balls after impact, doesn’t want to rehash every single shot to his very patient caddie, Michael Greller. Not anymore. “I’m trying to do a better