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5:29 PM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods has another loaded field for his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods on Tuesday announced 17 players for the 20-man field, and all but four are from the top 21 in the world ranking. Still to be announced is whether the player at No. 1,195 in the

It only took two questions before 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson was asked if Tiger Woods will play a part of his squad next year when the matches head to Rome. The question was expected, and the answer was simple. “I can’t put this mildly—he loves the Ryder Cup,” Johnson said Tuesday as

5:36 PM ET Associated Press The path for 30 players to reach the PGA Tour starts in the Bahamas next year as part of a Korn Ferry Tour schedule that has the same number of tournaments, nearly $8 million more in prize money and a revamped end of the year. The Korn Ferry Tour released

If Patrick Welch held the golf club normally—right hand low, left hand high—you wouldn’t even notice he was in the field this week at the Shriners Children’s Open. But Welch does not hold the golf club normally, and the abnormal always sparks interest from the masses in this sport (see: Wolff, Matthew). Welch, a redshirt

1:23 PM ET ESPN News Services ROME — Whether Tiger Woods makes it to Italy or not for next year’s Ryder Cup, he’ll be an integral member of the U.S. team, captain Zach Johnson said Tuesday at the year-to-go ceremonies. “Given who he is and what he’s all about, I can tell you right now,

Maja Stark had some work to do if she was going to make the cut at last week’s Ascendant LPGA event after shooting an opening-round four-over 75 at Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas. Unfortunately for her, she never got the chance. The 22-year-old Swede, who earned membership on the LPGA Tour in

I was with my colleague Michael Bamberger last month, lucky to have one-on-one time with the gifted writer and storyteller. “You never know where a story will take you,” he told me. I was working on a piece that I thought was going to be primarily about how Andrew Strother had sold his insurance agency

When you think of unbreakable records in golf, there are the usual suspects: Byron Nelson’s 11 straight PGA Tour wins; Tiger Woods’ 142 consecutive made cuts; Kathy Whitworth’s 88 career LPGA titles. But there might be a new, somewhat more obscure one to add to the list: Keita Nakajima’s 87 total weeks as the No.

Much was expected of Charley Hull when she got through LPGA Q School as an 18-year-old in 2014. More at least than just one victory in her first seven-plus years on tour. At the time, the Englishwoman was coming off winning the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit and had become the youngest golfer to

5:35 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Charley Hull put a little extra time into putting practice, and it paid off for her in a big way Sunday when she ran off four birdies on the back nine for a 7-under 64 to win The Ascendant LPGA. Hull won for the first time

So, to sum up, have a great short game, boys and girls. Oh, yeah, of course, you need the back story here. Two weeks into the final split-calendar season on the PGA Tour and the takeaway so far is that winning doesn’t really have to look neat and tidy so long as you know how

8:05 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Whether it was sheer confidence or remarkable resilience, Mackenzie Hughes never doubted he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship. He just never imagined how it would unfold Sunday evening. Hughes had to make six key putts on the final seven holes — four of them for par

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — We’re not talking deja vu all over again. Not quite. But it was close. Two-and-a-bit months on from his ultimately disappointing closing round of 70 and third-place finish in the 150th Open Championship, Rory McIlroy’s return to the Old Course at St. Andrews followed an eerily familiar script. Only the numbers

2:38 PM ET Associated Press Ryan Fox clinched his second DP World Tour title of the year on Sunday, finishing a shot clear of Alex Noren and Callum Shinkwin as the 2022 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship concluded at St. Andrews. Four shots off the lead in joint second place heading into the final round, Fox

Call it the opposite of the regression to the mean. Should Mark Hubbard pull out the win on Sunday at the Sanderson Farms Championship, the 33-year-old Colorado native would rekindle a historic (and unusual) trend. Thirteen times previously, the champion at the Jackson, Miss., event has made it his first career win on the PGA

12:33 AM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Charley Hull began the back nine with a double bogey and then settled down to salvage an even-par 71 on Saturday to share the lead with Xiyu “Janet” Lin going into the final round of The Ascendant LPGA. Lin had missed a 15-foot birdie putt on

Thanks to Bryson DeChambeau, it was a show that the long drive world has never seen before and might never experience again. Against sizeable odds because he was going up against guys with freakish swings and ball speeds that reach 230 mph, DeChambeau nearly pulled off a win on Saturday that he probably would have

10:51 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Mark Hubbard ran off five straight birdies on the back nine and ended with a superb shot to 4 feet, giving him a 7-under 65 and a one-shot lead Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory. Hubbard has gone

Are you one of those people who roll your eyes when you see parents dress up their twins in the same outfits beyond, say, the age of about 5? We raise our hand here in full agreement. It strikes us as, well … a bit creepy. Like those pranks identical twins play on their romantic

2:43 PM ET Associated Press Richard Mansell doubled his lead to four strokes at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by shooting 5-under 67 at Carnoustie in the third round on Saturday. The No. 218-ranked Mansell was on course for his first victory on the European tour as the Englishman heads back to St. Andrews for

Davis Riley is in the mix at the Country Club of Jackson, his two-day total of 137 just three shots back of the Sanderson Farms Championship lead. The 25-year-old is coming off a solid rookie season on tour and should have been a candidate for one of the final spots on the United States Presidents

8:22 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Mackenzie Hughes thought he had a chance to be picked for the Presidents Cup because of his putting. The strength of his game helped carry him to a 9-under 63 on Friday and a share of the lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Hughes birdied his last

Bryson DeChambeau is once again proving that he can hang with the guys who are the longest bangers of golf balls in the world. DeChambeau finished seventh in his debut last year in the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships and said he was “hungry” to return to the grid in Mesquite, Nev. And he

8:29 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Charley Hull has forced herself to work a little harder on the putting and she saw it pay off Friday with eight birdies in her round of 7-under 64 to take the 36-hole lead in The Ascendant LPGA. Hull seized control with four birdies in a

What’s the most you’ve ever paid for a round of golf? Odds are, it wasn’t as much as one golf pro wound up paying to play one hole earlier this week. The Fire Pit Collective’s Ryan French, AKA Monday Q Info on Twitter, shared the painful tale of Blake Abercrombie. A former PGA Tour Canada

1:43 PM ET Associated Press England’s Richard Mansell conjured up a remarkable round of 68 in horrendous conditions at St. Andrews to lead the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by 2 shots at the halfway stage. Four early birdies gave the 28 year-old a great start to his round and as the wind and rain increased,

“Whatever they did, they did a hell of a job, and they need to keep those stats guys on board.”—Harris English, Fore the People podcast, on Scouts Consulting The first thing that anyone who works at Scouts Consulting will tell you is that they’re overrated. They don’t matter, the media makes too much of them,

8:27 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Davis Riley got off to a hot start and kept bogeys off his card to the end for a 6-under 66 and a share of the lead Thursday with Will Gordon in the Sanderson Farms Championship, the PGA Tour event he considers his fifth major. Riley grew

There’s a long-running theory that once a tour pro gets married, his form takes a dip. For Brandon Matthews, it appears the exact opposite may be true. No, marriage doesn’t quite pack the same “perspective” punch that having a baby does, but it’s no coincidence that Matthews shot a five-under 67 on Thursday at the

9:12 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Xiyu Lin of China made a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-5 17th hole Thursday that sent her to a 6-under 65 and a 1-shot lead in The Ascendant LPGA. The late eagle from Lin, twice a runner-up on the LPGA Tour this season, took attention