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ATLANTA — The only thing Scottie Scheffler was confused about on Saturday evening was the order in which he was to have dinner and go to bed before playing the last 23 1/2 holes of his epic PGA Tour season. The actual golf seems pretty straightforward. The FedEx Cup leader, at 19 under par, held

10:38 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Justin Thomas was a tap-in away from polishing off a 7-under 63. And then the horn sounded Saturday signaling a stop in play because of storms near the Tour Championship. He had to wait until Sunday to not only finish, but to figure out where it left him

ATLANTA — The PGA Tour announced significant changes to its structure this week that provided a lot of certainty over which tournaments the game’s biggest stars will play next season. It was seen as a significant step towards victory in its battle against LIV Golf. Among the questions that remain for European players on the

1:56 PM ET Associated Press Saudi-funded LIV Golf has joined the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in an amended complaint in which four players have removed their names. That leaves seven players, most notably Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, along with LIV Golf as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The four who withdrew their names

According to a press release posted Wednesday on the Freedom Watch website that he owns, attorney Larry Klayman gave the courts in Florida’s Palm Beach County notice that he would subpoena for deposition Woods and McIlroy in regards to the players-only meeting that was held prior to the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Del., on Aug.

7:47 PM ET ATLANTA – The New England Patriots don’t start the Super Bowl with a 14-point lead. Alabama doesn’t have a 10-point advantage at kickoff in the college football national championship game. The Golden State Warriors didn’t start the NBA Finals with a 15-point cushion. PGA Tour player Max Homa wonders whether the FedEx

ATLANTA — On the eve of the Tour Championship, the PGA Tour announced several changes to its Player Impact Program. The PIP, created last year to financially reward the game’s biggest stars, was expanded from 10 to 20 players and from $50 million to $100 million. That was in direct response to the growing threat

8:45 PM ET Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Na Rin An shot a 6-under 65 on Friday to top the leaderboard Friday in the suspended second round of the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. An had her second straight bogey-free round at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club after opening with a 64 on Thursday. An LPGA

7:40 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler might have had a roller coaster of an opening round Thursday at the Tour Championship if only he had been paying attention to the scoreboards. Scheffler started with a 2-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led by as

ATLANTA — Phil was right. Of course, Monsieur Mickelson went about things in entirely the wrong way, which is typical of a complex, contradictory character who so often has been his own worst enemy. Now that his former place of business, the PGA Tour, has undergone a sweeping transformation in an effort to thwart the

ATLANTA — Two days after Cameron Smith won the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, he fielded a call from Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman, who finished third behind Smith at St. Andrews, had watched him being quizzed by a reporter in his victorious press conference about whether the Australian would join LIV Golf at

6:04 PM ET ATLANTA — Former world No. 1 Lee Westwood said he only could laugh at the sweeping changes the PGA Tour announced Wednesday in response to the growing threat of LIV Golf. Westwood, who was among the first PGA Tour members to defect to the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series, said his

ATLANTA ­— Sahith Theegala knows the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year award competition is all but over. Cameron Young, the only other rookie to have made the Tour Championship at East Lake, has one hand firmly on the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Award. Posting five runner-up finishes in your debut season, including at the

8:21 PM ET Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Paula Reto shot a course-record 9-under 62 on Thursday at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club to take a 2-stroke lead in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. “It’s not something I’m familiar with,” Reto said about the low score. Winless on the LPGA Tour, the 32-year-old South African

Tiger Woods hasn’t hit a competitive golf shot since the second round of the Open Championship last month at the Old Course in St. Andrews. But his name appeared in headlines on Thursday for the second consecutive day for launching new initiatives. PopStroke was founded in 2018 and each location features two 18-hole putting courses

The field is set for the 2022 Tour Championship, as the original 125-player FedEx Cup playoff roster now sits at just 29 contenders. An $18 million purse awaits the winner of the season-ending event at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Main feed: Primary tournament coverage featuring the best action from around the course. Featured

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The atmosphere on the practice range at Ohio State University Golf Club late Wednesday morning was more lively than usual, the air filled with the sound of excited chatter and laughter mixed with the sound of clubs connecting with golf balls. Korn Ferry Tour players who already feel like they have hit

11:59 AM ET ATLANTA — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are launching a tech-infused golf league in partnership with the PGA Tour that will have players competing on six three-man teams in 15 regular-season matches and a playoff starting in January 2024. The new league, TGL, will feature two-hour, 18-hole matches on a virtual course.

ATLANTA — Trevor Immelman has been working the phones for months trying to learn the latest happenings with LIV Golf. It’s not that the captain of the International Presidents Cup team cares about the success or failure of the Saudi-backed circuit, but rather what any defections mean for his roster as he prepares for next

ATLANTA — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced another series of sweeping and lucrative changes Wednesday ahead of the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. In its ongoing battle with LIV Golf for the best players in the world, the PGA Tour committed another $146 million to its players in an attempt to

ATLANTA — In the face of LIV Golf potentially luring away more golfers, the PGA Tour is implementing several new measures to guarantee its top players will stay and compete together on a regular basis in 2023. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, speaking on Wednesday at the Tour Championship, revealed a series of significant changes

8:00 AM ET ATLANTA — The winner of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship, which starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club, will take home an $18 million bonus. The top 29 players in the FedEx Cup Playoffs points standings will compete for the top prize, after Will Zalatoris, who was third in the standings, had

Almost from its inception in 1994, the Presidents Cup has strained to find relevance. Modeled as a familiar multi-day, United States-versus-World team match-play event, it could not compete with the historic importance or intensity of the Ryder Cup, particularly because a series of European wins in the mid-1980s altered the complexion of a clash that

5:34 PM ET Associated Press Cameron Young and Sahith Theegala are among eight players who can make plans for Kapalua even if they don’t win this year. Kapalua has been the winners-only start to the year on the PGA Tour since 1999, and Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance has made sure it will stay that way for

ATLANTA — It’s not quite there yet. That’s the consensus from the players at East Lake who are taking part in the fourth year of the Tour Championship’s staggered start format. In 2019, the PGA Tour introduced a handicapping system to structure the leaderboard for the 30 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup finale

7:36 PM ET Attorneys representing the PGA Tour have asked a federal judge to unseal certain details of contracts that were signed by its former players who defected to the rival LIV Golf circuit earlier this year. In a court filing submitted Tuesday to federal judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California,

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy announced on Tuesday that they have formed a technology-focused company that will venture into “progressive approaches to sports, media and entertainment.” Their company is called TMRW Sports (pronounced as “tomorrow”) and former NBC Sports president Mike McCarley is a co-founder and will be the CEO. The announcement, via press release,

7:30 AM ET ATLANTA — A memorable PGA Tour season filled with Tiger Woods’ return and the emergence of rival LIV Golf Invitational Series comes to an end this week, when the Tour Championship starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club. There is plenty at stake for the 30 players who advanced to the season-ending

For all the banter this summer about rapidly rising prize money payouts in professional golf, it remains hard to wrap your head around about what’s on the line this week at the Tour Championship. The winner on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club will earn $18 million for his victory. Let’s repeat this: $18 million.

Aug 21, 2022 Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on Sunday for his second PGA Tour Champions victory of the year. Harrington closed with a 5-under 67 at En-Joie Golf Club for a 3-stroke victory over Mike Weir and Thongchai Jaidee. “Unusual for me, no drama, no real