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Yes, it’s a bummer Tiger Woods is not competing this week at the Hero World Challenge as we expected. Tiger cited Plantar fasciitis on Monday as holding him out from competing. Still, Tiger’s on-site and has been a bit of a content factory all week long. Each day he has joined the NBC Sports/Golf Channel

4:48 AM ET Associated Press Rory McIlroy thought his differences with Greg Norman over a Saudi-funded rival golf league had been patched up. That changed when Norman accused him of being “brainwashed” by golf’s ruling brass. “I thought, You know what? I’m going to make it my business now to be as much of a

NASSAU, Bahamas — Viktor Hovland wrapped his putter around the throat of this tournament on Saturday, a tournament that some might dismissively deign to refer to as golf of the “hit and giggle” variety. And, yes, we can confirm that there was some of that, because every time Hovland hit a putt, the ball was

6:49 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The warm sun in the Bahamas brought out plenty of mud on the rain-soaked fairways and created some wild shots for just about everyone but Viktor Hovland. He made 10 birdies Saturday to build a three-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge. Hovland ran off six birdies

There will always be heartbreak associated with Q school, but even aside from the pressure-packed, anxiety-filled play on the course, it seems like the LPGA’s Q-Series in Mobile, Ala., has had more than its fair share of unfortunate off-the-course events this year. On Friday after the second round at the Robert Trent Jones Trail’s Magnolia

MELBOURNE, Australia—Cameron Smith thought his whirlwind year had ended with a missed cut. The Open Champion was certain that his two​-​over par total 71 73 would miss the 36-hole cut Friday at the Australian Open in Melbourne – his last tournament of 2022. So the World No. 3 traded the golf course for the racecourse

8:32 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The degree Masters champion Scottie Scheffler earned from the McCombs School of Business at Texas did not equip him with the skills to figure out the new formula for the Official World Golf Ranking. He is No. 2 in the world. He can go back to No.

NASSAU, Bahamas—For the second year in a row at the Hero World Challenge, the No. 2 player in the world has a chance to ascend atop the Official World Golf Ranking with a victory. It didn’t work out too well for Collin Morikawa last year. Scottie Scheffler hopes for better fortune, though he isn’t obsessing

11:15 PM ET Cameron Smith can carry on drinking after his wildly successful 2022 season petered out to an anticlimactic conclusion in Melbourne. Smith will miss the Australian Open’s contentious second cut after failing to make up enough ground during a third-round one-under-par 69 at Victoria Golf Club on Saturday. Despite carding his best round

With a lot of golf left to be played, we can’t say for sure that Viktor Hovland will go back-to-back at this week’s Hero World Challenge. What we do know is this: nobody in the field will leave Albany with a better tournament highlight reel than the former U.S. Amateur winner. On Thursday, Hovland took

Tiger Woods was an instrumental voice in spurring the widespread, sweeping changes that have come to the PGA Tour, although most of that work was done behind the scenes. However, in his handful of public appearances in 2022, Woods has consistently been a defender of the tour in its battle against LIV Golf. That sentiment

6:53 AM ET Adam Scott hopes class and experience will prevail after snatching a share of the Australian Open halfway lead with a spectacular finish to his course-record-equalling second round. Delighting the big gallery, Scott drained a long-range putt from off the green for eagle on the final hole to ice a flawless seven-under-par 63

NASSAU, Bahamas — Tom Kim looked devastated on Tuesday afternoon. He had just lost to U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the final round of the Hero Shot, a seven-man exhibition in which players hit wedges to a floating target in the middle of a pond between the ninth and 18th holes at Albany. When

6:50 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Sepp Straka was home in Alabama preparing for a big week of golf matches at his club, a friend’s wedding and the SEC championship game. And then Tiger Woods couldn’t play in the Bahamas because of a foot injury, and Straka had a change in plans. It

Even before joining LIV Golf in June as part of the first wave of players to commit to the controversial Saudi-backed circuit, Sergio Garcia did nothing to hide his feelings of contempt toward the PGA Tour. There was the scene at the Wells Fargo Championship in May where frustration with a rules official led to

NASSAU, Bahamas — Sepp Straka had a big weekend ahead of him before late-developing circumstances forced him to alter his plans. On tap Friday was the wedding of his good friend, fellow PGA Tour player J.T. Poston, in Sea Island, Ga. On Saturday, he was heading to Atlanta to watch the SEC title game in

MELBOURNE, Australia — Adam Scott and several of his countrymen competing at this week’s Australian Open were asked what they made of recent comments from Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods that LIV Golf’s chief executive (and fellow Aussie) Greg Norman “needs to go” before LIV and the PGA Tour can ever come together. But Scott,

NASSAU, Bahamas — With two PGA Tour victories and a successful debut in the Presidents Cup, in which he went unbeaten in four matches as a captain’s pick for the victorious U.S. team at Quail Hollow Club, Max Homa undoubtedly enjoyed his finest year as a pro golfer, climbing to 16th in the Official World

10:01 AM ET The LIV Golf League will play tournaments in Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Spain as part of its 14-event schedule in 2023. LIV Golf announced Wednesday that it will stage events at Mayakoba’s El Camaleon Golf Course (Feb. 24-26), Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore (April 28-30) and Real Club Valderrama in Spain (June

NASSAU, Bahamas — Throughout their playing careers—and even well beyond their prime competitive years—the opinions of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were all but gospel as they related to essential decisions being made in professional golf. That includes the formation of the PGA Tour in the late 1960s. Palmer is gone and Nicklaus, soon to

NASSAU, Bahamas — Just because he has nothing left to prove on the golf course doesn’t mean that Tiger Woods has nothing left to gain by extending his competitive career as long as he possibly can. At this stage of the soon-to-be 47-year-old’s life, having been decimated by injuries that limit his competitive opportunities and

2:15 PM ET Golf fans will have to wait a few more weeks to watch Tiger Woods play again. The 15-time major champion was forced to pull out of this week’s Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosts in the Bahamas, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Woods said doctors told him that

Phil Mickelson has been mostly quiet on social media since the fallout from his controversial statements and involvement with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit. But the 52-year-old remains on Twitter, and on Tuesday attempted to defend himself from one of those previous remarks against comments made by Tiger Woods at the Hero World Challenge. For

11:37 AM ET Tiger Woods on Tuesday said he had two additional surgeries this year and that the plantar fasciitis in his right foot that will prevent him from playing this week is related to his ongoing recovery from serious injuries suffered in a car wreck outside Los Angeles in February 2021. Woods, 46, declined

Given the tour’s limited resources, why give $15M to the semi-retired guy who is already a gazillionaire and then $28M more to the three guys (McIlroy, Spieth, Thomas) who constantly say it’s not about the money? Seems that PIP money would be better suited for the Korn Ferry Tour and securing the talent pipeline? @kylelabat

Three additional schools will have a chance to compete for the NCAA D-I women’s title this spring at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. On Monday, the NCAA announced it is expanding the size of the field at the women’s national championship from 24 teams to 27 beginning in 2023. “There is extreme importance in providing

3:17 PM ET Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, he announced on Twitter on Monday. The tournament, which benefits the Woods’ charity, TGR Foundation, was supposed to be his first start since he missed the cut in the 150th Open

Tiger Woods has dropped out of this week’s Hero World Challenge due to injury. Woods, who serves as host for the exhibition event, announced Monday that he has developed plantar fasciitis in his right foot. “After consulting with my doctors and trainers, I have decided to withdraw this week and focus on my hosting duties,”

1:21 PM ET Rory McIlroy had a season to remember, but there’s at least one thing he regrets. “I’m like, ‘F—ing hell, I’ve just given Tiger COVID!'” In an interview with the Sunday Independent, McIlroy recounted the circumstances that he says led to him and Tiger Woods both getting COVID-19 ahead of The Open. McIlroy

On July 4, 1999, in just his sixth professional start on the then European Tour (and a month before his breakout showdown with Tiger Woods at the PGA at Medinah), Sergio Garcia claimed a three-shot victory over Angel Cabrera at the Murphy’s Irish Open. It was the first of 16 wins for the Spaniard on