DUBLIN, Ohio – Despite the fact he ranks ninth on the PGA Tour in strokes gained/putting, and against the advice of everyone on his team, including his putting coach, Xander Schauffele decided to use an armlock putting grip during Thursday’s first round of the Memorial Tournament. Sometimes, a guy just has to find out if
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Jason Day has withdrawn from the Memorial prior to his Thursday tee time. The PGA Tour communications department announced Thursday morning that Day, 33, cited a back injury as the reason for his WD. It is Day’s 11th career WD on the PGA Tour and his second this season. The 2015 PGA champ and former
10:12 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Clay Feagler two-putted from 35 feet on the 18th hole to wrap up Pepperdine’s first men’s golf national championship in 24 years, a 3-2 victory over Oklahoma on Wednesday at Grayhawk Golf Club. Pepperdine took an early lead on a sizzling day in the desert, allowed Oklahoma
It was a day of reckoning that ended a long week a year late for the Pepperdine and Oklahoma men’s golf teams, who on Wednesday settled a lingering question: Which had the best team? On any given day the answer likely would fluctuate, but on this day, well, score one for “the Waves of Malibu,”
5:27 PM ET Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The LPGA Tour’s CP Women’s Open was canceled Wednesday because of logistical challenges and border restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled for Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club on Aug. 26-29. Golf Canada and Canadian Pacific said Shaughnessy will host the 2023
SAN FRANCISCO—This will be a nostalgic week for Webb Simpson. Nine years ago this month, he came from back in the pack on Sunday, shot 68 and seized the U.S. Open at Olympic Club for what is his only major victory in a seven-win PGA Tour career. You’d think the 35-year-old would make it a
Because of how good he was between 2015 and 2017, anything less in the ensuing years from Jordan Spieth was always going to be cause for concern. When he went without a victory in the next three seasons, and experienced a particularly lean 2020, concern levels reached DEFCON 5. Thankfully, in 2021 Spieth has seemingly
5:21 PM ET The PGA Tour heads to Dublin, Ohio this week for the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. Despite a final-round 75, Jon Rahm won last year’s even at Muirfield Village by three shots. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worthwhile? Betting analyst Chris
Gamblers are a funny bunch. Last week in this space, one of our “experts” gave out Jason Kokrak as their sleeper pick (45-1). The rest of our crew cleaned up on matchup bets—and we hit a few of our top-10 bets, too—so anyone who followed us made a nice chunk of change. Rubbish, we say.
7:52 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Jason Kokrak played in 233 PGA Tour events before getting his first victory. The big hitter didn’t have to wait nearly as long to win again, though this one might have been harder because he had to overcome a local favorite at Colonial. Kokrak shot an
SAN FRANCISCO—It says something, and quite possibly a lot, that Angela Stanford has played in 21 U.S. Women’s Opens and was immediately rendered frightened when walking down the opening hole in her first tour this week of the Olympic Club’s Lake Course. “I was terrified,” Stanford says. Maybe that’s slightly melodramatic on the part of
Much like golf’s last go-around with the Olympics, the 2021 Summer Games lead-up has been marked by withdrawals and issues with the competition rather than the competition itself. However, with three weeks remaining before the men’s field is set, the sport received two strong endorsements Tuesday morning. Speaking at Muirfield Village ahead of this week’s
10:18 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Turk Pettit had a stellar start to his collegiate career, winning a tournament as a freshman and posting five top-10 finishes. One bad round seemed to put him a funk. Then his clubs were stolen. The tall, lanky player from Alabama appeared to get back into a
The course remains one of the toughest tests of the year—a second-shot course that will challenge the game’s best this week. It’s another great field, as defending champion Jon Rahm (10-1) leads the odds board at this invitational event. Seven of the top-10 and 16 of the top-25 ranked players in the world will compete
8:00 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Bo Jin plays golf as if he’s a weekend player with no worries. He’ll pump his fist when a big putt falls, but otherwise it’s tough to tell if the Oklahoma State freshman is playing well or poorly. The even-keel mindset has worked well so far at
Unlike Bryson DeChambeau, Juvic Pagunsan did not have a dew guy spritzing his ball on the range to simulate moisture conditions. He did not even have a caddie. And because he did not even have a caddie, he did not even have a full set of clubs. But none of that mattered for Pagunsan, who
For five years, the USGA’s Shannon Rouillard has set up golf courses for all its women’s championships. As a senior director, she has a team to offer input, but it’s ultimately her call on how long to grow the rough, how narrow to pinch the fairways and how slick to make the greens. Her predecessors
10:03 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Ally Ewing won the LPGA Match Play on Sunday at Shadow Creek, beating Sophia Popov 2 and 1 for her second tour victory. Ewing won the difficult par-4 14th with a birdie to take a 2-up lead and closed out her German rival with a
LAS VEGAS — The 112th and final head-to-head showdown of the week in the first LPGA event to feature match play since the 2019 Solheim Cup turned into a likely preview of the 2021 edition. American Ally Ewing beat German Sophia Popov, 2 and 1, for her second career tour title, as the Bank of
8:08 PM ET Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — Alex Cejka won the Senior PGA Championship on Sunday for his second straight major championship, thriving on accurate and powerful ball-striking and deft touch around the demanding greens at Southern Hills. Cejka shot a 3-under 67 for a 4-stroke victory over Tim Petrovic, three weeks after he
LAS VEGAS — Enough was enough for Shanshan Feng. After losing her semifinal match to Sophia Popov, 1 up, on Sunday morning at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play, the 10-time LPGA winner from China went to tournament officials and said she was conceding the consolation match with Ariya Jutanugarn rather than compete in her
“I believe it’ll definitely help because it’s a huge part of golf. Golf itself is a gambling sport,” Danielle Kang, who’s sponsored by MGM Resorts, told Golf Digest. “I do believe that we need to promote gambling because golf game itself is gambling. I want people to have fun playing one on one, head to
9:44 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Ally Ewing made a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th hole Saturday to beat local favorite Danielle Kang 1 up and join three major champions in the LPGA Match Play semifinals. “It was a grind,” Ewing said after the long, hot day at Shadow
LAS VEGAS—The Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play is down to its final four players. Sophia Popov, Ariya Jutanugarn, Shanshan Feng, and Ally Ewing will play two matches on Sunday, with the day ending with a championship final and consolation match. Ally Ewing (seeded 20th) vs. Ariya Jutanugarn (16th) Danielle Kang was hotter than her hometown
8:08 PM ET Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — Steve Stricker took advantage of Mike Weir‘s back-nine collapse Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Senior PGA Championship. Stricker shot a 3-under 67 in a stiff north breeze at Southern Hills for a one-stroke lead over Alex Cejka, the senior newcomer who
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The 2014 U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 had more than its share of intrigue. For the first time in history, the USGA staged the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open back-to-back at the same venue. And after Martin Kaymer’s impressive but drama-free eight-shot win in the first week, the women fashioned a more
7:16 AM ET Associated Press Defending champion Bernd Wiesberger was two shots clear of fellow Austrian golfer Matthias Schwab on top of the second round leaderboard at the Made in HimmerLand on Friday. Wiesberger carded a 6-under 65 after an opening 66 to be 11 under overall. His round included seven birdies and a bogey.
Nobody will ever mistake the Charles Schwab Challenge for the Open Championship, but inclement weather in Texas this week made “the draw” quite important, at least for Jason Kokrak. Kokrak teed off late on Thursday and early on Friday, posting a pair of five-under 65s to reach 10 under for the tournament. The CJ Cup
7:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Phil Mickelson kept hearing congratulatory words as he made his way around Colonial, and there was a huge roar from the crowd when the PGA Championship winner made a long putt to finish his round. Jordan Spieth kept making birdies in the same group. Spieth shot