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Don’t look now, but another major week is upon us. A little more than a month after Hideki Matsuyama delivered for Japan, the world’s best head to Kiawah Island for this week’s PGA Championship. By some metrics—this is the only major to give exemptions to the top 100 players in the World Ranking—this is the

6:43 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sam Burns still has the lead going into the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson despite more magic on the 18th green from local favorite Jordan Spieth. Now it’s a race to beat the weather in Texas in the final round with a good number of

With the PGA Championship at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island on the horizon, this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson is the last chance for tour pros to work out the kinks and get ready for the second major of 2021. And they’ll do so at a new venue for the PGA Tour. Among those playing

Jordan Spieth’s 55-foot, triple-breaking eagle conversion at TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th on Thursday was going to be an impossible highlight to top this week, especially for himself. But this is Jordan Spieth we’re talking about, a man who can fill up half of SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays just on the back nine when he

2:53 PM ET Richard Bland won his first European Tour title at the 478th attempt after beating Guido Migliozzi in a playoff at the British Masters on Saturday. Bland, 48, and Migliozzi finished on 13 under par after 72 holes at The Belfry to force the playoff in which the Englishman parred the first extra

For the first time, distance measuring devices, or rangefinders, will be allowed for use during a major at next week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. The decision, announced in February, was made in an effort to speed up play. Whether it actually will and what impact the use of the devices will have on the

8:39 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Now that Sam Burns has figured out how to turn an early lead into a victory, it’s already time to try again. Burns birdied six of his last eight holes Friday for a 10-under 62 and a two-stroke lead over Alex Noren at 17 under after the

Imagine dedicating years of your life to achieving a single goal, only to have it ripped away from you at the last minute. That’s what happened Wednesday at the NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Regional in Baton Rouge, La. That morning, 110 women headed to The University Club, home to LSU’s men’s and women’s golf,

When you’re hot, you’re hot. It also helps when your last name is Burns. OK, so maybe that’s just a coincidence, but there could be something to it given how scalding hot Sam Burns is right now. Two weeks removed from his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Valspar Championship, Burns has grabbed the 36-hole

6:41 AM ET Omar Uresti has gone from an obscure, little-known PGA Tour player to a full controversial PGA Professional in a very short amount of time. But through everything that’s happened to him, Uresti’s just a guy who wants to play golf for a living. Full disclosure: My journey into the professional golf world

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — The cry during the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor was that “there are two Molinaris.” Which was undeniably true at the time. Less than a year before, in fact, the brothers – Edoardo and Francesco – had won the World Cup for Italy. But in the decade that followed, the

9:41 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Jordan Spieth had his longest stretch all day of mere pars — a whopping four holes — on the besieged new home course of the AT&T Byron Nelson when the local favorite stepped over a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th. Nothing but the bottom of

Coincidence? Irony? The Golf Gods just being cruel? Whatever way you want to describe it, for the first time in days, the sun was out Thursday in Baton Rouge, La. However, the storm of frustration and bitterness hadn’t lifted after what transpired the previous afternoon at The University Club. “Look, this is one of the

The Jordan Spieth Experience is often described as a roller coaster, only if that coaster hit a few banks, froze on its barrel roll and brandished an “out-of-order” sign for months. Thursday in Dallas … well, there was still the occasional bump against the railing. But Spieth’s Round 1 at the AT&T Byron Nelson was

3:55 PM ET Amy Bockerstette’s historic appearance at the NJCAA women’s golf national championships came to an unexpected and early end Thursday when the final round was reduced to the top 15 teams and other golfers in the top 24 because of weather conditions. Bockerstette, who’s in her third season at Paradise Valley Community College

The first seeds of what would become the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, the famed Pete Dye layout that next week hosts the PGA Championship for the second time in nine years, weren’t planted in South Carolina but rather 2,405 miles away in La Quinta, Calif., nearly the expanse of the mid-south of the continental

8:58 PM ET The women’s golf NCAA regional in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was abruptly canceled Wednesday before the tournament even started. NCAA committee representative Brad Hurlbut walked down the stairs at LSU’s University Club and announced to players and coaches that the golf course was playable, but was not championship-level playable due to rain and

English writer Izaak Walton said, “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” Walton died in 1683 but I suspect if he’d held on for another 329 years, he’d have found the precise inverse of this on a shuttle of frustrated golf media members at the 2012 PGA Championship. There are certain images

The return of the NCAA college golf postseason was supposed to be joyful time for programs that had seen the 2020 season cut short prematurely by COVID-19. But for 12 of the 18 schools competing at the NCAA Women’s Regional in Baton Rouge, La., there was only more frustration in seeing their 2020-21 postseasons end

8:00 AM ET Coming off last week’s Wells Fargo Championship (won by Rory McIlroy, who was picked by betting deputy editor David Bearman to win at 18-1), the PGA Tour heads to McKinney, Texas, for the AT&T Byron Nelson for a tuneup before the PGA Championship. This year’s event is moving to TPC at Craig

Less than seven weeks remain until qualifying for the Olympic women’s golf tournament ends. If you’re an American trying anxiously to earn the right to play in Tokyo, that’s either a lifetime away or all-too-rapidly approaching, depending on where you stand in the rankings. No other country has quite as tight a race as the

5:19 PM ET Hideki Matsuyama is making his first start since winning the Masters last month, looking to regain the form that saw him become the first male Japanese golfer to win a major championship. There was little time for Matsuyama to work on his game as he went home to Japan immediately after his

Matthew Wolff’s odd and unsettling season took another strange turn on Tuesday night when the PGA of America announced that the 22-year-old has withdrawn from next week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. Wolff will be replaced by Tom Hoge, and no reason was given for the WD. Only six months ago, Wolff entered the final

EDITORS’ NOTE: This story first ran in August 2012 issue of Golf Digest prior the PGA of America returning to the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island for that year’s PGA Championship. When the PGA Championship is played at Kiawah Island, S.C., in August, it will be hard-pressed to match what transpired there over three blustery

4:37 PM ET Jordan Spieth, who is making his first start since the Masters at his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson tournament this week, disclosed Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 three weeks ago. Spieth, who won the Valero Texas Open on April 2 for his first PGA Tour victory in three-plus years, said he

TaylorMade Golf will be acquired by a Korean investment consortium, Centroid Investment Partners, according to an announcement from the company. TaylorMade’s current financial sponsor, KPS Capital Partners, signed the definitive agreement to sell the company it acquired in 2017. KPS originally acquired TaylorMade from Adidas AG for $425 million. While terms of the Centroid deal

12:41 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson says it was surreal sinking the final putt to win last year’s Travelers Championship with fewer than 40 spectators politely clapping instead of the thousands that usually fill the bowl surrounding the 18th green at TPC River Highlands. The PGA Tour event in Connecticut was among the first

Dustin Johnson has withdrawn from the AT&T Byron Nelson. The World No. 1 pulled out of the Texas event Monday afternoon, citing knee discomfort as the reason for the WD. “Unfortunately, the knee discomfort I occasionally experience has returned and after consultation with my team and trainers, I feel it is best that I remain

Every once in awhile you come across a headline that seems too shocking—and too horrific—to be real. This is one of those times. A man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a dog for taking his golf ball. Puerto Rico police posted on Facebook a statement with a photo of 60-year-old Salil Zaveri being

3:59 PM ET World No. 1 Dustin Johnson has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, citing knee discomfort. Johnson made the announcement Monday. He last played in the Valspar Championship from Apil 29 to May 2, finishing 48th. “It is with deepest regret that I must withdraw from this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson,” Johnson