Great golf theater doesn’t always come at the major championships, and it doesn’t have to involve the 10 guys the PGA Tour is going to dole out $40 million to later this year for being popular. In fact, it doesn’t always take place on the PGA Tour. Sunday was an example. While Sam Burns was
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4:34 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Amy Bockerstette is set to become the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship. The 22-year-old golfer will play with her Paradise Valley Community College teammates at the NJCAA national championships May 10-13 at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond
The title sponsor and the PGA of America’s involvement has widely expanded the profile of what now is known as the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but like so many other major sporting events, it is at the mercy of the COVID-19 pandemic. On that note, it announced on Monday that it will restrict attendance to
The Pink Panther, Paula Creamer, is returning to the LPGA Tour after an 18-month hiatus. Creamer has entered the field at the Pure Silk Championship at Kingsmill Resort in Virginia later this month with the intent to resume her LPGA career. The 34-year-old 10-time winner hasn’t play on the LPGA since the BMW Ladies Championship
9:43 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Former Masters champion Mike Weir won his first PGA Tour Champions event Sunday when he held steady with pars down the stretch for a 4-under 68 and let John Daly made the last mistake in the Insperity Invitational. Weir and Daly were tied going down the
In addition to being a fantastic putter, Sam Burns is also one heckuva negotiator. Turns out, those two skills are linked for the newest PGA Tour winner. Following Burns’ maiden victory at the Valspar Championship on Sunday, he confirmed a story about how he used his parents’ love of football to become a better golfer.
6:40 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Eight times this season, Sam Burns has been atop the leaderboard after every round except the one that mattered. That changed, finally, at the Valspar Championship. Burns got some help from Keegan Bradley hitting into the water on the 13th hole, and then the 24-year-old from
Maybe it was inevitable that on an exceedingly wet weekend, water would be a factor, but unmistakably it was inevitable that Mike Weir would win on the PGA Tour Champions. So it was in the rain-shortened Insperity Invitational on Sunday that Weir posted his maiden senior victory with a timely assist from John Daly. On
While Dustin Johnson and his fiancée Paulina Gretzky have been a happily engaged couple now for nearly eight years, the question always lingered: When might they actually tie the knot? Earlier this week, Gretzky seemed to be hinting that the day is coming soon. She took to social media to post images of herself dress
2:52 PM ET South Africa’s Dean Burmester captured his first European Tour title in just over four years on Sunday as he produced a bogey-free final round of nine-under-par 62 to secure victory at the Tenerife Open. Burmester entered the final day at Golf Costa Adeje one stroke off the lead but stormed past his
Hyo Joo Kim wore a full-face mask all week at the HSBC Women’s World Championship, not because of COVID concerns but due to a severe sun allergy. Kim’s hat and sunglasses covered the rest of her face, giving her the appearance of a beekeeper heading to work. The coverings kept secret the emotions the 25-year-old
10:06 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley hit one of his worst shots of the round and it led to eagle. Sam Burns hit a pair of tee shots right where he wanted and they cost him bogeys. They finished where they started Saturday in the Valspar Championship, tied for the
Max Homa produced one of the more memorable wins of the PGA Tour season in February when he won at his favorite golf course, Riviera, just 30 miles from where he grew up. But earlier that day it seemed like another golfer was going to author his own storybook finish in Hollywood. Golf fans—especially those
Two weeks ago Lydia Ko ended a three-year winless drought with a runaway victory at the LPGA’s Lotte Championship in Hawaii. It capped a 90-hole run reaching back to the final round of the ANA Inspiration in which the 24-year-old New Zealander shot 38 under par with a 64.4 scoring average. Not surprisingly after the
2:26 PM ET Pine Valley Golf Club, long held in high esteem in the golf community for its architectural features and stern test to high-end players, is set to break from tradition and allow women members for the first time while also striking all restrictions among women golfers currently in place. Both the Golf Magazine
Golf Twitter can be its ugliest when gamblers—angry about their losing bets or fantasy lineups—tweet at a professional golfer for struggling in a particular tournament. Talor Gooch was a few messages on social media after missing the cut at the Valspar Championship, but he smartly (and graciously) turned the moment into a positive. Gooch shot
8:42 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns kept piling up birdies Friday, turning a solid start into a great round of 8-under 63 for a share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. Keegan Bradley got there with one shot. Bradley ended his round by holing out for eagle from 100
As the Ryder Cup has transformed from a three-day exhibition into an event consumed year-round, one of the upshots is a running bit where a player enjoying any semblance of a hot streak is placed into team discussion. Admittedly it can be a fun debate, but given the natural ebbs and flows of the golf
Max Homa has built a reputation of being great on Twitter that arguably overshadows the fact he’s also great at golf. Not surprisingly, he also displays that quick wit when he’s standing at a podium and not sitting behind a keyboard. Homa fired a Friday 68 at the Valspar Championship to grab a share of
6:14 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister’s Award in Tokyo on Friday for winning the Masters golf tournament. He was the first Japanese winner at Augusta National, the famous American club. Matsuyama won the low amateur title at the 2011 Masters just weeks after the earthquake, tsunami and the
Phil Mickelson told ESPN that he is not sure whether he’d accept a special exemption into the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, which will run from June 17-20 near his hometown of San Diego. Mickelson sits at No. 113 in the world rankings, well outside qualifying position for the year’s third major—he’d need to be
7:27 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley can’t recall having an easier time than he did Thursday at Innisbrook. He missed only one green. His longest par putt was just over 4 feet. It added to a 7-under 64 and another great start in the Valspar Championship. It’s the second round
One of the more overused terms for tour players is “ball-striker,” because to make it to this echelon of the sport requires stick-and-ball genius from everyone. Yet Keegan Bradley’s prowess in this area (entering the week eighth in approach and 10th in tee-to-green) is often overlooked. Mostly because Bradley, as of late, is known not
To golf fans of a certain age, the sight of an oversize first-place check carries a certain hint of nostalgia. For years, the marketing gimmick was a ubiquitous symbol of pro golf success, even if it was literally worthless. There’s never been an actual winner’s circle that a newly crowned PGA Tour champ steps into
2:35 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Phil Mickelson has a lot of work to do if he is going to be exempt for the U.S. Open in his hometown of San Diego. But if he falls short, the five-time major champion — who is presently ranked 113th in the world — said Thursday he
Maria Fassi, the former amateur standout and NCAA champion at Arkansas, is still trying to find her way on the LPGA Tour after turning pro in 2019. The fast-swinging 23-year-old is loaded with potential, but her results have been inconsistent, missing 19 cuts in 33 starts, with just one top-10 finish. Her development, however, is
8:04 PM ET Associated Press CARROLLTON, Texas — Savannah Barker and Alexa Saldana won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-ball Championship on Wednesday, surviving a 20-hole match in the semifinals and then pulling away late in the final at Maridoe Golf Club. Barker and Saldana won six of the last eight holes, finishing with a birdie
There was nothing predictable about the way the final of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball played out Wednesday at Maridoe Golf Club outside Dallas. Both members of the winning team—17-year-old Savannah Barber of Fort Worth and Alexa Saldana, also 17, of Mexico—sit outside the top 1,500 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The roommates at
South Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest and LSU each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selections of 72 teams and 24 individuals to participate in the four 2019 NCAA Women’s Regionals, May 10-12. The return of the NCAA postseason is a welcome sight after the 2020 NCAA Championship
12:39 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Paul Casey is unsure how all of his peers will handle the situation, but he said he’s happy that the PGA Tour has instituted a policy that will allow him to forgo COVID-19 testing if he is fully vaccinated. The 43-year-old, who is the two-time defending champion of