Michael Visacki bowed his head and closed his eyes, trying to stop the flood he knew was coming. There had been tears the day before, and those tears—and the moment that caused them—brought him in front of cameras for a press conference at the Valspar Championship Tuesday afternoon. And through eight minutes, Visacki held strong.
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4:30 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. – A day after he qualified for his first PGA Tour event and saw an emotional video go viral in which he told his father about the feat, Michael Visacki still had difficulty grasping the reality of his situation. A long-time mini-tour player who said he’s logged some 170,000
We know the recipe to success at Innisbrook’s Copperhead course, which has hosted this event since 2000: You need to hit fairways—with three-inch rough looming along these doglegs—and you need to hit greens. The Valspar Championship has played as one of the 10 toughest courses on the PGA Tour six of the past seven years
This week is the first time since November 2019 that the LPGA will be holding a tournament in Asia. The HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore kicks off a two-event/three-week stretch (originally scheduled for three in three) that marks the tour’s return after officials had to cancel the scheduled spring and fall Asian swings in
2:17 PM ET Associated Press Sepp Straka has withdrawn from the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook after testing positive for the coronavirus. Straka is the third player to test positive this week. Will Gordon and Brice Garnett withdrew after a positive test on Monday. This is the fourth PGA Tour event since golf resumed in June
The relationship between a player and caddie is intricate, thrilling, messy, all over the emotional spectrum. It’s basically marriage without sex. So winning a major is, well, as close as we get to having fun in the bedroom. A lot of caddies grew up as players. If you’ve held a club in your hand, at
6:22 PM ET Associated Press Will Gordon and Brice Garnett have tested positive for the coronavirus and have withdrawn from the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship this week in Palm Harbor, Florida. That brings the number to 12 players who have tested positive since the start of the year. That total does not include Jim Herman,
Larry Penley’s retirement after 38 seasons overseeing the men’s golf program at his alma mater, Clemson, is among the more intriguing stories playing out as the 2020-21 college season comes to a climax in the next month. Especially if there are more going-away presents like the one his Tigers gave him on Monday. When Zach
A surge of COVID-19 cases in Canada has left Ontario golfers in the cold. And some are fighting back. In mid-April a new pandemic lockdown by the provincial government was announced, giving police temporary power to stop individuals to ask where they’re going and where they live. “The Stay-at-Home order currently in effect requires everyone
2:09 PM ET South African youngster Garrick Higgo held off a spirited challenge from German Maximilian Kieffer to win his second European Tour title at the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open on Sunday. Higgo, 21, took the lead in the third round at Meloneras Golf on Saturday when he carded the lowest round of his European
A victory for Cameron Smith was also supposed to be a victory for his girlfriend—and potential heartbreak for mullet-lovers everywhere. Ahead of the Zurich Classic, the 27-year-old Australian said that he’d worked out a deal with here that he would cut his hair the next time he won on the PGA Tour. Apparently, she is
7:07 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman outlasted Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel to win the Zurich Classic in a playoff that capped a tight and tense final round Sunday. Smith and Leishman won with a par on their second trip up the par-5 18th after Oosthuizen pushed his
AVONDALE, La. — Dear PGA Tour, Graeme McDowell would like a word. Zurich Classic officials, listen up, too. “I genuinely believe [this] should be a 72-hole foursomes tournament, alternate-shot tournament … because I kind of believe it’s the purest form of the game,” the Northern Irishman said earlier in the week at TPC Louisiana. “There’s
Nothing is a given in golf, especially when you’re talking about college golf, where the complexion of a team can change dramatically from one season to the next. Think of all the variables a coach must contend with when overseeing a program: injuries, roster turnover, swing changes, academic issues, a pandemic, to name a few.
6:53 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel birdied six of their final eight holes Saturday to shoot a 9-under 63 and take a one-shot lead at 19-under 197 into the final round of the Zurich Classic. The South African tandem birdied the par-3 17th with Oosthuizen’s 33-foot putt and
LOS ANGELES—The sun was shining brightly for the first time all week at the Hugel-Air Premia La Open shortly before the final group teed off Saturday afternoon. The clouds then rolled in as Jessica Korda, Jin Young Ko and Brooke Henderson emerged on the tee to open the curtains and dim the lights at Wilshire
9:21 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Brooke Henderson rallied to win the HUGEL Air Premia LA Open on Saturday for her 10th LPGA Tour title, chipping in for birdie on the par-3 12th in an early back-nine burst and getting up-and-down for par on the last. Four strokes behind leader Jessica Korda and
AVONDALE, La. — If it takes a village to raise a child, as the old African proverb goes, what will it take for Tony Finau to snap his curse of the Puerto Rico Open and break through for his second career PGA Tour victory and first in five years? Perhaps the answer is a reliable
That there is a 2021 postseason in college golf is something programs from around the country are rejoicing in, the lost finish to the 2020 season hardly a distance memory. But there remains an unspoken nervousness among coaches and players as conference championship get underway, the specter of COVID-19 still lingering large. Last week, the
6:30 PM ET Tiger Woods posted a photo of himself on crutches and with a small cast covering his right foot and ankle while at his backyard practice area in Jupiter, Florida. The photo, which Woods posted on Instagram on Friday afternoon, is the first of Woods since he was involved in a serious one-vehicle
A smiling Tiger Woods, on crutches and with his dog by his side, posted the first picture of himself since his Feb. 23 car accident to Instagram on Friday afternoon. “My course is coming along faster than I am,” Woods wrote. “But it’s nice to have a faithful rehab partner, man’s best friend.” The picture,
10:15 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jessica Korda rode out a series of big momentum shifts Friday at historic Wilshire Country Club to hold onto the lead in the HUGEL Air Premia LA Open. Six strokes ahead after three holes, tied with top-ranked Jin Young Ko at the turn and two shots back
The boys tend to get a bit loose during Zurich Classic week. Not totally loose—this is, after all, an official PGA Tour event with FedEx Cup points and very-real money on the line—but definitely a little more relaxed than your run-of-the-mill tour stop. Team golf brings a totally different atmosphere, and guys relish the opportunity
The 31-year-old native of Denmark vaulted up the board thanks to a course-record 61 Friday at the Meloneras Golf Course in the Canary Islands. “I feel great. I was not expecting this. Amazing experience,” Olesen said Friday. Olesen is making his first appearance in 2021, missing the start of the year due to a wrist
8:24 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Brice Garnett and Scott Stallings birdied eight of their last 11 holes, Viktor Hovland and Kris Ventura birdied nine of their final 12, and both teams shot 10-under 62 in Zurich Classic to share the first-round lead Thursday. “Kris decided to heat up his putter. That really
AVONDALE, La.—When it came to plotting strategy at this week’s Zurich Classic, different teams discussed various tactics prior to Thursday’s opening round. Then there were Tony Finau and Cameron Champ, who had none at all, apparently. It worked out just fine anyway. Finau and Champ, who arrived on the first tee at TPC Louisiana unsure
9:30 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jessica Korda shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday in the HUGEL-Air Premia LA Open to break the tournament 36-hole scoring record and increase her lead to three strokes. A day after matching the Wilshire Country Club tournament record with a 64, Korda opened her bogey-free morning round
AVONDALE, La. — “Fore right!” isn’t something you hear often on a par 3 on the PGA Tour. During Thursday’s opening round of the Zurich Classic, it was shouted twice in the span of four holes at TPC Louisiana. This is the nightmare of Hunter Mahan and Bill Haas. Worse yet, neither appears to know
LOS ANGELES — Former World No. 1 Yani Tseng made news with her return this season to the LPGA after not playing on tour since the 2019 Lotte Championship. In four starts in 2021, however, the 15-time winner has yet to make a cut, extending a streak that dates back to the 2018 Swinging Skirts
12:19 PM ET Associated Press FAR HILLS, N.J. — The USGA will have a final qualifying site in South Carolina to account for a new tournament that replaces the RBC Canadian Open. The addition of Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island brings the total number of final qualifying sites to 10 in the United