12:29 PM ET Associated Press More than a decade after Annika Sorenstam won her last LPGA Tour event, she’s ready to tee it up again. The LPGA Tour announced on Twitter the 50-year-old Sorenstam has committed to play the Gainbridge LPGA in Orlando, Florida, scheduled for Feb. 25-28 on her home course of Lake Nona.
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When the PGA of America announced on Tuesday that it would allow distance-measuring devices in its major championships, including at this year’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, one of the main tenets of the decision was that it would help speed up play. “We’re always interested in methods that may help improve the flow of
The R&A announced Wednesday that it has “cautious optimism” its Open Championship will be played this summer. The Open was the only major to be cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a move made partially due to the various travel and health restrictions in place and also, sources told Golf Digest, because of
7:02 AM ET Associated Press Open Championship organisers said on Wednesday they have “cautious optimism” that golf’s oldest major will go ahead at Royal St. George’s in July. The event was cancelled last year — for the first time since 1945 — because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the R&A effectively pushing its schedule back
Although there won’t be a pro-am portion this year, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will still feature the traditional field of 156 pros competing at one of the world’s most beautiful golf courses. Canada’s Nick Taylor returns to defend his title after opening with a 63 in 2020 and holding on through the rest of
1:33 PM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Harrington missed the cut last week at the Phoenix Open, ending his streak of seven consecutive cuts made worldwide. The Irishman is the fifth player this year in six PGA
European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has withdrawn from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. He will be replaced in the field by first alternate Sangmoon Bae. Harrington, 49, has continued to play a full-time schedule as he evaluates candidates for his team to take on
7:36 AM ET Like all golf tournaments during the pandemic, Pebble Beach will look considerably different this week. Perhaps more so than any other event. Sure, unobstructed views of the coastal waters will be nice, as will some other perks associated with watching in non-spectator times. But for the first time in the AT&T Pebble
It wasn’t the ending Davis Thompson was hoping for on Sunday at the Jones Cup Invitational. The 21-year-old University of Georgia senior held the lead on the back nine at Ocean Forest G.C. in Sea Island, Ga., as he attempted to defend his title at the prestigious amateur event, only to bogey two of his
World No. 1 and tournament favorite Dustin Johnson withdrew from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am on Monday evening. There was no immediate reason cited by Johnson or the event for his decision. On Sunday Johnson won the European Tour’s Saudi International by two strokes. It was Johnson’s fifth victory in his last 13 starts,
10:31 AM ET American Dustin Johnson carded a four-under-par 66 in the third round to go 13-under overall and take a two-shot lead at the Saudi International on Saturday. Despite a double-bogey on the par-four 13th when he found the water, Johnson recorded six birdies to stave off the challenge of Frenchman Victor Perez who
It’s no secret that Dustin Johnson is playing better golf than anybody in the world. The Masters champion took the title at the Saudi International last week, and the World No. 1 will make the across-the-world journey to Pebble Beach to play in this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (which isn’t a pro-am this year,
8:56 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Top-ranked Dustin Johnson won the Saudi International for the second time in three years on Sunday after shooting a 2-under 68 in the final round to finish 2 strokes clear of Justin Rose and Tony Finau. Johnson, who was also runner-up in 2020,
Dustin Johnson took over as the World No. 1 for the sixth time in his career last August after winning The Northern Trust by an eye-popping 11 strokes. Ever since, he’s done nothing to suggest that he’s not the best golfer on the planet, winning the FedEx Cup in September and claiming his second major
Vince Lombardi made an appearance on Sunday night. Weirdly, but perhaps in an attempt to deliver a little divine inspiration, a hologram of the NFL coaching legend showed up during the Super Bowl preamble and recited one of his more memorable proclamations: “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” It
6:41 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Brooks Koepka chipped in from 32 yards for eagle on the 17th hole to break a tie for the lead and then parred the last for a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Five strokes behind Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele entering the round,
As Justin Thomas attempts to make up a four-shot deficit on co-leaders Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele in the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, he’ll do so with mixed emotions. Golf Channel reported during the early part of its Sunday broadcast that Thomas’ paternal grandfather, Paul Thomas, has died. The PGA Tour
8:59 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jordan Spieth knows what it’s like to lead a tournament after 54 holes. It just hasn’t happened for a while. And that has Spieth expecting to be nervous Sunday when he starts the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in search of his first win since The
There were incredible picks of the ball from off the desert hardpan. There was a chip-in, a couple of putting bombs and, of course, a few lucky bounces. Jordan Spieth’s third-round show in the Waste Management Phoenix Open had it all, and with the exception of one missed four-footer for birdie that would have given
Last Saturday was one of the rare Saturdays you get throughout the course of a golf season. The type where, if you weren’t paying attention to the golf, someone or something tipped you off to what was going on (in this case, another Patrick Reed rules saga), and you immediately dropped whatever you were doing
6:17 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A day after saying he needed to be patient about results, Jordan Spieth matched his career best with a 10-under 61 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Xander Schauffele in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Winless since the 2017 British Open, Spieth is
If you knew nothing about golf but a little something about math, and someone came to you with a printed stack of advanced stats—strokes gained, especially—it would be simple to identify the good players, and even simpler to identify the great ones. At some point, you would come across Tony Finau’s stats, and you’d conclude
7:30 AM ET Taneka Mackey (née Sandiford), 26, is the first Bahamian woman caddie on the LPGA Tour. Since 2017, Mackey has caddied for LPGA Tour player Amy Olson. After suffering a seizure in November 2018, Mackey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite her diagnosis, Mackey returned to Olson’s bag in 2019 and remains the
Jordan Spieth shot the same score for the first two days of the 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open, but the three-time major champ felt a lot different following Friday’s round. In a good way. Well, for the most part. When Spieth spoke to reporters following Friday’s round he was still stinging a bit from a
Riding a roller coaster has been a popular analog for following Jordan Spieth, albeit one that’s not necessarily kindred. For if the Spieth Experience was an amusement ride, said ride would have been shut down long ago for slamming into banks and gliding off the tracks and ejecting its passengers mid-barrel roll. Of course, even
7:48 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Over the first two days of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Jordan Spieth saw the kind of round he’s been looking for. He putted “out of his mind” and then hit 11 fairways. Unfortunately, for Spieth, the two didn’t happen on the same day. The former came Thursday, the
Long before Bryson DeChambeau began making a moon shot routine, astronaut Alan Shepard made a moon shot for posterity. On Feb. 6, 1971, 50 years ago to the day on Saturday, Shepard, the commander of the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, took out “a little white pellet that’s familiar to millions of Americans,” he
8:55 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Co-leader Matthew NeSmith nearly made a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th and barely got a reaction from the few fans. Xander Schauffele flubbed a chip and couldn’t help but hear a surprised spectator’s reaction. With attendance capped at about 5,000 at sunny TPC Scottsdale, a fraction of
Justin Suh tied for 37th at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open. The result netted him a solid payday—$34,125 to be precise—and came at a good time given that the former USC All-American is currently waiting for the PGA Tour Latinoamerica season to resume and was only in the field at Torrey Pines because of a
Compared to what we’ve had since the COVID-19 restart last June, the scene on Thursday at the Waste Management Phoenix Open was as electric as it gets. Of course, it’s nowhere near as electric as it would get at TPC Scottsdale during a normal season, but we’ll take what we can get this time. And