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Associated Press May 3, 2023, 08:06 PM ET SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — Pennsylvania club pro Braden Shattuck capped his PGA Professional Championship debut by making a 12-foot par putt on the final hole for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory that sends him and 19 others to the PGA Championship in two weeks.

CHARLOTTE — You could be forgiven for thinking that Rory McIlroy put the PGA Tour in a bit of a pickle when he opted to skip the RBC Heritage to rest and reset after a disappointing Masters. That was the second designated event he missed in 2023, one more than is allowed for any player

9:33 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Another week, another designated event on the PGA Tour. The Wells Fargo Championship returns to Quail Hollow Club this week, after a one-year hiatus while the club prepares to host the 2023 Presidents Cup. As a designated event on the revamped PGA Tour schedule, the tournament will have a

CHARLOTTE — When Rory McIlroy shot five under on the back nine in Wednesday’s practice round at Augusta National in April, he allowed himself a thought that he knew he should never have: This is going to be my best Masters ever. For a player who has registered seven top-10s at the Augusta National, including

Annika Sorenstam is ready to give the U.S. Women’s Open another go, saying she just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to play at Pebble Beach. The 72-time LPGA winner and 10-time major champion accepted a special exemption into the Women’s Open July 6-9, making it her 17th appearance in the championship. The USGA made the

9:53 PM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Two-time Australian Open golf champion Frank Phillips, who also won tournaments in Singapore and Kong Kong, has died, PGA Australia said in a statement Wednesday. He was 90. PGA Australia said Phillips died Tuesday at a nursing home in Bowral, south of Sydney, where he had lived the

CHARLOTTE — If you’ve ever attempted a gluten-free, dairy-free diet even for a month, you probably have a sense of what Justin Thomas is going through right now. The difference for Thomas is that he’s been doing it for three months, and on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship, the way he spoke about pizza

10:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Furyk, a 17-time winner on the PGA Tour, has been named captain of the U.S. team for the 2024 Presidents Cup, according to an announcement by the PGA Tour on Tuesday. Furyk will make his debut as a Presidents Cup captain after playing in the event seven times

If nothing else, it’s an appropriate venue. Around five months before the Marco Simone Country Club just outside Rome hosts the 44th Ryder Cup, the venue for this week’s Italian Open is doubling as the site of the latest meeting of the DP World Tour’s tournament committee. Led by the chairman, former Ryder Cup player

6:53 PM ET Associated Press VALLARTA, Mexico — Tony Finau never gave Masters champion Jon Rahm or anyone else much of a chance Sunday, closing with a bogey-free round of 5-under 66 that gave him a 3-shot victory in the Mexico Open. Finau earned a small measure of redemption at Vallarta Vidanta, where last year

Keeping busy isn’t something Annika Sorenstam has struggled to do since she stepped away from her Hall of Fame career on the LPGA Tour back in 2008. In the ensuing years, she made an impact on the game through her Annika Foundation, as an entrepreneur and as president of the International Golf Federation, among numerous

Hall Thompson, the tractor mogul who built Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club with the help of Jack Nicklaus, could have answered the report from the Birmingham Post-Herald any number of ways. His course was about six weeks from hosting the PGA Championship for the second time, and Joan Mazzolini’s question was one he probably

10:35 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Hannah Green of Australia made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole to join a three-way playoff and then made par on the second extra hole to win the JM Eagle LA Championship on Sunday at Wilshire Country Club. In a wild finish that featured a

The climax of the JM Eagle L.A. Championship Sunday befit a Hollywood-scripted show. The logjam at the top of the leaderboard oscillated, with up to a five-way tie at one point down the stretch Sunday at Wilshire Country Club in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. In the end, a three-way playoff emerged at nine

7:37 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steven Alker won the Insperity Invitational for the second straight year Sunday, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-shot victory over Steve Stricker and his first title of the year on the PGA Tour Champions. Alker pulled away from Stricker on the back nine with

A birdie on the par-3 18th hole at Wilshire Country Club allowed Australia’s Hannah Green to claim her spot in a three-woman playoff at the LPGA’s JM Eagle L.A. Championship along with India’s Aditi Ashok and China’s Xiyu Lin. Then a birdie on the par-3 18th allowed her to advance to a second hole, along

But the 31-year-old brushed aside his frustration—and rode the high from claiming his first victory in 17 months just days before in Australia—to win the LIV Golf event at Sentosa G.C. in a playoff with Sergio Garcia. In becoming LIV’s first individual champion in back-to-back events, Gooch finished the trip to the Asia Pacific region

6:16 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — Pablo Larrazábal shot a tidy 5-under 67 in the final round of the Korea Championship to complete a two-shot victory over Marcus Helligkilde on Sunday. The Spaniard’s 12-under 276 at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea was good enough to secure his eighth European tour title

When you finish a round on the PGA Tour first in strokes gained/approach, second in SG/putting and fourth in SG/off-the-tee, you know you’ve had a special day. For newly minted Masters champ and World no. 1 Jon Rahm, that special day almost became a historic Saturday at the Mexico Open, where stood on the par-5

10:19 PM ET Associated Press VALLARTA, Mexico — Tony Finau had a terrific stretch at the Mexico Open on Saturday, posting five birdies over his last seven holes for a 6-under 65 that gave him a two-shot lead over Masters champion Jon Rahm and 21-year-old Akshay Bhatia. Rahm, the defending champion, matched his lowest round

In the Mexico Open this week, Akshay Bhatia has been like the kid who is hooked on a new video game. His current obsession, and maybe his ultimate salvation on the PGA Tour, is the AimPoint green-reading system that has been employed by the likes of Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka.

For the second time this month Brooks Koepka finds himself in the middle of a rules question. Oddly enough, it was the announcers at LIV Golf who seemed incredulous at what they saw. Koepka is one stroke back going into the final round at LIV’s event in Singapore this weekend. The display continues a strong

9:46 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — Robert MacIntyre held the clubhouse lead when a weather-affected third day of the Korea Championship was suspended because of fading light Saturday. After morning fog and rain caused afternoon tee times to be pushed back by more than two hours, MacIntyre produced a string of good

Hideki Matsuyama will miss the designated-event Wells Fargo Championship as the former Masters champ continues to battle a neck injury. Matsuyama, 31, has been sidelined for parts of this season due to neck pain, including a WD in his match against Max Homa at the WGC-Match Play in March and skipping the RBC Heritage, a

3:24 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Brooks Koepka, British Open champion Cam Smith and Sergio Garcia were among those tied for the first-round lead at 5-under when storms suspended play at the LIV Singapore tournament at Sentosa Golf Club on Friday. Talor Gooch, the winner of last week’s tournament at Adelaide, Australia, was also

Right around this time last year, in fact, quite literally at this time last year, Tony Finau rolled into the Mexico Open looking a little lost. In the 11 starts prior, he had missed four cuts and failed to record a single finish higher than 19th. And that 19th came at the Sentry Tournament of

After a successful stop in Australia, the LIV Golf League quickly returns to action with the fifth event of its 2023 season in Singapore at Sentosa Golf Club. It’s the first time this year that the upstart Saudi-backed circuit is playing back-to-back weeks, coming to a course that has hosted several professional and amateur events

8:12 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — The Korea Championship has a home player atop the leaderboard after Park Sang-hyun‘s 25-foot putt for birdie to finish his second round Friday. Park shot a 3-under 69 and joined Yannik Paul (68) at 8 under overall at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club. “I want to prove

It would be, for many, the biggest nightmare that can happen on a golf course. No, not a four-jack or a snowman quadruple-bogey. For Chez Reavie, Francesco Molinari and Erik Van Rooyen, the 10th hole at Vidanta presented something far more terrifying than those possibilities: a swarm of bees barreling down the fairway coming right

2:56 PM ET Fresh off a $4 million payday and his first LIV Golf title, Talor Gooch should be on cloud nine. Instead, the 31-year-old American is irked about a rule change that will keep him out of the 2023 U.S. Open. Appearing on the “73rd Hole” podcast, Gooch said he thought he had locked