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It wasn’t the easiest of days for Jon Rahm, the prohibitive favorite at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, but Rahm rebounded from some early scratchy play and finished with four birdies in his last 10 holes that had him in a better mood by the end—and a little forgetful as witnessed by this exchange with

Talor Gooch is coming off a $4 million win in the most recent LIV Golf event in Australia, but he’s not quite as happy as you would think. Actually, he still a bit irked that he’s not in one of this year’s four men’s majors. Gooch noted on this week’s 73rd Hole Podcast that he

6:29 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — Antoine Rozner shot a 9-under 63 to lead the Korea Championship by four strokes after the first round of the European tour event Thursday. The bogey-free round tied the lowest in the Frenchman’s professional career and contained nine birdies at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club, including six

Stanford, Wake Forest, LSU, South Carolina, Mississippi State and Texas A&M each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selection of 72 teams and 36 individuals to participate in the 2023 NCAA Women’s D-I Regionals, May 8-10. Thirteen SEC schools earned spots into the regional fields (including four

4:04 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch saw his double-digit overnight lead almost evaporate but rallied late to win the inaugural LIV Australia tournament Sunday at the Grange Golf Club. After two bogey-free 10-under 62 rounds, Gooch shot a 1-over 73 to clinch his maiden LIV Golf tournament victory by three strokes

Set to be played on the rugged Los Angeles Country Club North Course amid the skyscapers of America’s second-largest city, the 123rd U.S. Open in June already figures to be one of the most unique major championships in recent memory. It also likely will be more impactful to the local community than any USGA events

Earlier this month, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley announced the Masters would continue to use the Official World Golf Ranking as a qualifying category in 2024. “It’s a really good way to invite players.It’s an objective criteria based on data-driven analytics, and it’s consistently applied. I think most would agree it’s a good system,” Ridley

11:12 AM ET Associated Press PGA Tour Canada and the PGA Tour Latinoamerica are merging to form one circuit that will be called “PGA Tour Americas.” It will have a season divided by two swings — South America and the Great White North — that offer at least 10 spots on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Carrie Forsyth announced her retirement on Monday, saying that this season, her 24th as the women’s head coach at UCLA, will be her last with the Bruins. A new role was created specifically for Forsyth, and she’ll become a special assistant to Martin Jarmond, UCLA’s athletic director. Forsyth became head coach in 1999 and guided

5:31 PM ET The first women’s major championship of the season is in the books. The second men’s major, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, is three weeks away. There’s plenty of professional golf to watch this week, with the PGA Tour in Mexico, the LIV Golf League in

Last year on May 1, Jon Rahm halted a “drought” to win the Mexico Open. It’s a little bit insane to call it a drought unless you’re operating by some very high standards. In June of the previous year, he won the U.S. Open, so it hadn’t even been a year since his last American

I had not planned to cover LIV London; my kids’ summer vacation had just begun, and I would be away the ensuing week for the U.S. Open. But once Phil announced his return to public life, I felt compelled to be there. I scrambled to get an overnight flight and landed in London on the

8:34 PM ET Nick Hardy and Davis Riley withdrew from this week’s PGA Tour stop, the Mexico Open at Vidanta, on Monday after winning the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Sunday. No reason was given for the withdrawals. It marks the first time since last November that a PGA Tour winner withdrew from an

Since turning professional in 1971, Tom Watson has been an ardent supporter of junior golf programs but always felt a nagging sense that more could be done at the introductory level to help grow the game and, as he says, “create lifetime golfers.” That feeling only grew stronger as he sensed a “hole” forming at

6:14 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Nick Hardy and Davis Riley birdied four of their final six holes — highlighted by Riley’s 33-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-3 17th — to give both players their first PGA Tour victory at the Zurich Classic on Sunday. They began the final round

It’s only five months until the 2023 Ryder Cup in Italy gets underway and we still don’t know if Team USA captain Zach Johnson will choose any LIV Golfers among his six captain’s picks. We know Johnson can do so, because the PGA of America recently clarified that LIV players are technically eligible for consideration

Slow play. It’s all the rage right now. Just ask Patrick Cantlay, who caught all sorts of slow-play shrapnel at the Masters and the RBC Heritage, for (seemingly) good reason. Fortunately for Cantlay, the discourse died down a bit this past weekend, mainly because the Zurich Classic didn’t have nearly the amount of eyeballs on

9:49 PM ET Associated Press IRVING, Texas — Mark Hensby parred the fourth playoff hole after Charlie Wi hit his approach into the water Sunday to win the Invited Celebrity Classic, his first victory on the PGA Tour Champions. The 51-year-old Australian closed with a 1-under 70 at Las Colinas, making birdie on the par-5

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — The outpouring of emotion following a victory reveals the years of sacrifice, dedication, and moments of self-doubt culminating in triumph. The tears streamed down Lilia Vu’s face on Sunday after she holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to ovrercome a four-shot deficit and beat fellow California native

8:01 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lilia Vu birdied the first playoff hole to win her first major at the Chevron Championship after fellow American Angel Yin hit her approach shot into the water on Sunday. Yin’s second shot came up short and left and splashed into the pond guarding the par-5

With nine players among the top-10 teams on the leaderboard through 54 holes seeking their first PGA Tour victories, chances were good for a breakthrough story at the Zurich Classic, and Davis Riley and Nick Hardy, former AJGA All-Americans almost a decade ago, wrote the final chapter in a record-setting win in Avondale, La. With

Chase Koepka was cruising along, in the middle of the pack Sunday at LIV Golf’s Adelaide event in Australia, when he suddenly helped produce the wildest moment of the week at The Grange Golf Club. The 29-year-old had made three birdies in his first seven holes when he stepped to the tee of the par-3

6:59 AM ET Associated Press OMITAMA, Japan — Australian Lucas Herbert outlasted Aaron Cockerill to win the Handa Championship on the second extra hole Sunday for his third world tour title. The pair finished the final round tied on 15-under 265 after Herbert just missed a birdie putt from 20 feet on the 18th for

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Weather has been looming over most of Carlton Woods’ debut as the home of the LPGA Tour’s Chevron Championship. Delays marred the opening 36 holes, forcing the second round to finish Saturday morning and groups to go out in threesomes during the third round. But the climate finally cleared, with the

8:13 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin shared the Chevron Championship lead at 10-under 206 after the third round Saturday. Corpuz and Yin each shot 5-under 67 at The Club at Carlton Woods in the major tournament that moved from the California desert to suburban Houston this

There is only one place in professional golf where players try to intentionally skip the ball off the water and onto a par-3 green. That would be Augusta National Golf Club, where the golfers (and sometimes their caddies) entertain the gallery during practice rounds for the Masters by acting like kids skipping stones across the

Eighteen birdies, one eagle and not a single bogey. That’s how Talor Gooch built a 10-shot lead through 36 holes at LIV Golf’s highly anticipated Australian event. In front of 23,000-strong crowd in Adelaide, the Oklahoma State alum and one-time PGA Tour winner signed for his second-straight 62 at The Grange G.C. to sit at

3:08 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Talor Gooch continued his bogey-free run at the inaugural LIV Australia tournament Saturday and shot his second consecutive 10-under 62 to increase his lead to 10 strokes after two rounds at the Grange Golf Club. Gooch had a 36-hole total of 124 going into Sunday’s final round.

Congrats to everyone playing in this week’s Zurich Classic for finishing the first two rounds in time! Even with Mother Nature rearing her ugly head and delaying play for two-and-a-half hours! OK, so it helped a LOT that the guys were playing in the speedier foursomes format, AKA alternate shot, but it’s the weekend and

9:50 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — The teams of Wyndham Clark and Beau Hossler, and Sean O’Hair and Brandon Matthews, each shot an 11-under 61 in the better-ball format on Thursday to tie for a one-shot lead through the first round of Zurich Classic. The 40-year-old O’Hair has four PGA Tour wins, the