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Dec 4, 2022 Adrian Meronk is the first Polish player to win the Australian Open after romping to a five-stroke victory at Victoria Golf Club. The DP World Tour star captured the Stonehaven Cup in style with an eagle at the 72nd hole in a closing four-under-par 66 on Sunday. Adrian Meronk denied his childhood

Any list of controversies for the year should inevitably begin with LIV Golf. Do a quick Google search for “golf controversies 2022” and the first page delivers only LIV-related headlines. The fledging Saudi-backed series made more news than anything else in the sport this year, and it ruffled a lot of feathers along the way,

Despite his latest health-related setback, Tiger Woods will play golf this Saturday. We repeat: Tiger Woods will play golf this Saturday. And while it’s not in a real-deal, 72-hole tournament, it will be Woods like you’ve never seen him before—under the lights, in primetime, alongside teammate Rory McIlroy and the opposing two-man squad of Justin

Dec 4, 2022 Ashleigh Buhai has survived an afternoon of carnage to win the Australian Open and achieve a feat not even Cameron Smith can claim. The South African prevailed after a dramatic collapse from Sydney prodigy Grace Kim to dash local hopes for another year on Sunday. Buhai closed with a one-over-par 73 at

With nine courses on its golf menu, you would think that a major power outage at the North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort & Country Club would be a complete disaster for golfers who’ve traveled from around the world to play. Incredibly, though, golf at the massive complex is still be played while thousands deal with no

11:32 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Onsite betting is coming to the PGA Tour. The PGA Tour and DraftKings held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday at TPC Scottsdale, site of the WM Phoenix Open, on the first sportsbook to be located at a tournament venue. “It’s a big deal,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said. The

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced a new partnership on Monday with the Japan Golf Tour Organization. According to a joint press release, the top three players on the JGTO Order of Merit will earn membership onto the DP World Tour for the ensuing year, beginning with the 2022-23 season. Additionally the JGTO

Remember back in 2020 when LPGA and PGA Tour pros were posting about the Peloton workouts they were doing? And if you’re into Peloton, you probably checked out their output numbers and realized, Dang, some of these golfers have very solid cardio abilities. Well, if you were impressed by Rory McIlroy’s Peloton numbers, get ready

Dec 4, 2022 Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Thriston Lawrence held on to win his home South African Open despite a final-round 2-over 74 at the Blair Atholl course on Sunday. Lawrence started the day with a 2-shot lead over Clement Sordet of France and despite extending his advantage to 5 strokes early on the back

The Shootout, an unofficial money event on the PGA Tour that returns this week at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, currently features 12 two-player teams competing in scramble, alternate shot and best ball formats across 54 holes. The event has occasionally featured women in the field, including this year with Nelly Korda and Lexi

6:20 AM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Nelly Korda and Lexi Thompson are representing the LPGA Tour this week in the QBE Shootout. Next year, they will have plenty of company. The QBE Shootout will become a mixed-team event starting in 2023, returning such a format to the schedule for the first time since

NASSAU, Bahamas — This Viktor Hovland character, amiable and largely unflappable, seems well suited to the laid-back atmosphere that permeates the grounds of Albany Resort and the Hero World Challenge. Then again, he seems to thrive at just about any casual golf locale. In a tournament that is essentially a friendly gathering of 20 very

Golf may be a niche sport, but in 2022, the game found its way into the mainstream, conversations sparked by two words: LIV Golf. The launch of the hotly debated circuit, controversially bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, brought anticipation and consternation with every new detail, rumored or real. Who would play, how would

5:28 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Viktor Hovland won the Hero World Challenge with more excitement than he needed Sunday, clinching it with a 20-foot bogey putt on the final hole for a 3-under 69 to join tournament host Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners. Hovland took a 4-shot lead at the

If it seems like Rory McIlroy has gone out of his way to be the bane of Greg Norman’s existence, that’s because, in McIlroy’s words, he has. In the second part of a three-piece interview series with the Sunday Independent’s Paul Kimmage, McIlroy details the beginning of his feud with the LIV Golf CEO. According

4:48 AM ET Associated Press Rory McIlroy thought his differences with Greg Norman over a Saudi-funded rival golf league had been patched up. That changed when Norman accused him of being “brainwashed” by golf’s ruling brass. “I thought, You know what? I’m going to make it my business now to be as much of a

Yes, it’s a bummer Tiger Woods is not competing this week at the Hero World Challenge as we expected. Tiger cited Plantar fasciitis on Monday as holding him out from competing. Still, Tiger’s on-site and has been a bit of a content factory all week long. Each day he has joined the NBC Sports/Golf Channel

NASSAU, Bahamas — Viktor Hovland wrapped his putter around the throat of this tournament on Saturday, a tournament that some might dismissively deign to refer to as golf of the “hit and giggle” variety. And, yes, we can confirm that there was some of that, because every time Hovland hit a putt, the ball was

8:32 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The degree Masters champion Scottie Scheffler earned from the McCombs School of Business at Texas did not equip him with the skills to figure out the new formula for the Official World Golf Ranking. He is No. 2 in the world. He can go back to No.

When you think of end-of-the-year exhibitions like the Hero World Challenge, it’s hard not to look at the events as paid vacations for the participants. There are just 20 players competing at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas, all staying in swanky villas, playing in a no-cut event with the winner taking home a $1

11:15 PM ET Cameron Smith can carry on drinking after his wildly successful 2022 season petered out to an anticlimactic conclusion in Melbourne. Smith missed the Australian Open’s contentious second cut after failing to make up enough ground during a third-round one-under-par 69 at Victoria Golf Club on Saturday. Despite carding his best round of

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — It is a Thursday evening, two sleeps before the fifth annual Wishbone Brawl at Goat Hill Park. Reggae plays over the loudspeakers at this community hub. The fire pit between the 1st tee and the 18th green is smoldering, which explains the smell and feel of a campsite. The stalls at the

NASSAU, Bahamas—For the second year in a row at the Hero World Challenge, the No. 2 player in the world has a chance to ascend atop the Official World Golf Ranking with a victory. It didn’t work out too well for Collin Morikawa last year. Scottie Scheffler hopes for better fortune, though he isn’t obsessing

6:53 AM ET Adam Scott hopes class and experience will prevail after snatching a share of the Australian Open halfway lead with a spectacular finish to his course-record-equalling second round. Delighting the big gallery, Scott drained a long-range putt from off the green for eagle on the final hole to ice a flawless seven-under-par 63

NASSAU, Bahamas — When Luke Donald asked fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood last month to serve as playing captain for the Great Britain & Ireland team in the inaugural Hero Cup next month in Abu Dhabi, Fleetwood couldn’t wait to tell his father. “When I told my dad Luke had asked me to be a playing

6:50 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — Sepp Straka was home in Alabama preparing for a big week of golf matches at his club, a friend’s wedding and the SEC championship game. And then Tiger Woods couldn’t play in the Bahamas because of a foot injury, and Straka had a change in plans. It

When debating the best iron players in golf today, there are always a few familiar names. Collin Morikawa. Justin Thomas. Hideki Matsuyama. Will Zalatoris. But while these usual suspects all have strong cases, one golfer stands out from the 2022 season. And she doesn’t play on the PGA Tour. Of course, it’s difficult to compare

Even before joining LIV Golf in June as part of the first wave of players to commit to the controversial Saudi-backed circuit, Sergio Garcia did nothing to hide his feelings of contempt toward the PGA Tour. There was the scene at the Wells Fargo Championship in May where frustration with a rules official led to

The so-called “Resort Golf King” is doing it again. And this time, he almost added a bit of history. Viktor Hovland, the defending champ in the Bahamas and whose three career official PGA Tour titles have come in Mexico and Puerto Rico, got off to another great start at the Hero World Challenge. The Norwegian

Tiger Woods was an instrumental voice in spurring the widespread, sweeping changes that have come to the PGA Tour, although most of that work was done behind the scenes. However, in his handful of public appearances in 2022, Woods has consistently been a defender of the tour in its battle against LIV Golf. That sentiment