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NASSAU, Bahamas — Tom Kim looked devastated on Tuesday afternoon. He had just lost to U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the final round of the Hero Shot, a seven-man exhibition in which players hit wedges to a floating target in the middle of a pond between the ninth and 18th holes at Albany. When

There’s an old saying at the Masters that “Every putt breaks toward Rae’s Creek.” Of course, that’s preposterous because Augusta National isn’t one giant funnel around a (small) body of water, but people still like to say it. Just like they like to talk about how “putting gets more difficult late in the day.” In

NASSAU, Bahamas — Hobbled severely by his surgically repaired right leg and in obvious discomfort after nearly a week walking the arduous terrain at Augusta National Golf Club in his comeback to competitive golf after his February 2021 car accident, Tiger Woods was just trying to get through the final round of the Masters. Jon

NASSAU, Bahamas — One of the more outspoken stalwarts in support of the PGA Tour, Jon Rahm nevertheless has to admit that recent changes to golf’s top circuit, including increases in prize money and the Player Impact Program bonus fund, likely would not have come about if not for the fledgling LIV Golf Series that

NASSAU, Bahamas — Sepp Straka had a big weekend ahead of him before late-developing circumstances forced him to alter his plans. On tap Friday was the wedding of his good friend, fellow PGA Tour player J.T. Poston, in Sea Island, Ga. On Saturday, he was heading to Atlanta to watch the SEC title game in

MELBOURNE, Australia — Adam Scott and several of his countrymen competing at this week’s Australian Open were asked what they made of recent comments from Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods that LIV Golf’s chief executive (and fellow Aussie) Greg Norman “needs to go” before LIV and the PGA Tour can ever come together. But Scott,

Add Tiger Woods to the list of voices frustrated with the revamped Official World Golf Ranking. Speaking to the media Tuesday at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, Woods was asked his thoughts about the OWGR, which released a modernized formula for its weekly calculations this past summer. The 15-time major winner didn’t mince

The PGA Tour announced Wednesday that Mike Weir has been named the International captain for the 2024 Presidents Cup. The appointment of the Canadian is not a surprise, as the event will visit Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Weir, 52, is best known for his 2003 Masters victory over Len Mattiace in

MELBOURNE, Australia — In the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday, Cameron Smith tees off with defending champion and fellow LIV golfer, Matt Jones, as well as DP World Tour ace Adrian Meronk at Victoria G.C. In the next group off the tee, reigning U.S. Women’s Open champion Minjee Lee will play alongside

10:01 AM ET The LIV Golf League will play tournaments in Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Spain as part of its 14-event schedule in 2023. LIV Golf announced Wednesday that it will stage events at Mayakoba’s El Camaleon Golf Course (Feb. 24-26), Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore (April 28-30) and Real Club Valderrama in Spain (June

LIV Golf’s schedule for 2023 is close to being finalized, sources tell Golf Digest, and it’s a schedule that features visits to multiple former PGA Tour venues. The Saudi-backed circuit announced three tournament sites on Wednesday for its sophomore season. Those stops are El Camaleón Golf Course in Mexico—which had been a tour host since

NASSAU, Bahamas — With two PGA Tour victories and a successful debut in the Presidents Cup, in which he went unbeaten in four matches as a captain’s pick for the victorious U.S. team at Quail Hollow Club, Max Homa undoubtedly enjoyed his finest year as a pro golfer, climbing to 16th in the Official World

The golf world was amped up for this week’s Hero World Challenge, with its host, Tiger Woods, set to compete for the first time since his appearance in The 150th Open at St. Andrews in July. But then it’s collective bubble was burst when Tiger tweeted out on Monday that he was withdrawing from the

NASSAU, Bahamas — Throughout their playing careers—and even well beyond their prime competitive years—the opinions of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were all but gospel as they related to essential decisions being made in professional golf. That includes the formation of the PGA Tour in the late 1960s. Palmer is gone and Nicklaus, soon to

11:37 AM ET Tiger Woods on Tuesday said he had two additional surgeries this year and that the plantar fasciitis in his right foot that will prevent him from playing this week is related to his ongoing recovery from serious injuries suffered in a car wreck outside Los Angeles in February 2021. Woods, 46, declined

Phil Mickelson has been mostly quiet on social media since the fallout from his controversial statements and involvement with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit. But the 52-year-old remains on Twitter, and on Tuesday attempted to defend himself from one of those previous remarks against comments made by Tiger Woods at the Hero World Challenge. For

2:15 PM ET Golf fans will have to wait a few more weeks to watch Tiger Woods play again. The 15-time major champion was forced to pull out of this week’s Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosts in the Bahamas, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Woods said doctors told him that

NASSAU, Bahamas — Just because he has nothing left to prove on the golf course doesn’t mean that Tiger Woods has nothing left to gain by extending his competitive career as long as he possibly can. At this stage of the soon-to-be 47-year-old’s life, having been decimated by injuries that limit his competitive opportunities and

MELBOURNE, Australia — Despite winning five times worldwide in 2022—including his first major championship—there’s one milestone Cameron Smith will miss out on. At No. 3 on the Official World Golf Rankings, the reigning Open champion will not be able to reach No. 1 given this week’s Australian Open is his last tournament of the year

1:21 PM ET Rory McIlroy had a season to remember, but there’s at least one thing he regrets. “I’m like, ‘F—ing hell, I’ve just given Tiger COVID!'” In an interview with the Sunday Independent, McIlroy recounted the circumstances that he says led to him and Tiger Woods both getting COVID-19 ahead of The Open. McIlroy

Three additional schools will have a chance to compete for the NCAA D-I women’s title this spring at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. On Monday, the NCAA announced it is expanding the size of the field at the women’s national championship from 24 teams to 27 beginning in 2023. “There is extreme importance in providing

3:17 PM ET Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, he announced on Twitter on Monday. The tournament, which benefits the Woods’ charity, TGR Foundation, was supposed to be his first start since he missed the cut in the 150th Open

Tiger Woods has dropped out of this week’s Hero World Challenge due to injury. Woods, who serves as host for the 20-player exhibition event, announced via social media on Monday that he has developed plantar fasciitis in his right foot. “After consulting with my doctors and trainers, I have decided to withdraw this week and

On July 4, 1999, in just his sixth professional start on the then European Tour (and a month before his breakout showdown with Tiger Woods at the PGA at Medinah), Sergio Garcia claimed a three-shot victory over Angel Cabrera at the Murphy’s Irish Open. It was the first of 16 wins for the Spaniard on

What the public wasn’t aware of was that a week before The 150th Open at St. Andrews, McIlroy thinks he came down with COVID, and believes he could have passed it on to Tiger Woods. Speaking in an interview with the Irish Independent, the first part published on Sunday, McIlroy told Paul Kimmage the story

7:50 AM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Dan Bradbury completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Joburg Open on Sunday to win his first European tour title at Houghton Golf Club. The Englishman’s 4-under 67 final round proved to be more than enough as his closest challenger, Sami Valimaki of Finland, dropped a further two shots

Somewhere in one of the corners of his mind on Sunday, Dan Bradbury had to be wondering if his good fortune might run out at South Africa’s Houghton Golf Club. Sure, the Englishman had held the lead for the first three days of the Joburg Open. But this was just his sixth start since finishing

BRISBANE, Australia — Geoff Ogilvy is wearing two hats at the Australian PGA Championship, and wearing them well. These days, the 2006 U.S. Open winner is at most a part-time tour player. But you wouldn’t know it based on his two-under-par score [68, 72] after 36 holes at Royal Queensland G.C.. He’s eight shots behind

4:24 AM ET An exhausted Cameron Smith has fought back tears as he credited his grandmother for fuelling the final push to a third Australian PGA Championship and cap a magnificent homecoming. The Brisbane favourite captured a fifth title for 2022 in fading light on Sunday at Royal Queensland, rallying after twice being forced off

BRISBANE, Australia — Lucas Herbert’s hopes of using the Australian summer of golf to climb back inside the top 50 on the World Rankings in time for a Masters invitation have taken a blow after he withdrew due to injury midway through the second round at the Australian PGA Championship. Herbert “twinged” his back on