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Despite competing just six times on the LPGA Tour during her rookie season in 2022, Linn Grant has four top-10 finishes and played well enough to rank 51st on the season-long points list, qualifying her for the next week’s CME Group Tour Championship. The accomplishment is all the more impressive given that the 23-year-old Swede

Anybody who has spent time around pro golf for the last 20 years knows Padraig Harrington is one of the best blokes out there. He’s affable, thoughtful and always a little bit goofy—which makes for a combination that most people usually adore. He’s also had a very fine playing career, what with three major championship

10:15 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Tony Finau had his highest score of the week, and it felt as though it was his best in a cold wind Saturday. He kept bogeys off his card, had a 2-under 68 and kept his lead at 4 shots going into the final round of the Houston

Six years apart in age, Phil Mickelson and Pat Perez grew up only a few miles apart in San Diego. They played the same golf courses in junior golf. They both went to Arizona State, though each had very different experiences there. They both reached the PGA Tour and were out there for more than

6:58 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Steven Alker began his PGA Tour Champions career as a Monday qualifier, the goal every week right in front of him: post top-10 finishes to keep playing. Alker kept pulling it off until a win secured his full card. His path to winning the Charles Schwab Cup is

Amid reports that Greg Norman is on the outs with LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed circuit insists he remains with the organization. Earlier this week the Telegraph reported that Norman may be outed as LIV Golf CEO in favor of Taco Bell executive and former TaylorMade CEO Mark King. It is a rumor that has existed

Mark Hubbard was disqualified from the Cadence Bank Houston Open on Friday for knowingly putting a 15th club in his bag. Hubbard, 33, posted an opening 75 and was three over for the day when making the turn during Round 2 when, according to a statement from the PGA Tour communications team, Hubbard “knowingly added

7:26 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Maria Fassi always knew a good putting stroke to go along with her explosive power would lead to low scores. She picked a good time for it to finally come together. Fassi powered her way across the rain-softened Pelican Golf Club and rode a smooth putting stroke

Tony Finau raced into the lead early during the second round of the Cadence Bank Houston Open, courtesy of an eight-under-par 62 that included run that saw him birdie seven of 10 holes and four straight between the seventh and 10th. It’s always fun when an elite-level talent like Finau gets hot. Usually, during a

7:30 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Steven Alker matched Padraig Harrington‘s early birdies and kept playing steady golf, giving him a 1-shot lead over the only player who can pass him for the Charles Schwab Cup. The Kiwi couldn’t have asked for a better start. Alker shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 on Thursday to

Perhaps predictably, certainly unluckily and surely understandably, any first mention of David Drysdale tends to include the fact that the Scot has never finished first in any of the 574 tournaments he has played so far on the DP World Tour. Only 22 men have teed it up more often, all having pulled out a

Fall Saturdays are sacrosanct to most students at the University of Texas, those precious times reserved for their beloved Longhorns on the gridiron. This is especially true of home games, and with the undefeated TCU Horned Frogs heading into town this week you best believe Austin will be a wild scene. And if Travis Vick

7:46 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Tony Finau wants to end his big year in a big way, and he took a step Thursday by biding his time and delivering late birdies for a 5-under 65 that gave him a share of the lead in the Houston Open. Finau used a 60-foot birdie putt

Michelle Wie West doesn’t hesitate to give an honest answer regarging what life is like for her after the LPGA, saying, “I’m still going through an identity crisis.” It’s been three years of adjustments for the 33-year-old. She got married, gave birth to her first child and stepped away from professional golf. For someone who’s

At 51, he’s a golf star, words which have never been written about him before, after decades of toiling in anonymity on golf’s fringes. And now he’s sitting in front of a camera, a microphone hanging above his head, with Phoenix Country Club laid out beyond a window behind him, answering questions about coming out

The PGA Tour Champions takes center stage this week as it looks to crown two champions—the winner of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and the season-long winner of the Charles Schwab Cup. The 72-hole Charles Schwab Cup Championship is back at Phoenix Country Club (Nov. 10-13) this year, where 33 players are in the field.

The money that professional women golfers can earn is seemingly growing by the day. And not in small numbers. On the heels of Tuesday’s announcement by the LPGA Tour that next year’s The Annika (formerly Pelican Ladies Championship) will offer a $3.5 million purse that will be the largest among non-major events outside of the

11:45 AM ET Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf for the first time in nearly five months when he tees it up in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Dec. 1-4, he announced on his Twitter account Wednesday. Woods, 46, hasn’t played since missing the cut at the 150th Open Championship at

South Africa’s Bobby Locke, a four-time Open champion, is generally credited with coming up with the phrase “Drive for show and putt for dough” to describe the key ingredients to winning a golf tournament. It was a theory that held true for some time, but in recent years statistical data shows the formula for winning

Nov 5, 2022 Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Bernhard Langer beat his age by two shots Saturday with a 9-under 63, giving him a one-shot lead over Paul Goydos in the TimberTech Championship and a chance to move closer to the PGA Tour Champions record for career wins. Langer opened with three straight birdies,

Fittingly, the final stage of Korn Ferry Tour Q School wrapped up on a Monday. At Marshwood and the Landings in Savannah, Ga., 44 players earned at least eight guaranteed starts at the start of next season. PGA Tour veteran Bo Hoag took home the biggest prize, coming from five back with a final-round 65

The penultimate event of the fall portion of the 2022-23 PGA Tour schedule will take place this week in Texas for the Cadence Bank Houston Open. The tourney will feature Scottie Scheffler coming off of a final-round 62 and T-3 finish at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba and a T-2 at last year’s

5:18 PM ET Associated Press A few days before Rory McIlroy returned to No. 1 in the world, he was asked if he could accept being No. 2 for the foreseeable future. The topic, of course, was the Player Impact Program, and McIlroy smiled. “Hey, I gave him a pretty good run,” McIlroy said. That

Two-time major champion Angel Cabrera is now a two-time assault convict. Cabrera was convicted for assaulting an ex-partner for a second time on Monday, according to Agence France Presse. The 53-year-old received an additional two years and four months of prison time for assaulting Micaela Escudero. Cabrera is still serving a two-year sentence for assaulting,

There are only two official events left on both the PGA Tour and the LPGA Tour in the 2022 calendar year. After playing in the Cadence Bank Houston Open this week, the PGA Tour closes the year at The RSM Classic at Sea Island Resort on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, on Nov. 17-20. The LPGA

You hear it happen every so often, not frequently enough to call it common but not infrequently enough to call it rare. Still, each time a golfer forgets to sign a scorecard—and is subsequently disqualified from a tournament—the reaction that follows is twofold: How could that possible happen (again)? And why are they hit with

Bernhard Langer won on Sunday. Again. To break his own record for being the oldest PGA Tour Champions winner. Again. Golfers have longer careers than other professional athletes, but this is just ridiculous. Langer has had a longer career than most if you just count his time on the senior tour. And he’s certainly made

11:06 AM ET It’s official: Tiger Woods is returning to the golf course Dec. 10 in the seventh edition of The Match. The 15-time major champion will team up with world No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy against Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth in a 12-hole competition under the lights at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair,

The reports are finally official: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will face Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth in the latest iteration of “The Match” Dec. 10 at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. The four superstars committed to the exhibition series, which will be held for the seventh time and second in 2022 after a

5:53 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Bernhard Langer broke his own record as the oldest winner on the PGA Tour Champions with a 6-under 66 for a six-shot victory Sunday in the TimberTech Championship, leaving the 65-year-old German one win away from matching the career record. Langer started the final round with