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Caleb Surratt was always going to remember his first start in a PGA Tour event. After a wild four days at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, it would become memorable to general golf fans as well. The 18-year-old freshman at Tennessee had earned an exemption into the tournament thanks to coming in first in the newly

Legendary University of Tulsa women’s golf coach Dale McNamara, who led four teams to national championships and coached Nancy Lopez during her 26-year career, died Sunday from complications with a second bout of cancer. She was 86. McNamara’s two daughters Cathy and Melissa were by her side at the time of her passing, according to

2:04 PM ET Associated Press Thai teenager Atthaya Thitikul reached No. 1 in the women’s world ranking on Monday, the 16th player and second-youngest to get to the top since the ranking began in 2006. Thitikul had a chance to reach No. 1 by winning any of her last three tournaments on the LPGA Tour.

Last year the World No. 1 ranking was traded back and forth between Nelly Korda and Jin Young Ko so often, it would’ve been hard to predict that there’d be a new No. 1 a year later who wasn’t either one of them. But with less than a month left in the 2022 season, neither

7:50 AM ET MIAMI — During Wednesday’s pairings selection at the LIV Golf Team Championship, held inside the Ivanka Trump ballroom at Trump National Doral Golf Club, eight team captains sat in front of a group of reporters, while a moderator announced the matchups, in which the higher-seeded teams were allowed to pick their opponents.

Treading water doesn’t really get you anywhere, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an important endeavor. Ask Seamus Power, who managed to keep from sinking in the final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship just long enough to claim his second victory on the PGA Tour. Taking advantage of the opening provided by playing partner

5:35 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Seamus Power did enough right and left all the mistakes to PGA Tour rookie Ben Griffin on Sunday to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship for his second tour title. Power took the lead for good with a 25-foot birdie putt at the 14th. A bogey on the

DORAL, Fla — LIV Golf’s turbulent first season came to an end at its Team Championship on Sunday with a finish—on and off the course—unlike any seen before. First, Dustin Johnson rolled in a short par putt on the 18th hole at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster course that secured a win for his 4

The best 72-hole score in relation to par Jordan Smith had shot on the DP World Tour prior to this week’s Portugal Masters was 22 under at the MyGolfLife Open in South Africa. It came last March and left him into a three-way playoff that he ultimately lost to Pablo Larrazabal. It’s this context that

5:54 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Seamus Power knows the wind and Port Royal well enough to realize he’d better do his scoring early. He did just that Saturday, added a few birdies late and had another 6-under 65 to share the lead with Ben Griffin in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Power holed

DORAL, Fla. — An equity stake for captains, a transfer market for players, and teams paying for all their operating costs. LIV Golf officials have shared several key components of what the Saudi Arabia-funded league’s franchise model will look like for its second season in 2023 and beyond. LIV Golf’s president and chief operating officer,

6:11 PM ET Associated Press DORAL, Fla. — Dustin Johnson‘s season of big LIV money will finish with another seven-figure check. Johnson and his 4Aces GC team are one of four squads that will play in the finals of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf team championship Sunday, with $16 million — $4 million for each of

Since 1980, only five players have pulled off the accomplishment on the PGA Tour. On Sunday at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Aaron Baddeley will look to become the sixth player to win a tour event after Monday qualifying. Baddeley, a four-time PGA Tour winner but without a victory since 2016, will start the final round

CHONBURI, Thailand — At last. Amidst the heat and humidity that is part of life in Thailand, a little bit of daylight has appeared. On the leaderboard at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship that is. With one more circuit of Amata Spring Country Club to play, Australia’s Harrison Crowe on 13 under par has a two-shot

7:27 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Ben Crane took advantage of a rare start on the PGA Tour with his lowest score in 10 years, a 9-under 62 that gave him a one-shot lead going into the weekend of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Crane’s last victory was in 2014 at the FedEx St.

DORAL, Fla. — The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has rejected claims made by Donald Trump that the governing body is looking to take the Open Championship back to the Trump-owned Turnberry course in Scotland. After the Thursday pro-am at LIV Golf’s team finale outside Miami, former President Trump told reporters “the

8:36 PM ET Associated Press DORAL, Fla. — Phil Mickelson‘s long year that led him to being a central figure in Saudi-funded LIV Golf ended on Friday when British Open champion Cameron Smith holed a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Mickelson and eliminate his team. The LIV Golf Team Championship-Miami at

DORAL, Fla. — Among the most commonly used reasons for players signing with LIV Golf was a longer, more definitive offseason—in addition to the lure of large, guaranteed-money contracts. Their sentiment was rooted in the PGA Tour’s wraparound schedule, created in 2013-14, which compelled even some of the biggest stars to play events in the

CHONBURI, Thailand — In the minds of many, the best thing about the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship is not the invitation to the Masters or the exemption into the Open that go to the eventual winner. No, what sets this now 13-year-old event apart from just about every other is the range of abilities on display.

5:32 PM ET Associated Press Despite feeling unwell, Jordan Smith shot a 9-under 62 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead at the Portugal Masters. The Englishman made seven birdies and a 30-foot eagle in a bogey-free round on a low-scoring opening day at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course. “I’m really happy with the way

DORAL, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump wasted little time Thursday in saying that the PGA Tour is “making a big mistake” in not finding a way to better co-exist with LIV Golf. Trump played in the pro-am of LIV Golf’s $50 million Team Championship alongside Brooks Koepka and Sergio Garcia. It’s the eighth and

6:12 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Arjun Atwal went to Bermuda without having competed in the three months since his father died and without the guarantee of a tee time. He walked off Port Royal on Thursday with an 8-under 63 that left him one shot behind in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Atwal

In the first seven events of LIV Golf’s inaugural season, the Saudi-backed circuit has prize money payouts of $25 million for its individual and team components. For its eighth and final event of 2022, the upstart tour is doubling that. The overall purse for the LIV Golf Team Championship – Miami is $50 million, with

PGA Tour player Grayson Murray was involved in a vehicle accident earlier this week, forcing Murray out of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. According to the Royal Gazette, Murray and his caddie, Douglas Schwimer, were riding scooters on Tuesday and en route to their hotel. As Murray was turning a bend he collided with a car

7:37 AM ET Associated Press Phil Mickelson has responded to Rory McIlroy‘s most recent criticism of LIV Golf by saying the Saudi-backed breakaway series is “a force that’s not going away.” This week The Guardian published an interview in which McIlroy — the world’s No. 1 player again — said the game was not benefitting

There are two simple reasons why Lucas Herbert will not defend his title at the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship this week: He’s a member of the wedding party for a close friend who is getting married in his native Australia, and he’s also taking some rest before a last-minute bid to make the DP

1:59 PM ET Bob McClellanNFL Joe Biddle, whose Nashville sportswriting career spanned five decades, died early Wednesday. He was 78. Born June 13, 1944, in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he was a high school classmate of Heisman Trophy winner and legendary coach Steve Spurrier, Biddle rose to prominence as the sports editor and columnist of

For a fourth consecutive year, Port Royal Golf Course will be the site of the PGA Tour’s Bermuda Championship. But it’s going to be tough for the Robert Trent Jones track to create as much drama as it did when it used to host a major. Or, rather, an exhibition for major champions. Remember the

CHONBURI, Thailand — One of the most attractive aspects of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC) is the diversity contained within the 120-player field. This year, 38 countries and territories are represented, as well as a range of ages (from 14 to 60) and abilities. Sometimes too, upon closer inspection a competitor isn’t quite what he

5:33 AM ET World No. 1 Rory McIlroy said the feud between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf Series is “out of control” and warned it could leave the sport fractured for a long time. In an interview with The Guardian, McIlroy described the atmosphere in the game as “us vs. them” and said the