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Maybe you’ve seen Alan’s beard. It’s a nod to his other life, as a rugged northern California outdoorsman. He’s camping with his four children, and his cellphone is either lost, off or both. If he’s lucky, he didn’t even hear Phil’s recent comment, at a LIV Golf event in Saudi Arabia. Mickelson said on Thursday

1:30 PM ET Associated Press Back in Saudi Arabia for the first time since his disparaging remarks about the source of LIV Golf’s funding, Phil Mickelson said Thursday he was glad he was on the “winning side” and that he sees the PGA Tour trending downward, and he also denied doing the notorious interview with

A player who shoots a 69 typically would be close to advancing at a PGA Tour pre-qualifier, and that score might even be good enough to get through. Well, on Wednesday, a player fired a 69 … on his first nine holes before he WD’d. The 33-over-par total included maybe the most ridiculous two-hole stretch

It was an inspired, if somewhat obvious pairing on Thursday for the first round of the Zozo Championship in Chiba, Japan. Hideki Matsuyama, the national hero, Masters winner and defending Zozo champion, was put together with Xander Schauffele, who may be the country’s second-favorite golfer, given his family’s Japanese ties and his gold-medal triumph in

Oct 11, 2022 Associated Press INZAI CITY, Japan — The players who left to compete in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series should be entitled to earn ranking points, past Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama said Tuesday. Speaking at the Zozo Championship, which opens Thursday, Matsuyama called the ranking-points question “difficult” and didn’t offer any details, solutions

After a roller coaster few months, Cameron Smith can almost see the finish line of a wild 2022. The reigning Open champion and World No. 2 has waded through the expected backlash of leaving the PGA Tour at the height of his game for LIV Golf, where he’s already claimed one tournament title. With two

Oct 11, 2022 Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jack Nicklaus is as curious as anyone how the new PGA Tour schedule will work with $20 million purses at 10 elevated tournaments, and The Players Championship at $25 million. And that doesn’t include what the majors will do. The Memorial is one of the elevated tournaments,

Jack Nicklaus voiced concerns with the PGA Tour’s new schedule, worried recent changes could create two tours within the tour. Speaking to the Associated Press, Nicklaus said commissioner Jay Monahan has some work ahead to make the upcoming adjustments—specifically the elevation of a handful of tournaments—fit into the tour’s delicate tapestry. “I’m not sure what

It’s a tale as old as time in developmental tour golf: Mini-tour collects entry fees. Mini-tour fails to pay players. Mini-tour comes up with excuses for why it isn’t paying players. I have received so many DMs telling me a tour hasn’t paid players that I forgot about players on the MENA Tour who messaged

4:23 PM ET Associated Press The best team event that doesn’t involve a cup is returning to the LPGA Tour. South Korea-based Hanwha is the new title sponsor of the International Crown, which returns to the LPGA landscape next year at Harding Park in San Francisco. The tournament features eight countries each with four players

The Ask Alan mailbag is open for business. Here are this week’s best questions: Eugenio Chacarra winning $4.75M at LIV Bangkok versus Tom Kim winning $4M so far on [the PGA] Tour with two wins … who will be offering to trade lives with the other? @DeyAlcalde I think they’re both pretty happy where they

The calendar might say October, but there’s still plenty of good golf being played around the world. Tom Kim won again on the PGA Tour. Jodi Ewart Shadoff won for the first time in her 11-year LPGA career. And Dustin Johnson became $18 million richer by finishing 16th in a LIV Golf event in Thailand.

The PGA Tour and a strong contingent of tour pros will make their way to Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Japan this week for the fourth edition of the Zozo Championship. The lone PGA Tour event played in Japan features a 78-man field, four rounds and no cut. One of those 78 men will

After numerous attempts to make a splash on some of golf’s biggest stages, Tony Romo is finally going to play in a USGA championship. The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current NFL analyst for CBS combined with Tommy Morrison, a 17-year-old University of Texas commit, to reach the 2023 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship. The two

Oct 9, 2022 Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Tom Kim still didn’t have PGA Tour status two months ago. Now he is a two-time winner being mentioned in the same space as Tiger Woods and is the highest-ranked Asian player in the world. Even for Kim, life feels like it’s moving at warp speed. A

Because of this, Woods has sunk to a career-low standing in the Official World Golf Ranking (1,206th, to be exact), and he’ll continue to sink until he tees it up in an official event again. At this point, no one has any idea where or when that will be. Now, for some good news. Woods

4:51 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson needed only six events to have a $30 million year, and he still has two events left with Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Even though he failed to finish in the top 10 for the first time, Johnson clinched the inaugural LIV Golf Individual Championship. The two-time major champion already

PRESTWICK, Scotland — In every other respect, it was just an ordinary October Wednesday in Prestwick 162 years ago. But down at the local links, a golf competition was about to be born. Three weeks prior to Abraham Lincoln being elected the 16th president of the United States and only months before America would indulge

Ewart Shadoff was ahead by five shots starting the day, a cushion that brings with it its own kind of pressure. And she would struggle at the outset, making the front-nine turn in one over par to see the lead all but slip away. But birdies on the 12th and 14th holes help her keep

10:36 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff is finally an LPGA Tour winner in her 246th start, closing with a 1-under 71 in a nervy final round Sunday for a one-shot victory in the LPGA Mediheal Championship. Ewart Shadoff went wire-to-wire at The Saticoy Club, and the final round felt more

We get three daily papers at home, and all three had the same headline on Thursday: “LIV Golfers are Pawns of the Saudi Government” At least, that’s how I read them. The Philadelphia Inquirer: “OPEC, Allies to Cut Oil Output” The Wall Street Journal: “OPEC, Allies Slash Output of Crude” The New York Times: “Saudis

4:23 PM ET Associated Press It took a year longer than he’d hoped for but Jon Rahm is finally a three-time winner of the Spanish Open, matching the achievement of his hero Seve Ballesteros. There was frustration and disappointment after Rahm finished his home tournament last year when he failed in his first attempt to

Jon Rahm ended any doubt on Sunday who was going to win the Acciona Open de Espana with the kind of emphatic shot the sixth-ranked player in the world has come to be known for. It was on the par-5 14th hole at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid. The 27-year-old Spaniard—easily the fan favorite

Tom Kim hasn’t exhibited the same animated intensity at the Shriners Children’s Open that he showed two weeks ago at the Presidents Cup. But the tournament in Las Vegas isn’t over yet. While Patrick Cantlay was lighting up TPC Summerlin on Saturday for an 11-under 60, tying the course record, Kim was posting a relatively

5:16 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Former top amateur Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra shot a final-round 69 and won the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok by three strokes over Patrick Reed on Sunday. Lopez-Chacarra had a three-round, 19-under total of 197 after the storm-delayed finish on the newly opened Stonehill Golf Club course north of Bangkok. Reed

Thanks to third-round 60 on Saturday that tied the course record, Patrick Cantlay will have another chance to win the Shriners Children’s Open, which happens every time he tees it up at TPC Summerlin. Cantlay just missed recording the 13th sub-60 score in PGA Tour history when his left-to-right 24-foot birdie putt on the 18th

3:42 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm took a one-shot lead of the Spanish Open after carding a thrilling 6-under 65 in the third round on Saturday. No. 6-ranked Rahm, who entered the round two shots back, hit six birdies on an error-free day at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid. 1 Related Rahm won

Should LIV golfers be able to compete in PGA Tour and DP World Tour events? Ask tour pros who haven’t jumped to the upstart Saudi-backed rival, and the answer is an almost universal “NO.” It was them or us, and they chose them.  Ask those same players loyal to the PGA/DP World Tours whether LIV

The Internationals can’t seem to stop playing well two weeks after the Presidents Cup. Four of captain Trevor Immelman’s men—Mito Pereira, Tom Kim, Si Woo Kim, and Cameron Davis—are all high on the leaderboard after two rounds at the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. It’s shaping up to be good weekend

10:30 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff started out Friday as hot as she finished the day before at the LPGA Mediheal Championship. She finally hit a few bumps, but not before expanding her lead with a 3-under 69. Ewart Shadoff opened with a 64 at The Saticoy Club by making