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The PGA Tour announced Wednesday evening a long-term commitment to hosting the Presidents Cup in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The biennial event has marked the 2028 and 2040 matches to visit the Sandbelt region. The area has already hosted the cup three times in the event’s history in 1998, 2011 and 2019, with the 1998 edition

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Stay with us here: In the 2015 Presidents Cup, Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, Davis Love III and Steve Stricker were Jay Haas’ assistant captains as the Americans won by a single point in South Korea. Since that year, Love, Stricker and Furyk have served as the three ensuing U.S. Ryder Cup

9:20 AM ET Scottie Scheffler walked out of Augusta National Golf Club after the 86th Masters on Sunday with a green jacket, perhaps the most-prized possession in golf. But his caddie, Ted Scott, did not leave empty-handed. It is tradition, not just at the Masters, but at every major championship, that the caddie for the

When it comes to nicknaming people, Tiger Woods channels his inner hockey player, simply adding an “-ey” to end the of someone’s first or last name. Sometimes, though, the GOAT can flash a little more creativity than that. Like last week at the Masters, where one of Woods’ longtime competitors Stewart Cink made a hole-in-one

6:59 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Shirley Spork, one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour who learned two weeks ago she would be inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, the LPGA said. She was 94. The LPGA said she died in Palm Springs, California, where she had

The LPGA Tour lost one of its 13 founders on Tuesday. Shirley Spork passed away in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 94 years old. Not only was Spork one of the LPGA Tour’s founders, she also created the LPGA Teaching & Club Pro Division. The program is vibrant: There are more than 1,800 LPGA teaching

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Imagine a world in which the following words were uttered in a pre-tournament press conference on the PGA Tour, on the topic of evolving spirituality and mind-bending drugs: “Since I started on this journey of soul searching, my spirituality has definitely changed and been opened up to so many different things

7:00 AM ET It is impossible to say, at this point, whether Tiger Woods still has a chance to break Jack Nicklaus‘ record of 18 major championship victories. It’s unlikely if you’re assessing it pragmatically. He is 46 years old, he walks with a noticeable limp from his rebuilt right leg, he has a surgically-fused

Few things warm the heart of a golf enthusiast more than a golf trip with buddies, especially one that is well-planned. If it has been a while since you have undertaken a buddies trip because of the pandemic, then your next one is even more important to get right—down to every last detail. In case

11:59 AM ET Scottie Scheffler won the Masters going away and is the No. 1-ranked player in the world, but he’s not the favorite at sportsbooks to win golf’s next major. Jon Rahm opened as the favorite to win the PGA Championship at 11-1 at Caesars Sportsbook. Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are next at 12-1,

Playing the coulda-shoulda-woulda game is about as futile as it gets in golf, especially at the Masters. However, Harry Higgs might allow himself to play it over one shot from Sunday, because he coulda-shoulda-woulda earned an invitation into the 2023 Masters had that one shot gone differently. Of course, Higgs hit 71 shots on Sunday,

Nobody cares what an idiot on his couch may or may not have predicted, but I’m going to tell you two quick stories anyway. Story 1: In a Slack with some friends, at 5:43 p.m. ET on Saturday evening after Rory’s 73-73-71 put him safely out of contention at this year’s Masters, I wrote, “Does

5:12 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — After playing 72 holes over four straight days at one of the most demanding golf courses in the world, Tiger Woods was asked how much pain he was in on Sunday after finishing up his Masters. “Uh-huh,” Woods answered. Woods’ return to professional golf won’t be remembered for the

It’s difficult to win the Masters if you don’t putt well and Scottie Scheffler did that, ranking fifth in putts per green In regulation at 1.53 with his Scotty Cameron by Titleist Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS which he first put in play at the WM Phoenix Open. Scheffler went to the new putter following

8:59 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fifteen minutes after Scottie Scheffler won the Masters, a golf cart rushed him to the back door of Butler Cabin. The only sounds came from a drone circling overhead and a few birds. His green jacket waited inside. He looked dazed. Of course he did. In the past 57

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The father had not seemed worried. A father who is worried about his son does not have the stomach for an ice cream sandwich, and the father must have been at ease because he decided to down a second. And why not? After a week of unseasonable cold and unwelcome wind it

AUGUSTA, Ga.—In America, Min Woo Lee is probably best known as being the brother of LPGA Tour player Minjee Lee. At 25, his sister already has six wins, including capturing her first major in 2021 at the Evian Championship. Min Woo Lee, 23, has a fine career going in his own right, with two DP

3:08 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods on Sunday finished a week that didn’t seem possible less than 14 months ago. Playing in his first official tournament since he was seriously injured in a car wreck outside Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 2021, Woods walked up the 18th fairway to applause at Augusta National

When you think of great final rounds in Masters history, certain rounds come to mind. Jack Nicklaus’ 65 in 1986 at age 46. Gary Player’s 64 for a come-from-behind win in 1978. Perhaps Nick Faldo’s 65 to force a playoff that he won in 1989. All were truly fantastic works of golf on perhaps the

7:30 PM ET The Masters appeared to be headed toward a drama-less Sunday. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, seemed like he was about to run away from the field. But a few stumbles at the end might make Sunday at Augusta National a little more interesting. So we rounded up our

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Augusta National doesn’t have many off days, but on Saturday, golfers and spectators would barely notice if it did. With raw temperatures and wind whipping through the golf course, the Masters had the rare tuck your face in your jacket and just get through it quality. Golf Digest photographers didn’t have the same luxury,

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It is Saturday afternoon and Mecklin Ragan has just finished a morning shift at the hospital lab, but there are no hints of fatigue in her voice, her exhaustion concealed by rapture at what has transpired the past two days at Augusta National. No, Mecklin Ragan is not in Georgia to watch

12:31 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods needs to play well to be a factor on the weekend at the Masters. He also needs some help from 36-hole leader Scottie Scheffler. On Moving Day at Augusta National, we track Woods’ third round. Saturday setup The weather is cold, with highs not reaching 60. The

AUGUSTA, Ga. — He was never shy and, sadly, he never made it to retirement. Just a month after turning 54, two-time Masters champion Seve Ballesteros passed away in his home village of Pedrena on Spain’s northern coast. Today would’ve been his 65th birthday. “Seve was one of those players we were all lucky to

7:30 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods and his rebuilt leg held up for another day at the Masters, overcoming a disastrous front nine to make the cut and enter the weekend nine shots off the lead. To watch him Friday, in pain yet still stoic, was to watch someone battle … the course,

AUGUSTA, Ga. — If you’re watching the Masters coverage on TV, you’re seeing the most important moments from the tournament. But what you’re missing are some of the most beautiful, scene-setting images that so few get to see. Unless you’re lucky enough to score a badge as a patron, only folks like our photographers—who are

AUGUSTA, Ga. — By day’s end Friday, calculating Alexander Walter Barr (“Sandy” to his friends) Lyle’s success rate in major championships became a matter of simple arithmetic. It is exactly 2 percent. Adding a second-round 76 to his opening 82, the 1985 Open champion and 1988 Masters winner completed a premature end to what was

2:09 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods isn’t just back, he’s in the conversation at the 86th Masters. He opened with a methodical 1-under 71 in the opening round Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club. He had an early tee time Thursday. He heads out in the late wave Friday, alongside Joaquin Niemann. The

Moving Day at Augusta National will be a particularly important one this year. Forecasted, sustained winds Friday afternoon of 16 miles per hour—gusting up to 30 mph—could make conditions very, very difficult. The course should firm up as the day goes on and present quite the ball-striking examination—creating quite the imposition to make the cut

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The last of the morning spring chill, murder on Tiger Woods‘ aching, reconstructed leg, burned off as he started his round at the Masters. It felt nice in the shade here at Augusta National. Huge crowds ringed the entirety of the first hole. There might as well have been no one else