Keith Mitchell settles for 5-way tie for Valspar Championship lead
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keith Mitchell thrived in a tough wind on a tough Copperhead course at Innisbrook on Thursday until he dropped two shots late in his round and had to settle for a 4-under-par 67 and a five-way share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. The gusts...
Rory McIlroy takes drama out of playoff to win The Players, build momentum to the Masters
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The playoff was only three holes. Rory McIlroy needed only three swings. And yet his victory Monday over J.J. Spaun in The Players Championship revealed so much about the state of his game and the cruel nature of the notorious TPC Sawgrass. McIlroy delivered an...
Rory McIlroy, J.J. Spaun tie at The Players Championship to set up Monday playoff
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy built a three-shot lead on the back nine at The Players Championship, and unheralded J.J. Spaun didn’t blink. They wound up tied after a four-hour rain delay and have to return Monday for a playoff to decide who wins the richest tournament in...
J.J. Spaun takes the lead at The Players Championship on windy day that wrecked roundsVideo
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — J.J. Spaun only had to look at the video boards around the TPC Sawgrass to appreciate the chaos going around him Saturday in The Players Championship. Will Zalatoris was tied for the lead, and then his name was gone after an astonishing stretch of 9-over-par...
Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia share lead at The Players as Justin Thomas ties course mark with 62Video
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia shared the lead at The Players Championship going into a weekend with strong wind in the forecast and the potential for a wide-open chase. That includes Justin Thomas, the biggest surprise Friday. Thomas opened with a 78 and was...
Camilo Villegas and Lucas Glover among those sharing Players Championship lead on wild dayVideo
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Camilo Villegas was on the phone the day before The Players Championship trying to sort out his swing with a coach who is in Singapore caddying at a LIV Golf event. He wound up tied for the lead, a peculiar twist in a tournament filled...
After latest injury, has golf seen the last of Tiger Woods?
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Golf without Tiger Woods was inevitable simply because of age. He turns 50 at the end of this year and once leaned on the adage that “Father Time remains undefeated.” But for Woods, it has been the mother lode of injuries that is keeping him...
Tiger Woods says he ruptured his Achilles tendon, an injury likely to keep him out of the MastersVideo
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods had a less invasive surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon on Tuesday, which will keep him out of the Masters and leaves in question whether he can play in any other major championship the rest of the year. Woods posted the development on...
Russell Henley with a late charge and a big eagle wins Bay Hill for biggest career winVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Russell Henley delivered a late charge that would have made Arnold Palmer proud, capped by chipping in for eagle on the 16th hole to rally with a 2-under-par 70 at Bay Hill on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career. Henley trailed Collin Morikawa by three...
Rio Takeda of Japan shoots a blistering 8-under 64 in China to win her second LPGA title
SANYA, China — Rio Takeda shot a blistering 8-under 64 on Sunday to win the LPGA’s Blue Bay tournament by six shots ahead of Minjee Lee of Australia, the second LPGA title for the young Japanese. The 21-year-old Takeda finished on 17-under 271 for the four rounds on China’s southern...
Tiger Woods not in the field for The Players Championship in his final year of an exemptionVideo
Tiger Woods is not in the field for The Players Championship next week at the TPC Sawgrass, the final year of his exemption from winning the 2019 Masters. The decision was not surprising, especially when Woods said after a TMRW Golf League match earlier this week that it was only...
Shane Lowry builds 2-shot lead at Arnold Palmer Invitational
ORLANDO, Fla. — Shane Lowry loves the grind of a strong test, and it’s showing at Bay Hill. He had six birdies Friday in slightly tamer conditions for a 5-under-par 67, giving him a two-shot lead going into the weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. It wasn’t as cold as...
Wyndham Clark handles a stressful test at Bay Hill to lead by 2Video
ORLANDO, Fla. — Wyndham Clark handled a stressful day at Bay Hill by eliminating as much trouble as possible. Two late birdies as the wind finally waned carried him to a 5-under-par 67 and a two-shot lead Thursday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. It was clear from the start Bay...
U.S. Open countdown rekindles history at Oakmont Country Club
In fewer than 100 days, many of the top golfers in the world will be at historic Oakmont Country Club teeing it up for the U.S. Open. It will be a record 10th time the tournament will be held at the famous venue, and each time a different story has...
Xander Schauffele ready to return from rib injury with modest expectations at Bay HillVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Xander Schauffele took his first swing on a PGA Tour course in 57 days and found the middle of the fairway. And then he took another golf ball from his bag and tossed it into the thick rough. That was the real test. “If this doesn’t go...
Golf’s standard is getting higher. Scores should be getting lower
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Cognizant Classic once had a reputation for some of the toughest scoring conditions on the PGA Tour because only one number for the score was required next to the winner’s name. During a 16-year stretch from when it first went to PGA National in 2007, only...
Jake Knapp hangs on to the lead with more than a dozen players in the mix at Cognizant ClassicVideo
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Jake Knapp survived a wild Saturday at the Cognizant Classic and avoided calamity at the troublesome par-3 15th by making a pair of late birdies for a 3-under-par 68 and a one-shot lead going into the final round at PGA National. Knapp, who opened the...
What happens after a PGA Tour player shoots a 59? Jake Knapp is about to find out.Video
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Jake Knapp shot 70 on Friday at PGA National in the second round of the Cognizant Classic. That’s slightly above the average score — 68.64, to be exact — for those coming back to work on the PGA Tour a day after joining golf’s under-60...
Jake Knapp shoots 15th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Jake Knapp knew he was on the verge of something special early Thursday, with a run of five straight birdies to open his round at the Cognizant Classic. In the end, he joined one of golf’s most elite clubs. Knapp — the 99th-ranked player in...
Florida Gator battles Florida gator, Billy Horschel prevails at PGA National
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Gator took on a gator. Billy Horschel won. Let’s explain: Horschel played his college golf for the Florida Gators, so he knows plenty about the wildlife that gets seen on courses in the Sunshine State — including, yes, alligators. And when a gator made...
Famous Ludvig Aberg, unknown Brian Campbell are both important to PGA Tour
One week the PGA Tour winner was Ludvig Aberg, a Swede so supremely talented that he played in a Ryder Cup before his first major, entered the top 10 in the world ranking just nine months after he left college and has been there ever since. The next week it...
Brian Campbell cashes in, wins Mexico Open for 1st PGA Tour title
VALLARTA, Mexico — Brian Campbell cashed in on a huge break Sunday when his tee shot in a playoff bounced out of the trees and back into play, leading to a birdie on the second extra hole to win the Mexico Open over Aldrich Potgieter. Campbell, who closed with a...
Aldrich Potgieter hangs on to 1-shot lead in Mexico OpenVideo
VALLARTA, Mexico — Aldrich Potgieter had the lead going into the final round of the Mexico Open — minus the cushion he enjoyed — after a sloppy finish Saturday that made him settle for a 4-under-par 67 and a one-shot advantage over Brian Campbell at Vidanta Vallarta. Potgieter, a 20-year-old...
Germany’s Paul and Norway’s Ventura part of international leaderboard in Mexico OpenVideo
VALLARTA, Mexico — Six of the seven PGA Tour events this year had international winners, and the Mexico Open kept up with trend Thursday when Jeremy Paul of Germany, Kris Ventura of Norway and Harry Hall of England shared the lead at 7-under-par 64. Hall played early and handled the...
Ludvig Aberg, 1st to get card through PGA Tour University, making most of opportunityVideo
SAN DIEGO — Jon Rahm saw this coming, even if he might not have known the player — Ludvig Aberg — or how quickly the college kid would make his mark. Toward the end of LIV Golf’s inaugural season in October 2022, Rahm was still bullish about the PGA Tour...
