5:00 PM ET The PGA Tour is set to give a $50,000 bonus to any player who competes in a minimum number of tournaments that is already considered a condition of membership — 15 events. The tour recently sent a memo to players outlining the new perk, which requires 15 tournaments that are considered official
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The final leg of the PGA Tour’s Vegas Swing is here with the CJ Cup heading to a new course—The Summit Club. After it opened in 2019, this Tom and Logan Fazio design earned runner-up honors in Golf Digest’s Best New private survey. Located in the Red Rocks area west of the Vegas Strip, Summit
Standing on the tee at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., with a one-shot lead over Miguel Angel Jimenez, Mickelson was desperately looking to find the fairway on the 440-yard hole. Instead, his drive went left of the fairway heading for a grove of trees. The ball would settle in some pine straw, but it
8:50 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sungjae Im turned a shootout into a one-man show Sunday in Las Vegas, running the tables with seven birdies in eight holes around the turn for a 9-under 62 and a 4-shot victory in the Shriners Children’s Open. Im was among four players who had at least
Defeatists think it is a town built on broken dreams, false promises and unfounded hope. Optimists see it as a city of second chances where the unbelievable is routine. Realists understand these views are not mutually exclusive and, often, are one in the same. So while the sport may be lamenting a missed chance at
4:01 PM ET Associated Press WEST CALDWELL, N.J. — Jin Young Ko finished off a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Cognizant Founders Cup with her 14th consecutive round in the 60s, matching a 16-year-old record held by Annika Sorenstam. Even in a steady rain at Mountain Ridge, the 26-year-old South Korean star made it look
This one was pre-ordained. Or at least it was supposed to be, if the majority of the pre-tournament publicity was to be believed. It was supposed to be won by a Spaniard. And it was supposed to be won by a member of the recent European Ryder Cup team. The first part came true at
In a first-round Friday on the PGA Tour Champions in October, there was a tiny fraction of the drama surrounding the shot, compared to the one Phil Mickelson hit from the pine straw at No. 13 on Masters Sunday in 2010. Still, there are moments when Lefty reminds us of just how creative and skillful
9:15 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Adam Schenk and Matthew Wolff both took a while to get started Saturday in the Shriners Children’s Open. It’s how they finished that put them into the final group with a chance to win. Both figured that’s how it will unfold Sunday at the suddenly windy TPC
It was a Saturday afternoon to remember for Matthew Wolff. He may be the latest to bloom into a full-fledged star out of the 2019 crop of young guns that included fellow Oklahoma State Cowboy Viktor Hovland and already-two-time-major-champion Collin Morikawa, but his ascendance may be the most feel-good story of them all. The freshening
4:15 PM ET William E. Ricks Tiger Woods was spotted back on the golf course as images surfaced of him spectating at a junior event tournament in Florida this weekend. The 45-year-old golfer is pictured watching his son, Charlie, competing at a junior event. He was wearing golf gear and had a sleeve on his
Editor’s Note: This article was published in 2020 ahead of Annika’s 50th birthday. She turned 51 on Saturday. Ahead of celebrating her 50th birthday, Annika Sorenstam took time to talk to Golf Digest and reflect on what was one of the greatest golf careers of all time. In her 26-year professional career, she won 90
Matthew Wolff was one of the most talked about players on the PGA Tour entering last year because he was one of the biggest question marks. If his last four rounds are any indication, though, the 22-year-old may be close to rejoining the ranks of fellow Class of 2019 stars, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland.
10:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sam Burns won the Sanderson Farms Championship last week and is trying to put it behind him. He’s playing as though it never ended. Burns made a pair of 6-foot par putts on the only two greens he missed in regulation and ran off eight birdies in
Already grieving the recent death of a caddie, the PGA Tour Latinoamerica suffered another tragedy on Thursday when a caddie collapsed on the course and died at a hospital in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. The tour issued a statement on Friday reporting that caddie Alberto Olguin, of Mexico City, collapsed on the ninth tee box as
3:11 PM ET The big crowds following Jon Rahm in his return to Spain are starting to bother the world’s top-ranked golfer. Rahm couldn’t hide his frustration with some of the fans after a lackluster second round at the Spanish Open on Friday, when he carded a 4-under 67 to stay one shot behind leader
Brooks Koepka will feature a new look when he makes his first start of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season this week. Make that a new way of looking at putts. After struggling with reading the greens recently, the four-time major champ shared with reporters at the Shriners Children’s Open that he made a significant change
On a more difficult golf course, a first-round one-over 72 is something that can be overcome. At TPC Summerlin, it puts you in a tie for 124th, effectively ending the week before it even started. That’s the current situation for Rickie Fowler, who was in dire need of a fresh start to the 2021-22 PGA