2:01 PM ET Steve Stricker called himself old school. He is, after all, a big part of the U.S. Ryder Cup effort over the past decade. Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Stricker have been a constant in just about all of the U.S. team competitions for the better part of
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Another successful Solheim Cup—Europe pulling off the 15-13 road upset of the Americans at Inverness Club—highlighted once more the intrinsic drama and excitement that comes with team events and playing for one’s country. It’s easy to make the argument that the 31-year-old matches represent the most impactful event on the LPGA calendar, when combining player
The Ryder Cup is billed as a rivalry, but the Europeans have not so much been rivals in the last 20 years to the Americans as they are overlords. The United States has won just twice since 1999 and heads into Whistling Straits as losers of four of the last five matches. While there’s no
10:20 AM ET U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker filled out his 12-man team on Wednesday by adding Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth, Harris English, Daniel Berger and Scottie Scheffler. Stricker made the announcement at Whistling Straits Golf Club in Haven, Wisconsin. The 43rd Ryder Cup begins at the site Sept. 24. Former U.S.
Fifty events, 43 winners, 14 playoffs, 641 players competing in total, 1.3 million strokes taken, 58,000 miles traveled. These are just some of the numbers the PGA Tour compiled to help provide context to the 2020-21 campaign that wrapped up at the Tour Championship. It was a season unlike any other, given the additional events
5:09 PM ET Associated Press Turns out that birdie Jon Rahm made on the final hole of the Tour Championship earned him a trophy. Rahm won the points-based player of the year award from the PGA of America, and it was that birdie putt on the 18th hole at East Lake that made the difference.
JJon Rahm finished second to Patrick Cantlay at East Lake on Sunday, but two days the World No. 1 is back on top. On Tuesday the PGA of America announced Rahm as its Player of the Year. Unlike the PGA Tour, which awards POY based on player voting, the PGA of America uses a year-long
VIRGINIA WATER, England — He’s down to six candidates, with the prospect of more emerging over the course of this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. The European Tour’s flagship event doubles as the final qualifying tournament for the team that Padraig Harrington will lead against the United States later this month at the Ryder
8:09 AM ET ATLANTA — One golf tournament should not make a player’s bid for a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Then again, with the flexibility of having six at-large picks, shouldn’t U.S. captain Steve Stricker be looking at more subtle reasons for putting together the last pieces of his team? And more
A European player could win on the LPGA Tour during a Solheim Cup year and still not make the Solheim Cup team. Sounds strange, right? But it almost happened this year, to the player who ultimately sunk the putt that retained the cup for Team Europe. Matilda Castren captured the LPGA Mediheal Championship in June,
6:00 PM ET Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio — Europe retained the Solheim Cup on Monday, clinching just its second victory on U.S. soil when Matilda Castren closed out Lizette Salas 1 up to give the visitors the decisive point in a 15-13 victory. Castren calmly curled in a 10-foot par putt on the 18th to
TOLEDO, Ohio — “This is what victory smells like,” shouted an enthusiastic American fan parked beside the second tee Monday afternoon at Inverness Club as bright young U.S. Solheim Cup rookie Jennifer Kupcho marched after her tee shot. There was definitely something in the air. Turned out to be a barbecue. On a balmy and
On Sunday evening at Victoria National in Indiana, Justin Lower was trying to process the most emotional moment of his professional golf career. With an up-and-down for par on the 18th hole, the 32-year-old had shot a final-round 71 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship. That was good enough for a T-15 finish that bumped
9:35 PM ET A week ago, as Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was going through warm-ups for his team’s final preseason game, a golf epic was unfolding on televisions inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Patrick Cantlay held off Bryson DeChambeau in a six-hole playoff for the BMW Championship and in doing so, picked up the moniker “Patty
Jon Rahm was nine holes away from winning the Northern Trust, and with it Rahm would have secured Player of the Year. But Rahm stumbled down the stretch at Liberty National, and a mere 13 days later the POY title is very much a debate with Patrick Cantlay inserting himself in the conversation with a
8:52 PM ET ATLANTA — The system is one Patrick Cantlay still dislikes, one that saw him earn $15 million on Sunday as the PGA Tour’s season-long champion despite not shooting the lowest 72-hole score at the Tour Championship. No matter. Cantlay followed the format, and he hit the big shots when necessary to hold
ATLANTA — The leader board was a bit contrived, but the drama was all-real. The best player in the world had nearly jarred a 5-iron for an albatross on the last hole of the 2020-21 PGA Tour season, and Patrick Cantlay needed an answer to provide his one-shot lead some oxygen. He feared Jon Rahm
A controversial ruling dominated the conversation Saturday afternoon at the Solheim Cup—lingered into Sunday. Playing in the four-ball session for the U.S., Nelly Korda just missed an eagle putt on the par-5 13th at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, her ball coming to rest close to the edge of the cup, Europe’s Madelene Sagstrom scooped