That turned out to be the case, though, due to the countries being represented by those golfers who wound up on the medal podium. As Golf.com’s Dylan Dethier pointed out, C.T. Pan earned approximately $179,000 for finishing third—or nearly five times as much as Xander Schauffele will get for gold. Still confused? Allow us to
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11:59 AM ET The Hero World Challenge which benefits Tiger Woods’ foundation will take place as originally scheduled with an expanded field. Woods announced that the annual event in the Bahamas will be increased to 20 players, up from 18. He linked to a news release from his foundation. The tournament is scheduled for Dec
HAVEN, Wis. — They let me out on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits by myself, as a single, before the first tee time of the day, which sounded a little like paradise to me, and in fact it was. It was a clear, bright morning, but more importantly it was cool on the western
The successful return of golf to the Olympics at the 2016 Rio Games brought with it an anticipation for more in 2020. And while players and fans have had to wait an additional year for the Tokyo Games to be held, the wait ends this week. The men’s tournament begins on Wednesday evening U.S. time
5:44 PM ET Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Annika Sorenstam ran away with the U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Sunday, closing with a 4-under 68 for an eight-stroke victory. The 50-year-old Sorenstam, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion making her first appearance in the senior event, finished at 12-under 276 at Brooklawn Country Club. Playing
Exactly when Megha Ganne realized things had changed after her breakthrough performance at the U.S. Women’s Open in early June isn’t altogether clear. It might have been when strangers kept stopping the 17-year-old high school senior at the San Francisco airport as she returned home, congratulating Ganne on playing her way into Sunday’s final threesome
6:04 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Xander Schauffele won an Olympic gold medal he badly wanted by overcoming more pressure than he could have imagined Sunday. Right when Schauffele appeared to lose his firm grip on the gold, the 27-year-old American responded with two clutch putts at the end for a 4-under 67
A decade before her first LPGA Tour victory at the ISPS Handa World Invitational on Sunday, Pajaree Anannarukarn had a conversation with her dad about her golf ball marking. Her creative 12-year-old self drew so many pictures on the ball, she could hardly see its white cover when it sat in the rough. They agreed
In golf, a seven-man playoff to determine a third-place finisher is something that tends to occur in USGA qualifiers. And, thankfully for Chinese Taipei’s C.T. Pan, the Olympic Games. When Hideki Matsuyama, in the last threesome of the final round at Kasumigaseki Country Club, missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole, he joined
9:06 AM ET KAWAGOE, Japan — For the past few years, Xander Schauffele has been pro golf’s next big thing, which is a designation that’s usually, and ideally, temporary. But his ascent had been stuck in neutral. He has been playing very well, but not great. A bevy of top-10 finishes in majors, but an
Sungjae Im and Si-Woo Kim both didn’t medal at the Olympics and thus failed to exempt themselves from South Korea’s mandatory military service requirement. After a three-under 68 on Sunday to finish at 10 under total, Im finished well out of top-three territory. Kim was even farther back at eight under total despite a closing
8:30 PM ET It’s Day 9 in Tokyo and the final day of what has been a lucrative location for Team USA: The pool. With five finals to go tonight, Team USA has a whopping 26 total medals, including eight golds at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Highlighting tonight’s action will be Caeleb Dressel, one of
At the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Northern Ireland, the three-way tie for the lead at 13 under of Pajaree Anannarukarn, Jennifer Kupcho, and Emma Talley sets up a chance for the fifth first-time winner to emerge on the LPGA Tour in 2021. “It’s going to be a dream come true [if I win tomorrow],
If you like golf trivia, here’s a fun one that your friends will almost definitely not know, but will inevitably lead to a round of head-smacking when you reveal the answer: In the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, a retired cricket professional named George Lyon won a gold medal as one of just
6:14 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Just over three weeks ago, Hideki Matsuyama was in isolation for COVID-19 and desperate to record a negative test to have any chance of competing in his home Olympics. Even when he cleared that hurdle, it was a matter of building endurance for stifling heat and shedding
On Thursday, mini-tour pro golfer Jhared Hack shot a 15-under-par 57 on a 6,300-yard muni in Las Vegas with his buddies. An incredible round, obviously. And it might not have been the best scorecard in America for the day. Seven hundred miles to the northwest in Oregon, Davis Hartwell had his own extraordinary day, and
9:19 PM ET Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Annika Sorenstam shot a 3-under 69, racing to finish before dark, to take a three-stroke lead Friday in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. The 50-year-old Sorenstam, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion making her first appearance in the senior event, birdied Nos. 7-9 to get to 8
His last name gives the wrong idea. Jhared Hack went absolutely bonkers during a skins game at Las Vegas Golf Club on Thursday, making 10 birdies, three eagles and a bogey for a preposterous round of 15-under par 57. Per the scorecard Hack posted to Twitter, the course measured just 6,339 yards and played to