1:30 PM ET Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit fired a flawless eight-under-par 64 to take a three-stroke lead over compatriot Atthaya Thitikul at the halfway stage of the Honda LPGA Thailand on Friday. Patty, the joint-overnight leader with Atthaya, carded six birdies in the second round and sank a 10-foot eagle putt after a brilliant approach shot
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JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Ahead of this week’s Walker Cup, a handful of players from both the United States and Great Britain & Ireland teams have mentioned coming down with stomach bugs while in South Florida. The issue, however, is becoming a bigger concern as the 48th edition of the biennial event is set to
Some post-Masters rest, combined with Quail Hollow, a place he’s owned throughout his career, was supposed to be just the antidote for the struggling Rory McIlroy this week. He even felt good about the state of his game, which was not the case in late March, when McIlroy admitted he’d developed some bad habits in
7:11 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Just last week, Phil Mickelson complained about his inability to focus properly as he struggled yet again, missing the cut at the Valspar Championship. It was Joel Dahmen who got Mickelson’s full attention Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship, when Dahmen mentioned him in a couple of good-natured social
JUNO BEACH, Fla. — In the 99-year history of the Walker Cup, there have been 310 golfers who have represented Great Britain & Ireland in the biennial matches. Of them, 84 have played for a victorious GB&I team (the Old World has won nine times in 47 matches). And of that group, a select 20
2:40 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Premier Golf League, which was promising multimillion-dollar guarantees to top-ranked golfers to break away from the PGA and European Tours, has reemerged with big offers to Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. The Daily Telegraph reported that the “World Tour” would begin in September 2022,
At 49 years old, New Zealand’s Steven Alker has seen all there is to see on the golf course. That said, what happened to him on Thursday at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Simmons Bank Open has to be a first in his 26-year career as a tour professional. Alker’s round began in ideal fashion, with
Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been something of a powerhouse in Division II men’s golf in recent years, with the Sharks winning the national championship in 2012 and 2015 and finishing runner-up in 2014. Almost as notable? The lineage surrounding this year’s group as it makes a bid for another title beginning
5:31 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Players trying to reach the PGA Tour soon will be competing for more money to help them along the way. The Korn Ferry Tour, the circuit right below the PGA Tour, informed players on Tuesday that prize money will be a minimum of $1 million
Texas, Florida State, Oklahoma State, Clemson, Oklahoma and Wake Forest earned top seeds when the NCAA men’s golf committee announced on Wednesday the 81 schools and 45 individuals to play in the six NCAA Men’s Regional tournaments May 17-19. The return of the NCAA postseason is a welcome sight after the 2020 NCAA Championship was
11:55 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Phil Mickelson will be 51 next month and admits his golf career his winding down. So the idea of being offered a reported $100-million per year to play in a rival golf league to the PGA Tour is understandably something that would give him pause. Mickelson acknowledged Wednesday that
CHARLOTTE — Rory McIlroy knew the questions were coming. We last saw him four weeks ago at the Masters, where he looked out of sorts and fired up the private jet from Augusta on Friday afternoon. In the time between then and this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, two major developments have surfaced in the world
Another week, another strong field, another unbelievably difficult golf course. The PGA Tour, which stops at Quail Hollow this week for the Wells Fargo Championship, remains a can’t-miss affair right now, and we’ve already got another major in the near future. There is no quit in this Super Season. Last week, though, one of the
7:02 AM ET The PGA Championship is back in its normal spot in May after shifting to August in 2020 because of COVID-19. Last year’s event, won by Collin Morikawa, was played at TPC Harding Park without fans on-site. The spectators will be back this year as the event returns to the Ocean Course at
For a second straight week, a video of Michael Visacki talking on the phone has people, well, talking. Turns out the journeyman golfer won’t have to wait another seven years to play in his next PGA Tour event after getting a sponsor exemption into the Charles Schwab Challenge later this month. Watch and listen as
7:00 AM ET The weeks following the Masters are typically sleepy, and this year is no different. After the buildup to the year’s first major championship, it is understandable that the world of golf collectively exhales. The RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina, has a cool vibe. New Orleans is now a team event.
LPGA veteran Amy Yang loves everything about Thailand. It’s not hard to figure out why, as she has won three of her four LPGA career titles at the Honda LPGA Thailand, coming every odd year in 2015, 2017 and 2019. With the 2020 tournament canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she comes into this week’s
Great golf theater doesn’t always come at the major championships, and it doesn’t have to involve the 10 guys the PGA Tour is going to dole out $40 million to later this year for being popular. In fact, it doesn’t always take place on the PGA Tour. Sunday was an example. While Sam Burns was