4:34 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Amy Bockerstette is set to become the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship. The 22-year-old golfer will play with her Paradise Valley Community College teammates at the NJCAA national championships May 10-13 at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond
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The title sponsor and the PGA of America’s involvement has widely expanded the profile of what now is known as the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but like so many other major sporting events, it is at the mercy of the COVID-19 pandemic. On that note, it announced on Monday that it will restrict attendance to
9:43 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Former Masters champion Mike Weir won his first PGA Tour Champions event Sunday when he held steady with pars down the stretch for a 4-under 68 and let John Daly made the last mistake in the Insperity Invitational. Weir and Daly were tied going down the
How familiar are you with four-time major champion Brooks Koepka? Beyond just that he hits the ball forever off the tee, seems to contend in every major, sometimes plays with a chip on his shoulder and has had a running feud with Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee? Well, here are a few things you need
Maybe it was inevitable that on an exceedingly wet weekend, water would be a factor, but unmistakably it was inevitable that Mike Weir would win on the PGA Tour Champions. So it was in the rain-shortened Insperity Invitational on Sunday that Weir posted his maiden senior victory with a timely assist from John Daly. On
6:40 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Eight times this season, Sam Burns has been atop the leaderboard after every round except the one that mattered. That changed, finally, at the Valspar Championship. Burns got some help from Keegan Bradley hitting into the water on the 13th hole, and then the 24-year-old from
For so long Tiger Woods made winning look so easy on the PGA Tour that we started to forget how difficult it is, whether it’s a guy trying to do so for the first time in his career or a major champion trying to find his way back after winning just once in the last
7:31 AM ET Kim Hyo-joo won the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club on Sunday as Australian Hannah Green bogeyed the last two holes to hand the South Korean victory in the $1.6 million tournament. Kim’s eight-under par final round of 64 earned her the title with a four round score of
Hyo Joo Kim wore a full-face mask all week at the HSBC Women’s World Championship, not because of COVID concerns but due to a severe sun allergy. Kim’s hat and sunglasses covered the rest of her face, giving her the appearance of a beekeeper heading to work. The coverings kept secret the emotions the 25-year-old
Max Homa produced one of the more memorable wins of the PGA Tour season in February when he won at his favorite golf course, Riviera, just 30 miles from where he grew up. But earlier that day it seemed like another golfer was going to author his own storybook finish in Hollywood. Golf fans—especially those
10:06 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley hit one of his worst shots of the round and it led to eagle. Sam Burns hit a pair of tee shots right where he wanted and they cost him bogeys. They finished where they started Saturday in the Valspar Championship, tied for the
The Pink Panther, Paula Creamer, is returning to the LPGA Tour after an 18-month hiatus. Creamer has entered the field at the Pure Silk Championship at Kingsmill Resort in Virginia later this month with the intent to resume her LPGA career. The 34-year-old 10-time winner hasn’t play on the LPGA since the BMW Ladies Championship
8:15 AM ET China’s Lin Xiyu carded a superb five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Australia’s Hannah Green and South Korea’s Inbee Park heading into the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Lin got off to a poor start with a bogey on the first hole and
Golf Twitter can be its ugliest when gamblers—angry about their losing bets or fantasy lineups—tweet at a professional golfer for struggling in a particular tournament. Talor Gooch was a few messages on social media after missing the cut at the Valspar Championship, but he smartly (and graciously) turned the moment into a positive. Gooch shot
Max Homa has built a reputation of being great on Twitter that arguably overshadows the fact he’s also great at golf. Not surprisingly, he also displays that quick wit when he’s standing at a podium and not sitting behind a keyboard. Homa fired a Friday 68 at the Valspar Championship to grab a share of
8:42 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns kept piling up birdies Friday, turning a solid start into a great round of 8-under 63 for a share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. Keegan Bradley got there with one shot. Bradley ended his round by holing out for eagle from 100
As the Ryder Cup has transformed from a three-day exhibition into an event consumed year-round, one of the upshots is a running bit where a player enjoying any semblance of a hot streak is placed into team discussion. Admittedly it can be a fun debate, but given the natural ebbs and flows of the golf
6:14 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister’s Award in Tokyo on Friday for winning the Masters golf tournament. He was the first Japanese winner at Augusta National, the famous American club. Matsuyama won the low amateur title at the 2011 Masters just weeks after the earthquake, tsunami and the