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8:11 AM ET As impressive as Tyrrell Hatton‘s victory was in Abu Dhabi, it was an equally disappointing result for Rory McIlroy at the European Tour’s first event of 2021. And it has become a recurring theme for McIlroy, who now has gone 15 months without a victory and seemingly struggles to put four good

Historically, Torrey Pines penalizes players for missing fairways, and birdies will be at a premium. Based on the course modeling available at RickRunGood.com, a bit surprisingly perhaps, strokes gained/putting is one of the more important stats to success for this week. That should be no surprise considering the greens at Torrey Pines generally run fast,

There is one huge name—Tiger Woods—not in the field list below after his fifth back surgery was announced last week. The 15-time major champion was expected to make his 2021 debut at Torrey Pines, site of eight career victories, but the attention will go elsewhere as Woods recovers from that surgery. It’s still a stellar

5:44 PM ET The PGA of America has named Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the host site for the 2022 PGA Championship, replacing Trump Bedminster, which was dropped by the organization two weeks ago. The tournament, which will be held May 19-22, 2022, will be played at a longtime major championship venue that

The 2022 PGA Championship, originally scheduled to be held at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey before being pulled from the venue by the PGA of America four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on the United States Capitol, will instead be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. The PGA of America made

2:53 PM ET Associated Press Investment bank Citi decided Monday to keep its sponsorship of Justin Thomas, condemning the anti-gay slur he muttered and requiring him to donate a “meaningful portion” of his deal as part of an active role in LGBTQ causes. Carla Hassan, the chief marketing officer of New York-based Citi, announced the

On Sunday at the American Express, Tony Finau began the day tied for the lead, ultimately finishing in solo fourth, the latest disappointing top 10 in a slew of disappointing top 10s for the immensely-talented 31-year-old. Since his Puerto Rico Open victory in 2016, Finau has made 125 starts on the PGA Tour, collecting 35

Because of his penchant for coming in second repeatedly early in his PGA Tour career, the late Payne Stewart earned the nickname “Avis,” a reference to the successful ad campaign that the No. 2 rental-car company once embraced in its battle with industry leader Hertz. Watching Tony Finau, the gentlemanly and naturally gifted American golfer,

5:57 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jessica Korda closed with a 5-under 66 and holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday to beat Danielle Kang in the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions and start the LPGA Tour season on a good note. Korda won for the sixth

The 18th hole at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions doesn’t have a reputation for being a quick settler of ties. In 2020, it took seven trips down the long par 3 to get a champion. But on Sunday evening, Jessica Korda bucked the trend by dropping a long birdie putt that Danielle Kang couldn’t

9:57 AM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Englishman Tyrrell Hatton shot a sparkling 6-under par in the final round on Sunday to win the season-opening Abu Dhabi Championship by four strokes after overnight leader Rory McIlroy faded with an uninspired even-par 72 to drop into third. Hatton carded a closing 66

All of which is frustrating enough. But even worse for the Northern Irishman will surely be the nagging thought that mediocre final rounds low-lighted by play far removed from his best stuff are becoming something of a bad habit. Indeed, McIlroy’s first start since the Masters in November was a typical example of that undesirable

It wasn’t momentum that Darren Clarke was riding, though on Sunday he won his second straight PGA Tour Champions start, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on Hawaii’s Big Island. Clarke, 52 and not, shall we way, in fighting trim, is one of the few senior players who uses a golf cart to ferry himself

11:09 PM ET Associated Press LA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Darren Clarke won the Mitsubishi Electric Championship by two strokes on Saturday for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory, playing the back nine in 6 under in a closing 8-under 64. The 52-year-old former British Open winner from Northern Ireland started the back-nine run with birdies

Jessica Korda loves the back nine at the Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club in Orlando. In the first round of the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, she shot 30 coming home. On Saturday, she did two better than that, scoring 9-under 28, and with a birdie on the difficult par-3 18th, Korda carded an

2:50 PM ET Rory McIlroy leapfrogged Tyrrell Hatton to reclaim a one-shot lead after the third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, carding 67 to go 13-under overall on Saturday. McIlroy, the world No. 6, was five shots off overnight leader Hatton and finished his incomplete second round on par early on Saturday before

Matthew Wolff will be playing on the weekend at The American Express, but his score is one stroke higher than he expected after being retroactively assessed a penalty for a rules violation during his first round. Walking off the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West on Friday with a five-under 67, Wolff was told by

Of the two courses the players will face this week (it’s normally three, but La Quinta got the axe this year), the Stadium Course at PGA West is by far the more difficult of the two. It’s a typical Pete Dye design, his West Coast version of TPC Sawgrass. The risks are often worth the