Jin Young Ko took nearly a year away from the LPGA Tour and returned with a prohibitive goal to accomplish, even for the No. 1 player in the world. With just three events left to play in the regular season, Ko set out to score enough points to qualify for the LPGA Tour’s season finale,
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For every tournament his son has won as a competitive golfer since grade school, Mike Thomas has a golf ball from the event on display back at Harmony Landing Country Club in Goshen, Ky., where he’s worked since 1990 as the head professional. The question after Sunday’s victory at the PNC Championship: Does Mike put
4:08 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Wearing the same customary Sunday red as his dad, Charlie Woods exhibited many of the same characteristics of his accomplished father, including the walk, the talk and the swing. But if he’s really like Tiger Woods, Charlie will be wondering how to make up the five strokes they lost
There’s a reason why everyone on the LPGA Tour wants to play in the CME Group Tour Championship. Competing in the no-cut, limited-field wrap-up to the tour year is a symbol of a season well played, even if the season was interrupted by a pandemic. And what’s on the line on Sunday at Tiburón Golf
7:07 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — He walked in the birdie putt and looked like he had been doing so forever, the couple dozen fans surrounding the ninth green at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club chuckling at what they were witnessing. Charlie Woods looked like a mini pro golfer out there, all the mannerisms on display.
Sei Young Kim entered the CME Group Tour Championship coming off a low. She’d just shot her worst LPGA Tour round of the year: a five-over 76 during the Monday final round of the U.S. Women’s Open, finishing T-20. But after she arrived in Naples, Fla., it was like it never happened. After rounds of
Playing in the same group in the first round at the Ritz Carlton, JT hit a poor tee shot at the short par-4 13th hole—a dogleg left that necessitates a good draw from the back tees. JT found the bunker with his shot—and when he got to his ball, he found a handwritten note from
1:05 PM ET There have been glimpses of 11-year-old Charlie Woods’ golf swing. Some social media footage leaked out into the world. Then this week, some range sessions next to his famous father, Tiger Woods, at the PNC Championship. With the cameras on, it took three holes for Charlie to post his first highlight-reel moment.
Annika Sorenstam said her 9-year-old, Will, showed immediate interest when he heard Charlie was going to be playing at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. “When it was announced that Charlie was playing, [Will] looked at me and I said, Yeah. Maybe in a few years. I told him he’s got to start practicing, because my dad
6:19 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko took the lead into the weekend in the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship, putting herself in position to win the season money title in only four events. Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday in chilly and breezy conditions at Tiburon Golf
When the Ryder Cup is played at Whistling Straits in September 2021 (fingers crossed), European captain Padraig Harrington wants a team that’s peaking for the match. And that’s the intent of the latest change in the qualification process announced on Wednesday. Beginning next month, European players will once again be earning points to make the
As the LPGA Tour plays its final event of 2020, Commissioner Mike Whan revealed on Friday the 2021 schedule and his plan for playing a full season as COVID-19 continues to spread. The LPGA made it through the difficult 2020 season by staging 18 events, and Whan has reason to be optimistic looking ahead to
3:32 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Padraig Harrington is playing in the PNC Championship for the third time and loves the idea of bonding with his son, Patrick, and exposing him to the game he has excelled at as a pro. He also enjoys checking out the various golf swings of legends and amateurs alike.
There were golfers in 2020 who never thought they’d be golfers. Or they had been before life intervened—kids, jobs, herniated discs. They coached soccer, or took spin classes. They packed trains every morning and shuffled home every night. A game played in four-and-a-half hour increments wasn’t much of an option—until, abruptly, it was. “I can’t
6:55 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — With brother Curtis back at her side at Tiburon Golf Club, Lexi Thompson shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship. Curtis Thompson, a Korn Ferry Tour player, also caddied for his sister in 2018 when
The difference between us mere mortal golfers and tour pros isn’t that they don’t hit bad shots and we do. Pro golfers hit bad shots and end up in trouble, too. It’s what they do from those bad spots that reveal how amateur we really are. Take Anne van Dam’s on the 18th hole during
ORLANDO — For once, Tiger Woods wasn’t the main attraction on a driving range. That honor went to a sweet-swinging 11-year-old who shares his last name. All eyes at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, and on the golf interwebs, were fixed Thursday on Charlie Woods. He teed it up for a full 18 alongside his 15-time
4:07 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — A yardage book protruded from his back left pocket, the golf glove dangling from his right when he walked on the greens. Throw in the Nike swoosh on his jacket and an inter-locking grip, and Charlie Woods appeared a miniature version of his famous and accomplished father. Trying to