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We’re back at Jack’s Place, this time for a designated event with $20 million up for grabs. The PGA Tour will head to Muirfield Village for the Memorial Tournament, which debuted in 1976 and has become one of the tour’s longest-running events. The top five players on the Official World Golf Ranking will all tee

May 30, 2023, 01:33 PM ET The Ryder Cup should feature the best players and it should not matter whether some have decided to join LIV Golf, Jon Rahm said as he expressed sadness that Spanish compatriot Sergio Garcia would be absent from this year’s competition. Garcia is Europe’s all-time record points scorer and went

The Mizuho Americas Open marks another dream realized for Michelle Wie West, who is serving as the host at his week’s newest LPGA Tour event at Liberty National. She’s helping set the bar for what week-to-week events can look like on the LPGA. Its $2,750,000 purse is the fifth-largest on tour of its non-majors, along

When Florida senior Fred Biondi rolled in his final putt to secure the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship on Monday, Georgia Tech’s Ross Steelman stood in the shade of a video board and sportingly clapped for the winner. Inside, Steelman must have been feeling a heavy churn of emotions. Yes, he’d lost the individual

Associated Press May 29, 2023, 09:36 PM ET Fred Biondi shot a 3-under 67 and rallied from a five-shot deficit in the final round to earn Florida’s third individual men’s NCAA golf championship on Monday. Biondi shot 2-under 35 on the front nine at Grayhawk Golf Club and was three back after a bogey on

We admit to being guilty from time to time of overusing the terms “bizarre” and “rules incident” in a same sentence. But we’re not entirely sure how to more aptly characterize what happened to Emiliano Grillo on the 72nd hole of the Charles Schwab Challenge than as, well, a “bizarre rules incident.” It all becomes

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 10:26 PM ET NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand capped off the longest week on the LPGA Tour with a 3-and-1 victory Sunday to win the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play over Ayaka Furue of Japan. Anannarukarn, who beat Linn Grant of Sweden in the semifinals

A marathon week ended Sunday night at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play with Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn emerging as the last woman standing, defeating Japan’s Ayaka Furue in the championship match, 3 and 1. All told, the 23-year-old competed in seven matches over five days at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, playing the equivalent

If a golf tournament were ever to be compared to a marathon, the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play fits the bill. A typical event sees 72 holes in four days, yet finalists Pajaree Anannarukarn and Ayaka Furue each played 116 holes over five days under the scorching Las Vegas desert sun at Shadow Creek.

May 28, 2023, 11:57 PM ET Jessica Korda will not compete on the LPGA Tour for the foreseeable future while she deals with a back injury, she announced on social media Sunday night. Korda wrote that the past year has been challenging due to the back ailment. “Following the advice of my doctor and the

The inaugural championship played at the new PGA of America headquarters in Frisco, Texas, was at a minimum a dramatic success, a duel between opposing Ryder Cup captains that ultimately reinforced the fact that these days Stricker owns the PGA Tour Champions. Stricker, 56, won the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship with a par on the

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 11:34 AM ET CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — Spanish golfer Pablo Larrazabal won the KLM Open by two strokes on Sunday to claim his ninth title on the European tour and a second in the space of four weeks. The 40-year-old Larrazabal started the final round with a one-stroke lead and shot

There has always been something about the KLM Open and the Spaniards on the DP World Tour. The first of Seve Ballesteros’ record 50 victories on what was then the European Tour came in the 1976 version of what was then the Dutch Open. The last of Sergio Garcia’s 19 wins on the Old World

It figures there are plenty of bathroom jokes told among those on the senior golf circuit. The athletes are, after all, 50 years and older, and they likely are separated into two camps: those who have prostates the size of oranges, or those who dutifully take their meds. Either way, there are frequent trips to

Associated Press May 27, 2023, 09:17 PM ET NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Leona Maguire won two more matches Saturday at Shadow Creek to advance to the semifinals in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play. The seventh-seeded Maguire, from Ireland, held off American Lindsey Weaver-Wright 3 and 2 to improve to 5-0. Maguire will

No one ever said that moving day in professional golf is confined to one direction. Up and down is moving, and it defined the proceedings Saturday during the third round of the Charles Schwab Challenge at crotchety old Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Rookie Harry Hall might have played two of the messiest

May 26, 2023, 05:00 PM ET Michael Block missed the cut at Colonial in his first start since bursting on the scene at the PGA Championship, although the physically drained club professional is happy to return home after a whirlwind journey during which he became an overnight sensation. The 46-year-old Block earned a sponsor’s exemption

Can it really be that the LIV Golf League is hitting the halfway point of its 2023 season this week with its visit outside the nation’s capital? Indeed, this week’s event at Trump National Washington, D.C. marks the seventh of 14 events on the 2023 LIV schedule, and a triumphant one at that with Brooks