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Phil Mickelson has made it abundantly clear that he believes if the PGA Tour leadership had latched onto some of his ideas to emphasize its marquee players, it wouldn’t find itself in the position of contending with LIV Golf. And to take it a step further, maybe the upstart Saudi circuit wouldn’t have come into

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Even if Rory McIlroy has been the most vocal critic of LIV Golf since its emergence last year, he is giving the rival league credit where it’s due. The radical changes made to the PGA Tour in the past 12 months—spearheaded by creating a series of “designated” events that next year

Mar 5, 2023 Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Colombian rookie Nico Echavarria seized control with two straight birdies on the back nine and closed with a 4-under 68 for a 2-shot victory in the Puerto Rico Open for his first PGA Tour title. Echavarria was soaked on a sunny day at Grand Reserve,

Jariah Beard, the longtime Augusta National caddie who carried the bag for Masters rookie Fuzzy Zoeller when he won in 1979, died Friday. Beard’s son, Eric Beard, sent an email to Golf Digest confirming the news, saying that his father succumbed to cancer. He was 82. “My father was an amazing man,” Eric Beard wrote,

8:15 AM ET Golf fans won’t get to see Tiger Woods at The Players, the PGA Tour’s signature event, but they won’t have to wait long to see him back on the course. Woods is expected to return at the Masters, the first major championship of the season. The start of the tournament at Augusta

The Players Championship has its traditionally standout field in place with 43 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking making the trip this week to TPC Sawgrass. While defending champion Cameron Smith is missing, having joined the LIV Golf League, eight past Players winners are competing—Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Webb Simpson,

If you’ve followed professional golf for some defined period of recent history—let’s say since the year 2000—it might have seemed as though the LIV Golf breakaway came out of nowhere. Sure, it’s obvious that players like Phil Mickelson had some serious issues with the PGA Tour, but at no point in the prime of his

6:26 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “You can’t ignore it. You got to

ORLANDO — Tim Tucker thought his days as a PGA Tour caddie were over after he parted ways with his former boss, Bryson DeChambeau, abruptly on the eve of a tournament in 2021. Their split came only a few months after DeChambeau bashed his way to a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And yet

8:00 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Arizona — David Toms got up-and-down for his third bogey of the week on the par-4 18th hole at Tucson National on Sunday to beat Robert Karlsson by one stroke in the Cologuard Classic on the PGA Tour Champions. The 56-year-old Toms was surprised to learn that his tee

ORLANDO — If only everyone had an opportunity to figure out exactly how they’d react if they were about to win $3.6 million. That’s the situation that Kurt Kitayama found himself in late Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, only a couple hours after it looked like an ugly triple-bogey 7 on the ninth hole

The Players Championship has long been known to boast the best field in golf. That’s not quite true in 2023, thanks to the ongoing schism in professional golf, one that leaves this year’s Players without last year’s Players champ, Cameron Smith. Nevertheless, the PGA Tour’s flagship event remains one of the marquee tournaments on the

3:42 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Defending champion Jin Young Ko of South Korea closed with a 3-under 69 Sunday to win the LPGA’s Women’s World Championship by two shots. Ko had a 72-hole total of 17-under 271 to finish two clear of American Nelly Korda, who started the final day two strokes behind

ORLANDO — Since this PGA Tour season started last fall, the focus has been put on big names getting together more often. Designated events with $20 million purses. The “product.” Kurt Kitayama has no issues with that. He’s trying to become a big name himself. A maiden PGA Tour victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational

6:40 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — PGA Tour rookie Nico Echavarria of Colombia ran off four straight birdies early in his round Saturday and finished with a 7-under 65 for a 2-shot lead in the Puerto Rico Open as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory. Carson Young, who led

ORLANDO – At the $20 million Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, prize money and the possible extinction of 36-hole cuts in some of the PGA Tour’s biggest events next year dominated discussion this week. For that reason, Orlando club pro Greg Koch is savoring both. The teaching pro from Orlando’s nearby Ritz Carlton Golf

To cash in on the big money being offered at most of the PGA Tour’s newly minted designated events—at least for the time being—a pro golfer must first make the cut in those events. Which is why Greg Koch decided not to rush things on Friday night as the sun was setting at the Arnold

6:10 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Defending champion Jin Young Ko shot a second consecutive 7-under 65 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead over Nelly Korda into the final round of the LPGA’s Women’s World Championship. Ko had a 54-hole total of 14-under 202 after another weather-delayed day at the Sentosa Golf Club.