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When Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf this week at the Genesis Invitational, his first official PGA Tour event since the Open Championship in July, he’ll be getting reacquainted with a golf course that, paradoxically, is one he deeply cherishes but which chafes him like no other venue on Earth. Winner of a record-tying 82

12:00 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy entered the year ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. You could certainly argue that over the past few weeks, Spain’s Jon Rahm was performing like the best player in the world. On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler reminded everyone in the sport who was ranked No. 1

For a second consecutive week, golf fans will be treated to a stacked field featuring three guys battling for the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. But Tiger Woods’ return to competition adds a fun world ranking wrinkle as well. The 15-time major champ will play in an official PGA Tour event for

SCOTTSDALE — Scottie Scheffler won his second-consecutive WM Phoenix Open on Sunday, returning to the site of his first career PGA Tour victory a year ago while also returning to World No. 1. With a final-round bogey-free 65 at TPC Scottsdale, good for a 19-under 265 total, Scheffler beat Nick Taylor by two shots with

6:43 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler successfully defended his WM Phoenix Open title Sunday at TPC Scottsdale to regain the No. 1 spot in the world. Scheffler closed with a 6-under 65 to beat Nick Taylor by 2 strokes in breezy conditions on the firm and fast Stadium Course. The 26-year-old

Jon Rahm started the final round of the WM Phoenix Open two shots behind Scottie Scheffler. If he pulled out the victory, it would have been his third tour win in six weeks and would have lifted the 28-year-old Spaniard to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. And yet, it wasn’t meant to

11:36 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — South Africa’s Ockie Strydom shot a 9-under 63 on Sunday to power up the leaderboard and clinch the Singapore Classic by one stroke from Finland’s Sami Valimaki. Strydom carded a final round of 63 — the best score of the final day at Laguna National Golf Resort Club

SCOTTSDALE — Excitement is building in Scottsdale this week. Not just the final round of the WM Phoenix Open, or the Super Bowl coming to town. But for the anticipation of Netflix’s forthcoming golf docuseries “Full Swing,” which drops February 15th. As part of its Super Bowl ad collaboration with Michelob Ultra, both brands hosted

On Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open, fans were treated to a fascinating discussion about club selection between Tom Kim and his caddie, Joe Skovron. The moment wasn’t necessarily a new element to golf broadcasts—more so a great job by the announcers of not talking over the audio coming from the mics on the course—which

3:02 AM ET ESPN News Services SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — WNBA star Brittney Griner attended the WM Phoenix Open golf tournament Saturday in what is believed to be her second public appearance since her release from a Russian prison. Griner was part of a crowd of about 200,000 fans at the tournament, watching the action from

SCOTTSDALE — CBS promised golf fans some innovations to its broadcasts ahead of this season, and they’re wasting no time delivering. Max Homa kicked things off with an on-course interview en route to victory at the Farmers Insurance Open. Keith Mitchell followed with an on-course interview of his own at Pebble Beach. The broadcast also

1:26 PM ET Stephen Ames parred all 18 holes Saturday to finish a wire-to-wire win at the Trophy Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco. It is the third career Champions Tour title for the 58-year-old Canadian, who finished five shots ahead of runner-up Mark Hensby of Australia. Ames carded a 73 in the third round at

It was a remarkably comfortable ride from start to finish for Stephen Ames, who set his game on cruise control and rode it to a landslide victory in the Trophy Hassan II on Saturday. Ames took a three-stroke lead into the final round, then made 18 straight pars to post an even-par 73 at Royal

It’s been an eventful year in golf already, and now the PGA Tour’s biggest star is set to make his 2023 debut. Tiger Woods announced on Friday that he will return to competition next week at the Genesis Invitational, an event his foundation hosts. Woods was last seen in action playing alongside his son, Charlie,

8:47 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Defending champion Scottie Scheffler took the lead into the weekend in the WM Phoenix Open, with local favorite Jon Rahm right behind at TPC Scottsdale. The second-ranked Scheffler played 25 holes Friday, completing a 3-under 68 in the first round and shooting a bogey-free 64 in the

SCOTTSDALE — Joel Dahmen was just as pleasantly surprised as the rest of the golf world. In fact, when informed that Tiger Woods had announced he’d be returning next week at the Genesis Invitational, Dahmen’s reaction sounded more like the reaction of a fan than of a guy playing next week at Riviera, which he

1:53 PM ET Tiger Woods is returning to the golf course at next week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club outside Los Angeles, he announced Friday. It will be Woods’ first competitive rounds in an official event since he missed the cut at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews in July. It will be

Billy Walters is a legendary sports gambler known for decades of great bets. In a Thursday interview with Brent Musburger, however, he acted more like a poker player when the topic of Phil Mickelson came up. People hoping Walters would drop some sort of bombshell about his “six-year gambling relationship” with the six-time major champ