Month: August 2020

12:47 AM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The LPGA Tour’s Cambia Portland Classic will be played as scheduled Sept. 17-20 without fans at Columbia Edgewater Country Club. The Kia Classic has been postponed until March. Unable to reschedule the Kia Classic at Aviara Golf Club in Carlsbad, California, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the
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The Kia Classic, slated for September 24-27 in Carlsbad, Calif., has been removed from the 2020 LPGA Tour schedule, the tour announced in a press release on Thursday evening. “We appreciate all of the efforts by Kia to try and make this event happen this year, and we look forward to playing again at beautiful
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2:43 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Tiger Woods didn’t have a scientific reason for going back to the shorter Scotty Cameron putter he has largely relied on for more than two decades after a brief break from it during the PGA Championship earlier this month. “Just stubbornness,” Woods said Thursday after his opening-round 3-under 68
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In 1965, the great Dan Jenkins picked an All-Star team of golf holes for Sports Illustrated, The Best 18 Golf Holes in America, selected by a committee of one, although he allowed Ben Hogan a nod or two. What set Jenkins’ list apart from other pretenders was a self-imposed restriction. His All-Star team, he said,
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“Strokes gained’ statistics have become foundational on the PGA Tour for assessing player performance and improvement, yet for most average golfers it remains a mystery. Not merely is it hard for average golfers to understand it without memorizing Every Shot Counts, the 250-page seminal work on the subject by Columbia business professor Mark Broadie, it
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10:55 PM ET Associated Press BANDON, Ore. — Tyler Strafaci won the U.S. Amateur on Sunday at foggy Bandon Dunes, overcoming a big early deficit and surviving another tight finish to beat Charles “Ollie” Osborne 1-up. With father Frank Jr. at his side as a caddie, Strafaci two-putted for birdie — with the short second
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2:45 PM ET The finish line is not where it normally is on the PGA Tour as the FedEx Cup playoffs begin Thursday at TPC-Boston, site of the Northern Trust. The three-tournament playoff run continues next week at the BMW Championship and then the following week at the Tour Championship, where the top 30 in
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