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The words in the tweet were simple but insightful, and the emotion behind them raw. “Golf is hard,” Adam Long pecked out on Sunday night, a few hours after the conclusion of the final round of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. “And it’s really difficult to win on the @PGATOUR.” Especially when you

9:20 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson leads the top five players in the world who have committed to play the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, the start of a two-week stretch of relocated Asia events that includes Tiger Woods returning to California. The CJ Cup typically is held in South Korea,

On Sunday afternoon, while most Americans were watching football, an American golfer was pulling off a stunning feat. The golfer, though, wasn’t Bryson DeChambeau or Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods. It was John Catlin, someone who even golf geeks know almost nothing about. Playing in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Catlin birdied three of

Scottie Scheffler makes his first appearance after having to withdraw from the U.S. Open after a positive COVID-19 test. Oddsmakers have made him a slight favorite over Louis Oosthuizen—after the South African’s third-place finish at Winged Foot—and Sungjae Im, who gained more than 4.5 strokes at the Tour Championship and the U.S. Opens in his

Hudson Swafford was on “cruise control” Sunday at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. After three birdies and an eagle through his first nine holes, and with a four-shot lead with six to go, he had every reason to feel that way. Then a stubbed chip rolled back to his feet and he double-bogeyed

6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Hudson Swafford lost control of the tournament without ever losing any confidence he could hit the right shot when it counted. Standing in the 13th fairway Sunday in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, he had a four-shot lead. Walking off the 15th green,

Tony Finau is being sued by a former business associate for $16 million. The Deseret News was the first to report the suit, filed in 3rd District Court last week. According to the Deseret News, Molonai Hola, the owner of Icon Sports, says he became acquainted with the Finau family around 1997. Hola, a former

9:46 AM ET A Tiger Woods backup putter from 2001 sold at Golden Age Golf Auctions early Sunday morning for $154,928, which is believed to be the most a putter of this caliber has ever sold for. The putter is a Scotty Cameron Newport II produced for Woods as a backup to the putter he

Golden Age Golf Auctions confirmed on Sunday morning the winning bid of $154,928 on this backup Scotty Cameron putter, which was produced for Tiger in 2001 in case his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 became damaged. It’s been reported that Scotty Cameron produced one or two extra putters for Tiger per year, and he would practice

It was Moving Day on Saturday at the Irish Open, and Englishman Aaron Rai produced among the strongest rounds on the tough Galgorm Spa course in shooting three-under 67 to own the solo lead at eight under. But that was far from the most eye-catching development of the day. Ballymena, an inland Northern Ireland town

9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,

Four takeaways from Saturday’s third-round action of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. Adam Long came out of the golf wilderness to win the PGA Tour’s Desert Classic in January of 2019. A potential victory on Sunday won’t be as surprising. The former Duke Blue Devil followed up a Friday 65 at Puntacana with

Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew that one day this test

You might say that Tyler McCumber has an affinity for tropical locales and water. The 29-year-old is an avid surfer and some of his best results on the PGA Tour have come while being surrounded by surf and palm trees. McCumber didn’t, however, expect to get “stuck” in one of those slices of paradise. For

6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — A hornet sting early and a bunch of birdies late carried Hudson Swafford to a 5-under 67 on Friday for a two-shot lead going into the weekend of the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Joining him in the final group will be Sean O’Hair,

It’s not a leader board full of stars, but, as expected, the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship looks like it could produce a few intriguing stories. There are young guns in the mix, veterans looking to end long win droughts and a few 30-somethings still search for their first tour victory. Here are our

5:49 PM ET Mark Calcavecchia played golf Thursday, which seems simple enough, as he is a professional golfer. But this was different. Much different. It was the first time he teed it up since testing positive three weeks ago for COVID-19. The PGA Tour Champions player decided he felt well enough to venture out to

Adding to a distinguished list of luminaries, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has announced that Ernie Els, Nick Price, Padraig Harrington and Catriona Matthew have accepted invitations to become honorary members of golf’s most famous and influential club. “I would like to congratulate Catriona, Ernie, Padraig and Nick on becoming honorary

Pat Perez was in the field at the Safeway Open two weeks ago, although you’re forgiving if you failed to notice. The 44-year-old PGA Tour veteran looked like a different man after cutting his long black hair and shaved the thick beard and mustache. He played like a one, too, shooting four straight sub-70 rounds

7:29 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Tyler McCumber was the only player to reach 8 under par Thursday in the Caribbean breeze until he dropped a shot on his 17th hole and fell into a four-way lead in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Sepp Straka was the only one

The rookie class of 2019 didn’t take long to make its mark on the PGA Tour. In the last 12 months, three of its members—Collin Morikawa, Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hovland—have already combined for five victories, including a major championship after Morikawa won last month’s PGA Championship. Then there’s Justin Suh. Thursday, the 23-year-old shot

8:19 AM ET The European Tour has scrapped plans to allow a limited number of fans to attend the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian next month due to the tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in the U.K.. The Tour planned to allow 650 spectators per day for the Rolex Series tournament, which

When you close your eyes for a moment and let your mind wander, the visions come fairly easily. You can “see” the large grandstand surrounding the first tee and nearby 18th green at Whistling Straits. You can “hear” the cheers and laughter and general raucousness of the full-throated spectators. You can “feel” the excitement that

As long as Tiger Woods was upright and swinging a golf club, there was little question he would attempt to defend his title in the Zozo Championship. After all, because of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s basically playing on one of his home courses at Sherwood Country Club in Southern California. Woods made his participation official

7:42 PM ET Tiger Woods announced his commitment to next month’s Zozo Championship at Sherwood Country Club, where he will be the defending champion of an event that has moved from Japan to Thousand Oaks, California, this year amid to the coronavirus pandemic. Woods, 44, won the event over Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama last year at

He should be in Northern Wisconsin. But instead Padraig Harrington is making do with Northern Ireland. Making his first competitive appearance since March’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain is in County Antrim, at the Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort for the European Tour’s Irish Open. Physically anyway. Understandably, however, Harrington’s mind was wandering—if

7:35 AM ET Their relationship might seem a bit peculiar, but clearly Tiger Woods sees something in Bryson DeChambeau that might amuse, entertain, intrigue — or all of the above. They are frequent practice-round partners, and it is not often that someone whom Woods does not care to have in such settings steps into that

We could talk all about Bryson DeChambeau and our expert Christopher Powers’ accurate U.S. Open prediction, but you’re here for advice on betting the Corales Puntacana 2020 event. For Powers’ gloating, scroll down to listen to our podcast. We know, though, gamblers don’t like to dwell on the past. Every week is a new opportunity

Two days after the world’s most strenuous golf tournament wrapped up, a much lighter affair played out in the Missouri mountains. The Payne’s Valley Cup was the anti-U.S. Open in so many ways. Instead of a grind on a 99-year-old course, this was a stroll on a brand new one. On the week that was

2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as