8:14 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Steve Flesch shot a 2-under 68 to take a 1-shot lead after two rounds of the Shaw Charity Classic. Flesch, who carded a 62 on Friday and was within a shot of tying the course record at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club, had four birdies and
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Tom Lewis faces an enviable dilemma this fall after an impressive four days at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship. Does the 28-year-old from England play the PGA Tour, after earning membership for the 2019-’20 season with a dominant five-stroke victory at Victoria National Golf Club? Or does he return to the European Tour, where he
Indiana’s Victoria National Golf Club, host of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, has the reputation of being a brute. Earlier in the week, a tweet from Cameron Percy made the social media rounds as the tour pro noted how the participants in his pro-am group had lost 27 balls … in nine holes. Another tweet
9:28 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Wes Short Jr. made a short birdie putt on the final hole to win the Shaw Charity Classic on Sunday. His final-round 4-under 66 gave him a 13-under 267 total, one shot ahead of defending champion Scott McCarron. Short got a fortunate break when his second shot
A steak house seems a fitting venue at which to address an old beef, and Nathaniel Crosby had one. It had festered for a while, though time had eroded its sharper edges and the issue lay dormant until it resurfaced somewhere between aperitif and vintage port. Seven past captains of U.S. Walker Cup teams had
10:10 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Australia’s Hannah Green overcame a three-shot deficit with a final round 5-under 67 Sunday to win the Portland Classic and deny teenager Yealimi Noh’s bid to become the third Monday qualifier to win on the LPGA Tour. Green erased the deficit with two birdies over the final
Just when it looked like a budding young star was about to win the Cambia Portland Classic, another budding young star stole the title. Australia’s Hannah Green, fresh off her first LPGA victory in June, made a clutch eight-foot par putt on the 18th hole at Columbia Edgewater Country Club to cap a Sunday 67
They made for an unlikely quintet—World Rankings of 2, 287, 300, 513 and 735—but it was that sort of day “up the mountain” in the final round of the Omega European Masters. First, the facts and figures. All five players shot 14-under 266 for four circuits of the endlessly picturesque Crans-sur-Sierre course, more than 5,000
12:04 PM ET Associated Press Sebastian Soderberg won a five-man playoff for the European Masters title Sunday, sinking his birdie putt on the first extra hole as Rory McIlroy and the remaining competitors faltered. History repeated itself for McIlroy at the Crans-sur-Sierre club in the Swiss Alps, where he lost a playoff as a 19-year-old
There’s a popular debate among PGA Tour fans that stems from a hypothetical question: If everyone played their “A-game” at a tournament, who would win? It’s a fun conversation that elicits various responses, but, of course, it’s impossible to know the answer. These days on the World Long Drive Association, however, there’s no wondering about
11:02 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Monday qualifier Yealimi Noh shot an 8-under 64 Saturday for a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the Portland Classic. The 18-year-old Noh, who turned down an offer to play for UCLA and instead went pro in February, made eight birdies and moved to 19
Yealimi Noh is 18 and has no status on the LPGA Tour. But you wouldn’t guess it by how she’s playing at the Cambia Portland Classic. After rounds of 65-68-64, Noh is leading this week’s LPGA event in Portland, Ore., by three over Hannah Green. Not bad for a teen who had to Monday qualify
With a potential natural disaster such as Hurricane Dorian heading toward South Florida in the coming days, golf naturally becomes less of a focus for those in the storm’s path. For a club like Cypress Head Golf Club in Port Orange, Fla., a municipally owned public course outside Daytona Beach, the facility is actually prepared
1:14 PM ET Rory McIlroy said his recent exertions had caught up with him after a sloppy finish left him three strokes behind leader Andres Romero in the third round of the European Masters in the Swiss Alps Saturday. McIlroy hit a poor fairway bunker shot over the green at the 17th hole and then,
There are crazy scorecards and then there’s whatever the heck Evan Grenus turned in on Friday. The young pro from Glastonbury, Conn., made a triple bogey, a double bogey, and four bogeys during pre-qualifying for Korn Ferry Tour Q School—and still advanced! How did Grenus cancel out all those blemishes on his card to shoot
11:58 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Michael Bradley birdied his final two holes and tied the course record with a 9-under 61 in Friday’s opening round of the Shaw Charity Classic. The 53-year-old Bradley had his finest round on the over-50 circuit with 10 birdies and a bogey at the par-70 Canyon Meadows
Anirban Lahiri withdrew from the Korn Ferry Tour Championship on Thursday afternoon, citing concern for his family’s safety in the face of Hurricane Dorian. Lahiri, who resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., wrote on Twitter that he is returning home to help with evacuation procedures as the storm prepares to reach land this weekend. https://twitter.com/anirbangolf/status/1167475566452314114
Jetlag, shmetlag. Rory McIlroy rightfully should have been exhausted after his victory on Sunday at the Tour Championship, which capped a (lucrative) stretch of five starts in six weeks to close out the 2018-’19 PGA Tour season. But that didn’t keep him from flying to Switzerland and playing in the Omega European Masters, just his
3:06 PM ET Associated Press CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Rory McIlroy picked up 5 shots in his last five holes for a 7-under 63 to move within a shot of the lead after the second round of the European Masters on Friday. McIlroy surged to join Tommy Fleetwood (65) and three others on 10 under, one
Jin Young Ko’s season has been incredible, winning four times, including two majors. But now she can add breaking one of Tiger Woods’ records to her list of accomplishments. On Friday, Ko became the only known person on the planet to have gone more consecutive holes in professional tournament play without making a bogey. She
10:52 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko finally made a bogey, ending a record run of 114 consecutive holes without dropping a shot, and finished with a 4-under 68 Thursday in the opening round of the Portland Classic, four shots off the lead. Mi Jung Hur and Hannah Green each
The USGA has held the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur since 1962, and used match play to determine a winner since 1997, but it has never seen the two finalists from one year return for a championship rematch the next. Never, that is, until Thursday at Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Country Club, when Lara Tennant and Sue
Considering Tommy Fleetwood’s rise inside the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking over the past few years, this might surprise you: the five-under 65 he shot on Thursday at the Omega European Masters was his best opening round on the European Tour in more than four years. Even more surprising might be that
1:59 PM ET Austria’s Matthias Schwab and France’s Mike Lorenzo-Vera are tied for the lead at the European Masters after the opening round at the Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club in Switzerland. Schwab, 24, got off to an impressive start, making five birdies on the front nine and a further two on second half of the round
During his first 18 years as a PGA professional, Greg Fitzgerald lived in fear. Fear of being found out, fear of being judged—or worse—shunned by his fellow PGA members and the game he devoted his life to. All because he’s a gay man. On his way to becoming the head professional at The Institute, a
8:15 PM ET ATLANTA — As much as he later said he enjoyed being part of and witness to history a year ago at East Lake, Rory McIlroy didn’t much relish that final-hole walk. Fans rushing past him. That chanting and singing and hollering for someone else. The fleeting fear of being trampled. It was
Matthew Fitzpatrick is a loyal Englishman, but he certainly seems to have an affinity for the mountains of Switzerland. Since turning professional in 2014, Fitzpatrick has played in the Omega European Masters on the Crans-sur-Sierre course five times. After a missed cut in his initial appearance, he subsequently has finished seventh, second, first and first.
The debate was over by January. He had a short-game prowess to match his prolific power, and his iron production was miles ahead of were it had been on the Web.com circuit. The results backed it up: Cam Champ, hailed as the “Future of Golf” by several publications—this one included—had a win, four top 11s
10:52 AM ET Just like that, the golf season is over. Four majors and the FedEx Cup in the rearview before the calendar flips to September — this new calendar might take a bit of getting used to. So we look back on the year that was and what comes next. Rory McIlroy or Brooks
EDITORS’ NOTE: In the August issue of Golf Digest, we published Ken Green’s searing account of sexual abuse suffered as a child, from his new book Hunter of Hope: A Life Lived Inside, Outside and On the Ropes. In the September issue, we publish Part 2, where Green details his laughs and controversies at the