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May 13, 2021 John Daly‘s story has always been the stuff of fiction. You just don’t win one of golf’s four major championships having never seen the course, let alone getting into the field as an obscure alternate. Yet, 30 years ago, in 1991, John Daly emerged as the long-hitting “grip-it-and-rip-it” folk hero when he

Here’s a problem golf fans should be glad to have: There will be more hours of live coverage from this week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah than there are actual hours in the day. For the second straight year, the PGA Championship will feature wire-to-wire 72-hole coverage via CBS Sports, ESPN, ESPN+ and Paramount+. According to

6:32 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — K.H. Lee was more than happy to play through a steady downpour in the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson, and didn’t mind waiting out a weather delay of more than two hours Sunday. The reward was the final spot next week in the PGA Championship.

“I always called him after each round. I texted him first. ‘Today I was hitting better … today I was shit.’ It was always something like that. And then I’d end up calling him when I got to the hotel, and I’d go through every single shot. What I ate for dinner. What I ate

Don’t look now, but another major week is upon us. A little more than a month after Hideki Matsuyama delivered for Japan, the world’s best head to Kiawah Island for this week’s PGA Championship. By some metrics—this is the only major to give exemptions to the top 100 players in the World Ranking—this is the

6:32 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Paul Goydos shot a bogey-free 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Billy Andrade into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Goydos, 56, had an 8-under 136 total at TPC Sugarloaf. He has five senior victories after winning twice

There had to be days when Richard Bland had given up hope. The 48-year-old Englishman tried and tried and tried some more to win a European Tour event, but never managed to do it. Until, finally, he did on Saturday at the British Masters, shooting a closing 66 at The Belfry to get into a

6:43 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sam Burns still has the lead going into the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson despite more magic on the 18th green from local favorite Jordan Spieth. Now it’s a race to beat the weather in Texas in the final round with a good number of

Jordan Spieth’s 55-foot, triple-breaking eagle conversion at TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th on Thursday was going to be an impossible highlight to top this week, especially for himself. But this is Jordan Spieth we’re talking about, a man who can fill up half of SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays just on the back nine when he

Nobody beats Richard Bland more than 477 times in a row. Finally putting an end to almost two decades of professional futility, the 48-year-old Englishman is at last a winner on the European Tour. In his 478th start, Bland shot a final round of 66 at The Belfry on Saturday to reach 13 under par

5:52 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Stephen Ames shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. The 57-year-old Ames had an opening bogey and seven birdies for a one-stroke lead over Paul Goydos. “I don’t think I had one highlight, I think

Imagine dedicating years of your life to achieving a single goal, only to have it ripped away from you at the last minute. That’s what happened Wednesday at the NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Regional in Baton Rouge, La. That morning, 110 women headed to The University Club, home to LSU’s men’s and women’s golf,

8:39 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Now that Sam Burns has figured out how to turn an early lead into a victory, it’s already time to try again. Burns birdied six of his last eight holes Friday for a 10-under 62 and a two-stroke lead over Alex Noren at 17 under after the

When you’re hot, you’re hot. It also helps when your last name is Burns. OK, so maybe that’s just a coincidence, but there could be something to it given how scalding hot Sam Burns is right now. Two weeks removed from his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Valspar Championship, Burns has grabbed the 36-hole

Just two weeks after saying he was unsure if he’d accept a special exemption into the U.S. Open, the USGA announced on Friday that Phil Mickelson did accept its special exemption into the 121st U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Mickelson, who now its at 116th in the Official World Golf Ranking following his 69th-place finish

6:41 AM ET Omar Uresti has gone from an obscure, little-known PGA Tour player to a full controversial PGA Professional in a very short amount of time. But through everything that’s happened to him, Uresti’s just a guy who wants to play golf for a living. Full disclosure: My journey into the professional golf world

Coincidence? Irony? The Golf Gods just being cruel? Whatever way you want to describe it, for the first time in days, the sun was out Thursday in Baton Rouge, La. However, the storm of frustration and bitterness hadn’t lifted after what transpired the previous afternoon at The University Club. “Look, this is one of the

3:55 PM ET Amy Bockerstette’s historic appearance at the NJCAA women’s golf national championships came to an unexpected and early end Thursday when the final round was reduced to the top 15 teams and other golfers in the top 24 because of weather conditions. Bockerstette, who’s in her third season at Paradise Valley Community College

The Jordan Spieth Experience is often described as a roller coaster, only if that coaster hit a few banks, froze on its barrel roll and brandished an “out-of-order” sign for months. Thursday in Dallas … well, there was still the occasional bump against the railing. But Spieth’s Round 1 at the AT&T Byron Nelson was

SUSSEX COLDFIELD, England — Back in 2016, the world was a very different place for Chris Wood. Winner of the biggest tournament on the European Tour, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, the then 28-year old went on to make his Ryder Cup debut at Hazeltine later that summer. By the end of the season,

8:58 PM ET The women’s golf NCAA regional in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was abruptly canceled Wednesday before the tournament even started. NCAA committee representative Brad Hurlbut walked down the stairs at LSU’s University Club and announced to players and coaches that the golf course was playable, but was not championship-level playable due to rain and

English writer Izaak Walton said, “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” Walton died in 1683 but I suspect if he’d held on for another 329 years, he’d have found the precise inverse of this on a shuttle of frustrated golf media members at the 2012 PGA Championship. There are certain images

8:00 AM ET Coming off last week’s Wells Fargo Championship (won by Rory McIlroy, who was picked by betting deputy editor David Bearman to win at 18-1), the PGA Tour heads to McKinney, Texas, for the AT&T Byron Nelson for a tuneup before the PGA Championship. This year’s event is moving to TPC at Craig

The return of the NCAA college golf postseason was supposed to be joyful time for programs that had seen the 2020 season cut short prematurely by COVID-19. But for 12 of the 18 schools competing at the NCAA Women’s Regional in Baton Rouge, La., there was only more frustration in seeing their 2020-21 postseasons end

With five weeks to go, Jason Day has yet to earn entry to the U.S. Open. While time remains to grab a spot, on Wednesday Day eliminated one such avenue to do so. With a missed cut at the Wells Fargo Championship last week, the former PGA champ dropped from No. 59 to No. 62

4:37 PM ET Jordan Spieth, who is making his first start since the Masters at his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson tournament this week, disclosed Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 three weeks ago. Spieth, who won the Valero Texas Open on April 2 for his first PGA Tour victory in three-plus years, said he

Matthew Wolff’s odd and unsettling season took another strange turn on Tuesday night when the PGA of America announced that the 22-year-old has withdrawn from next week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. Wolff will be replaced by Tom Hoge, and no reason was given for the WD. Only six months ago, Wolff entered the final

5:19 PM ET Hideki Matsuyama is making his first start since winning the Masters last month, looking to regain the form that saw him become the first male Japanese golfer to win a major championship. There was little time for Matsuyama to work on his game as he went home to Japan immediately after his

There is nothing more dangerous than a consensus bet. There’s also nothing as rewarding as a consensus bet that hits. Ultimately, you have to decide which side of history you want to be on. The negative, “I called the missed cut!” side, or the positive vibes only, full team celebration side. Personally, we prefer the

After a one-off return to August in 2020 due when COVID-19 ransacked the golf calendar, the PGA Championship moves back to its “new” May dates in 2021. The 103rd playing of this championship takes place at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in South Carolina and will feature its usually loaded field of top-ranked professionals.