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8:00 AM ET Coming off last week’s Valspar Championship (won by Sam Burns), the PGA Tour heads to Charlotte for the Wells Fargo Championship. Max Homa, winner at The Genesis in February, is the defending champion at Quail Hollow Club. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props

Another week, another strong field, another unbelievably difficult golf course. The PGA Tour, which stops at Quail Hollow this week for the Wells Fargo Championship, remains a can’t-miss affair right now, and we’ve already got another major in the near future. There is no quit in this Super Season. Last week, though, one of the

7:02 AM ET The PGA Championship is back in its normal spot in May after shifting to August in 2020 because of COVID-19. Last year’s event, won by Collin Morikawa, was played at TPC Harding Park without fans on-site. The spectators will be back this year as the event returns to the Ocean Course at

CHARLOTTE — Brendon Todd has withdrawn from the Wells Fargo Championship after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday morning. He will be replaced in the field by J.J. Spaun. The news comes one week after four players tested positive and were thus forced to pull out of the Valspar Championship: Tyrrell Hatton,

Many of today’s top PGA Tour players base their schedules around peaking for the majors, plus a handful of other big-time events. That means picking your spots and making sure you never play too many weeks in a row, thus allowing the body to rest and recover. Sungjae Im, however, is not like his PGA

7:00 AM ET The weeks following the Masters are typically sleepy, and this year is no different. After the buildup to the year’s first major championship, it is understandable that the world of golf collectively exhales. The RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina, has a cool vibe. New Orleans is now a team event.

The title sponsor and the PGA of America’s involvement has widely expanded the profile of what now is known as the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but like so many other major sporting events, it is at the mercy of the COVID-19 pandemic. On that note, it announced on Monday that it will restrict attendance to

4:34 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Amy Bockerstette is set to become the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship. The 22-year-old golfer will play with her Paradise Valley Community College teammates at the NJCAA national championships May 10-13 at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond

Great golf theater doesn’t always come at the major championships, and it doesn’t have to involve the 10 guys the PGA Tour is going to dole out $40 million to later this year for being popular. In fact, it doesn’t always take place on the PGA Tour. Sunday was an example. While Sam Burns was

In addition to being a fantastic putter, Sam Burns is also one heckuva negotiator. Turns out, those two skills are linked for the newest PGA Tour winner. Following Burns’ maiden victory at the Valspar Championship on Sunday, he confirmed a story about how he used his parents’ love of football to become a better golfer.

9:43 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Former Masters champion Mike Weir won his first PGA Tour Champions event Sunday when he held steady with pars down the stretch for a 4-under 68 and let John Daly made the last mistake in the Insperity Invitational. Weir and Daly were tied going down the

Maybe it was inevitable that on an exceedingly wet weekend, water would be a factor, but unmistakably it was inevitable that Mike Weir would win on the PGA Tour Champions. So it was in the rain-shortened Insperity Invitational on Sunday that Weir posted his maiden senior victory with a timely assist from John Daly. On

6:40 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Eight times this season, Sam Burns has been atop the leaderboard after every round except the one that mattered. That changed, finally, at the Valspar Championship. Burns got some help from Keegan Bradley hitting into the water on the 13th hole, and then the 24-year-old from

While Dustin Johnson and his fiancée Paulina Gretzky have been a happily engaged couple now for nearly eight years, the question always lingered: When might they actually tie the knot? Earlier this week, Gretzky seemed to be hinting that the day is coming soon. She took to social media to post images of herself dress

Hyo Joo Kim wore a full-face mask all week at the HSBC Women’s World Championship, not because of COVID concerns but due to a severe sun allergy. Kim’s hat and sunglasses covered the rest of her face, giving her the appearance of a beekeeper heading to work. The coverings kept secret the emotions the 25-year-old

7:31 AM ET Kim Hyo-joo won the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club on Sunday as Australian Hannah Green bogeyed the last two holes to hand the South Korean victory in the $1.6 million tournament. Kim’s eight-under par final round of 64 earned her the title with a four round score of

Max Homa produced one of the more memorable wins of the PGA Tour season in February when he won at his favorite golf course, Riviera, just 30 miles from where he grew up. But earlier that day it seemed like another golfer was going to author his own storybook finish in Hollywood. Golf fans—especially those

2:26 PM ET Pine Valley Golf Club, long held in high esteem in the golf community for its architectural features and stern test to high-end players, is set to break from tradition and allow women members for the first time while also striking all restrictions among women golfers currently in place. Both the Golf Magazine

Two weeks ago Lydia Ko ended a three-year winless drought with a runaway victory at the LPGA’s Lotte Championship in Hawaii. It capped a 90-hole run reaching back to the final round of the ANA Inspiration in which the 24-year-old New Zealander shot 38 under par with a 64.4 scoring average. Not surprisingly after the

Golf Twitter can be its ugliest when gamblers—angry about their losing bets or fantasy lineups—tweet at a professional golfer for struggling in a particular tournament. Talor Gooch was a few messages on social media after missing the cut at the Valspar Championship, but he smartly (and graciously) turned the moment into a positive. Gooch shot

8:15 AM ET China’s Lin Xiyu carded a superb five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Australia’s Hannah Green and South Korea’s Inbee Park heading into the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Lin got off to a poor start with a bogey on the first hole and

As the Ryder Cup has transformed from a three-day exhibition into an event consumed year-round, one of the upshots is a running bit where a player enjoying any semblance of a hot streak is placed into team discussion. Admittedly it can be a fun debate, but given the natural ebbs and flows of the golf

8:42 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns kept piling up birdies Friday, turning a solid start into a great round of 8-under 63 for a share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. Keegan Bradley got there with one shot. Bradley ended his round by holing out for eagle from 100

Max Homa has built a reputation of being great on Twitter that arguably overshadows the fact he’s also great at golf. Not surprisingly, he also displays that quick wit when he’s standing at a podium and not sitting behind a keyboard. Homa fired a Friday 68 at the Valspar Championship to grab a share of

Phil Mickelson told ESPN that he is not sure whether he’d accept a special exemption into the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, which will run from June 17-20 near his hometown of San Diego. Mickelson sits at No. 113 in the world rankings, well outside qualifying position for the year’s third major—he’d need to be

6:14 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister’s Award in Tokyo on Friday for winning the Masters golf tournament. He was the first Japanese winner at Augusta National, the famous American club. Matsuyama won the low amateur title at the 2011 Masters just weeks after the earthquake, tsunami and the

One of the more overused terms for tour players is “ball-striker,” because to make it to this echelon of the sport requires stick-and-ball genius from everyone. Yet Keegan Bradley’s prowess in this area (entering the week eighth in approach and 10th in tee-to-green) is often overlooked. Mostly because Bradley, as of late, is known not

7:27 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley can’t recall having an easier time than he did Thursday at Innisbrook. He missed only one green. His longest par putt was just over 4 feet. It added to a 7-under 64 and another great start in the Valspar Championship. It’s the second round

To golf fans of a certain age, the sight of an oversize first-place check carries a certain hint of nostalgia. For years, the marketing gimmick was a ubiquitous symbol of pro golf success, even if it was literally worthless. There’s never been an actual winner’s circle that a newly crowned PGA Tour champ steps into

Maria Fassi, the former amateur standout and NCAA champion at Arkansas, is still trying to find her way on the LPGA Tour after turning pro in 2019. The fast-swinging 23-year-old is loaded with potential, but her results have been inconsistent, missing 19 cuts in 33 starts, with just one top-10 finish. Her development, however, is