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Let’s begin with a statement we can all agree on: Winning a major championship is harder than winning a regular tour event. Presumably, it requires more experience to win a major since the more experience you have, the more likely you’ll be able to handle the nerves and pressure as you play those final holes

5:19 PM ET Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. “Earlier today, I received a positive result for Covid-19 under PGA TOUR on-site testing protocols and have begun a period of self-quarantine to protect others around me,” he wrote on

This is not meant to take anything away from Bryson. But because the 2020 U.S. Open champ outplayed Wolff over those final nine holes, he now has all the hype—and odds to win of more than triple Wolff’s at this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. That doesn’t seem right. Our experts Pat Mayo and

12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to The Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and The Masters and has been played since 2014, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17

The inevitable fallout on the PGA Tour of Bryson DeChambeau winning the U.S. Open with his bombs-away strategy was that previously skeptical peers might be more willing to give the method a try. But it’s one previously skeptical peer doing the trying in particular that seems most intriguing. Rory McIlroy notably praised DeChambeau on the

Bryson DeChambeau will be making his first start since his U.S. Open triumph at this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. A start that will serve as a Winged Foot rematch of sorts. DeChambeau, who won the Shriners two years ago, will be paired with Matthew Wolff and Cameron Champ for the first two rounds

6:27 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Mel Reid gave herself another chance for her first LPGA Tour victory. Two weeks after missing an opportunity in Portland, the 33-year-old Englishwoman shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Shoprite LPGA Classic. In Portland, Reid closed with

For 13 weeks now, exactly one-quarter of this year like no other, the European Tour has been hosting post-lockdown tournaments. And things have not been easy for golf’s second-biggest circuit. With the exception of last week’s Scottish Open and this week’s BMW PGA Championship, both $7 million Rolex Series events, the prize money available to

5:28 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Mel Reid of England seized control with a run of birdies around the turn and finished strong Sunday for a 4-under 67 and a two-shot victory in the ShopRite LPGA Classic for her first LPGA Tour title. Reid’s only mistake on the back nine was a bogey

Because he hadn’t had an American victory since the 2017 Masters, Sergio Garcia’s Sanderson Farms Championship win felt like it came out of nowhere. In reality, the Spaniard had won three times since putting on the green jacket, all three victories coming on the European Tour (2017 and 2018 Andalucia masters, 2019 KLM Open). Yet

For much of the afternoon, it looked as though Peter Malnati had done enough to claim his second Sanderson Farms Championship, or at least done enough to earn a spot in a playoff. However, Sergio Garcia, who had not won on the PGA Tour since the 2017 Masters, was able to fend off Malnati with

8:11 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sergio Garcia delivered two key shots on the back nine, the last one an 8-iron to 30 inches on the final hole for birdie and a one-shot victory in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Garcia closed with a 5-under 67 and won for the 10th consecutive year worldwide,

While Bryson DeChambeau is in the midst of perhaps changing the metrics of golf through evermore distance, Sergio Garcia is making a case for the mystical properties of darkness. Garcia, apparently, has seen the light by playing tournament golf with his eyes wide shut and lending credence to the philosophy of that sage golfer of

3:17 PM ET Associated Press Englishman Aaron Rai needed only one playoff hole to beat compatriot Tommy Fleetwood and win the Scottish Open for his second European Tour title on Sunday. Fleetwood (67) birdied the last hole of regulation to match Rai’s total of 11 under par, but then missed from three feet for par

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Given what had gone before, the ultimate (anti) climax of this Scottish Open was perhaps inevitable. Yes, Tommy Fleetwood made a 15-footer for birdie on the Renaissance Club’s 18th green to force a playoff with fellow Englishman Aaron Rai. But over the previous 17 holes, the 29-year-old World No. 17 missed

It was, amidst much doom, gloom and precipitation, a thing of beauty. Hitting shots the old-fashioned way, Tommy Fleetwood somehow manufactured a two-under-par 69 in vile conditions on Saturday to sit two shots off Robert Rock’s at the end of day three of the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club. It was, quite simply a

9:12 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss — Sergio Garcia squeezed his eyes shut on the 18th green, not as he stood over his putt but when he saw it stop one turn short of dropping for another birdie. No matter. He played bogey-free Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship for a 6-under 66, and

The Sanderson Farms Championship has been a beacon of hope for the winless on the PGA Tour—in each of the last six years a first-time champion has been crowned at the event. That could change on Sunday with veterans like Sergio Garcia, Brandt Snedeker, Keegan Bradley and Charley Hoffman all in contention on what is

7:21 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Nasa Hataoka birdied two of the last three holes for a 4-under 67 and a one-stroke lead Friday in the Shoprite LPGA Classic. Hataoka. the 21-year-old Japanese player with three LPGA Tour victories, birdied the par-4 16th and par-5 18th to get to 11-under 131 at Seaview’s

It’s like this, folks. Always has been, always will be. If you’re going to venture out onto a Scottish golf course in October, days like this are going to happen now and then. Or even then and now. So it wasn’t exactly unprecedented when the third round of the Scottish Open started off wet, veered

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — At the end of a round that saw 24-year-old Australian Lucas Herbert at the top of the leader board at 11 under par, the second day of the Scottish Open was perhaps most notable for the contributions made by more “experienced” members of the 126-man field. Forty-something Englishmen Ian Poulter and

8:30 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Keegan Bradley likes the way he’s putting. He must really like the idea that the the birdie putts he made Friday on his way to a 7-under 65 were not terribly far from the hole. In his debut in the Sanderson Farms Championship, Bradley made three straight

Unlike last week’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, the Sanderson Farms has a decent amount of star power, which is always a plus. A bigger plus is when perhaps the most decorated player in the field is in contention through two rounds, and he may have a very unconventional putting method to thank. Here

1:52 PM ET Associated Press NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Australian golfer Lucas Herbert carded seven birdies and one bogey in a 6-under 65 to lead the Scottish Open by one shot on Friday going into the weekend. Herbert contemplated quitting the game as he struggled during the middle of the 2019 season, but finds himself

Is there anything the Kordas can’t do? On Friday, Sebastian Korda became the youngest U.S. man to reach the fourth round of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1991. The 20-year-old blew out Spaniard Pedro Martinez, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 at Roland Garros. Previously, his best result in a Grand Slam was reaching the first

This time two weeks ago Phil Mickelson was a defeated man. No, he wasn’t expected to contend at the U.S. Open, but he came out on the business end of Winged Foot, shooting the second-highest score of Round 1 on the way to missing the cut by seven shots. “Yeah. I don’t know what to

9:00 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Defending champion Sebastian Munoz found happy memories Thursday at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Munoz nearly holed a wedge on his opening hole as part of his fast start, ran in four straight birdies on the back nine and wound up with an 8-under 64 to share of

A sunny day in Mississippi yielded some great scores in the first round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Oh, and a crowded leader board after 18 holes, with a quartet of players sitting at eight-under 64 and 12 golfers within three shots of the lead. Here’s how things shook out as we offer five takeaways

12:35 PM ET Associated Press ABERDEEN, Scotland — Paul Lawrie is making his 620th appearance on the European Tour at the Scottish Open this week. It also will be his last. The 1999 British Open champion is quitting the tour after the tournament at The Renaissance Club because of problems with his back. Lawrie will

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Paul Lawrie has done just about everything you can do on the European Tour. Eight wins, 67 top-10 finishes, 396 cuts made, €12,718,724 earned, two-time Ryder Cup player. The Scot even had a tournament named after him for three years, 2015-’17. And now the 1999 Open champion is calling it a