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Fans watching the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational this week at TPC Southwind in Memphis will notice players, caddies and staff wearing a rainbow ribbon. The reason is a tragic one. The ribbons are in honor of PGA Tour winner Camillo Villegas’ daughter, Mia, who died of cancer earlier over the weekend. She was 22 months

7:45 AM ET Rory McIlroy has said he may not return to Europe from the United States this year due to the risks associated with travelling amid the coronavirus pandemic. McIlroy, who is in the field for the PGA Tour’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational this week, will play in the U.S. Open in September but

After a successful two-week stint on Matthew Fitzpatrick’s bag, Jim (Bones) Mackay will make a caddie cameo for another one of the world’s best golfers. Golf Channel’s Chantel McCabe reported on Wednesday that Justin Thomas has hired the longtime looper for the next two weeks. And they are a big two tournaments at that with

7:45 PM ET Justin Thomas‘ regular caddie, Jimmy Johnson, is not feeling well enough to work at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational this week, so Phil Mickelson‘s former caddie, Jim “Bones” Mackay, will take over this week, and likely next week for the PGA Championship, as well. Mackay, who worked for Mickelson for 25 years

As the LPGA Tour commences competition after a long pause due to the global spreading of COVID-19, one player came out of mandatory testing with a positive result. Gaby Lopez, who won the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions in January, has withdrawn from the Drive On Championship at Inverness in Toledo, Ohio, and will begin

Brooks Koepka was golf’s undisputed king after winning last year’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, having just dominated Rory McIlroy head-to-head in the final round after recently collecting a fourth major championship in less than three years. There are certainly more question marks surrounding the now 30-year-old in his return to Memphis, but when it comes

9:27 AM ET The PGA Tour announced Tuesday it is expanding its relationship with DraftKings, making the betting site its official betting operator. DraftKings had previously become the official daily fantasy game of the PGA Tour in 2019, but this agreement now gives the company the rights to use PGA Tour trademarks, the rights to

Unfortunately, our expert panel didn’t peg him as a dark horse, meaning we’ve now only picked an outright winner in 13 of the 28 events on tour this season, putting us up more than 260 units collectively on the season. For shame. Two of the most intriguing prices that immediately stick out are former winners

3:07 PM ET The PGA Tour has made a modification to its health and safety policy that will allow players and caddies who test positive for COVID-19 and have symptoms — but have gone 24 hours without a fever — to return to competition after 10 days. They also will be allowed to use the

Davis Love III announced on Tuesday he will no longer be working for CBS Sports. In a statement on Twitter, Love thanked CBS for the opportunity but said he wanted to return his primary focus to playing. “Since golf returned in June, CBS has allowed me time to focus on my family, play a few

Richy Werenski has been wearing the Blue Lives Matter band for four years. That’s what his brother Michael wants to make known from the start. “[Richy] comes from a family where his grandparents and cousins have been serving,” Michael told Golf Digest Sunday night. Werenski, 28, has made 99 starts in his PGA Tour career,

7:55 AM ET Given the lack of tournament preparation, it doesn’t say much for Tiger Woods’ confidence in his own body that he is not in Memphis, Tennessee, this week in advance of next week’s PGA Championship. Sure, there are other compelling explanations to skip the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, chief among them the fact

The PGA Tour announced Monday that Camilo Villegas’ daughter Mia passed away over the weekend. She was 22 months old. “She went through surgery and obviously needed treatment. She just started her second round of chemotherapy,” Villegas said. “It’s been really tough to see her—because you know how it is, she’s in pain. But she

8:25 PM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Golf Australia said Tuesday that the Australian Open tournament will be postponed indefinitely and if played will not be held until early 2021. The tournament was scheduled for Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, which has been in lockdown due to a large increase in COVID-19 deaths

Max Homa is considered by many the funniest PGA Tour pro on Twitter, having earned his 163,000-plus followers with a mix of blunt honesty, snarky humor, unending self-deprecation and Hall-of-Fame-level swing-roasting. Yet devoted fans of the 2019 Wells Fargo champ no doubt have noticed that Homa has yet to send out a message since after

On the surface, most will easily pass on DJ’s chances, following his first-round 78, a reported back injury, which came after back-to-back rounds of 80s at the Memorial Tournament. But the long-hitter did just win the Travelers Championship less than a month ago, and his odds were similar that week. And before this event became

11:12 AM ET International players on the PGA Tour may compete in events in the United States without delay, according to a memo sent to players on Friday which said the White House had lifted various quarantine rules put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic for “players, caddies and essential personnel.” But Englishman Lee

You could hear Michael Thompson’s voice crack with his first word as his responded to CBS Sports’ Amanda Balionis when she asked him about how it felt to win the 3M Open on Sunday. The broadcast team had set things up well for those watching at home, noting how Thompson hadn’t won a PGA Tour

7:17 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Without a gallery around him on the 18th green, Michael Thompson settled for a subdued victory celebration at the 3M Open with a FaceTime call home to his wife and children in Georgia. The tears came from him and his wife as soon as they saw each

Welp, someone scratched his seven-year itch on Sunday. And he had to go all the way up to Minnesota to do it. Michael Thompson, who hadn’t won in seven-plus years and 166 starts, sprinkled in a spectacular bunker shot with a superbly mundane round of golf to calmly win his second PGA Tour title, beating

The 3M Open is the second PGA Tour event since the restart of the season last month to keep its original spot on the tour calendar. Tournament officials can only hope it will replicate the magically wild finish they saw at TPC Twin Cities in 2019 when the event made its tour debut. Last year’s

3:51 PM ET Italy’s Renato Paratore maintained remarkable consistency to win the British Masters by three strokes, retaining his overnight lead and finishing at 18-under overall at Close House in Northumberland on Saturday. Paratore, 23, closed with a two-under par 69 in windy conditions to clinch his second European Tour title, adding to his Nordea

Only 19 centuries or so after the 73-mile long Hadrian’s Wall was built to signify the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire, another native of the Italian capital has left his mark on the northeast of England. With a final round of two-under-par 69 for a 72-hole total of 266, 18 under par for four

7:38 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Michael Thompson hasn’t experienced the anxiety and thrill of playing the last round of a tournament in the final group for several years. This time, pitted against Richy Werenski in the 3M Open, he’ll do so without the murmuring, clapping and roaring sounds from the spectators. For

A boat race seemed to be on, a lazy final round was on the docket as Michael Thompson cruised to a four-shot lead on Saturday afternoon. But Thompson’s engine stalled on TPC Twin Cities back nine, bringing the S.S. Richy Werenski and a caravan of other ships into the heat. With 10 players within four

Players, caddies, and other essential personnel entering the United States to compete on the PGA Tour will no longer be subject to a 14-day quarantine, effective immediately. The restrictions were eased by the White House and players were notified via e-mail late Friday evening. The e-mail, obtained by Golf Digest, said the move was made

5:44 PM ET Italy’s Renato Paratore extended his bogey-free run to 56 holes to retain a one-shot advantage after the third round of the British Masters at Close House in Northumberland on Friday. A closing birdie meant Paratore, who is seeking his first win since his maiden triumph at the 2017 Nordea Masters, carded an

The Premier Golf League, the proposed global circuit that would rival the PGA Tour, seemed to lose its allure in March after Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm, three of the top six players in the world, said they were not interested in participating. However, the fledgling league has seen its viability re-emerge, according

9:02 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Michael Thompson and Richy Werenski topped the 3M Open leaderboard going onto the weekend, Tony Finau and Talor Gooch climbed within a stroke and stars Brooks Koepka and Tommy Fleetwood struggled again Friday. In warmer and windier conditions on the quiet, spectator-free TPC Twin Cities course, the

Last week had a certain Groundhog Day feel to it with the PGA Tour encamped at Muirfield Village for a second straight week. This week does, too, but this time it has nothing to do with the venue and everything to do with the leader board. To wit, Tony Finau was in contention heading into