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6:39 AM ET Associated Press SURREY, England — The BMW International Open in Germany and the Open de France golf tournaments were canceled on Friday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the Scottish Open was postponed. Both the BMW International Open, which was to be played in Munich from June 25-28, and the Open de

At the state amateur level, there’s a growing uneasiness about how the competitive golf season is likely to play out in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The large majority of state golf associations have put their tournament schedules on hold, hoping better news moving forward will allow for play in the second half of

9:28 AM ET Associated Press Marion Hollins financed and developed a golf course for women in New York and was the brains behind two fabled golf courses in California. And with one determined swing, she set in motion plans for the famous par-3 16th at Cypress Point. A visionary in golf course architecture, a confidante

Picking your favorite Tiger Woods’ stat is a little like choosing your favorite ice cream: It’s hard to go wrong with whatever flavor you say you like most. Any number of numbers point to Woods’ dominance during his two-decade-plus PGA Tour career, none as straight forward as 82 overall wins (it might be vanilla, but

Tiger Woods won’t be in action again this weekend, but for a second consecutive Sunday golf fans can get their Tiger fix by tuning into CBS. A week after the network re-aired Woods’ 2019 Masters win with added commentary from the 15-time major champ, a new special called “Tiger Tales” will debut. Eat your heart

10:57 AM ET Associated Press Women’s golf has lost another senior major because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Senior LPGA Championship has been canceled. It was scheduled to be played July 30-Aug. 1 at French Lick Resort in Indiana. The USGA previously canceled the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. The Senior LPGA will stay at French

When the PGA Tour announced on Thursday its plans to resume the 2019-’20 season in mid-June at the Charles Schwab Challenge, the news provided an outline for when high-level competitive golf might—emphasis on might—be played again. Even if the timeline seems ambitious—on Friday the European Tour declared it would be shut down at least until

11:10 AM ET With the PGA Tour aiming to return to action — without fans — at Colonial Country Club on June 11, the tournament director of the Charles Schwab Challenge feels the pressure “to make sure we do it right.” The PGA Tour on Thursday announced it would try to resume its season at

Golf is not so much our profession as it is our passion at Golf Digest, and often that passion translates to philosophical, analytical, ideological and, occasionally, idiotic workplace discussions about the game. During this time of pause in our sport (and in the world at large), we decided to take these office conversations online in

I golfed the other day at my local North Carolina links course, and when I took five hits to get out of the sand near 16 green—with an easy pin placement, no less—I thought, “it’s like I’m in one of the high sand traps at the British Open!” Did any part of that sentence drive

4:56 PM ET Still no golf this past week, but that doesn’t meant it wasn’t busy. There were the re-airs of classic Masters, including Tiger Woods‘ memorable 2019 win. On Thursday, the PGA Tour announced a return in mid-June and a revised schedule, lending hope that golf will return in mid-June. What else happened? More

Big hitter, the Dalai Lama, and wisdom is his go-to club. In the midst of a pandemic and the isolation it has engendered, we find his advice on happiness and helping those in need cogent in these trying times. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion,” he once wrote. “If you want yourself

9:13 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic that shut down sports across the world has required all leagues to rethink their schedules. On Thursday, the PGA Tour announced its plans to return to action in mid-June. Earlier this month, three of the men’s major championships — the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open — all outlined

The Greenbrier will no longer host a PGA Tour event, officials from the West Virginia resort announced on Thursday. Golf Digest’s Dave Shedloski first reported the news Wednesday night. “A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier” was originally scheduled for the second week of September, but that date has been taken by the Safeway Open. Additionally,

A return to normalcy has been in the works, on chalk boards of sports league executives and in the hearts of fans, since balls stopped bouncing in March. Professional golf has been at this effort’s forefront, becoming the first major American sport to outline its season in a joint statement last Monday, highlighted by the

The PGA Tour hopes to play 14 more events in 2019-20, starting with the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 11-14 and ending with the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta on Sept. 4-7, followed by the start of the 2020-21 season and the U.S. Open, the

Over the weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic wore on, the decision to cancel July’s IMG Academy Junior World Championships for the first time in 53 years seemed inevitable. That didn’t make it any easier when organizers decided to pull the plug on Thursday. “It’s devastating. It’s crushing for our organization,” said Megan Mahoney, the executive

12:23 PM ET If you cannot sell winning or success to your fans, the next best thing you can sell them is hope. The PGA Tour is now dealing in the currency of hope, something we need in America as much as we have ever needed anything. People are still getting sick, and people are

The PGA Tour announced Thursday its plans to resume the 2019-’20 season on June 11-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge—without fans in attendance—while also unveiling a re-configured tournament schedule for the remainder of 2020 in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. After returning to action at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, the Tour

A priest, a rabbi and a yogi stand six feet apart from each other on a tee box. This isn’t the start of a joke, but an honest effort to understand if it’s OK to play golf now. The National Golf Foundation reports that 44 percent of courses in the United States are open. Sixteen states

3:09 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — The Byron Nelson will have a new home when the tournament returns to the PGA Tour schedule next year. TPC Craig Ranch, about 30 minutes north of downtown Dallas, will host the Nelson for at least five years, starting in 2021. The announcement Wednesday from the PGA

The 2019 Masters was one of the great “what-if” editions of the tournament in recent memory (though aren’t they all?). What if Francesco Molinari, Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau all didn’t rinse their tee shots on No. 12? What if Patrick Cantlay didn’t make back-to-back bogeys at 16 and 17? What if Xander Schauffele made

7:36 AM ET It’s in the nature of a caddie to help others. They stay out of the spotlight, behind the scenes helping their golfer navigate a round. That mentality of helping is partly why Ian Finnis, caddie for PGA Tour player Tommy Fleetwood, decided it was time he helped others. Finnis is at the

Alex Cejka has broken the PGA Tour’s “Curse of Coco Beach.” Well, kind of. In the 12-year history of the Puerto Rico Open, no winner has ever triumphed at another tournament. But Cejka, the 2015 winner at Coco Beach Golf Course picked up a long-awaited victory on Wednesday. It just didn’t come on the PGA

PGA Tour officials are expected to announce this week their intention to resume the tour season, halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on June 11-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge, multiple sources have told Golf Digest. It’s also expected that fans will not be allowed to attend that first tournament at Colonial Country Club in

8:37 PM ET Associated Press The USGA is investing $5 million in a relief fund for 59 members in its Allied Golf Association, which represent state and regional golf associations. The fund goes to grants to help keep businesses running and people in their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual associations can apply for up

Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, believes a PGA Championship without fans is still better than no PGA Championship at all. Waugh appeared on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio Tuesday morning to discuss plans for the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, which was originally set for May but has

2:38 PM ET The PGA of America is planning for a PGA Championship in August without spectators in case local authorities and health experts do not allow for them. Seth Waugh, CEO of the PGA of America, said Tuesday on Sirius XM Radio that the hope is to play the event — with fans —

This was about 10 years ago, during the Masters. It was early in the week, and I was standing under Augusta National’s famous tree talking to a number of people, watching the elite of the golf world—players, TV stars, agents, big-shot officials—walking to and from the clubhouse. For some reason, my eye caught sight of

Collin Morikawa wasn’t as nervous to play with Tiger Woods for the first time as you might expect. Of course, nothing humanizes a living legend more than seeing him wearing a Christmas onesie. Such was the situation Morikawa had found himself in just a few months before when he joined Woods and some of golf’s