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4:54 PM ET Teenager Nicolai Hojgaard was in great form on day one of the Qatar Masters as he holds a one-shot lead over Joost Luiten heading into Friday’s session. The Danish rising star made six consecutive birdies to finish 7-under par, while Dutchman Luiten fell just short as he hit a 6-under 65. “It

There is no equivalent of the NFL Draft in professional golf. Top college players have never been able to transfer their success playing for their alma maters into direct, full-time employment on the LPGA or PGA Tour. Sure, All-Americans earn sponsor’s exemptions into tour events based on their potential, but those auditions require players to

The past nine months of Michelle Wie West’s life has been a time of great change. She took an indefinite leave from competitive golf to let her wrist heal, she married Jonnie West, turned 30, and she and West announced they’ll welcome their first child in the summer of 2020. Now, Wie West is working

7:12 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The leading two players at Bay Hill are no surprise, even if they have next to nothing in common. Rory McIlroy, the No. 1 player in the world who hasn’t finished out of the top 10 in any tournament since September, shot a 6-under 66 on Thursday

Will Tiger Woods win a major this year? Will he still be competitive at Augusta National when he’s 60? Will Rory McIlroy eventually win the Masters to complete the career Grand Slam? Who’s the funniest player on tour? How often have you seen a player break a rule and try to get away with it?

3:46 AM ET The Royal’s Cup 2020, scheduled for March 12-15 in Thailand, has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Asian Tour said on Thursday. The tournament at Kanchanaburi’s Grand Prix Golf Club joins a long list of sporting events hit by the flu-like virus that has killed over 3,200 people globally

You might have had the opportunity at some point to play a golf course that is the site of a PGA Tour event, and maybe played reasonably well. But what if you played that same golf course when it was prepared for tournament week? And what if that course was already renowned as one of

Though there’s no secret to predicting golf tournaments, the key is often deciphering the incredible amount of information available and deciding what’s most important. Last week, one of our leading experts, Pat Mayo, found a corollary between PGA National and other coastal courses, where Sungjae Im has found success in the past. And he also

1:39 PM ET Dustin Johnson will skip the men’s Olympic golf tournament outside of Tokyo this summer, becoming the first highly ranked player to take a pass on the event. Johnson’s agent, David Winkle, confirmed the decision first reported by Golfweek. Ranked fifth in the world, Johnson was in line to be one of four

When Tiger Woods turned 44 on December 30, 2019, he was still a full six years away from being eligible for enshrinement in the World Golf Hall of Fame, based on the minimum age criteria of 50. Twenty-two days later, the World Golf Hall of Fame announced it would be reducing that number to 45.

2:39 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Brandon Matthews‘ viral moment had little to do with golf, and everything to do with human decency. And it led to an opportunity this week to play in his first PGA Tour event. Matthews, 25, was faced with an 8-foot putt to extend a playoff last November at the

ORLANDO – With a blazing eight-under-par 64 in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational last March, Francesco Molinari was riding the biggest wave of his career. His come-from-behind victory was his fourth in a 10-month span, a run that included his first major title, the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie. A month after

The last stop before the Players Championship, the Arnold Palmer Invitational will include a stacked field, including World No. 1 Rory McIlroy, gearing up for one of the Tour’s premier events. McIlroy, the champion of this event back in 2018, has made five starts this Tour season and has finished inside the top five each

6:21 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods and former PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem are among 10 finalists who will be voted on next week for the World Golf Hall of Fame class of 2021. Woods was among four finalists from the male category that include three-time major champion Padraig Harrington, British

Forget the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Burning of Washington. The fiercest American-European conflict, or at least the most recent, happened in Palm Beach Gardens over the weekend. Tommy Fleetwood carried a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Honda Classic, the Englishman aiming for his first PGA Tour victory. It was a

6:15 AM ET European golfers have hit back at comments from former PGA Tour professional Paul Azinger after he belittled the significance of the European Tour during NBC’s Honda Classic final round coverage on Sunday. Azinger implied during the broadcast that wins on the PGA Tour are more significant and harder to achieve in comparison

Brandon Matthews doesn’t want to be known for one thing. But he is: The hug he gave a fan with Down syndrome whose involuntary shriek bothered his short putt that would have extended a playoff at the 2019 Argentina Open, where the winner received a spot in the 2020 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s.

Join a private club and you’ll probably see him the next time you drive in the parking lot. The lifer. Usually retired (and almost always a man), the lifer is ready to tell you all about what a travesty it is that new members like you are paying a quarter of the initiation fee he

8:44 AM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The most feared short hole in golf exacts a toll every year at the Masters. And it may have stalled a career, too. Some may view that as a leap much longer than the width of Rae’s Creek, and a heavy burden to place on a space of 155

The day before the 2016 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, I walked onto an elevator and found Martin Kaymer standing there. The day before that, I’d spent a couple of hours talking to Kaymer for the book I was researching on the Ryder Cup. He had mentioned that he was playing a practice round early

7:47 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Bernhard Langer took another step closer to the PGA Tour Champions victory record by closing with an 8-under 65 to turn a four-shot deficit into at two-shot win in the Cologuard Classic. Langer was flawless until the the final hole at Tucson National. He made nine birdies

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — South Korea’s Sungjae Im has played more golf than anyone on the PGA Tour the last 18 months, competing in 48 events and rarely taking a week off during that span. As it that was challenge enough, add in the difficulty of being a stranger in a strange land, who

Patrick Reed’s rules infraction at the Hero World Challenge in December continues to resonate as the calendar turns to March, a controversy flamed by fiery remarks from four-time major winner Brooks Koepka and former CBS Sports analyst Peter Kostis as well as Reed’s high-profile performance at the WGC-Mexico Championship. But if Reed believed his win

9:54 AM ET Associated Press Finland’s Sami Valimaki overcame difficult conditions to win the Oman Open on Sunday after beating South African Brandon Stone in a playoff in the third edition of the European Tour event. Valimaki and Stone finished joint top on 13-under 275 after both shot 2-under 70s in the final round played

Most professional golfers hate getting old. It usually takes more time to warm up, there’s usually less time in between trips to the port-a-potty, and yes, you usually start playing worse. But that’s not the case with Lee Westwood. RELATED: How Lee Westwood resuscitated his career Well, we’re not sure about those first two issues,

1:57 AM ET Associated Press QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — Australian Brad Kennedy shot a flawless final round 63 on Sunday to overtake compatriot Lucas Herbert and win the New Zealand Open for the second time. The 45-year-old Queenslander hit the front for the first time at the 14th hole, then showed icy nerves to hold

In the midst of a fantastic round, Brendan Steele still was handed one of the worst breaks you’ll see all week at the Honda Classic. Such is golf. It’s usually hard to complain about a birdie, but one wouldn’t blame Brendan if he felt that way after what happened to him on the 15th hole

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Winning matters, and in that department Tommy Fleetwood has acquitted himself quite well in recent years. The 29-year-old Englishman has five career victories on the European Tour, highlighted by a 2017 triumph in Abu Dhabi, where he held off a trio of major champions — Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson and

7:12 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brendan Steele made a couple of big mistakes down the stretch, and he still was more than good enough to grab the outright lead at the midpoint of The Honda Classic. Steele shot a 3-under 67 on Friday, getting to 5 under for the week

For golf fans, Anthony Kim is gone, but not forgotten. Gone from professional golf, that is. We know he’s still alive because he pops up from time to time in a pet store or even on a golf course. Sadly, it’s been nearly eight years since Kim last teed it up in a PGA Tour