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The year’s first WGC is upon us, and this event returns to Florida after four years in Mexico. The 2021 WGC-Workday Championship will take place at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., the first time this Jack Nicklaus/Tony Jacklin course will host a PGA Tour event. Rory McIlroy (16-1), Justin Thomas (18-1) and Bryson

7:30 PM ET A change of plans to include a trip to Florida this week ended up not being necessary for Jordan Spieth. He made a spirited run at qualifying for this week’s World Golf Championship event. He also came up short on his other, more focused goal of winning again on the PGA Tour

The PGA Tour’s 2020-’21 Super Season rolls on this week with two events, one a WGC in Florida and the other an opposite-field event in Puerto Rico. Both feature star-studded fields, and, naturally, both offer plenty of betting value. In Puerto Rico, there are no single-digit, Dustin Johnson-like favorites, but there is a clear solo

10:31 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN LPGA Tour player Madelene Sagstrom first shared her secret five years ago. For 16 years, she acted like nothing had happened. She immersed herself in golf, creating an identity on the course. But in March 2016, as she prepared for a Symetra Tour event, Sagstrom couldn’t keep it in any

When the PGA Tour makes a one-time visit this week to The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., contestants will find one of the most penal and pernicious layouts in the Sunshine State, and that was before a couple of hundred yards or so recently were tacked onto the par-72 layout that previously measured 7,474

WARNING: The video you are about to see is graphic. Viewer discretion is advised. The scene was Riviera’s iconic 18th green, where Tony Finau had just earlier cleaned up his par to post 12 under in the clubhouse. In the group behind was Max Homa, also at 12 under and in the middle of the

7:32 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Winning at Riviera was always a dream for Max Homa since he first attended the PGA Tour event as a toddler. He never could have scripted a finish like Sunday at the Genesis Invitational. Homa missed a 3-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for the win.

The ending of the Genesis Invitational on Sunday was anything but pretty, but everything that preceded it was all you could ask for and then some. Max Homa and Tony Finau, two beloved PGA Tour pros, battling it out down the stretch at an iconic golf course—and then meeting in a sudden-death playoff. Golf tournaments

12:25 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sam Burns made two big par putts Sunday morning in the Genesis Invitational to finish a 3-over 74 for a two-shot lead on what turned out to be the toughest weekend round at Riviera since the PGA Tour started keeping such records. Burns had a two-shot lead

If there are “horses for courses” tournaments on the PGA Tour, the Genesis Invitational and Riviera Country Club would seem to be among them. Specifically, in recent years there are three big horses to always have your eye on: Adam Scott, the defending champion who also won the event in 2005 and was runner-up in

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif.—It was one of those days—when you play away from flags with wedge in your hand, when you back off putts just to be sure the ball isn’t oscillating, when an even-par round sends you soaring up the leader board. In other words, just how Matthew Fitzpatrick likes it. On a brutally difficult,

9:40 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The wind stopped Sam Burns right when he was about to get started with a five-shot lead Saturday at the Genesis Invitational. Darkness stopped him right after two straight bogeys narrowed his lead to two. Thus ended a wild afternoon at Riviera, where the wind was raging

The third round of the Genesis Invitational on Saturday has been suspended due to high winds, just as the final threesome was standing on the first tee at Riviera Country Club. The horn blew at 10:09 a.m. local time, and players were immediately instructed to head back to the clubhouse. PGA Tour officials said the

1:30 PM ET Michelle Wie West had strong words for Rudy Giuliani via Twitter after the former New York City mayor and attorney for former President Donald Trump joked with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh several years ago about being able to see the golfer’s underwear when she putted during a golf outing. Appearing

Michelle Wie West has responded to a story told by Rudy Giuliani, calling the former lawyer to Donald Trump and New York City mayor’s remarks “unsettling” and “highly inappropriate.” Speaking on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast on Thursday, Giuliani recalled a round he played with Wie and the late Rush Limbaugh during a charity fundraiser

Los Angeles is known for its stars, and the PGA Tour’s stars have come out to play this week in La-La Land at the Genesis Invitational. Seven of the top 10 players in the World Ranking are teeing it up at famed Riviera Country Club in the 120-player field and 30 of the top 50,

8:50 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sam Burns wanted to pay respect to tough Riviera by playing it safe. It led to a 5-under 66 on Friday to tie the 36-hole record at the Genesis Invitational and build a five-shot lead going into the weekend. Among those chasing is Dustin Johnson, the No.

OK, it’s not Jack Youngblood playing on a broken leg in the Super Bowl (or, given the audience, Tiger playing on one leg at the U.S. Open). Still, if there is a takeaway after two days at Riviera, it is this: Tyler McCumber is a bad, bad man. McCumber is seven under at the halfway

8:55 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sam Burns had the ideal start at Riviera. His finish was even better. Burns opened with an 18-foot eagle putt and closed with three straight birdies Thursday in the Genesis Invitational, giving him a 7-under 64, the third time this season he has shot 64 in the

Much was made about the strength of the field (or lackthereof) last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. There were no such complaints in the lead-up to this week’s Genesis Invitational, where eight of the top 10 players in the World Ranking are in the field. Unfortunately, two of them (and perhaps a few

Many of the world’s top players are teeing it up this week in the shadow of Hollywood at Riviera Country Club for the Genesis Invitational. Surprisingly, Sungjae Im isn’t one of them. It’s a rare week off for the PGA Tour’s resident road warrior who last year played in all but six tournaments on the

9:59 PM ET After spending 10 days in his hotel room because of COVID-19, Padraig Harrington was anxious to get back on the golf course Thursday for the opening round of the Genesis Invitational. He did so after a late-night drive of more than five hours from Pebble Beach, California, to Los Angeles and the

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — You won’t find it in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM, but Just Happy to Be Here syndrome is absolutely a real thing. You’ve seen it before: When a 10-seed makes the Elite Eight at the NCAA basketball tournament and loses by 40, or a qualifier makes the Wimbledon semis and lays

7:20 AM ET Sam Puryear wants HBCU golf to be on equal footing. And the coach at Howard University knows what it will take to get there. After winning a national championship at Stanford, then a Big Ten title with Michigan State, the golf coach, with an assist from NBA champion Steph Curry, literally started

LPGA Tour officials say they heard from players that there should be some match-play events on the schedule. And the tour listened, announcing on Thursday that the inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play will take place May 26-30 at what Golf Digest ranks the best course in Nevada: Shadow Creek. The glitzy course outside of

Cameron Champ has withdrawn from the Genesis Invitational. The PGA Tour announced the move Wednesday night. Champ’s representatives told Golf Digest the decision is related to the winter storms hitting Texas, where Champ has a home in Houston. Champ was scheduled as one of the featured pairings at Riviera with Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau,

9:00 AM ET The PGA Tour remains on its West Coast swing, this week heading to Pacific Palisades, California for The Genesis Invitational. Defending champion Adam Scott won last last year’s event by two shots, finishing 11-under. Tournament host Tiger Woods will not play this week at Riviera Country Club, but the the event boasts

When Brooks Koepka won the Waste Management Phoenix Open two weeks ago, the victory snapped a winless drought that stretched back to July of 2019 and the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. It also brought to an end a long period of frustration for the four-time major champion. How frustrated had Koepka become? He says he

11:26 AM ET Mike Whan, who announced last month that he will be stepping down as commissioner of the LPGA Tour, has been named to replace Mike Davis as CEO of the United States Golf Association. Whan, 56, who guided the LPGA for 11 years, will take over after Davis leaves the organization later this

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist—or even Bryson DeChambeau—to figure out that golfers from California have earned more money on the PGA Tour than tour pros from any other state. After all, the tour’s top two earners—Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson—hail from the Golden State, emphasis on gold. But how do the rest of the