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7:19 PM ET PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Emiliano Grillo made birdie on half of the holes Friday on his way to an 8-under 63 that gave him a four-shot lead going into the weekend at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. The second round was delayed by one hour by heavy rain in the morning, and

The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is known more for the celebrities in its field and not the gallery outside the ropes. Still, the two go hand in hand, though that won’t be the case for the 2021 edition of the tournament. Pebble Beach on Friday joined most of the PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing by

Professional golfers—both men and women—are notoriously, how do we put this … cautious when it comes to cold weather. Anything under 60 degrees will cause players to bundle up as if they were playing during an Ice Age. But on Thursday at the LPGA’s Volunteers of America Classic, it was cold enough to warrant more

9:09 AM ET England’s Andy Sullivan stayed ahead of the chasing pack at the Golf in Dubai Championship on Friday with a steady third round of 68 at the Jumeirah Golf Estates for a two-shot lead over compatriot Matt Wallace heading into the final day. Sullivan began the round ahead by three strokes and landed

Even die-hard LPGA Tour fans might have been doing a double take when they saw the unfamiliar name Ally Ewing near the top of the leader board on Thursday at the Volunteers of America Classic. An opening-round one-under 70 amid grey skies and 40-degree temperatures at Old American Golf Club outside Dallas left the 28-year-old

7:43 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Charley Hull fought through cold and windy conditions to take the first-round lead Thursday in the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Classic. Hull, a 24-year-old Englishwoman, shot a 3-under 69, making six birdies and three bogeys at Old American Golf Club with the afternoon temperature climbing

The final PGA Tour event of this god forsaken year got off to a wet and windy start, with Day 1 of the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, proving a rather difficult day for scoring. Just 56 of the 132 players in the field broke par at El Camaleón Golf Club, where

Annika Sorenstam was named the new president of the International Golf Federation Thursday as the sport prepares for next year’s Tokyo Olympics. Sorenstam, a 10-time major winner and World Golf Hall of Famer, will replace Peter Dawson as head of the IGF. Dawson had been in the position for 10 years, and played a role

It is a landmark U.S. Women’s Open, No. 75, beginning next Thursday on the two courses at Champions Golf Club in Houston. And this year’s is certain to be among the most memorable Opens in the 75-year history of the premier championship in women’s golf, given its unique December date courtesy of a pandemic. In

12:22 PM ET England’s Andy Sullivan shot a bogey-free 11-under-par 61 to set a course record and lead by two shots after the first round at the Golf in Dubai Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates on Wednesday. Sullivan recorded 11 birdies and briefly looked set to match compatriot Oliver Fisher‘s European Tour record of 59

Don’t ask Brooks Koepka his thoughts on 2020. Granted, this has been a year most would like to forget. But after bending the golf realm to his will the previous two, Koepka found himself on the business end of the sport this season. He was forced to withdraw from the U.S. Open in September due

Despite the importance of distance on the PGA Tour, there remains plenty of room for guys who “play their game.” The Zach Johnsons, the Brendon Todds, the Brian Gays. Shorter, accurate drivers with elite short games will always be able to contend no matter how high Bryson DeChambeau’s ball speed gets. Abraham Ancer, who played

Sure, you have every right as a PGA Tour fan and golf DFS player to be melancholy that our phenomenal stretch of golf is coming to an end. Twenty-four straight weeks through the RSM Classic provided such entertainment over the latter half of 2020, so it will be tough to sweat our last PGA Tour

Justin Thomas has enjoyed a prosperous 2020. He finished runner-up in the FedEx Cup, won the PGA of America’s Player of the Year honor, contended at the Masters and U.S. Open, and briefly recaptured the World No. 1 ranking. His win at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in July put him on an all-time trajectory;

In the latest example of the apple not falling far from the tree, it appears Charlie Woods has a penchant for trash talking. At least according to Justin Thomas. “Tiger and I talked about it a bunch,” Thomas said in his pre-tournament press conference at the Mayakoba Golf Classic on Tuesday. “He brought it up

10:16 AM ET Tiger Woods‘ son, Charlie, has been lobbying his father for some time to play in the PNC Championship, a tournament that lets major champions compete as a team with a family member. Charlie also apparently has been itching to get a piece of Justin Thomas. Woods and his 11-year-old son committed recently

On the eve of the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open in late January, the tournament’s executive director, Marty Gorsich, had every reason to be in a good mood. He had an attractive field that included Tiger Woods. Corporate and ticket sales were booming. After a decade of trying to dig the event out of a deep

Depending on where you are in the spectrum of pro golf as entertainment, you either love or hate the 16th hole scene at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. You either cheer the groundbreaking ingenuity and almost comical raucousness of “the Coliseum,” or you roll your eyes with disgust at how the reaction to single golf

Brendon Todd defends his title this week after his scorching hot end to his 2019 season. He enters this week without a finish better than T-37 since September after dealing with a foot injury in October. Harris English, who shot a final-round 63 in his last start at the RSM Classic, is a past champion

No one could have foreseen how the 2020 golf season would unfold when the PGA Tour and European Tour resumed play this summer, least of all Will Zalatoris. The 24-year-old former Wake Forest All-American was a member of the Korn Ferry Tour and was sitting at 483rd when the Official World Golf Ranking was frozen

6:28 AM ET Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi International in its third year is shaping up as one of the strongest fields on the European Tour with commitments from Masters champion Dustin Johnson, U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau and a curious one from Paul Casey. Tournament organizers said on Thursday that seven

Winning streaks don’t usually last long on the Ladies European Tour, which is what makes Emily Kristine Pedersen’s performance this past month notable. After a pair of victories in Saudi Arabia, the 24-year-old from Denmark triumphed again on Sunday in Spain, grabbing the title in the 2020 season finale at the Andalucia Costa del Sol

CHRISTIAAN BEZUIDENHOUT (PRONOUNCED BA-ZADE-NOTE)EUROPEAN TOURAGE 26LIVES DELMAS / SOUTH AFRICA I was 2 years old when it happened. My memory doesn’t go back that far, but I’m told I was in the grocery store with my parents, and there was a soda bottle on the ground. I picked it up and drank from it. It

7:31 AM ET Christiaan Bezuidenhout held his nerve to win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by four shots at Leopard Creek Country Club on Sunday as the rest of the contenders faltered in a dramatic finish. The 26-year-old South African took his second European Tour victory after birdies on the 14th and 15th holes helped him

Two years ago, the original “Capital One’s The Match” brought golf back into the Thanksgiving spotlight after the retirement of the Skins Game a decade earlier with Phil Mickelson beating Tiger Woods for a winner-take-all $9 million payday at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. When the franchise is revived once more on Friday in the Arizona

12:44 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk will go into the final round of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship with a slender one-shot lead at Leopard Creek Country Club after overcoming a difficult start to card a 71 on Saturday. Meronk, whose only win on tour came at the Open de Portugal last year, bogeyed

At 6-foot-6, Adrian Meronk is freakishly tall for a professional golfer, yet his stature in the game can grow even larger should he pull off a victory on Sunday in the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. After posting a one-under-par 71 at Leopard Creek Country Club in Malelane on Saturday, Meronk is

With the Mayakoba Golf Classic coming the first week of December, it marks the latest an official PGA Tour event has been played in a calendar year since 1971. Not surprisingly, then, when the deadline to enter the event passed on Friday, only four of the top 15 players on the Official World Golf Ranking

12:53 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk carded six birdies and an eagle in a scintillating round of 66 to take a three-shot lead after day two of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship on Friday. Meronk, whose only win on tour was the Open de Portugal last year, followed up his two eagles in the

It was the perfect day-after-Thanksgiving viewing. No one wants anything too serious when they’re still digesting the previous night’s feast, and this third edition of these made-for-TV matches—this one officially dubbed “The Match: Champions for Change”—never promised to be anything more than pure entertainment for wonderful causes. It was certainly entertaining. Despite giving up some