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2:30 PM ET Charles Barkley has insisted his golf game has gotten better. We’re about to find out as he teams with Phil Mickelson in a match against Steph Curry and Peyton Manning at Stone Canyon in Arizona. The Match: Champions for Change will benefit historically Black colleges and universities. We’ll have the entire match

America is very familiar with Charles Barkley’s golf swing. That hitch and hesitation before impact—the former NBA star’s poor move has been imitated by so many. Before “The Match: Champions for Change,” Phil Mickelson swore that Barkley had cured his swing—saying Barkley had “flushed every iron shot” in their practice rounds at Stone Canyon Club.

Faced with the test early in 2020 on how to make professional golf work amid a global pandemic, the game’s biggest stakeholders worked together on a plan that salvaged a good deal of the overall schedule. During that process, the potential for a long-term partnership emerged between the PGA Tour and European Tour, one that

9:43 AM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour has acquired minority stake in the European Tour’s media production company as part of an alliance that could be the start of a global golf schedule. The alliance announced Friday allows the PGA Tour and European Tour to collaborate on commercial opportunities, global media rights in certain

Kevin Kisner didn’t win the 2020 RSM Classic despite making only one bogey over 74 holes at Sea Island Golf Club. Making the runner-up even tougher? He also added to his brutal career record in PGA Tour playoffs. With the latest loss on Sunday, Kisner is now 0-5 in extra holes. Three of those runner-ups

1:46 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk and Frenchman Robin Roussel hit seven under par 65s to share the lead by one stroke after the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday. Roussel hit five successive birdies on the back nine after a slow start, while Meronk had two

In his first year as the head coach of the men’s and women’s golf programs at Howard University, which was also to be the school’s first in Division I, Sam Puryear didn’t get a chance to see his players compete, the fall season having been canceled because of the ongoing pandemic. Nevertheless, the year won’t

Normally when gathering around the table this time of year to give thanks, we keep the list short. Not that we’re ungrateful; it’s just that the potatoes are getting cold and we see Uncle Mark eyeing the turkey leg. This season, however, there’s no need to curtail the gratitude, and that includes around the table

7:40 AM ET Two years ago, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson went head-to-head in the first of what would be a series of made-for-television golf matches. After that, they went to a team format in May, with two of the best golfers in history adding a pair of future NFL Hall of Famers in Tom

There might not be a PGA Tour event this week, but we do have some golf to bet on with “The Match: Champions for Change” being played Friday at 3 p.m. ET (on TNT). We don’t want to speak for all golf fans, but watching Charles Barkley hack it up on cable TV to cure

Though Phil is likely very familiar with this desert oasis, the other players—and perhaps many viewers—will not be. So we’ve compiled information and photos on every hole, so you can have a sneak peek at the host venue. First hole: Par 4, 426 yards from back tees, 369 yards from next set. The opening hole

In this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, many golfers find themselves feeling a tremendous sense of guilt. You know what I mean. In the worst of times, for the lucky ones it’s been the best of times. We’ve all talked about the quality hours and days we’ve spent with our families. Hanging out

Publishing a story often feels like the end of a long journey—reporting, writing, editing, fact-checking, designing—but occasionally we’re pleased to find out it was only a beginning. Though separated by 23 years and 150 yards off the tee, James and Allen became fast friends. So when the two recently came to New York on a

To get an early glimpse of who likely will be competing for the United States at the Walker Cup in May at Seminole Golf Club, look no further than the 16 players the USGA just invited to participate in next month’s three-day practice session. Seven of the 10 members of the winning U.S. team in

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Fourteen feet, one inch was the length of Robert Streb’s birdie putt that would have won him the RSM Classic the first of the three times he played the 18th hole on Sunday, and his miss won’t be particularly remembered. It was a medium-weak effort, short and fading off to

10:56 AM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Joachim B. Hansen of Denmark overturned a three-shot deficit with nine holes remaining to win his first European Tour title at the Joburg Open on Sunday. Wilco Nienaber of South Africa took a one-stroke lead into the final round at Randpark Golf Club and extended his

Having been out of the broadcasting game for more than a year, Gary McCord can be excused for not knowing some of the finer details of his latest assignment as an on-course reporter for “Capital One’s The Match: Champions for Change” this Friday on TNT. For instance, he wasn’t quite sure if the third iteration

1:07 PM ET Another celebrity golf match is set this week, though for the first time in this series it will be without Tiger Woods. Worried it will lack drama? Insert Charles Barkley, whose golf swing is, uh, interesting. (That’s being nice.) On Friday, he will team up with Phil Mickelson against three-time NBA champion

John Augenstein, a two-time All-American at Vanderbilt and the reigning SEC Player of the Year, has decided to turn professional. It’s just coming five months later than he originally thought it would. After finishing runner-up to Andy Ogletree in the 2019 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst, Augenstein earned entry into the 2020 Masters and U.S. Open.

From a distance, Jessica (left) and Nelly Korda can be tough to tell apart on the golf course. The sisters stand nearly six feet tall and have similarly picturesque swings. When they played together in the 2019 Solheim Cup at Gleneagles, their matching uniforms made it even harder to spot who was who. Though Team

5:32 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Robert Streb made an 8-foot par putt to stay alive in a playoff and ended it on the second extra hole Sunday with a pitching wedge that came an inch from going in, giving him a victory over Kevin Kisner in the RSM Classic. Streb

Who could forget Charles Barkley’s brutal assessment of the quality of golf Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson displayed in the first rendition of “The Match” two years ago in Las Vegas? “This is crappy golf. Y’all know that,” the NBA Hall of Famer-turned-broadcaster drawled with his typical honesty to a pay-per-view television audience. “I could

6:49 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Sei Young Kim won the Pelican Women’s Championship on Sunday for her second straight victory, closing with an even-par 70 for a three-stroke victory over Ally McDonald. The KPMG Women’s PGA winner way back on Oct. 11 in her last start, the second-ranked Kim won for the

Robert Streb won the RSM Classic in a duel of former champions. Streb, the 2014 champ, edged Kevin Kisner, the 2015 winner, with a near walk-off eagle on the second extra hole of a playoff at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside course. The ball grazed the left side of the cup and settled within kick-in

5:46 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Robert Streb kept his game from coming undone over the first hour Saturday, and then pieced together enough birdies for a 3-under 67 to build a three-shot lead going into the final round of the RSM Classic. Streb came from five shots behind when he

The notice came through my editor: Joaquin Niemann, the 22-year-old Chilean rising star, was on a mission to raise money for his one-month-old cousin, Rafita Calderon, who was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease that leads to muscle wasting, respiratory failure, and frequently, death. Most infants diagnosed with the disease do not

When Robert Streb won his first PGA Tour event at the RSM Classic (then the McGladery Classic) in 2014, he checked off an important bucket-list box: earning an invitation to the Masters. The only other thing the Chickasha, Okla., native said he needed to check off? Attend an Oklahoma-Texas game, otherwise known as the Red

6:09 PM ET Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla. — Sei Young Kim answered Ally McDonald’s ace with a late birdie run to open a 5-stroke lead Saturday in the Pelican Women’s Championship, the South Korean’s first event since winning the KPMG Women’s PGA a month and half ago. The second-ranked Kim shot a 6-under 64, birdieing

The 2019-’20 season was one big graduation party for some of the youngest talent on the PGA Tour. Collin Morikawa captured the PGA Championship at the age of 22. Matthew Wolff led the U.S. Open going into the final round, bidding to be the youngest champion since Francis Ouimet. And Scottie Scheffler was so impressive

5:58 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Robert Streb birdied his last two holes on the Plantation course at Seal Island and matched his career low with a 9-under 63, giving him a two-shot lead over Camilo Villegas on Friday in the RSM Classic. Villegas had an even better finish to stay