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If you’re a tour pro trying to win your first PGA Tour title, the Sanderson Farms Championship is an event you should be playing. At least if recent history is any measure. The last six winners of the event at the Country Club of Jackson (Miss.) have made this their maiden victory on tour, including

7:21 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Nasa Hataoka birdied two of the last three holes for a 4-under 67 and a one-stroke lead Friday in the Shoprite LPGA Classic. Hataoka, the 21-year-old Japanese player with three LPGA Tour victories, birdied the par-4 16th and par-5 18th to get to 11-under 131 at Seaview’s

Breathe easy, Masters zealots. Last week photos circulated online from Eureka Earth showing most of the Augusta National grounds painted in brown. Theoretically the images shouldn’t have been surprising; the Bermuda grass at the hallowed property is famously dormant in the summer months. But with this year’s Masters Tournament moved to November, the photos of

Is there anything the Kordas can’t do? On Friday, Sebastian Korda became the youngest U.S. man to reach the fourth round of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1991. The 20-year-old blew out Spaniard Pedro Martinez, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 at Roland Garros. Previously, his best result in a Grand Slam was reaching the first

8:30 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Keegan Bradley likes the way he is putting. He must really like the idea that the birdie putts he made Friday on his way to a 7-under 65 were not terribly far from the hole. In his debut in the Sanderson Farms Championship, Bradley made three straight

Unlike last week’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, the Sanderson Farms has a decent amount of star power, which is always a plus. A bigger plus is when perhaps the most decorated player in the field is in contention through two rounds, and he may have a very unconventional putting method to thank. Here

7:03 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Lauren Stephenson holed out from the rough from 137 yards for eagle on the par-4 14th and shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday for a share of the Shoprite LPGA Classic lead with Mi Hyang Lee. Stephenson, the 23-year-old former Clemson and Alabama player in her second

Well folks, it’s official. Sergio Garcia has reached the “might as well give it a shot” portion of his career on the greens. Please keep him in your thoughts.  Garcia, who has been plagued by a faulty flat stick for two decades, has tried everything from the claw grip to mallet putters to blade putters

This time two weeks ago Phil Mickelson was a defeated man. No, he wasn’t expected to contend at the U.S. Open, but he came out on the business end of Winged Foot, shooting the second-highest score of Round 1 on the way to missing the cut by seven shots. “Yeah. I don’t know what to

9:00 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Defending champion Sebastian Munoz found happy memories Thursday at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Munoz nearly holed a wedge on his opening hole as part of his fast start, ran in four straight birdies on the back nine and wound up with an 8-under 64 to share of

A sunny day in Mississippi yielded some great scores in the first round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Oh, and a crowded leader board after 18 holes, with a quartet of players sitting at eight-under 64 and 12 golfers within three shots of the lead. Here’s how things shook out as we offer five takeaways

12:35 PM ET Associated Press ABERDEEN, Scotland — Paul Lawrie is making his 620th appearance on the European Tour at the Scottish Open this week. It also will be his last. The 1999 British Open champion is quitting the tour after the tournament at The Renaissance Club because of problems with his back. Lawrie will

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Paul Lawrie has done just about everything you can do on the European Tour. Eight wins, 67 top-10 finishes, 396 cuts made, €12,718,724 earned, two-time Ryder Cup player. The Scot even had a tournament named after him for three years, 2015-’17. And now the 1999 Open champion is calling it a

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — “Too easy,” was Rory McIlroy’s reaction to the set-up of The Renaissance Club that yielded a 22 under par winning score by Bernd Wiesberger in last year’s Scottish Open. Things are likely to be a little different this time round though. For one thing, Scottish weather in early October is more

6:29 PM ET The Hong Kong Open will be postponed until next year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers of the golf tournament said on Wednesday. The event, which is organised by the European and Asian Tours, was due to be held at the Hong Kong Golf Club at the end of November.

Sebastian Munoz will make his Masters debut in six weeks. The tournament itself is making a debut of sorts, as the pandemic has moved the Augusta National celebration from spring to fall for the first time in event history. How the course will play in autumn is somewhat of a mystery. A mystery Munoz, accidentally,

8:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Hudson Swafford won last week’s event in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and the tour next heads to Jackson, Mississippi, for the Sanderson Farms Championship, where Sebastian Munoz is the defending champion. Who is underrated, and whom should you fade? What bets and props are worth a look? Sports betting

He walked off the course as if witnessing a resurrection. There was a glance back at the 18th green and down the fairway, as to confirm what happened had happened. “It’s miraculous, really,” Robert Massimilian says. “I came out to see if it was still alive. After everything that’s been said, I didn’t know what

The sun had barely cracked the horizon on Monday morning in Orlando and Rob Fodor’s cell phone was buzzing with an incoming text from Andre Iguodala, who was already on the golf course. No one had gotten much sleep—a few hours, tops—after the Miami Heat knocked off the Boston Celtics the night before to advance

Jay McLuen is not going to win this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. That’s not a knock on the 40-year-old pro golf journeyman; only once in the last 10 years has a Monday qualifier won a PGA Tour event (Corey Conners, 2019 Valero Texas Open). And from the sound of it, McLuen is OK with that,

For years at Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, S.C., a private, links-style course surrounded by marsh brimming with nature, the club featured two sets of tees after Union generals (Grant and Sherman) and three after Confederate generals (Lee, Stuart, and Jackson). Or it did up until late August. The tees now carry the names of

The words in the tweet were simple but insightful, and the emotion behind them raw. “Golf is hard,” Adam Long pecked out on Sunday night, a few hours after the conclusion of the final round of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. “And it’s really difficult to win on the @PGATOUR.” Especially when you

9:20 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson leads the top five players in the world who have committed to play the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, the start of a two-week stretch of relocated Asia events that includes Tiger Woods returning to California. The CJ Cup typically is held in South Korea,

On Sunday afternoon, while most Americans were watching football, an American golfer was pulling off a stunning feat. The golfer, though, wasn’t Bryson DeChambeau or Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods. It was John Catlin, someone who even golf geeks know almost nothing about. Playing in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Catlin birdied three of

Scottie Scheffler makes his first appearance after having to withdraw from the U.S. Open after a positive COVID-19 test. Oddsmakers have made him a slight favorite over Louis Oosthuizen—after the South African’s third-place finish at Winged Foot—and Sungjae Im, who gained more than 4.5 strokes at the Tour Championship and the U.S. Opens in his

Hudson Swafford was on “cruise control” Sunday at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. After three birdies and an eagle through his first nine holes, and with a four-shot lead with six to go, he had every reason to feel that way. Then a stubbed chip rolled back to his feet and he double-bogeyed

6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Hudson Swafford stopped his slide with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole, and he finished with an 8-foot par putt to hold on for a one-shot victory Sunday in the Corales Puntacana Club and Resort Championship. Swafford closed with a 3-under 69, doing

Molonai Hola, the owner of Icon Sports, says he became acquainted with the Finau family around 1997. Hola, a former Salt Lake City mayoral candidate, claims he had an arrangement with Finau’s family to pay expenses for Tony and his brother Gipper for several years with the understanding Hola would eventually be compensated. Some of

9:46 AM ET A Tiger Woods backup putter from 2001 sold at Golden Age Golf Auctions early Sunday morning for $154,928, which is believed to be the most a putter of this caliber has ever sold for. The putter is a Scotty Cameron Newport II produced for Woods as a backup to the putter he

Golden Age Golf Auctions confirmed the winning bid on this backup Scotty Cameron putter, which was produced for Tiger in 2001 as a backup in case his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 became damaged, being $154,928 on Sunday morning. It’s been reported that Scotty Cameron produced one or two extra putters for Tiger per year, and