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For the first time in the event’s history, the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship will offer full FedExCup points to the winner of the Dominican Republic tournament. Last year’s winner, Graeme McDowell, will return to defend his 2019 title. McDowell’s victory was his first in nearly five years, and he will be challenged this

9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,

Four takeaways from Saturday’s third-round action of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. Adam Long came out of the golf wilderness to win the PGA Tour’s Desert Classic in January of 2019. A potential victory on Sunday won’t be as surprising. The former Duke Blue Devil followed up a Friday 65 at Puntacana with

It’s been nearly a decade since Sean O’Hair last won on the PGA Tour, but after a second straight five-under 67 on Friday at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, the 38-year-old enters the weekend in the Dominican Republic with a chance for a fifth career victory and first since 2011. It’s a position

You might say that Tyler McCumber has an affinity for tropical locales and water. The 29-year-old is an avid surfer and some of his best results on the PGA Tour have come while being surrounded by surf and palm trees. McCumber didn’t, however, expect to get “stuck” in one of those slices of paradise. For

6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — A hornet sting early and a bunch of birdies late carried Hudson Swafford to a 5-under 67 on Friday for a two-shot lead going into the weekend of the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Joining him in the final group will be Sean O’Hair,

It’s not a leader board full of stars, but, as expected, the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship looks like it could produce a few intriguing stories. There are young guns in the mix, veterans looking to end long win droughts and a few 30-somethings still search for their first tour victory. Here are our

5:49 PM ET Mark Calcavecchia played golf Thursday, which seems simple enough, as he is a professional golfer. But this was different. Much different. It was the first time he teed it up since testing positive three weeks ago for COVID-19. The PGA Tour Champions player decided he felt well enough to venture out to

Adding to a distinguished list of luminaries, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has announced that Ernie Els, Nick Price, Padraig Harrington and Catriona Matthew have accepted invitations to become honorary members of golf’s most famous and influential club. “I would like to congratulate Catriona, Ernie, Padraig and Nick on becoming honorary

Pat Perez was in the field at the Safeway Open two weeks ago, although you’re forgiven if you failed to notice. The 44-year-old PGA Tour veteran looked like a different man after cutting his long black hair and shaving the thick beard and mustache. He played like one, too, shooting four straight sub-70 rounds and

7:29 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Tyler McCumber was the only player to reach 8 under par Thursday in the Caribbean breeze until he dropped a shot on his 17th hole and fell into a four-way lead in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Sepp Straka was the only one

Another reminder you did not need: The U.S. Open at Winged Foot was just last week, and it was one we could remember for a long time, mainly for it potentially being the moment that Bryson DeChambeau broke the sport. All this left the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in the very unenviable spot

8:19 AM ET The European Tour has scrapped plans to allow a limited number of fans to attend the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian next month due to the tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in the U.K.. The Tour planned to allow 650 spectators per day for the Rolex Series tournament, which

When you close your eyes for a moment and let your mind wander, the visions come fairly easily. You can “see” the large grandstand surrounding the first tee and nearby 18th green at Whistling Straits. You can “hear” the cheers and laughter and general raucousness of the full-throated spectators. You can “feel” the excitement that

As long as Tiger Woods was upright and swinging a golf club, there was little question he would attempt to defend his title in the Zozo Championship. After all, because of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s basically playing on one of his home courses at Sherwood Country Club in Southern California. Woods made his participation official

7:42 PM ET Tiger Woods announced his commitment to next month’s Zozo Championship at Sherwood Country Club, where he will be the defending champion of an event that has moved from Japan to Thousand Oaks, California, this year amid to the coronavirus pandemic. Woods, 44, won the event over Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama last year at

He should be in Northern Wisconsin. But instead Padraig Harrington is making do with Northern Ireland. Making his first competitive appearance since March’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain is in County Antrim, at the Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort for the European Tour’s Irish Open. Physically anyway. Understandably, however, Harrington’s mind was wandering—if

7:35 AM ET Their relationship might seem a bit peculiar, but clearly Tiger Woods sees something in Bryson DeChambeau that might amuse, entertain, intrigue — or all of the above. They are frequent practice-round partners, and it is not often that someone whom Woods does not care to have in such settings steps into that

We could talk all about Bryson DeChambeau and our expert Christopher Powers’ accurate U.S. Open prediction, but you’re here for advice on betting the Corales Puntacana 2020 event. For Powers’ gloating, scroll down to listen to our podcast. We know, though, gamblers don’t like to dwell on the past. Every week is a new opportunity

Two days after the world’s most strenuous golf tournament wrapped up, a much lighter affair played out in the Missouri mountains. The Payne’s Valley Cup was the anti-U.S. Open in so many ways. Instead of a grind on a 99-year-old course, this was a stroll on a brand new one. On the week that was

2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the past decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as

If you keep up with trends in golf architecture, you know there’s been a huge movement toward cutting down trees on courses around the world. The thought process here is generally to open up vistas, increase optionality and help turf grow better. Gary Player isn’t having it. Not even close. Player stepped into the broadcast

8:19 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — As Bryson DeChambeau walked the final fairway at Winged Foot early Sunday evening, heading toward the iconic clubhouse that was about to be the backdrop for a photo opportunity with the U.S. Open trophy, there was quiet. It seemed fitting, really, because his performance, a four-day exhibition of strength

Here are our favorite plays—from upside to value and safest—plus players likely to disappoint for your DFS lineups this week. High Upside: Sam Burns ($10,100 DraftKings | $11,600 FanDuel) The last time we saw Burns, he was fading on the weekend at the Safeway Open but still ended up in a tie for seventh. Add

The 2021 Solheim Cup at Ohio’s Inverness Club is a year away, but conversations about the teams have already begun. More specifically, conversations about how the teams will be built. Given the changes to and shortening of the LPGA Tour and LET schedules, respectively, due to the coronavirus, Team Europe announced on Monday that it

8:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Georgia Hall won the Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory in the United States, beating Ashleigh Buhai with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Hall won after falling into a tie with a bogey on the par-4 18th in

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — It was a two-horse race. A two-animal race, really. One man built like a bison, the other named Wolff. Bryson DeChambeau and Matthew Wolff played together in the final group of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot on Sunday. A fascinating pairing. Two young men—their combined age, 48, still not PGA Tour

8:41 PM ET The U.S. Open did what it often does, bruising and battering the best golfers in the world, sometimes making them look silly, but also highlighting how good they really are when considering the immense obstacles in the path at America’s national championship. That might have been of little consolation to Matthew Wolff

“You don’t win the U.S. Open, it wins you,” are the famous words first spoken by Cary Middlecoff, which also apply to host clubs and the golfer whose image will be affixed to their history and maybe a wall in their locker room. When Bryson DeChambeau sank the final putt to win the U.S. Open,

MAMARONECK, N.Y.—He told us a revolution was coming, which we ignored. He told us how it would come and we laughed. His trials were met with schadenfreude, his earnestness misinterpreted as arrogance, and when his methods began to work, we said they wouldn’t when and where they would matter most. But now there is proof,