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5:22 PM ET Associated Press Golfer Charley Hull of England has withdrawn from the ANA Inspiration after testing positive for the coronavirus. Hull has one LPGA Tour title among her four professional wins. She said she wasn’t feeling her best when she arrived in the California desert but chalked that up to jet lag, extreme

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no real “Road to Winged Foot” for the 2020 U.S. Open. However, you still had to earn your way there via a number of different exemption categories—28 to be exact—ranging from top 70 players in the Official World Golf Ranking back on March 15 to the top seven

7:50 PM ET ATLANTA — The level of golf displayed by Dustin Johnson these past three weeks is the stuff of dreams — and in this case, the stuff of incredible timing. Aside from putting it all together during the week of a major championship — which once again looms — there might not be

A stunning stretch of recent play from Dustin Johnson culminated on Monday at the Tour Championship when the World No. 1 shot a two-under 68 to close out a three-shot victory and claim the FedEx Cup title. Just how good a run has Johnson been on? Starting at the PGA Championship in August, the 36-year-old

ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson said it himself on Monday evening at the Tour Championship: He needed this one. For all his otherworldly talents and for history. Already a major champion, the top-ranked player in the world and with at least one victory in each of his 13 seasons on the PGA Tour, there was little

6:34 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson hit his stride at just the right time and it paid off in a big way. Johnson finally won the FedEx Cup on Monday by holding his nerve, hitting just enough fairways and making a few key putts when his lead began to shrink. He tapped

Most notably, Phil Mickelson is a co-favorite in this field after Lefty won in his senior tour debut in runaway fashion. Oddsmakers seem to think Phil’s success will translate to interest from bettors on the PGA Tour, as Phil opens as a 20-1 favorite next to Si-Woo Kim and Matt Kuchar. Phil has two top-10s

1:53 PM ET Associated Press SOTOGRANDE, Spain — John Catlin became the first American since Tiger Woods to win at Valderrama on Sunday, surviving conditions so difficult that he didn’t make a birdie in his 4-over 75 and held on for a one-shot victory in the Andalucia Masters. Catlin won for the first time on

ATLANTA — The leader board says that Dustin Johnson is leading the Tour Championship at 19 under after 54 holes at East Lake. The scorecards tell a different story, though. The lowest total number of strokes taken so far this week? That honor belongs to Xander Schauffele, whose rounds of 67-65-67 put him at 11

7:36 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson started with the lead, matched the low round Sunday at the Tour Championship with a 6-under 64 and now is one round away from capturing the FedEx Cup and its $15 million prize. Johnson missed only three fairways and putted for birdie on all but three

A surreal, if not unprecedented season (to say the least) will come to an end this Monday at East Lake Golf Club with the Tour Championship. The Labor Day finale to the 2020 FedEx Cup Playoffs will once again use the staggered start format with the points leader entering Atlanta starting at 10 under par,

There hasn’t been a top-level professional golf tournament staged in the world with fans in attendance since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. That is going to change next week for the PGA Tour Champions event in Sioux Falls, S.D. The decision to allow fans at the tournament comes at a time when South Dakota

7:15 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The final hole at East Lake brought two strange sights Saturday at the Tour Championship. First, Rory McIlroy hit a shot that toppled out of thick rough right into the water in front of him, a distance laser cameras estimated at 85 feet, 8 inches, not accounting for

ATLANTA — Who will be Player of the Year on the PGA Tour? There’s a lot to consider with as many as a half-dozen players vying for the honor in a race that will likely be decided by how each fares at this week’s season ending Tour Championship. Arguments can be made for each of

7:30 PM ET ATLANTA — There is hope. Perhaps it is as slight as the azaleas blooming in November at Augusta National, but the possibility exists. Daniel Berger has yet to be told “no” from tournament officials, so he is clinging to the idea that maybe, just maybe, he will be able to tee it

ATLANTA — Sungjae Im plays more golf than just about anyone on the planet. So much so that over the last three years he’s made 89 starts and counting, a number made even more impressive by the fact that the PGA Tour was shut down for three months this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ATLANTA — Despite having won last year’s Tour Championship and consequently the FedEx Cup, Rory McIlroy arrived at East Lake this week with low expectations. The distraction of becoming a father for the first time can do that, and McIlroy didn’t arrive on site until Thursday afternoon after his wife Erica gave birth to a

5:48 PM ET Associated Press CADIZ, Spain — American golfer John Catlin will take a two-stroke lead into the weekend at the Andalucia Masters after being the only player in the field to have carded two under-par rounds at Valderrama. Catlin started the day in a four-way tie for the lead and added a 1-under

LILY HELPGA TOURAGE 21LIVES LOS ANGELES308,000 INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS When I started my Instagram account, I was just a regular 15-year-old girl who lived in San Diego, went to high school, had friends and played golf. At the time, I posted what all my friends were posting: selfies, what we were wearing. I liked cultivating an

ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm tied for the lead. Here we go again. A week ago, the two slugged it out in an epic showdown at the BMW Championship, where Johnson holed a 45-footer on the final hole of regulation to force a playoff before Rahm answered with a 66-footer of his own

8:00 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Five days later, Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm are still going at it. They dressed about the same Friday in the Tour Championship, matched birdies on five holes and wound up tied for the lead at East Lake. That required Rahm getting the better of Johnson again. Rahm,

Technically speaking, there is no tournament prize money payout at this week’s Tour Championship. Rather, the financial rewards that will be decided after 72 holes at East Lake Golf Club come from the bonus pool given to players for their finish in the final FedEx Cup standings. It’s why no player’s career PGA Tour earnings

4:51 PM ET Associated Press Connor Syme birdied his last three holes to shoot a 2-under 69 Thursday and join a four-way tie for the lead after the first round of the Andalucia Masters. Syme started with a double bogey on the par-3 third hole but made four birdies on his back nine on a

ATLANTA — Justin Thomas’ choice for PGA Tour Player of the Year is clear. The response might seem brash, but the 27-year-old has a point. He briefly reached No. 1 in the world again this year after winning the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and, more importantly, has more victories than anyone else—three—during the 2019-’20 tour

ATLANTA — It was the day before the opening round of the Travelers Championship—June 24, to be precise—and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was on a jet from Ponte Vedra Beach to Cromwell, Conn. The trip was already on his itinerary but suddenly took on heightened significance after one player (Cameron Champ) and two caddies

7:20 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Players can ride in carts during practice rounds and caddies can use them during the tournament to cope with the extreme heat expected for the ANA Inspiration next week in the California desert. The LPGA announced the decision on its website Thursday. Traditionally the first major

Webb Simpson is enjoying a career season, boasting two wins, a runner-up and two third-place finishes along with a PGA Tour-best 68.87 scoring average. A win at this week’s Tour Championship, thus bestowing the FedEx Cup, could equate to Player of the Year honors. Which is what made Simpson’s decision last week somewhat curious. Entering

8:34 AM ET ATLANTA — Here’s one unconventional way to look at Jon Rahm‘s dramatic 66-foot birdie putt on Sunday during the BMW Championship sudden-death playoff: It pulled him within 2 strokes of Dustin Johnson heading into this week’s Tour Championship. Forget that it was his fifth PGA Tour victory and second in 2020 and

ATLANTA — The PGA Tour has gone from a 2019-’20 season crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, to what it is calling a “super season” made up of 50 tournaments, including six majors, for its 2020-’21 campaign. Its full slate for next season, announced on Wednesday at the Tour Championship by Commissioner Jay Monahan, includes 14

Paul Casey is a goal guy. He starts small with weekly and daily intentions, of the material and abstract variety. Casey sets most of the ambitions himself, although he has a team in the United Kingdom review his year, searching for areas that need improvement, which lead to their own objectives. The list never shrinks,