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When it was announced that next month’s Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, would be the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators after the Tour resumed its season last week in Fort Worth, many might have expected that every tournament to follow would do the same. On Monday, 3M Open tournament director

10:46 AM ET Phil Mickelson’s company, Mickelson Inc., has applied for a trademark through the United States Patent and Trademark office for the use of “Coffee For Wellness.” The company filed the application on June 9 for the trademark on coffee, coffee beans, coffee pods and a few other applications of coffee. It is accompanied

FORT WORTH — A feisty summer wind rose at the Charles Schwab Challenge, blowing into Colonial Country Club all manner of possibilities. You had so many stars and so many storylines for the return of Sundays on the PGA Tour. Could Jordan Spieth prevail for the first time since the 2017 Open Championship? Could a

How was that for a comeback? At the beginning of the week, just having live golf to watch was a win in itself. For the live golf to deliver a 10-out-of-10 on the entertainment scale was an added bonus. After a wild day of lipped-out putts, clutch shots and a number of lead changes, Daniel

7:10 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Daniel Berger was playing some of the best golf that no one noticed. Three months away because of the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t slow his momentum, and he made it pay off Sunday with a victory at Colonial. The PGA Tour made a healthy return to golf

That Daniel Berger won the Charles Schwab Challenge really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Berger’s game was trending nicely when the PGA Tour’s season was suspended after the first round of the Players Championship. In fact, Berger had straight three top-10s heading into the Players with a T-9 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open; T-5

7:28 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — If Harold Varner III was disappointed with his round on Saturday at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club, it was difficult to tell. Among the 13 golfers within 3 shots of the leader, Xander Schauffele, Varner was one of two not to break par in the

Moving day at Colonial was as entertaining as you’d expect. That 36-hole leader board wasn’t going to have it any other way. Sunday’s final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge will almost certainly be more of the same. But before that madness gets rolling, here are our five takeaways from Saturday’s third round at Colonial.

FORT WORTH – The last silhouette on the putting green Saturday belonged to Harold Varner III. He was a man making amends. Sweat beaded on his arms. It was nearing 5:30 p.m. He rolled ball after ball from short distances. He sent a text. Bruce Sudderth had just completed a lesson with one of the

7:17 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour went three months without playing. It took three days to show fans what they were missing, even if all they could do was watch on TV. Eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point Saturday in the Charles

Harold Varner III finds himself in uncharted territory this weekend at the Charles Schwab Challenge. For the first time in 129 PGA Tour starts, the 29-year-old from Gastonia, N.C., held the 36-hole lead, having shot a career best 11-under 129 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. Should he hold on and pull out his

9:15 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Harold Varner III took his place in history in the PGA Tour’s technology era, all because of a triple bogey. Jordan Spieth had his lowest 36-hole score in four years. Rory McIlroy shot 63 with a bogey on his final hole. The strongest field of the

Next week’s RBC Heritage didn’t just attract a star-studded field unseen at Harbour Town. It rivals nearly anything seen for a regular PGA Tour event in a couple of decades. The participants for next week were finalized on Friday, and of the 154 players currently listed, 114 have won at least one PGA Tour event.

FORT WORTH – After three months away from competitive golf, the players in the Charles Schwab Challenge came to Colonial with the same question. Did their games come too? Round One was the day for judgment. Answers were offered. But let’s be clear: There was more going on Thursday than finding one’s swing or stroke.

8:08 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — He wanted to get bigger and stronger, and Bryson DeChambeau delivered on his pledge. DeChambeau had plenty of time to work on his physique during the COVID-19 pandemic, a project that began late last year during his first break. Now he’s so big that DeChambeau figures

At first glance, Harold Varner III shooting a second-round 66 at the Charles Schwab Challenge might not seem all that newsworthy. After all, the 29-year-old was playing Colonial Country Club in ideal scoring conditions less than 24 hours after posting an opening 63 to grab a share of the lead. But he could have shot

8:52 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Even without any fans to cheer, there was quite a reaction to a birdie during the PGA Tour’s return — an audible “F-bomb” at the start of Golf Channel’s telecast Thursday. The network had been on the air for only a few minutes, and the first

Due to the strength of the field and the fact the PGA Tour has been away for 91 days, this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge has the look and feel—at least on paper—of a major championship. Apparently, it’s being bet like one, too. As the Action Network’s Darren Rovell first reported, the 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge

1:45 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Champions Boeing Classic scheduled to be held in August outside of Seattle has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tournament director Brian Flajole said Thursday that uncertainty about the ability to hold large public gatherings in Washington state led to the decision to not hold the

We’re back! On Thursday, the PGA Tour returns after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth will host quite an eager—and loaded—field for the Charles Schwab Challenge, the longest-running tour event to be held on the same course. Not only are the top five golfers in the FedEx

FORT WORTH — On the 10th tee at Colonial Country Club Wednesday, Mike “Fluff” Cowan stood apart from the golfers and caddies in his group, some of whom were getting reacquainted in slightly closer proximity. Cowan practiced the standard six feet of recommended social distance—“two club lengths,” according the signage around the Charles Schwab Challenge,

FORT WORTH — Players at the Charles Schwab Challenge who participated in virtual press conferences on Tuesday said they accept and support the conditions imposed for the first PGA Tour event since the abbreviated Players Championship in mid-March, protocols that involve both testing for coronavirus and restrictions on the golf course. Still, the “new normal”

As chairman and chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack oversees golf’s largest retail footprint, which includes about 100 Golf Galaxy locations. Before the pandemic forced his stores to close, the golf business in 2020 was off to one of its best starts ever. Then, as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy stores began

The PGA Tour resumes operations this week, and one of its players will do so with a heavy heart. On Wednesday, an emotional Camilo Villegas—who is playing in the Korn Ferry Tour event at TPC Sawgrass—announced his 20-month-old daughter Mia is battling tumors. “She went through surgery and obviously needed treatment. She just started her

FORT WORTH — More than 900 volunteers originally were scheduled to work this week at Colonial Country Club. They couldn’t wait to put on their new uniform shirts, reunite with old friends and do their parts, whether it be making sure practice balls were washed, players got safely to the first tee, corporate hospitality was

Brooks Koepka has already made his feelings known about the idea of September’s Ryder Cup being held without fans. He doesn’t like it. Wednesday, he took things a step further. Asked at the Charles Schwab Challenge if he could see a scenario in which a player protests no spectators at Whistling Straits by opting not

Marcia Chambers was never much of a golfer, but she became the voice of reason on all of golf’s serious issues pertaining to the law and discrimination during an important period of change—the late 1980s and 1990s. I met Marcia in 1982 when she was dating Stan Wheeler, a sociology professor at Yale Law School.

The way 2020 was going, Brooks Koepka needed something to happen. When he arrived at TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship, he had played just three tournaments in the calendar year: T-43, T-47 and a missed cut. He was struggling with a nagging knee injury, one which required surgery last fall, and felt like he

With the PGA Tour re-starting this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, it also served as a re-start for the tour’s road warriors—those who work out of the equipment vans that go from tournament to tournament servicing the equipment needs of their respective players until the opening tee shot on Thursday. As with everything in

9:32 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf and most