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Alex Cejka has broken the PGA Tour’s “Curse of Coco Beach.” Well, kind of. In the 12-year history of the Puerto Rico Open, no winner has ever triumphed at another tournament. But Cejka, the 2015 winner at Coco Beach Golf Course picked up a long-awaited victory on Wednesday. It just didn’t come on the PGA

Excuse us for remaining stuck in Masters mode, but, well, what else is really going on right now, you know? Anyway, one of the most re-watched tournaments last week was the famous 2005 duel between Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco. But while the two players traded jabs with their golf clubs, it turns out DiMarco

7:26 PM ET ESPN News Services Sergio Garcia now is part of his own foursome, and the timing couldn’t have worked out any better. Garcia took to Twitter to announce his wife, Angela, gave birth to their second child on April 10, which would have been the second round of the Masters that was postponed

The PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson event has found a new home. According to the Dallas Morning News, the Salesmanship Club and Tour reached a verbal agreement on Tuesday to move the Nelson tournament to TPC Craig Ranch for the next five years, beginning in 2021. “The PGA Tour and the AT&T Byron Nelson continue

8:37 PM ET Associated Press The USGA is investing $5 million in a relief fund for 59 members in its Allied Golf Association, which represent state and regional golf associations. The fund goes for grants to help keep businesses running and people in their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual associations can apply for up

PGA Tour officials are expected to announce this week their intention to resume the tour season, halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on June 11-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge, multiple sources have told Golf Digest. It’s also expected that fans will not be allowed to attend that first tournament at Colonial Country Club in

10:09 AM ET The Senior Open Championship has been postponed due to concerns over the coronavirus, the R&A announced. The event was scheduled to take place from July 23-26 at Sunningdale Golf Club in England. “We will continue to investigate alternative options to host The Senior Open later in the year if at all possible

The European Tour was conspicuously absent from last week’s joint statement from the heads of golf on its 2020 season outlook, the Old World circuit only saying it was working through scenarios regarding the scheduling of tournaments and would have an update “in due course.” According to a report from the Telegraph, that update will

Collin Morikawa wasn’t as nervous to play with Tiger Woods for the first time as you might expect. Of course, nothing humanizes a living legend more than seeing him wearing a Christmas onesie. Such was the situation Morikawa had found himself in just a few months before when he joined Woods and some of golf’s

6:55 PM ET Associated Press The PGA of America established the Golf Emergency Relief Fund on Monday by donating $5 million and pledging to match up to an additional $2.5 million given by other groups in hopes of providing support for the golf industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PGA’s contribution included every member of

Golf, in many quarters in the country, has been deemed a nonessential business during the COVID-19 crisis, but that does not account for those who depend on it for their livelihood. It is essential to them. In recognition of this, the PGA of America, with assists from other golf organizations, is stepping up to help

5:51 PM ET Associated Press Doug Sanders brought a flamboyance to golf fashion ahead of his time, a colorful character known as much for the 20 times he won on the PGA Tour as the majors that got away. Sanders died Sunday morning in Houston, the PGA Tour confirmed through a text from Sanders’ ex-wife,

Sergio Garcia and his wife, Angela, welcomed a second child into the world this past week. But this time, the couple stayed clear of any Masters-themed names. RANKING: The 50 most defining moments in Masters history The 2017 Masters champ announced the birth of Enzo Akins Garcia on Friday, or what would have been the

One could argue Michael Thompson—and not Hideki Matsuyama—was the golfer hurt most by the Players Championship being canceled after one round due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Thompson trailed the Day 1 leader by five shots, but a bogey-free opening 68 at TPC Sawgrass had been the PGA Tour veteran’s best round during a difficult

7:21 PM ET There was no final round of the Masters on Sunday, but there was a replay on CBS of Tiger Woods‘ comeback victory a year ago at Augusta National. And as it played out, CBS’ Jim Nantz interviewed Woods at various points before, during and after the round, with the five-time Masters winner

Doug Sanders, one of the more colorful personalities in the PGA Tour’s tapestry, died in Houston on Sunday. Sanders was a 20-time winner on Tour, which included a victory at the 1956 Canadian Open as an amateur, the first amateur win in Tour history. But he was just as well known for finishing second 20

12:06 PM ET Nick PietruszkiewiczESPN.com Close Senior editor for college basketball Joined ESPN in 2008 Graduate of the University of Maryland Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print With no Masters, at least not until November because of the coronavirus pandemic, the world is left with past images of Augusta National. They

If there’s one tournament in golf where how much the winner makes in prize money is truly ancillary to everything else that comes with claiming the title, it’s the Masters. The legacy of being one of the select golfers to own a green jacket, along with having a space in the Champions locker room, a

This past Wednesday afternoon, at about the time that the Par-3 Contest would have been taking place at Augusta National, a group of 19 people gathered—not literally, but in a Zoom meeting that somehow worked, despite the fact that most involved were techno-challenged. They came together to celebrate, to mourn and to remember their friend

8:00 AM ET The text arrived about 10 p.m. It was Thursday, March 12, and Justin Thomas was getting ready to go to bed at the house he was sharing with Rickie Fowler at The Players Championship near Jacksonville. Thomas looked at his phone. Normally, the PGA Tour’s mass texting service sends automated messages to

For golfers, April is a trigger. It conjures visions of pink blooming azaleas, white dogwood blossoms, blue-mirrored water and wild sculptures of slick green grass. April, in other words, is Augusta National. If this is the vision of Augusta National we share now, it’s important to note it wasn’t always quite this way. The course,

7:52 AM ET Jim Nantz had a decision to make as the final, dramatic moments of the 2019 Masters played out before him at Augusta National. Does he stay in the broadcast tower behind the 18th green to watch what he believed would be the finishing touches on Tiger Woods’ victory? Or does he head

The USGA is king when it comes to overseeing national championships and governing rules. The foot soldiers of the entire American golf system, however, are the state and regional associations. The work is enormously valuable, the USGA recognizes that, and its making a considerable investment to give the associations a boost in the troubled times

The PGA Tour continues to explore variables for a return to competition, including playing early events without fans, multiple sources tell Golf Digest. In a memo sent to players on Thursday, which was obtained by Golf Digest, the Tour said that it’s still targeting a return at the Charles Schwab Challenge starting May 21 at

5:53 PM ET The PGA Tour on Friday sent a memo to players in which it outlined its efforts to reconfigure the schedule and that events initially could be played without spectators. The Tour confirmed that Tyler Dennis, chief of operations for the PGA Tour, sent a memo to the membership as he has been

In many ways, it seems Rory McIlroy might have been the golfer most negatively impacted from a competitive perspective when the PGA Tour shut down after one round at the Players Championship in March because of the COVID-19 outbreak. He was on a tear before the stoppage. Since winning the Tour Championship and seizing his

7:31 AM ET This is an entirely fictitious account of what might have been had Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus met at the Masters near the end of their primes. Close your eyes, open your mind and imagine the unimaginable. Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus standing on the first tee at Augusta National, in the

Among the Masters more endearing traditions is its long history of handing out various awards to participants for a wide array of achievements during tournament week. Of course there are prizes for the winner, runner-up and low amateur, but the club provides cherished mementos for other accomplishments, such as crystal glasses for eagles and crystal

To say the current landscape for playing golf in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is a changing one is to only hint at the confusion. It’s a reflection of the pandemic itself as not only are course openings and maintenance being regulated and restricted in different ways in the same state but sometimes within

7:06 AM ET We won’t get new Masters action this week, because the coronavirus pandemic has caused the postponement of the 84th playing until November. So we are left only with years past. But the old stuff, well, that’s a pretty good alternative. From Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus to Bubba Watson and Adam Scott,