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9:06 AM ET Associated Press The Oman Open scheduled for March 4-7 on the European Tour has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first event of the 2021 golf season lost to the pandemic. The tour says the decision was made “following an announcement by the Omani government that all gatherings,

SAN DIEGO — Beau Hossler isn’t just looking to move in a positive direction this week in the Farmers Insurance Open, which he started on Thursday with six-under-par 66 on the Torrey Pines North Course. In his own words, he’s looking for “validation” of the work he’s been doing after a 2019-20 season in which

8:48 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Patrick Reed birdied his first three holes and finished with a bogey-free 8-under 64 on Thursday for a share of the lead with Alex Noren after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. Reed, Noren and Scottie Scheffler — who was one stroke back — all

There was more than a little club slamming on Thursday by Matthew Wolff in the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. Playing the difficult Torrey Pines South Course alongside Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka, Wolff had an awful day, suffering a pair of triple-bogey 7s on his way to shooting a 6-over-par 78, with

Henrik Stenson is one of the greatest iron players of his generation, which is why what you’re about to see is such a shock. During Thursday’s first round of the European Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic, the Swede hit one of the worst shots of his illustrious career. What’s not as shocking is he was still

11:27 PM ET Bob Harig Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior golf writer for ESPN.com Covered golf for more than 20 years Earned Evans Scholarship to attend Indiana University Michael Collins Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer/video talent for ESPN.com Worked for several players as PGA Tour caddie Former stand-up comedian Kamaiu Johnson‘s dream opportunity to

SAN DIEGO — This was supposed to be a very different week for Willie Mack III. On Thursday, he was set to defend his title in a mini-tour event on the Advocates Professional Golf Association at The Crossings at Carlsbad in North San Diego County. Then on Saturday, he was to compete in another APGA

4:36 PM ET Qualifying for the U.S. Open will return this year after a one-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic. The United States Golf Association on Wednesday announced 109 local sites across 43 states and Canada that will conduct 18-hole qualifiers from April 26 to May 18. The U.S. Open is June 17-20 at

SAN DIEGO — Tyler Strafaci said it felt like the first day of school. He arrived at the Torrey Pines golf courses for this week’s Farmers Insurance Open, looked around and realized that he’s not at Georgia Tech anymore. There were plenty of recognizable faces, but there are probably some who had no idea who

Not surprisingly, Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy are the two betting favorites for this week’s Farmers Insurance Open. But you have to scroll down the board a bit to find the golfer getting the most action at Torrey Pines. According to BetMGM, it’s Matthew Wolff who leads the field in both number of tickets and

9:00 AM ET The PGA Tour shifts over to La Jolla, California this week for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Defending champion Marc Leishman shot 7-under in the final round last year to beat Jon Rahm by one stroke. So which players are the favorites, who offers good odds and what props are

The West Coast Swing rolls on this week with the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, which also hosts this June’s U.S. Open. No, the South Course (where three of the four rounds will be played this week) won’t be set up like it will be in the summer, but it should still serve as

8:11 AM ET As impressive as Tyrrell Hatton‘s victory was in Abu Dhabi, it was an equally disappointing result for Rory McIlroy at the European Tour’s first event of 2021. And it has become a recurring theme for McIlroy, who now has gone 15 months without a victory and seemingly struggles to put four good

SAN DIEGO—At 24 years old, Will Zalatoris can make this vow: For as long as he’s playing on the PGA Tour, he’s going to be a West Coast Swing warrior. He’s going to aspire to be a Phil Mickelson, or even a Kevin Sutherland, happily circling the dates for Torrey Pines and Pebble Beach and

Historically, Torrey Pines penalizes players for missing fairways, and birdies will be at a premium. Based on the course modeling available at RickRunGood.com, a bit surprisingly perhaps, strokes gained/putting is one of the more important stats to success for this week. That should be no surprise considering the greens at Torrey Pines generally run fast,

8:02 AM ET Davis Love III has been named captain of the U.S. Presidents Cup team for the competition against an International squad for the event that was postponed to 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Love, 56, was a two-time U.S. Ryder Cup captain and will be an assistant to captain Steve Stricker this

The 2022 PGA Championship, originally scheduled to be held at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey before being pulled from the venue by the PGA of America four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on the United States Capitol, will instead be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. The PGA of America made

5:44 PM ET The PGA of America has named Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the host site for the 2022 PGA Championship, replacing Trump Bedminster, which was dropped by the organization two weeks ago. The tournament, which will be held May 19-22, 2022, will be played at a longtime major championship venue that

On Sunday at The American Express, Tony Finau began the day tied for the lead, ultimately finishing in solo fourth, the latest disappointing top-10 in a slew of disappointing top-10s for the immensely talented 31-year-old. Since his Puerto Rico Open victory in 2016, Finau has made 125 starts on the PGA Tour, collecting 35 top-10s

Si Woo Kim may not have the ceiling or profile of some his fellow 25-and-under peers on the PGA Tour, but he’s certainly not short on the resume. Kim’s performance at the American Express delivered his third career victory, joining the 2016 Wyndham Championship and 2017 Players Championship on his trophy mantle, and continues a

5:57 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jessica Korda closed with a 5-under 66 and holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday to beat Danielle Kang in the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions and start the LPGA Tour season on a good note. Korda won for the sixth

Because of his penchant for coming in second repeatedly early in his PGA Tour career, the late Payne Stewart earned the nickname “Avis,” a reference to the successful ad campaign that the No. 2 rental-car company once embraced in its battle with industry leader Hertz. Watching Tony Finau, the gentlemanly and naturally gifted American golfer,

7:42 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Si Woo Kim birdied two of the final three holes to finish a rock-solid, 8-under 64, coolly rallying past late-charging Patrick Cantlay by one shot to win The American Express on Sunday for his third PGA Tour victory. A year after Kim withdrew from the desert

If you found space in your field of vision for The American Express on Sunday—and it’s OK if you didn’t, with NFL conference championship games and the LPGA’s Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions serving as worthy alternatives—you were treated to a rather entertaining finish at PGA West’s Stadium Course. In the end, an all-world round

All of which is frustrating enough. But even worse for the Northern Irishman will surely be the nagging thought that mediocre final rounds low-lighted by play far removed from his best stuff are becoming something of a bad habit. Indeed, McIlroy’s first start since the Masters in November was a typical example of that undesirable

9:57 AM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Englishman Tyrrell Hatton shot a sparkling 6-under par in the final round on Sunday to win the season-opening Abu Dhabi Championship by four strokes after overnight leader Rory McIlroy faded with an uninspired even-par 72 to drop into third. Hatton carded a closing 66

It wasn’t momentum that Darren Clarke was riding, though on Sunday he won his second straight PGA Tour Champions start, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on Hawaii’s Big Island. Clarke, 52 and not, shall we way, in fighting trim, is one of the few senior players who uses a golf cart to ferry himself

12:53 PM ET The commutation of gambler Billy Walters’ sentence by outgoing President Donald Trump on his final day in office was not granted with the help of Phil Mickelson, the Hall of Fame golfer’s lawyer told ESPN on Thursday. Attorney Glenn Cohen told ESPN that “Phil had nothing to do with this” and said

Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Patrick Reed all missed the cut Friday at The American Express, seemingly leaving a lot to be desired on the weekend. One look at the top of the 54-hole leader board would show you that’s far from the case. Sunday should be a good one at PGA West. Here are

Matthew Wolff will be playing on the weekend at The American Express, but his score is one stroke higher than he expected after being retroactively assessed a penalty for a rules violation during his first round. Walking off the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West on Friday with a five-under 67, Wolff was told by