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Join a private club and you’ll probably see him the next time you drive in the parking lot. The lifer. Usually retired (and almost always a man), the lifer is ready to tell you all about what a travesty it is that new members like you are paying a quarter of the initiation fee he

7:47 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Bernhard Langer took another step closer to the PGA Tour Champions victory record by closing with an 8-under 65 to turn a four-shot deficit into at two-shot win in the Cologuard Classic. Langer was flawless until the the final hole at Tucson National. He made nine birdies

Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here’s every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of March 2. Inevitably Im The noted low-handicapper Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once

On a packed final-round leader board—six players began the day tied for first—it was always going to take something special to break out of the sizeable throng gathered at or near the apex of the Oman Open. Or somethings special. Which is how it turned out. Even before they embarked on what would eventually be

9:54 AM ET Associated Press Finland’s Sami Valimaki overcame difficult conditions to win the Oman Open on Sunday after beating South African Brandon Stone in a playoff in the third edition of the European Tour event. Valimaki and Stone finished joint top on 13-under 275 after both shot 2-under 70s in the final round played

Three days of tricky conditions on an already challenging golf course have the Honda Classic looking more like a U.S. Open than a standard PGA Tour stop. Tommy Fleetwood leads at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., through 54 holes with a five-under 205 total. According to tour officials, that’s the highest leading score

1:57 AM ET Associated Press QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — Australian Brad Kennedy shot a flawless final round 63 on Sunday to overtake compatriot Lucas Herbert and win the New Zealand Open for the second time. The 45-year-old Queenslander hit the front for the first time at the 14th hole, then showed icy nerves to hold

PINEHURST, N.C. — After the passing of Mickey Wright earlier this month, many of her impressive playing accomplishments resurfaced, including her stellar record in the U.S. Women’s Open. Not only did the LPGA Hall of Famer with the championship a record-tying for times (1958, 1959, 1961 and 1964), she also had seven top-three finishes and

Patrick Reed’s rules infraction at the Hero World Challenge in December continues to resonate as the calendar turns to March, a controversy flamed by fiery remarks from four-time major winner Brooks Koepka and former CBS Sports analyst Peter Kostis as well as Reed’s high-profile performance at the WGC-Mexico Championship. But if Reed believed his win

7:12 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brendan Steele made a couple of big mistakes down the stretch, and still was more than good enough to grab the outright lead at the midpoint of The Honda Classic. Steele shot a 3-under 67 on Friday, getting to 5 under for the week and

Outside influences have caused another prominent golf competition to adjust its schedule. The International Golf Federation is moving the men’s and women’s 2020 World Amateur Team Championships, set to be played in October, from Hong Kong to Singapore to alleviate concerns about the potential impact of protest that have taken place in the original host

7:52 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Brett Quigley birdied six of the last seven holes Friday for a 9-under 64 and the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Cologuard Classic. The winner a month ago in Morocco in his second Champions start, the 50-year-old Quigley birdied Nos. 12-15 and 17-18 on Tucson

Keith Mitchell is looking for his second professional victory after collecting a breakout win a year ago at the Honda Classic. The former University of Georgia golfer is joined by a strong field including Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose and Gary Woodland, all seeking their first wins at the notoriously difficult Champion course at PGA National

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla—Brooks Koepka shot a second-straight four-over 74 Friday to miss the cut at the Honda Classic. It was his worst 36-hole start since the same tournament three years ago. “I struck it really well,” the 29-year-old four-time major champion said, despite hitting just 10 greens and being more than two strokes in

3:59 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brooks Koepka‘s only birdie on Friday happened without the help of his putter, which made all the sense in the world. The highest-ranked player in The Honda Classic field this week simply couldn’t score, and his tournament is over. Koepka missed six putts inside of

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — There are just four golfers on the PGA Tour older than 46 who have full status without the aid of some sort of longevity milestone, like lifetime membership, career money, etc. Zach Johnson, 44, is still a few of years away from joining that group, but he has some work

2:24 AM ET Associated Press QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — LPGA major winner Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden has missed the cut at the New Zealand Open after becoming the first woman to play in the 101-year-old men’s professional tournament. Lindberg shot 1-over 73 Friday to follow her first round 9-over-par 80, finishing in a tie for

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brooks Koepka is lord of many things. At just 29, he has already won four major championships, reached No. 1 in the world, been unafraid and unapologetic about calling out his peers, played golf with the President of the United States and posed both in a Louis Vuitton shirt for

Daniel Meggs, whose battle with cancer went viral last spring following an inspirational video from Tiger Woods, died last week. Meggs, 29, was a former standout at Wake Forest and Director of Instruction at TPC Piper Glen. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer three years ago, the revelation discovered right before his marriage

After a red-hot start to the season for our experts, we’ve fittingly cooled off a bit in the winter, at least when it comes to picking outright winners. What better time to catch fire again than during the Florida Swing? This week the tour heads to God’s waiting room for the Honda Classic, which has

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brooks Koepka is nothing if not direct. So when the topic of the Premier Golf League came up on Wednesday at the Honda Classic, he didn’t mince words. “Money doesn’t matter,” the 29-year-old four-time major champion said. “It’s not something that’s important. I just want to be happy. Money’s not

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Twenty-five years ago Cristie Kerr won the Girls Junior PGA Championship at PGA National. This week, she’s back, without her clubs. The 20-time LPGA Tour winner will be an on-course reporter for Golf Channel during for its coverage of the Honda Classic. “It’s just kind of a fun thing,” Kerr

It says it there on the giant plaque as you walk off the 14th green at PGA National, engraved in glistening gold all-cap lettering: “It should be won or lost right here.” If the words of course architect Jack Nicklaus don’t intimidate you, maybe the eight-foot-tall menacing statue of a bear standing beside them will.

This week, in a lot of ways, will be a matter of survival. The Honda Classic annually plays as one of the toughest tests on tour. Last year’s cut line was 3-over. The year before? 6-over. Bogey avoidance is a key stat. With water and trouble looming at every turn, pars are good scores around

The USGA announced on Thursday that the Honors Course will serve as host to a U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur. Located outside Chattanooga, the Honors is best known as the site of Tiger Woods’ NCAA Championship victory in 1996. Woods’ performance through three days was so dominant that the Stanford product shot a final-round

Two European Tour players, Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari, have been quarantined, reportedly, over fears they have contracted the coronavirus, and forced to withdraw from this week’s Oman Open. Gagli and Molinari were approached by a European Tour doctor at breakfast on Wednesday, Gagli told Italian newspaper La Nazione. Though the two were supposed to

Days after San Francisco’s mayor declared a state of emergency over coronavirus concerns, the PGA of America—set to host its PGA Championship in the city in May—acknowledged the organization is keeping tabs on the matter. “We are carefully monitoring the situation as it relates to the 2020 PGA Championship in San Francisco,” the PGA of

This time last week, Byeong Hun An drove the par-4 first green at the WGC-Mexico, then four-putted for bogey, providing more proof that he’s the most frustrating player in the gambling and daily fantasy community. On Thursday at the Honda Classic he wasted little time riling up social media again, going out in one-under 34

6:08 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — PGA Tour rookie Viktor Hovland shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the windy Puerto Rico Open. “Hopefully, I just continue doing what I have been doing the first three days,” Hovland said. “It would be

7:28 PM ET MEXICO CITY — There was Jon Rahm with an ace and Rory McIlroy with a couple of 400-yard (elevated-aided) drives and Patrick Reed putting aside all the distractions. There was Bryson DeChambeau playing his best golf since emerging from the weight room a different player and Eric Van Rooyen threatening to steal