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8:25 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Nick Taylor opened with an eagle, closed with two birdies and made a gorgeous day feel even better with an 8-under 63 at Monterey Peninsula that gave him the lead Thursday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Most of the interest over the three courses in

SMU men’s golf coach Jason Enloe announced on Thursday that he has stepped down from his position as the spring portion of the 2019-’20 is getting underway. Enloe entered the national spotlight in 2018 when his wife, Katie, succumbed to leukemia. Through the heartbreak, which included now raising two young daughters without their mother, Enloe

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – J.J. Henry knows the drill. The PGA Tour veteran has been an alternate before at plenty of tournaments, especially in the last few years, but he had never been an alternate at an event like the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. His apprehension level was high. “I never felt so unprepared for

11:12 AM ET The first senior golf event that Phil Mickelson will be eligible for after turning 50 will be the U.S. Senior Open, but he has no interest in playing that event — and isn’t too keen on playing much Champions Tour events in the future. “None whatsoever. No,” Mickelson replied when asked if

PEBBLE BEACH — The Morgan silver dollar is worn as smooth as polished marble, which isn’t surprising given its age. Circa 1900. Yeah, it’s 120 years old, and its silver content, just over three-quarters of an ounce, has a melt value of roughly $13.50. In mint condition, the coin is worth about $31. This coin,

6:00 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Anyone can see just how good Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is at football, but Fitzgerald’s acumen on the golf course isn’t as public. This week, however, Fitzgerald’s golf game will be on full display when he pairs with PGA Tour pro Kevin Streelman for the fourth straight

A native of North Carolina’s Sandhills, born in Pinehurst and raised in Southern Pines, Bill Fields yielded to the lure of the game that defines the area and made it his life’s work with his proficiency in telling its stories. Fields, 60, has been writing about golf since 1984, including two stints with Golf World

The question posed on a weekly basis to fantasy golf players, or anyone tasking themselves with the impossibility of predicting success in a sport as fickle as golf, like we’re doing before this week’s 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am, often comes down to: Should you trust past performance at a particular tournament, or rely more

1:20 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Phil Mickelson is still not exempt for the U.S. Open and says he won’t accept a special invitation. The U.S. Open is the one major keeping Mickelson from the career Grand Slam and no other major has given him more grief. His six runner-up finishes, most

Pebble Beach is known for producing historic winners, in particular when hosting the U.S. Open. But in addition to the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, there have been plenty of surprising players (Matt Gogel and Ted Potter Jr. jump to mind) to hoist trophies at this Monterey Peninsula gem. And it was here

9:50 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Series-China is the latest tour to cancel an event in China because of the coronavirus. The tour is moving its global qualifying tournament from Haikou, China, to just outside Singapore. Laguna Golf Bintan will host the qualifer on Feb. 25-28, which determines membership for the 2020 season.

Dottie Pepper—like Johnny Miller—has become such a popular broadcaster that many golf fans forget her playing career includes two major championships. But Pepper has also forgotten a lot about the aftermath of her second Nabisco Dinah Shore title (now the ANA Inspiration) in 1999. Just not for any reason you’d expect. RELATED: The CBS Golf

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – It’s about 350 miles from Long Beach to the Monterey Peninsula, so it’s not all that surprising that Southern California native Patrick Cantlay hasn’t played a great deal at Pebble Beach Golf Links. “I would hear stories about all the guys that were older than me play the California Amateur here,

11:45 AM ET For the first time, golf’s governing bodies will study the possibility of letting golfers play by a different rules as it relates to equipment in order to potentially reduce hitting distances. Known as “bifurcation,” the United States Golf Association and the R&A announced on Tuesday their results of a long-awaited distance study

The PGA Tour Series-China announced on Tuesday that it is moving its global qualifying tournament in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The event, one of three qualifying tournaments the circuit holds (Siyun Liu almost became the first woman to earn PGA Tour-related status in the early January competition), will now be held in Lagoi, Indonesia,

9:25 PM ET In the wake of Graeme McDowell getting a slow playing warning last week in Saudi Arabia after consenting to a midround TV interview, Brooks Koepka said “no thanks” to such requests. Koepka, who finished tied for 17th in the event and will lose his No. 1 ranking to Rory McIlroy next week,

One of the most familiar events on the PGA Tour calendar is upon us, with the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am on top from the lovely Monterey Peninsula. Expect sappy descriptions of the iconic, scenic locale all week long on CBS’ broadcast. And yes, some Clint Eastwood and other celebrity interviews to pass the time.

Following his first win in nearly two years, Webb Simpson’s odds to win the year’s first major received a major adjustment. Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook released updated Masters odds on Monday, listing Simpson at 40-to-1 to slip on the green jacket in April. Previously, Simpson was 60-to-1 odds after opening at 80-1 last April. Even

7:36 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE. Ariz. — Tony Finau and Webb Simpson crashed golf’s biggest party with some back-nine fireworks. Finau shot a 9-under 62 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Simpson in the Waste Management Phoenix Open, making an eagle on the par-5 13th and then, switching to a Kobe Bryant

Webb Simpson is one of the many golfers who has acted upon the natural urge to break a putter. He just did it for a different reason than most. Simpson was very happy with his long putter at the end of 2014, and why not? After a decorated amateur career at Wake Forest, his four

6:59 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Webb Simpson birdied the final two holes of regulation to force a playoff with Tony Finau, then won the Waste Management Phoenix Open with a 10-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole Sunday. Finau, two strokes ahead with two holes left, missed an 18-foot birdie try

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 Feb. 3. Coronations are never a given in sports, as Webb Simpson

So far, so good. As the Waste Management Phoenix Open goes, the 2020 edition has been a fairly quiet affair. Or at least as quiet as you can get from a tournament that had north of 200,000 fans in attendance at TPC Scottsdale on Saturday and will no doubt have a lively crowd once more

9:31 AM ET Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell has ended his five-and-a-half-year wait for a European Tour title with a victory at the Saudi International on Sunday. McDowell cared an up-and-down par 70 to finish 12 under for the tournament, two shots ahead of second place American Dustin Johnson. The 40-year-old Northern Irishman struggled to a

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11:31 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The PGA Tour will continue to honor the late Kobe Bryant on Sunday during the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The tour reconfigured the hole location on the par-3 16th hole for the final round, so it sits 24 paces on to the green and eight

SCOTTSDALE — All week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, golfers have been honoring the late Kobe Bryant by donning his jersey, wearing special shoes, stamping their clubs and with other tributes. On Sunday, the PGA Tour will honor the basketball star as well, altering its traditional final-round pin position on the par-3 16th at

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For all of Tony Finau’s otherworldly physical talents — he averages just shy of 310 yards a pop off the tee and is one of the game’s best ball-strikers, having honed his skills as a teenager hitting off a thin piece of carpet in the family garage during cold winter days in

12:48 PM ET Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco — Brett Quigley won the Morocco Champions in his second PGA Tour Champions start, saving par on the final two holes Saturday to hold off Stephen Ames by a stroke. The 50-year-old Quigley got into the field for the senior tour’s first African event as one of the

US. Amateur champion Andy Ogletree will play basketball again some day. Just don’t count on that some day coming any time between now and June. The Georgia Tech senior happily reports that his left thumb is doing much better as he gets set to fly with his Yellow Jacket teammates to Hawaii this weekend ahead