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11:13 PM ET Associated Press LA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Jerry Kelly and Darren Clarke shared the second-round lead Friday in the Mitsubishi Electric Championship after first-round leader Retief Goosen stumbled late at Hualalai. Kelly birdied the 18th for a 5-under 67 to match Clarke at 13-under 131 with a round left in the first PGA Tour

Of the two courses the players will face this week (it’s normally three, but La Quinta got the axe this year), the Stadium Course at PGA West is by far the more difficult of the two. It’s a typical Pete Dye design, his West Coast version of TPC Sawgrass. The risks are often worth the

7:41 PM ET Assocated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Sungjae Im shot a 7-under 65 on Friday at The American Express to take a one-stroke lead over first-round leader Brandon Hagy and four others. Im, the 22-year-old South Korean who was the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year in 2019, had seven birdies in the

This is Phil Mickelson’s 30th year on the PGA Tour. And he’s never been known as the steadiest player in the world, so Lefty’s done virtually everything there is to do on a golf course. On Friday at The American Express, the 50-year-old did something in his 2,201st round on the PGA Tour that he’s

He might be about to play a starring role in the European Tour’s latest social media venture, an Alcoholics Anonymous-style meeting of “Angry Golfers,” but Tyrrell Hatton was all smiles when encroaching darkness called a premature halt to the second round of the tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Five holes short of the clubhouse, the

11:24 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Retief Goosen birdied 10 of the first 14 holes in a 10-under 62 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai. Darren Clarke was second after a 63, and Scott Parel and Jerry Kelly shot 64. The tournament is the first of

One of the PGA Tour’s longest-running events kicked off on Thursday, although it was almost unrecognizable: The American Express has no amateurs in the field this year due to COVID-19 concerns. That plus the lack of fans (for the same reason) and playing just two courses rather than three has the event that will always

7:37 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Brandon Hagy didn’t find out he was in the field at The American Express until three days before it started. The Californian then left no doubt he belonged. Hagy took the first-round lead Thursday with an 8-under 64 on the Nicklaus course, staying 1 shot ahead

Phil Mickelson has denied involvement in the commutation of Las Vegas businessman and gambler Billy Walters’ sentence by former President Donald Trump, according to an ESPN report. On Wednesday, Walters, whose insider-trading case was linked to Phil Mickelson, was one of 143 people who Trump granted clemency. A White House release listed Mickelson, along with

This isn’t how John Augenstein imagined his professional golf career starting—in a pro-am without ams, at a PGA Tour event without fans. The 23-year-old makes his pro debut this week at The American Express on a sponsor’s exemption. The Vanderbilt grad decided to make the jump from the amateur ranks, forgoing one more semester of

9:00 AM ET The PGA Tour heads to the mainland for the American Express at the PGA West TPC Stadium Course in La Quinta, California. Andrew Landry, who missed the cut at last weeks’ Sony Open won by Kevin Na, is the defending champion. So which players are the favorites, who offers good odds and

Celebrity is the currency on which the PGA Tour Champions trades to create interest and has since it was conceived in part as a means of keeping Arnold Palmer on stage after 50. A good idea, of course. But the value of its currency depends in part on the quality of each new class of

5:57 PM ET Professional gambler Billy Walters was granted a commutation by President Donald Trump during his final day in office, and it came with the help of letters written by, among others, Phil Mickelson. Walters was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 for an insider trading case linked to Mickelson, who ended

Ben Hogan’s career numbers speak for themselves: 64 PGA Tour wins, including nine majors have permanently carved him a spot among’s golf all-time greats. Numbers that undoubtedly would have been even better if not for a nearly life-ending car accident in 1950. But as is the case with any of the older generation of golfers,

Like a number of players, Tommy Fleetwood had some serious momentum prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought last golf season (and all the other sports seasons) to a screeching halt. Before the cancellation of the Players Championship, the Englishman had a T-2 at the Abu Dhabi Championship last January, then finished third at the

8:29 AM ET Nothing outside of the major championships was ever guaranteed for Tiger Woods’ when it comes to his schedule. And now even that is certain in the wake of the news that the Woods recently had a microdiscectomy procedure to alleviate nerve pain in his lower back. 2 Related Apparently Woods is already

That said, if you backed up either Leishman or Webb did with a top-10 wager like our expert Pat Mayo did with Leish, you still came out OK. For those just getting into betting on golf, it’s usually a good idea to supplement your outright bets with a top 5 or top 10, so you

4:55 PM ET Tiger Woods has undergone a microdiscectomy to alleviate nerve pain in his lower back and will not compete in next week’s Farmers Insurance Open or the Genesis Invitational next month. An announcement came via Woods’ Twitter account that he had “recently undergone a microdiscectomy procedure to remove a pressurized disc fragment that

Returning to the U.S. mainland after an exciting two weeks in Hawaii to kick off 2021, the PGA Tour travels to the California desert for its next stop: The American Express. The tournament, part of the tour’s schedule since 1960, will be played on two courses: the Stadium Course at PGA West and the Nicklaus

We’ve seen Annika Sorenstam play a bit since her retirement in 2008—most recently she teamed with her father in last month’s PNC Championship—but never in a competition that put her alongside current LPGA Tour players. Her appearance, then, at this week’s Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions will be her first, although it’s not what you

8:00 AM ET A significant anniversary in Phil Mickelson‘s career passed the other day, one that highlights his early greatness while also reminding us of his longevity. It has been 30 years since Mickelson won his first PGA Tour event, doing so as a 20-year-old amateur while playing college golf at Arizona State. The feat

The old Bob Hope Classic, now The American Express, is one of the hallmarks of the early-year PGA Tour schedule. That includes some memorable moments—from victories by Arnold Palmer (five times), Johnny Miller (twice) and Jack Nicklaus (once)—to celebrity appearances by some of the world-class entertainers. It has given us some long-shot winners in recent

Jon Rahm withdrew from The American Express Monday. The World No. 2 was listed as the tournament favorite, for good reason. Aside from posting six top-10 finishes in his last eight starts, Rahm won the former Desert Classic in 2018 and followed with a strong title defense in 2019, ultimately finishing sixth. No reason was

It went fast, and it ended quietly for David Feherty. After a 10-year run that featured a unique blend of comedy and conversation, his eponymous golf talk program, “Feherty,” has ended. The quick-witted native of Northern Ireland confirmed to Golf Digest that his Emmy-nominated Golf Channel series has not been renewed. He remains on the

10:15 PM ET SAO PAULO — Brazil’s federal police arrested Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera on Thursday for extradition to his homeland to face charges for several crimes allegedly committed from 2016 to last year, two officers said. Cabrera, a past winner of both the Masters and the U.S. Open, was on Interpol’s red code list.

HONOLULU — Kevin Na freely admits there are courses on the PGA Tour that he cannot win on. “Yes, 100 percent,” he said Sunday night in a nod to many of the big ball parks that consume the schedule and serve as a defense against the bomb-and-gouge era. Fortunately for the 37-year-old South Korean, Waialae

9:06 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Three shots behind with six holes to play, Kevin Na birdied three straight holes and finished with an up-and-down birdie from behind the 18th green for a 5-under 65 and a one-shot victory in the Sony Open. Na won for the fifth time in his PGA Tour career,

Matthew Wolff’s first tournament as a professional was the 2019 Travelers Championship. Though he tied for 80th in the event, victory wasn’t far off. Just two weeks later, the then 20-year-old who’d grabbed the NCAA title just a month earlier, won the 3M Open. Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland, both of whom turned pro that

Brendan Steele’s affinity for the Sony Open is recent and growing after a Saturday 61 at Waialae Country Club put him in the 54-hole lead in the event for the second straight year. Prior to 2020, the 37-year-old PGA Tour journeyman had played in Honolulu only once, missing the cut in 2011. But in his

10:40 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Brendan Steele had the lowest score of his PGA Tour career with a 9-under 61, giving him a two-shot lead and another chance to win the Sony Open. Steele has reason to still be smarting from last year. He had the tournament all but won until a series