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8:47 PM ET Lisa D. Mickey LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The LPGA kicked off the new year and the 2020 season with an outright tussle for the title at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions. But at the end of four rounds, five playoff holes and the gloaming of another day, a playoff between

Most of the time, the outcome in golf is fickle. Often, there’s little rhyme or reason when it comes to the predictability of who is going to win. Andrew Landry? He’d missed seven of his previous eight cuts prior to this week’s American Express. So, naturally, on Sunday the 32-year-old Texan won for just the

3:15 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Argentine teenager Abel Gallegos rallied from a two-shot deficit with a 4-under 67 at Mayakoba and won the Latin American Amateur Championship on Sunday to earn trips to the Masters and British Open. Gallegos, a 17-year-old from a small town outside Buenos Aires, caught Jose

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It won’t be known for awhile, but if the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Haulalai is a harbinger of the PGA Tour Champions’ season ahead, it will be a memorable one. Four World Golf Hall of Famers were tied for the lead at one point on the back nine at Hualalai Golf Club on the Big

11:16 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHI-KONA, Hawaii — Miguel Angel Jimenez made a 12-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff Saturday with senior newcomer Ernie Els to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Fred Couples dropped out on the first extra trip down the par-4 18th at windy Hualalai,

10:29 AM ET England’s Lee Westwood will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship after carding a 7-under-par 65 on Saturday. Westwood, who last won on the European Tour at the 2018 Nedbank Challenge, produced a mighty approach shot to set up an eagle on the par-5 eighth

We may have entered a new decade, but backstopping is still a thing on the PGA Tour. Just ask Golf Twitter. On Friday night, the tour tweeted video of a spectacular bunker shot by Russell Knox during the second round of the American Express. It didn’t take long, though, for people to focus not on

During a round at the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic in the mid-1970s, Leonard Kamsler, the renowned golf photographer, was trying to get a shot of the famously irritable tour pro Bruce Crampton. Things weren’t going well. “Crampton hated photographers,” Kamsler recalls, “and he was onto me.” So Kamsler went a few holes ahead and found

1:39 AM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawai’i — Woody Austin scrambled for birdie on the par-4 18th Friday to take the lead into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship, while Ernie Els had the best round of the day to get into contention in his senior debut. After the

Just how good was Jose Vega’s bogey-free 65 during the second round of the Latin America Amateur Championship on Friday? Let’s start by noting it was the fourth-lowest 18-hole score in the six-year history of the championship. But that doesn’t put it into the proper context given the conditions facing the field at Mayakoba Resort’s

9:09 AM ET Italy’s Francesco Laporta carded a superb bogey-free 9-under 63 to leap into a one-shot solo lead after 36 holes at the Abu Dhabi Championship, while stars America’s Bryson DeChambeau, Ireland’s Shane Lowry and England’s Danny Willett missed the cut. Laporta, 29, was at 4-under for the day before putting together a blistering

After opening 2020 with a 66 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Brooks Koepka appeared human on Friday, shooting a a three-over 75. Given the fact this is his first start since withdrawing from the CJ Cup due to a knee injury, it was natural to wonder if any lingering pain was a factor that

Si Woo Kim’s stay in La Quinta was short. But it was adventurous. Kim, 24, withdrew from the American Express on Thursday after shooting a 15-over 87 in Round 1 at the Nicklaus Course. It was a score that garnered its share of glances; the former Bob Hope Classic annually boasts one of the easier

10:44 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHIKONA-Kona, Hawaii — Bernhard Langer and Miguel Angel Jimenez shot 8-under 64 on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Ernie Els struggled in his debut on the 50-and-over tour, shooting a 72. The four-time major winner from South Africa turned 50

If you’re going to win the Latin America Amateur Championship this week at Mexico’s Mayakoba Resort—and earn exemptions into the Masters and Open Championship—you’re going to have to be a patience golfer. Howling winds greeted the field at El Camaleón Golf Club on Thursday and are expected to linger through the weekend, creating a difficult

10:21 AM ET World No. 1 Brooks Koepka carded a bogey-free 66 to sit tied for third, two shots behind leaders South African Shaun Norris and Italian Renato Paratore after the first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship. American Koepka started well in his competitive return after three months out with a knee injury, making

Cameron Smith’s first solo victory on the PGA Tour last Sunday at the Sony Open in Hawaii capped what has been a wild month for the 26-year-old Australian. Consider everything that’s gone on over the last handful of weeks: • Played in his first Presidents Cup, beating the Americans’ hottest player, Justin Thomas, in Sunday

Tommy Gainey returned to the news on Wednesday. This time, thanks to his play. Gainey, 44, turned in a final-round 69 to win the Korn Ferry Tour’s Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay. “This means everything,” said Gainey afterwards, holding back tears. Even on the day through 15 holes, Gainey held a one-shot

3:59 PM ET James Leow and Nicklaus Chiam are hoping that local knowledge may give them an edge at the Sentosa Golf Club as the two tee off in the 2020 SMBC Singapore Open on Thursday. The two amateur golfers are among 13 Singaporeans looking to make home advantage count in a large field that

This is definitely a bizarre week to predict. First, the American Express is historically one of the biggest birdie fests on tour. Odds are, whoever gets the hottest putter will win, and as any golf-stat analyst will tell you, that’s the toughest thing to predict in golf. The variance in putting week to week makes

1:52 PM ET Everyone complains about slow play. It’s definitely the easiest subject to get people to threaten they will stop watching golf. So what’s the truth from inside the ropes? This week, the PGA Tour announced some changes with the intention of getting players to pick up the pace. Will it work? We recently

This week is a collision of the familiar and the unfamiliar in Palm Springs. This is the old Bob Hope classic, one of the most familiar tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule, with scenes of Arnold Palmer and a great host of celebrities such as Hope, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and others joining pros at

Sergio Garcia is making his 2020 debut this week at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. And he will be doing so with new sticks in tow. Photos from an event associated with the European Tour stop show Garcia without Callaway clubs in his bag, instead brandishing a set of Ping irons and wedges and a

1:50 PM ET The PGA Tour has unveiled a new pace-of-play policy that will include keeping a list of its slowest players on a week-to-week basis and levying penalties for “excessive shot times.” Based on ShotLink data the tour compiles, players will be placed on an observation list with warnings given if they exceed 60

Phil Mickelson will not only be playing in this week’s American Express—his first tournament start since the WGC-HSBC Champions in November—he will be the tournament host as the PGA Tour’s long-time stop in the California desert gets a makeover of sorts. Lefty’s charity, The Mickelson Foundation, will be the host organization while American Express has

1:50 PM ET The PGA Tour has unveiled a new pace-of-play policy that will include keeping a list of its slowest players on a week to week basis and levying penalties for “excessive shot times.” Based on ShotLink data the tour compiles, players will be placed on an Observation List with warnings given if they

ABU DHABI — Three months on from the slip and fall that led to his withdrawal at last October’s CJ Cup in South Korea, Brooks Koepka’s long-standing left knee issue has improved enough to where he will play in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on the European Tour. And the World No. 1 sounds

The new Callaway Mavrik irons, which includes three models, expands on the company’s use of artificial intelligence, stretching its use from its metalwoods down to its irons. It is, says Dr. Alan Hocknell, Callaway’s head of research & development, a logical next step. “We have taken a design tool—artificial intelligence—and spread its use to the

8:41 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The PGA Tour will move the Byron Nelson away from Trinity Forest Golf Club after the tournament is played there for only the third time this May. The links-style course south of downtown Dallas was built in 2014 on the site of a former landfill. The Nelson moved