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9:04 AM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Brendon Todd got up-and-down for par on the final hole Monday morning to close with a 3-under 68 and win the Mayakoba Golf Classic, his second straight victory in a remarkable turnaround. Todd was tied with Vaughn Taylor when they were among 12 players who

Brendon Todd is a PGA Tour winner. It’s a sentence nobody expected to say for the second time in his career in 2019, or a first time in 2014, but we said it nonetheless. He made us say it, by a stubborn force of will that can only be measured in the invisible pain of

2:22 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Brendon Todd got his mistake out of the way early and shot a 6-under 65 on Sunday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic as he goes for his second straight PGA Tour victory. Todd is coming off

The 2019 Mayakoba Golf Classic will be remembered, as least in part, for its Thursday wash out, rain delaying the start of the event and causing it to spill past the scheduled Sunday finish into Monday morning. But it also will go down as the PGA Tour fall stop where aces were wild as PGA

A little more than a year ago, Brendon Todd (above) was thinking about giving up golf after being beaten down by a long battle with the full-swing yips. He was stuck in a miserable slump that at one point saw him miss 37 of 40 cuts and plummet outside the top 2,000 in the world.

6:45 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Brendon Todd and Vaughn Taylor were tied for the lead with four holes remaining in the rain-delayed Mayakoba Golf Classic when play was suspended Sunday because of darkness. Todd, coming off a victory in the Bermuda Championship two weeks ago, shot a 6-under 65 on

Expectations have only grown for Tommy Fleetwood since he began asserting himself as one of the European Tour’s rising stars in 2017, with no one holding the 28-year-old Englishman to a higher standard than the man himself. Which is why there was a crack in Fleetwood’s voice Sunday after he closed out a playoff victory

7:26 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Harris English feels he got away from the basics that carried him to a promising start to his PGA Tour career. He hopes he’s headed in that direction again. English holed a chip-and-run from off the 18th green Saturday for birdie and a 7-under 64,

Like the term “yips,” the word “shank” is one some golfers are too afraid to even say. The thinking being that the less you acknowledge these scourges, the less likely you’ll be plagued with them. But one European Tour pro proved a shank can actually work to your advantage. If you combine it with one

After shooting a two-under 69 in the second round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic, Russell Henley did what many of the tour’s “nice guys” do: he went into his bag to grab a few golf balls to sign and hand out to fans. Nice gesture, one that should be met with some good karma from

5:40 PM ET Russell Henley used a different type golf ball than the one he started the second round with at the Mayakoba Classic on Saturday, costing him eight penalty strokes and leading to a missed cut. Henley discovered after the round when autographing golf balls for spectators that he had a different brand golf

For the PGA Tour, this has been the autumn of the big name. With Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, three of the best and brightest stars of the game notched victories in the fall season, while the tour’s “next level” winners, like Kevin Na and Camerson Champ, have had their own fascinating storylines. We

8:25 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Danny Lee felt as though he could make everything Friday, and for the longest time he did. Already at 10 under par through 13 holes, Lee started thinking about a sub-60 round when he hit a downhill birdie putt too hard and wound up three-putting

Golf is hard, as Mina Harigae would have known from rounds on her high school’s home course. The golf teams at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach play their home matches at Spyglass Hill, a tougher course than AP calculus. But there are variations of hard. One of them is when a game that ostensibly came

You might be rolling your eyes at another “luckiest break ever” headline, but we assure you, this one from Friday at the Nedbank Golf Challenge truly is the luckiest break in golf history. After going four under on his first 16 holes, Belgium’s Thomas Detry ran into some serious trouble at the par-4 17th at

Matt Kuchar’s return to the Mayakoba Golf Classic this week has prompted an obvious slew of stories regarding his payment of the local caddie who helped him win last year’s event. Kuchar has talked about it. El Tucan has talked about it. And now, the caddie will be back in the spotlight after getting a

10:59 AM ET Home favourite Louis Oosthuizen produced a stunning birdie blitz to card a faultless nine-under-par 63 for a three-shot lead after the first round of the European Tour’s Nedbank Golf Challenge on Thursday. Former Open champion Oosthuizen, seeking his maiden title in the tournament regarded as ‘Africa’s Major’, turned in 32 and roared

Is playing too much golf a bad thing? Apparently, at one famed UK golf club, it is. According to the UK Times, the exclusive Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire is being sued by a former member who says he was kicked out for teeing it up too often. The membership of John Cawood, a 72-year-old

When Jason Dufner withdrew from this week’s Mayakoba Golf Classic to open the door for first alternate Rob Oppenheim to get into the field, Oppenheim hopped a last-minute flight from his home in Orlando to Cancun, arriving on Wednesday night. The only snag? Getting his regular caddie, Dean Emerson, from his home in Boston to

2:03 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Heavy rain has washed out the opening round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic until Friday. El Camaleon Golf Club has received nearly 9 inches of rain since Monday. The lead rules official at the tournament, Slugger White, says there has been so much rain that

Lee Westwood has never been known for possessing a brilliant short game, but he produced a bit of bunker magic during the opening round of the 2019 NedBank Golf Challenge. Faced with a fried-egg lie on the eighth hole, Westwood somehow splashed his ball onto the green and within a few feet of the hole

12:11 PM ET Austria’s Matthias Schwab maintained his consistency and carded a six-under-par 66 to extend his overnight lead to three strokes after the third round at the Turkish Airlines Open in Antalya on Saturday. Schwab, who led by one at halfway, eagled the first hole and sank six more birdies — offset by a

How long Tiger Woods will play competitive golf is a question golf fans have grappled with for years. Will the sport’s ultimate competitor hang on as long as possible? Or will the game’s biggest winner lose interest if he’s not still winning? Of course, the health of a man with a fused back and a

Nearly two weeks after the completion of LPGA Q-Series, formerly known as Q school, amateur participants who earned some status in 2020 are still deciding when they’ll begin to play on the LPGA Tour (or in some cases the Symetra Tour) and whether they’ll do so as amateurs or professionals. Previously in Q school, any

8:38 AM ET As Phil Mickelson upped his Twitter game, his golf game fell. As the pounds came off, the strokes piled up. And as last week transpired, not only did Lefty find himself out of the top 50 in the world for the first time in 26 years, he was also without a spot

This fall portion of the 2019-’20 PGA Tour season has given us plenty of intriguing stories. Obviously Tiger Woods’ win in Japan was the highlight, but victories by Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy were notable, too. Speaking of winners, our betting panel also has had plenty of them. Golf Digest’s experts have correctly predicted six

5:54 PM ET Matt Kuchar received more attention for underpaying a fill-in caddie a year ago at the Mayakoba Classic than he did for winning the tournament. Now, a year later and back at the PGA Tour event near Cancun, Mexico, Kuchar, 41, again apologized on Tuesday and noted that he even heard from his

Matt Kuchar is looking to defend his title at the Mayakoba Golf Classic after winning this event a year ago in Mexico. It was his first victory on the PGA Tour since 2014, and that feel-good story seemed even more feel good in the moment with Kuchar having used local caddie David (El Tucan) Ortiz

Matt Kuchar is defending his title at this week’s Mayakoba Golf Classic, but his return to Mexico is understandably making headlines for another reason. He’s back at the El Camaleon Golf Club, the birthplace of his infamous caddie-payment scandal. A contrite Kuchar spoke to reporters on Tuesday and said the ordeal is “something I’m not

2:47 PM ET Tiger Woods will play the Genesis Invitational in 2020 — the first event he has announced as part of his 2020 schedule. The commitment is not a surprise. Woods is the tournament host of the event, which is played at Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles. The tournament dates are Feb. 13-16