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“Age is nothing but a number, right?” he joked with the press, keen to remind them that August 3rd, his 49th birthday, is just a few weeks away. To show you how long O’Neal has been at it, just know his first start on the Korn Ferry Tour came long before it was the Korn […]

In search of her first major win, the 22-year-old birdied the first two holes of the third round to push her consecutive-birdie streak to eight. Despite her drives ending up a ZIP code away from some of Korda’s bombs, Salas matched the young purebred blow for blow. 1 to set up an easy birdie, Salas […]

Open, the 2021 Travelers Championship has assembled a stellar field to compete for the title this week in Connecticut, and it all gets started with Thursday’s opening round. The app, which is owned by GOLF.com’s parent company, 8AM Golf, is designed to inject the adrenaline of live gambling into a fun, risk-free contest. – Michael Kim, […]

Welcome to GOLF.com’s new gambling advice column, where we’ve assembled a panel of those aforementioned experts to make three “best bets.” A real-life professional bettor here will then heed that advice, add his acumen and wager his own cash. ET, Golf Channel, 3-6 p.m., CBS; Sunday, 1-3 p.m. Weather : Thursday, sunny, 79 degrees, 9 […]

Major season is in full swing and next on the docket is the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Kim had won 10 times on the LPGA before her triumph, but she finally got off the “Best Players to Have Never Won a Major” list with the title. Now she heads to Atlanta with a target on […]

Instead, many of them are flying across the country to compete in the Travelers, one of the most popular Tour events among pros. Those star players include reigning PGA champion Phil Mickelson, as well as one of the major contenders at Torrey Pines, Bryson DeChambeau. 1 ranking back after being dethroned by Rahm, and Brooks […]

Russell Henley holds a share of the lead for the third straight day, this time being joined by Mackenzie Hughes, who shot four under on the back nine to jump ahead; and Louis Oosthuizen, who eagled the 18th on a 50-foot putt. Zephyr Melton, assistant editor : I predicted Rory McIlroy would make his move […]

The suited broadcasters and sneakered reporters who disseminate the varied and excellent stories that come out of major-championship golf, despite the absurd over-management of the players by far too many player managers. The players, as they always have, reveal themselves with how they handle bad lies and lucky bounces. After completing his second round, he […]

LA JOLLA, Calif. It was fun — Rory McIlroy called the pseudo-feud the “best thing ever” — but it left fans wanting more. Koepka and DeChambeau each began the day in the thick of contention, five shots off the lead. Some fans cheered when he started hitting driver, eager to see The Big Golfer go full […]

— In the longish history of post-round interviews at the midpoint of major golf championships, the interview Matthew Wolff gave late on Friday afternoon is one of the most remarkable ever. It was just a bearded, physically robust, 22-year-old golfer, with an odd swing and a lot of promise, talking about, when you get right […]

And one of the very specific ways in which he is fundamentally different is his post-round range sessions. Sometimes that process takes minutes and sometimes it takes more than an hour but he insists it’s the best way to resolve swing issues as they arise. A scoreboard illuminated the right side of the range, which […]

Instead the roar came from the 15th green, some 400 yards away, where Phil Mickelson had just canned a nine-footer for par to stay one shot inside the cut line. Sunday’s biggest story will be about whichever man plays 72 holes in the fewest total strokes and hoists the U.S. His opening-round of four-over 75 […]

Open at Torrey Pines, and there may be no bigger surprise than the one at the top of the leaderboard, where 48-year-old Richard Bland, he of one career victory , shares the lead with Russell Henley. There’s just too much talent and too much home-course comfort for him to remain in idle on Saturday. James […]

In 2018, at 45 and soon to be 46, he had lost his European Tour playing privileges, only to become the oldest player to graduate from the lower-level Challenge Tour and grind his way back. So it was just, right, OK, I’ve always been someone that can get my head down and work hard, and […]

Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen to help you play smarter, better golf. Whether on Tour or a weekend warrior, we’re always fiddling around with our games, like making a few sneaky swings with that kitchen utensil we see lying around, checking out […]

They are not saying, ‘Quit shooting three-pointers.’ But we don’t celebrate when a guy makes eight birdies, or a guy bombs it 400 yards. “I want a 6-foot-8 guy not playing in the NBA, I want to see him on the PGA Tour bombing the ball. Although he didn’t call him out by name, Watson […]

Rory McIlroy needed a 30-yard pitch-in from the nasty stuff and an 8-foot birdie putt in near darkness, but when his first round at the U.S. local time, he pumped his right fist toward the few remaining fans who stuck around. Only 17 times over these 83 total rounds has he shot higher than he did […]