The Champion Course at PGA National is known for challenging even the game’s most elite players. The 3-hole stretch from 15-16-17, better know as the “Bear Trap,” has changed the fate of tournaments over the years but where does it rank on Tour as the hardest run of consecutive holes? And is it even the most challenging 3-hole stretch on the course or does that honor belong to holes 5, 6 and 7? Golf Channel’s Paige Mackenzie shares her insights.
Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra will be playing on exemption at next week’s Puerto Rico Open. Chacarra, who left the LIV Golf circuit, played college golf at Wake Forest and Oklahoma State.
Tom D’Angelo, who has been covering sports in Florida since 1981 for The Palm Beach Post, talks with Golf Channel’s Steve Burkowski and Ryan Lavner about the history of the Cognizant Classic, what it has meant to generations of fans, and its current place in the hierarchy of professional golf.
As the PGA Tour hits the Sunshine State, we look back at some of the best moments from December’s Golf Channel Games in South Florida, courtesy The Curetivity Foundation. The Curetivity Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to create hope and cure kids by raising funds and awareness in the fight against childhood cancer.
Luke Clanton talks about the start of the 2026 PGA Tour season, and what he learned during the West Coast swing. Clanton, who finished T-18 at the 2025 Cognizant Classic, said he looks forward to playing in his home state of Florida.
The PGA Tour held a players meeting for the second consecutive week at PGA National ahead of the 2026 Cognizant Classic, Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard reports. Schedule changes are expected to happen through a slow and steady process.
Brooks Koepka takes the course at PGA National on Thursday in a grouping with Daniel Berger and Will Zalatoris. Koepka, who last played at the Cognizant Classic in 2022, tells Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard why he’s excited to make a return to his hometown event and why he feels more comfortable than he did at Torrey Pines and TPC Scottsdale earlier this year.
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Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine gives a course update on Riviera Country Club two years removed from its last time hosting the Genesis Invitational. He also opens up his reporter’s notebook to discuss the origins of Viktor Hovland’s pool floaties and what Jordan Spieth is doing to prepare for the PGA Tour’s second signature event this week.
The players who have prevailed at the Masters Tournament, from 1934-2025, and their winning scores.
Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis spoke to world No. 2 Rory McIlroy ahead of the 2026 Genesis Invitational. McIlroy said he appreciates the strategy part of playing at Riviera Country Club, stressing that getting the ball in the fairway is not as important this week given the current wet conditions of the course.
Lucas Glover joined Golf Today to talk about his election to chairman of the Player Advisory Council and why he felt now was the right time in his life to serve on the PAC. Glover addressed reports that this was his 10th time trying to get elected.
Here’s a look at the players who have won The Players Championship, since its inception in 1974.
These are the players who have won all four major championships in men’s professional golf.
Hovland, like many, got a kick out of watching his latest viral video, which depicted him wearing pool floaties on both arms on the range at TPC Scottsdale.
Riviera Country Club’s par-3 fourth hole, George Thomas’ take on the famed Redan hole at North Berwick, was lengthened nearly 40 yards, from 236 to 273 ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational.
Scottie Scheffler and the PGA Tour return to Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, for the second signature event of the season. Who do oddsmakers expect to win the 100th edition of the event?
Tiger Woods met with the media Tuesday at the Genesis Invitational, where he talked about everything from his playing schedule to the future of the PGA Tour’s overall schedule to where his tournament fits in it all.