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Malaysian golfer Gavin Green has received a three-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance, the European tour said Tuesday.
Stewart Cink won the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship on Saturday, closing with an 8-under 63 for a three-stroke victory.
Former Masters champion and current LIV Golf circuit member Patrick Reed eased to victory at the Dubai Desert Classic by four strokes Sunday.
Blades Brown, who is trying to become only the second 18-year-old to ever win on the PGA Tour, played “paper, scissors, rock” with a young fan and then holing a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th. He sits one shot off leader Si Woo Kim, a former American Express champion.
Patrick Reed will take a four-stroke lead into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic after shooting 5-under 67 on Saturday, as Rory McIlroy’s chances of a record-extending fifth title virtually disappeared.
Scottie Scheffler is a big draw in the strongest American Express field in years. And now there’s a teenager who was one putt away from becoming the youngest player in PGA Tour history to break 60.
Patrick Reed moved into the lead and Dustin Johnson missed the cut on a mixed day for high-profile LIV golfers at the European tour’s Dubai Desert Classic on Friday.
Ian Holt steadied himself at just the right time Wednesday and had a two-putt birdie on the par-5 18th hole for a 1-under 71 for a one-shot victory in the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic.
Rory McIlroy made a double-bogey seven in a 1-over opening round of 73 to start the Hero Dubai Desert Classic trailing eight shots behind clubhouse leader Francesco Molinari on Thursday.
Rory McIlroy doesn’t see an alliance forming between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf but would still like Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton to show commitment to Europe’s Ryder Cup team.
Adam Scott returned to the Sony Open for the first time in three years and jokingly said it was a good place to stop on the way back from Australia. He had other motives, of course.
Gotterup, who finished at 16-under 264, moves to No. 17 in the world. He was at No. 195 in the world when he left the Sony Open a year ago.
Davis Riley birdied four of his final seven holes Saturday to grab a two-stroke lead entering the final round of the Sony Open in Hawaii.
While five players share the lead through 36 holes of the Sony Open in Hawaii, including defending champion Nick Taylor, 62-year-old Vijay Singh stuck around for the weekend.
Early starters caught a break when the wind didn’t arrive until the afternoon in Honolulu. Only four players from the top 16 on the leaderboard played late.
Tiger Woods celebrated the 30th year of his TGR Foundation by saying it raised $50 million last year toward its education initiatives. The party ended with Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank pledging a $20 million grant for a new learning lab in Atlanta.
Rory McIlroy posted a 5-under 66 to lead by one stroke after the first round of the Dubai Invitational on Thursday.
Billy Horschel is no stranger to sitting outside the top 50 rankings when the calendar flips. Two years ago, he went from No. 63 in the world in January to Open Championship runner-up that summer.
Jordan Spieth’s last trip through Waialae Country Club saw the Texas native tie for a first-round lead before posting six bogeys and missing the cut. The former world No. 1 sits outside the top 50 after missing fall events.
Brooks Koepka is expecting a nervous energy when he returns to a regular PGA Tour event for the first time in four years at the Farmers Insurance Open. Only some of that pertains to his golf.
Matt Kuchar spent more than a month researching his best option and concluded he would not be using a one-time exemption for being in the top 25 on the PGA Tour career money list.
The elbow injury that drove Nick Price from the PGA Tour Champions a bit earlier than he had planned turned out to be the best thing for him.
Nicki Stricker played at Wisconsin, was an assistant for her father, Dennis Tiziani, for a year at Wisconsin and then got married and raised two daughters.
One way to look back at his career is to consider significant shots he hit with all 14 clubs in the bag, including two of them only seen by those who were with him.