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The head-to-head between Rory McIlroy and Marco Penge at the season-ending World Tour Championship has gotten off to an extremely one-sided start.
For Rory McIlroy to be denied another season-long Race to Dubai title, Marco Penge is going to have to pull off the biggest win yet of his breakthrough year on the European tour.
Smith was 11th in the DP World Tour points category last year, with the top 10 claiming PGA Tour cards.
Griffin shot 63 Sunday in Los Cabos, Mexico, to win the World Wide Technology Championship by two shots.
The event was reduced to 54 holes, leaving Hataoka and fellow Japanese player Yuna Araki to face off in sudden death.
Aaron Rai will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Championship as he seeks a first title on the European tour in five years.
Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki sat atop the leaderboard after Saturday’s third round of the LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic.
Matti Schmid rolled in a 30-foot eagle putt with about 6 feet of break during a six-hole stretch he played in 6 under par that carried the German to a 9-under 63 and a one-shot lead Friday.
Fleetwood is at 14 under par through two rounds of the DP World Tour’s penultimate event, tied with Aaron Rai.
Japan’s Nasa Hataoka and Jiyai Shin of South Korea sat atop the leaderboard Friday after the second round of the LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic.
Former champions Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry were in a five-way tie for the lead at the Abu Dhabi Championship after opening rounds of 8-under 64s on Thursday.
Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Miyu Yamashita each shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to stand atop the leaderboard after the first round of the LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic.
About this time a year ago, Marco Penge of England was outside the top 400 in the world and had just secured his European tour card by making a nervy putt on his final hole.
Rory McIlroy has described LIV Golf’s decision to expand its events to 72 holes as “peculiar.”
The PGA Tour heads to the southern tip of Baja California in Mexico, the start of a closing stretch for several players trying to keep their jobs another year. Johnny Keefer can only hope this is just the beginning.
Women’s Open winner Miyu Yamashita of Japan won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in a three-way playoff Sunday for her second career title in only her first full year on the tour.
Hye-Jin Choi will take a four-stroke advantage into the final round of the Maybank Championship after shooting a 5-under 67 Saturday.
Hye-Jin Choi tapped in for a birdie after missing a 20-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole to give her a 6-under 66 Friday and a five-stroke lead after two rounds of the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship.
Gemma Dryburgh’s first and only LPGA Tour victory came three years ago in Japan. On Thursday the 32-year-old Scottish player shot a 7-under 65 at the Maybank Classic to put herself in position for a second victory in Asia.
There are 29 LIV Golf players in the field at this week’s Hong Kong Open.
PGA Tour change is forever coming and ever more sweeping. But what remains is the need for the sport to create star attractions.
Michael Brennan was just as dominant at Black Desert as he was on the PGA Tour Americas. He closed with a 5-under 66 to go from a sponsor exemption to a PGA Tour winner Sunday.
Pongsapak “Fifa” Laopakdee rallied from a six-shot deficit and won a playoff at the Asia-Pacific Amateur, sending him to the Masters and The Open next year.
Australia beat the United States team to win the LPGA’s Hanwha Lifeplus International Crown tournament on Sunday in South Korea.