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RYAN
LAVNER
The top 12 players on the leaderboard combined to make only 12 birdies on the back nine Saturday at Royal Troon.
Phil Mickelson limited his post-round session with reporters to only six questions Saturday night. There was too much work to be done before nightfall.
The statistic defies logic: Bill Haas, a six-time PGA Tour winner, hasn’t finished in the top 10 in 27 career major appearances.
That club toss on 16 that resulted in a broken 3-wood for Rory McIlroy? Was it poor form or poor equipment?
Hoping to avoid the type of delay that plagued last year’s Open, the R&A announced Saturday that it did not cut or roll the greens before the third round in anticipation of wind gusts up to 30 mph.
Billy Horschel was one of the early contenders at Royal Troon. By Friday evening, he was on the wrong side of history.
The top 14 players on the Open leaderboard all have one thing in common: They played late on Thursday and early Friday.
Jason Day thought the conditions he played in for a half-hour on Friday were the worst he’s ever endured.
There was a time when Phil Mickelson didn’t favor links golf. This is how his mindset changed and put him in shape for his second claret jug.
After watching a replay Thursday night, Phil Mickelson felt he had an answer as to why his putt for 62 didn’t drop.
First off in the second round of The Open, Clement Sordet wore a black ribbon on his cap with “Pray For Nice” written on the bill.
Phil Mickelson’s Thursday 63 was impressive, but it doesn’t guarantee that he’ll hoist the claret jug come Sunday.
In a move typically seen on the 18th green Sunday, Ernie Els putted out first to give Phil Mickelson more time to read a 16-footer that would have given him the first 62 in major-championship history.
We expected carnage from Royal Troon’s Postage Stamp, and the diminutive 8th hole delivered on Day 1 at The Open.
The picturesque Postage Stamp might get all of the attention, but Royal Troon’s par-4 11th hole is the real nightmare for players.
Phil Mickelson never had much success playing links golf before 2004 at Royal Troon.
Bubba Watson dropped six shots Thursday at Royal Troon, but he said he made only one bad swing.
Justin Thomas is staying in the Alpha Sigma PGA fraternity house this week, or something similar to it.
Tim Mickelson has resigned after five seasons as the head coach of the Arizona State men’s golf team, the school announced Wednesday.
A year ago Friday, Matthew Southgate underwent testicular cancer surgery. This week, he’s cancer-free and his game is in the best form of his life.
Rory McIlroy says golf still lags behind other sports when it comes to drug testing, even as it returns to the Olympics for the first time in more than a century.
Jordan Spieth waited and waited to make his Olympic decision, the result of inner turmoil. He said no, and did so for personal reasons.
Jordan Spieth said that he will not defend his title at the John Deere Classic, which is opposite the Olympics.
Jordan Spieth was careful Tuesday to cite “health concerns,” not specifically the Zika virus, as his reason for withdrawing from the Olympics.