Golf Channel’s Paige Mackenzie gave a few predictions ahead of Ford Championship outside of Phoenix. Mackenzie believes amateur Asterisk Talley is a name to watch this week.
Paige Mackenzie breaks down the challenges that lie ahead for LPGA favorites, like Nelly Korda and Jeeno Thitikul, at Whirlwind Golf Club outside of Phoenix.
If being in contention on Sunday is part of a player’s game, it’s the part of Brooks Koepka’s bag that he’s least pleased with entering the Houston Open this week. Despite three consecutive finishes inside the top 20, Koepka said the one part of his game that’s missing is contending to win with nine holes left in the tournament.
Brooks Koepka spoke to reporters ahead of the Texas Children’s Houston Open and said he felt confident with all aspects of his game, including the change in putter. The five-time major winner said he’s yet to content with nine holes left on Sunday, calling it “the last missing piece” of his game as he prepares for Augusta National next month.
Two-time PGA Tour winner Ryan Fox chatted with Golf Channel’s Eamon Lynch and Rex Hoggard about having to miss this year’s Players Championship after having kidney stones the week of the tournament. Fox, who is set to compete in this week’s Houston Open, has finished T-24 or better in all four tournaments he’s competed in this year.
Jessica and Nelly Korda are competing in this week’s Ford Championship, Jessica’s first event in three years after maternity leave and battling injuries. They met with the media to discuss myriad topics, including what they admire and what annoys them about each other.
Elizabeth Rudisill spoke with Golf Channel’s Eamon Lynch and Rex Hoggard ahead of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur next week. Rudisill, a freshman at Vanderbilt and represented the U.S. at the Junior Solheim Cup, won the Ron Moore intercollegiate in October. She said she’s been to Augusta several times with friends and family to watch the tournament but is looking forward to going this time as a player.
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Ludvig Åberg addressed the media at The Players on Saturday, where he has a 3-shot lead going into the final round of the tournament on Sunday.
Sunday will mark the first time Ludvig Åberg and Michael Thorbjornsen will be paired together at The Players Championship, but not at TPC Sawgrass.
The 26-year-old Åberg, searching for what would be his third – and easily most consequential – title of his young PGA Tour career, leads The Players Championship by three shots over Michael Thorbjornsen.
Here’s a look at tee times and pairings for the final round of the PGA Tour’s flagship event, The Players Championship, as well as the Sunday weather forecast.
Matt Fitzpatrick is climbing up the leaderboard at the The Players Championship, thanks in large part to precision tee shots like he had here on the 17th hole. Fitzpatrick birdie putt to climb into a tie for second place with Cameron Young.
Scottie Scheffler was honest about his chances to contend for a third Players Championship on Sunday where he’ll enter the final round facing a big deficit. The No. 1-ranked player did like the third round he put together at TPC Sawgrass though.
Scottie Scheffler shot a bogey-free 67 on Saturday at TPC Sawgrass to move up the leaderboard at the 2026 Players Championship. The two-time Players champion chuckled when asked if he was having more fun after making the cut. He called the round “less stressful.”
Golf Channel anchor Damon Hack, in a case for making golf more compelling from an entertainment perspective, referenced two popular forms of entertainment in a discussion on “Live from The Players.” Hack wants consequential Fridays with “juice,” and spoke how about satisfying that need is “chess not checkers.”
Ludvig Åberg is being chased by Xander Schauffele and Cameron Young at The Players Championship. Here’s how to watch third-round coverage Saturday on Golf Channel.
Two people were killed in a Friday night shooting at a Walgreens located about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The suspect fled onto the golf course and caused an early morning lockdown Saturday, Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard reports. The suspect was arrested an hour north in Nassau County, Fla. Third-round play was not impacted by the incident.