Tiger Woods putts into a bunker and loses ground. Spieth and Scheffler share lead in Bahamas
Tiger Woods opened with four birdies in seven holes. The closing stretch was another struggle Friday in the Hero World Challenge, which included a putt that went off the green and into the bunker.
Golf
Woods has a sloppy finish for a 75 in his return in the Bahamas
Tiger Woods held up just fine Thursday in his first time competing in eight months, except for limping at the end. That was more about his golf than his fused right ankle.
Sports
Luke Donald stays on as Europe's Ryder Cup captain for 2025 after overwhelming backing of players
Rory McIlroy and his teammates wanted it. The European tour wanted it. And, after some reflection, Luke Donald wanted it, too.
Sports
Tiger Woods sounds more optimistic about his game than a Saudi deal getting done on time
Tiger Woods sounded more optimistic about playing golf next year than he did about the PGA Tour finalizing a deal with Saudi Arabia or private investors by the end of the year.
Sports
Column: The rich new PGA Tour is not about the haves and have nots. It's the haves and have more
Thoughts and prayers for the players who only kept full PGA Tour cards without guaranteed access to the signature events.
Sports
Eddie Merrins, the 'Little Pro' who had an enormous influence on golf in LA, dies at 91
Eddie Merrins was known as ''The Little Pro'' because of his 5-foot-7 stature, certainly not his influence on golf. The longtime pro at Bel-Air Country Club touched everyone from U.S. Open champion Corey Pavin to Fred Astaire and even Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Business
LIV Golf to play in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week. The 2024 schedule has no Trump courses yet
LIV Golf released a 2024 schedule on Wednesday that includes going to Las Vegas the same weekend as the Super Bowl and has three U.S. events that will he held the same week as the PGA Tour's signature $20 million stops.
Sports
Tiger Woods and son Charlie to play in PNC Championship again
Tiger Woods is returning to the PNC Championship, the 36-hole event that has become one of his favorites because of his partner: His son.
Sports
Azinger and NBC don't renew contract. Now the question becomes who's next in the booth
Nothing ramps up speculation in golf like an opening in the broadcast booth.
Sports
Column: From Lubbock to sudden stardom, Swedish star Aberg not easily distracted. Even by LIV
So much feels like so long ago for Ludvig Aberg.
Sports
Amy Yang captures her first American LPGA title and cashes in on $2 million
Amy Yang picked a lucrative time for her first LPGA title on American soil.
Sports
Ludvig Aberg with another 61 wins at Sea Island to cap amazing 6 months as a pro
Ludvig Aberg added to his astonishing second half of the year when he closed with a second straight 9-under 61 on Sunday to win the RSM Classic, his first PGA Tour title to go along with a European tour victory and a winning debut in the Ryder Cup.
Sports
Nicolai Hojgaard produces big finish to win season-ending World Tour Championship
Nicolai Hojgaard claimed the biggest title of his career Sunday after running off five straight birdies down the stretch to win the season-ending World Tour Championship by two strokes.
Sports
Hataoka, Yang share lead at LPGA finale with $2 million on the line
Nasa Hataoka had a strong start and Amy Yang had a hot finish, finishing with a share of the lead in the CME Group Tour Championship with 18 holes left and $2 million on the line.
Sports
Aberg keeps pace with a 61 and leads season-ending RSM Classic by 1 shot
Ludvig Aberg ran off four birdies and an eagle over a five-hole stretch on the back nine Saturday, not so much to pull away but just to keep pace. He had a 9-under 61 for a one-shot lead on an extraordinary day of low scoring in the RSM Classic.
Sports
Tiger Woods to play in the Bahamas, his first competition since the Masters
Tiger Woods showed he could walk four days while caddying for his son. Now he has decided he is fit enough to try to play.
Sports
Wallace birdies the entire back 9 in Dubai and leads European tour finale
Matt Wallace of England made a 30-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole and didn't stop until he birdied the rest of them, tying a European tour best with nine birdies in a row for a 12-under 60 that shot him into the lead Saturday in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
Sports
Matt Wallace birdies every hole on back 9 in Dubai and matches European tour best
Matt Wallace made nine consecutive birdies Saturday, all of them on the back nine for a 12-under 60 in the DP World Tour Championship.
Sports
McIlroy stalls, Hovland soars and Hojgaard leads by 2 shots at World Tour Championship
Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland and Tommy Fleetwood were in a group of marquee players moving into contention at the season-ending World Tour Championship on Friday.
Sports
Alison Lee rides her hot streak and shares the lead with Nasa Hataoka at LPGA finale
Alison Lee birdied four of her last five holes Friday to extend a hot streak that stretches from Saudi Arabia to South Korea to Florida. Her 8-under 64 gave her a share of the lead with Nasa Hataoka in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.
Sports
Ruoning Yin, Nasa Hataoka share lead with 63s at LPGA season finale in Florida
Ruoning Yin hit the ball so poorly on the practice range that she wasn't expecting much Thursday in the CME Group Tour Championship. The big surprise was a 9-under 63 and a share of the lead with Nasa Hataoka in the chase for the $2 million prize.
Sports
LPGA announces record $116 million prize money for 2024 and more streaming time with ESPN+
The money from corporate support keeps pouring into the LPGA Tour, which on Thursday announced a 2024 schedule with over $116 million in prize money and a record 10 regular tournaments offering at least $3 million.
Sports
Awkward lie: Rory McIlroy's ball lodges in the lap of a spectator at World Tour Championship
It was the most awkward lie of the day for Rory McIlroy.
Sports
LPGA to award $4 million to season finale winner next year under extension with CME Group
Already offering the single-largest payday in women's golf, the LPGA said Wednesday that next year's winner of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship will receive $4 million, equal to the PGA Tour's new signature events.
Sports
Rory McIlroy abruptly resigns from PGA Tour policy board
Rory McIlroy resigned from the PGA Tour board on Tuesday, an abrupt move that comes as the tour is trying to finalize an agreement to create a new commercial enterprise involving Saudi Arabia's national wealth fund.
Business
PGA Tour parsing private investment deals as the clock ticks on its Saudi deal
The PGA Tour has created a program that would give players equity ownership in a new commercial enterprise, provided it finalizes a deal with Saudi Arabia's national wealth fund and five other private groups that want to invest.
Sports
Homa wins Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa for 1st win abroad
Max Homa can finally say he's an international winner.
Sports
Lilia Vu rallies to win in Florida and closes in on LPGA player of the year
Lilia Vu seized momentum early with three birdies and closed with a 4-under 66 to win The Annika on Sunday for her fourth victory of the year, which allowed the American to regain the No. 1 ranking and close in on LPGA player of the year.
Sports
Camilo Villegas wins in Bermuda, his first title since his young daughter died of brain cancer
Camilo Villegas ended a long and emotional drought when he came up with key birdies down the stretch Sunday for a 6-under 65 to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, his first victory since losing his 22-month-old daughter to cancer in 2020.
Sports
Rory McIlroy is Europe's No. 1 after clinching Race to Dubai
Rory McIlroy is No. 1 on the European tour for the fifth time.
Gophers
Souhan: An emotional Minnesota sports moment on the PGA Tour
Former Gophers golfer Erik van Rooyen won the PGA tournament on Sunday and spoke from the heart about his former Minnesota teammate dying of cancer.
Golf
Hazeltine lands another major golf tournament: Here's how it happened
The KPMG Women's PGA Championship will return in 2026 to a club that was built to play host to the sport's biggest events.
Sports
Team USA hasn't had a repeat Ryder Cup captain since 1949. Could Tiger Woods be next?
Team Europe already has voiced its preference that it would like to see Luke Donald return as captain for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. If that's the choice, he would be the first repeat captain since Bernard Gallacher in 1991, 1993 and 1995.
Golf
Minjee Lee loses a 5-shot lead in 6 holes and then wins in a playoff in Cincinnati
Minjee Lee looked like a sure winner in Cincinnati when she had a five-shot lead with eight holes to play. She needed a playoff to beat Charley Hull in the Kroger Queen City Championship.
Golf
A voice unlike any other: Tepetonka golf club partners with CBS' Nantz
Broadcaster Jim Nantz is a paying member and club ambassador for the emerging course set to open in 2025. The club near New London, Minn., will cap its $100,000 membership at 100 people.
Duluth
Duluth again seeks developer for 37 acres of former scenic golf course
The city is hoping for mixed-income housing on the former Lester Park Golf Course.
Golf
Roseville golfer gets 1st hole-in-one; then, later in round, gets his 2nd
Kevin McKoskey made magic twice with his 7-iron at University of Minnesota/Les Bolstad Golf Course on Thursday, acing the 146-yard No. 5 and 139-yard No. 17.
West Metro
Younger golfers at Bloomington city course spending more
Revenue is up over 2022 at city's Dwan course.
Golf
VanArragon posts four-shot victory in Minnesota Women's State Open
Kathryn VanArragon, who won the Women's State Amateur for the second time in July, held off two-time defending champion Betsy Kelly of TPC Twin Cities.
Golf
Camille Kuznik atop crowded leaderboard after one day at Minnesota Women's State Open
The Wisconsin junior was the only golfer to shoot below par in the first round at StoneRidge.
Golf
Celine Boutier wins Women's Scottish Open to follow up 1st major victory
Celine Boutier has won the Women's Scottish Open by two strokes to back up her victory at the Evian Championship last week for her first major title.
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