Month: April 2020

11:28 PM ET Associated Press BRISBANE, Australia — Adam Scott is going to extraordinary lengths to interact with some of his social media followers during the coronavirus pandemic: nine holes of a golf course. The 2013 Masters champion will play some of the holes on the 18-hole Maleny Golf Club on Friday and livestream it
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5:13 PM ET With the postponement of the Olympic Games by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Golf Federation announced Wednesday that it was also pushing back the qualifying deadline by the same timeframe. Players will now earn Official Golf Ranking points through June 21, 2021 for men and June 28, 2021
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The LPGA Tour announced its planned return to competition in mid-July, with a schedule of 21 events through Dec. 20—the only two off-weeks being November 12-15 (when the men play the Masters) and November 26-29 (Thanksgiving). Once the anticipation about seeing live golf again subsides, the question is: What exactly will the LPGA look like
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5:40 AM ET Staging this year’s Ryder Cup without fans is not in the event’s best interests but it might have to “take one for the team” and proceed that way amid the the coronavirus crisis, Team Europe captain Padraig Harrington has said. The golf calendar has been severely affected due to the coronavirus pandemic,
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7:00 PM ET Associated Press U.S. Women’s Open champion Jeongeun Lee6 could be ready to get back to golf. At home, anyway. With exhibitions in the works involving Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and a charity event for caddies at a private club in Texas, the Korean LPGA Tour is planning to resume in two
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12:51 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — In a phone-a-friend moment during the coronavirus pandemic, Adam Scott reached out to a fellow golfer who’d been waiting for his call. Under the headline “No cameras, no trophies, but Adam Scott just won the lockdown’s act of kindness award,” the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Tuesday about
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7:06 PM ET Associated Press Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has announced that golf can resume in the state beginning May 5. The announcement on Monday was part of a partial resumption of outdoor activities that includes fishing, hunting and use of state parks and state lands for day trips. Inslee said that the Golf Alliance
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It’s hard to believe that not even two months ago the most talked-about issue in golf was something as silly as an announcer’s comment. Granted, Paul Azinger had seemed a bit condescending when discussing Tommy Fleetwood’s European Tour exploits, but with all that’s happened in the world since—and all that hasn’t while many things including
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