1:49 PM ET Tony Romo has been installed as the betting favorite to win next month’s American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Stateline, Nevada. Romo, the defending tournament champion, opened at 5-2 at Caesars Sportsbook. Former Major League Baseball pitchers Mark Mulder (3-1) and John Smoltz (5-1) are next, followed by retired NFL defensive
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – As he approaches his 70th birthday, Tom Watson has lost more than a few things. He just hasn’t lost his sense of humor. “I’m losing my hair, I’m losing my hearing, and I’m losing my distance off the tee,” Watson said Wednesday at the Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame, where
Golf is a northern sport and Michigan is a northern state and golf is Michigan, as far as I’m concerned. In Michigan we “golf” and avoid “traps,” so we’re like that. I was a kid whose dad spent 40 years with Ford Motor at a time when the auto industry was booming. I worked a
10:43 AM ET As the first-ever PGA Tour event within the city limits of Detroit is set to begin Thursday, local union members from Teamsters Local 299 are now on strike and picketing over a contract negotiation dispute. Seven union employees at Detroit Golf Club, the host venue for the PGA tournament, including five groundsworkers
The PGA Tour heads to Detroit this week for the Rocket Mortgage Classic, one of the two brand-new tournaments on the schedule. The event, which is part of the Open Championship Qualifying Series and will have two spots available to players not already exempt, will be played at Detroit Golf Club, a 7,294-yard Donald Ross
5:10 PM ET Associated Press CHASKA, Minn. — The LPGA Tour will have a new tournament in Florida at the start of next year, and likely another one in the late spring. The Asian swing of limited-field events at the start of the year is adding a tournament with a full field and a cut.
The BMW Championship, one of the PGA Tour’s three FedEx Cup Playoff events, will have a new name in 2020, a source confirmed to Golf Digest on Tuesday. The luxury automaker’s contract with the tour and Western Golf Association runs through this year’s tournament in August at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, and the source
David Toms was never a fan of Notre Dame, understandably so. For Toms, an LSU zealot, that 55-yard, game-winning, gut-wrenching touchdown pass with 35 seconds left in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day 2018 probably is still a festering wound. “I was never a lover of all things Notre Dame,” Toms said, maybe not
4:56 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Jerry Kelly won his hometown PGA Tour Champions event, beating Retief Goosen with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff Sunday in the American Family Insurance Championship. Kelly closed with a 6-under 66 at rainy University Ridge to match Goosen and tournament host and fellow
Stanford won its eighth NCAA Championship this May when it knocked off Texas at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. If NCAA president Mark Emmert is to be believed, it’s a title the Cardinal might not be competing for much longer. Earlier this year, two California state senators introduced a bill known as the “Fair
8:07 PM ET A wrongful death lawsuit no longer names Tiger Woods in a claim against a South Florida restaurant that carries the golfer’s name. Woods’ attorneys announced Monday that the estate of a bartender who crashed his car and died after leaving the restaurant in December had voluntarily dismissed Woods as a defendant. But
Tiger Woods has been dismissed from a wrongful-death lawsuit involving an employee of Woods’ Jupiter, Fla. restaurant. On Friday June 21, attorneys for the parents of Nicholas Immesberger voluntarily dropped Woods as the defendant from their pending case. “The decision was clearly appropriate and reflected the fact that Mr. Woods should not have been included
Tommy Fleetwood has accomplished a lot in the last three years. In 2017, playing mostly on the European Tour, he won twice en route to winning the tour’s Race To Dubai title and, while he was at it, threw in a fourth-place finish at Erin Hills in the U.S. Open and finished second to Dustin
11:57 PM ET Associated Press CHASKA, Minn. — Hannah Green never felt more nervous than standing over a 5-foot par putt Sunday at Hazeltine National with a chance to win her first major at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Neither did Karrie Webb, who has won seven majors in her Hall of Fame career. Webb
Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here’s every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of June 24. Green wins Women’s PGA Hannah Green was traversing the waters
6:31 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Chez Reavie won the Travelers Championship on Sunday for his second PGA Tour victory and first in 11 years, closing with a 1-under 69 for a four-stroke victory over Keegan Bradley and Zack Sucher. The 37-year-old Reavie, also the 2008 Canadian Open winner, finished at 17-under 263
Admit it, you probably didn’t think Hannah Green would hang on to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Never mind that 22-year-old Aussie had never been leading a major championship entering the final round, let alone a LPGA event. Right behind her on the leader board starting the final round at Hazeltine National was a
A six-stroke lead would seem to be a pretty comfortable advantage for Chez Reavie as he enters the final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands on Sunday. Of course, the 37-year-old didn’t want to hear anything about the tournament already being over on Saturday night after signing for a 63, least the