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Akshay Bhatia, the top-ranked junior golfer in the country and the No. 8-ranked amateur, has made no secret that he intends to turn professional as he nears his 18th birthday next January, after hopefully competing for the U.S. Walker Cup team in September at Royal Liverpool. Anticipating the day he begins to play for pay,

Justin Thomas won the 2017 PGA Championship, but he won’t be taking home the Wanamaker Trophy from Bethpage Black. On Monday afternoon Thomas announced that he has withdrawn from this year’s championship, citing a lingering wrist injury. “Unfortunately I will be withdrawing from the 101st PGA Championship at Bethpage Black this week as my wrist

12:02 PM ET FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Tiger Woods got to work early Monday to prepare for his first tournament start since winning the Masters, beginning a practice round at cold, rainy Bethpage Black before 8 a.m. Temperatures in the 40s and rainy conditions greeted players who arrived to get ready for the 101st PGA Championship,

For only the third time in its history, Golf Digest has a new owner. On Monday our sale was completed from Condé Nast to Discovery, Inc., the media company best known for its suite of real-life entertainment networks like Discovery Channel, HGTV, and the Food Network, and which has successfully expanded into golf. In joining

7:41 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Sung Kang rolled in a 23-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole to finally take the lead for good at the Byron Nelson, getting his first PGA Tour victory on a Sunday when he had to play 27 holes. That was the middle of three consecutive clinching birdies

With the PGA Championship’s move to May, Jordan Spieth is the next man up in the race to try and become just the sixth player to win the career Grand Slam. Rory McIlroy missed his chance, again, at the Masters, and Phil Mickelson must wait for another June and the U.S. Open. The good news

Steve Stricker will have to wait until Monday if he is going to win the first major championship of his career. The final round of the Regions Tradition in Birmingham, Ala., was suspended and will resume on Monday morning. Stricker is leading Bernhard Langer, David Toms and Billy Andrade by two strokes through 54 holes.

12:31 PM ET Sweden’s Marcus Kinhult won his first European Tour title in dramatic fashion as he came back with consecutive birdies on the final two holes to clinch victory at the British Masters. 1 Related Kinhult looked to have squandered the lead at the Hillside Golf Club in Southport after bogeys on the 15th

Tyler Duncan made just one bogey in his second-round 66 at the rain-delayed AT&T Byron Nelson. Unfortunately for the 29-year-old, the bogey cost him more than a shot on the scorecard. Duncan’s approach at the par-4 13th at Trinity Forest sailed to the right of the green on Friday and hit a spectator. A spectator

9:47 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Matt Every opened the rain-delayed third round at the Byron Nelson with an eagle, then had four birdies in a span of five holes to take the lead from Sung Kang before play was suspended because of darkness Saturday night with that lead group through nine holes. The

The conceit of a U.S. Open setup conjures passionate, opinionated responses. For better or worse—as of late, a lean towards “worse”—it is as much of the tournament’s narrative as the field. The PGA of America, meanwhile. goes to great lengths to ensure setups at the PGA Championships aren’t quite as interesting. It eschews the spotlight,

With the coming and going of the Masters, the major season is in full bloom. A year ago, we’d still be waiting another month for the next one. Not anymore. “Yeah, it is different,” Justin Rose said. “Different for sure.” This year’s PGA Championship isn’t the first to be played in May. That happened more

5:01 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Steve Stricker shot a season-best 8-under-par 64 to take the second-round lead Friday at the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Stricker, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour, leads David Toms by two strokes at 12 under on Greystone’s Founders Course. Toms

At first glance, not much has changed in the decade since the 2009 U.S. Open. Ten years later, Tiger Woods is still winning major championships, and Bethpage Black is still hosting them. Of course, there’s a lot more to the story. While Woods was the defending U.S. Open champ in 2009, he’ll return to Long

8:52 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Sung Kang and his caddie did some calculations on the driving range before the second round of the Byron Nelson on an unseasonably cool day with some breezy conditions. “The biggest thing was we needed to figure how shorter the ball is going to fly,” Sung said. “So

Just as the golf world was beginning to come off the high of Tiger Woods winning the Masters, we’re already on to the PGA Championship. The 101st edition of “the fourth major” certainly doesn’t feel like the fourth major this year, some of that thanks to Woods’ win but also due to this year’s host

Tiger Woods will win a sixth Masters and will match Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major championships, according to a poll of 56 professional tour caddies conducted by the Caddie Network. To the question of how many Masters Tiger will win in his career, 53.6 percent of respondents chose six, while 28.6 percent said he’s

10:49 AM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Glen Day birdied four of the final five holes to take a three-stroke lead over David Toms at the Regions Tradition after a weather-delayed first round completed early Friday. Day finished with an 8-under 64 after completing the final two holes at Greystone’s Founders Course. He was