Tony Romo will again test his mettle against golf’s best this week at the AT&T Byron Nelson, accepting a sponsor’s exemption to his home course of Trinity Forest. This will be the third foray for the former quarterback on tour, and because of how he fared in the first two attempts, Romo’s week—and to some
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8:18 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — They are just numbers, usually separated by a bunch of commas and with zeros at the end. In this case, they signify prize money in golf, figures that have grown so large as to make us numb. No longer used as the benchmark to determine standings on the PGA
The season-long FedEx Cup points standings will help determine who keeps their PGA Tour cards for the 2019-’20 season as well as who’ll be eligible for the FedEx Cup Playoff in August. In addition this season, a new $10 million bonus will be split among the PGA Tour’s top 10 regular-season finishers—the Wyndham Rewards Top
10:34 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Sei Young Kim overcame a rough start to win the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship on Sunday at cold and windy Lake Merced, outlasting Bronte Law and Jeongeun Lee6 with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Three strokes ahead entering the day, Kim opened with
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Winning on the PGA Tour isn’t easy. Winning for the first time isn’t supposed to look like it is, either. Anxiety, nervousness, tension are usually among the trademarks associated with trying to achieve such breakthrough moments. Then there was Max Homa on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship. “You picture it a
Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship could potentially be a big day for an unproven tour pro looking for a first win (see Max Homa and Joel Dahmen). Or a veteran trying to find his game again (Jason Dufner, Patrick Reed, Pat Perez). Or a high-profile golfer trying to build some momentum ahead of the
4:43 AM ET Experienced Finn Mikko Korhonen sank an eight-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to edge Frenchman Benjamin Hebert and win the China Open after a thrilling final round in Shenzhen on Sunday. The 38-year-old became the oldest winner of China’s oldest professional tournament to claim his second European Tour title after
Nothing has ever come easy for Mikko Korhonen. On 12 occasions the 38-year-old Finn has visited the European Tour Qualifying School, the last time in 2014, when he finished first amongst the army of hopefuls and has-beens. Since then, however, Korhonen has made steady progress and, most importantly, maintained his exempt status on golf’s second-biggest
9:44 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Sei Young Kim shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday at Lake Merced to take a three-stroke lead in the LPGA Mediheal Championship. Playing through a back injury that has forced her to alter her swing, Kim rebounded from an opening bogey with an eagle on the
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Comebacks, like the players trying to make them, come in all shapes and sizes and from varying depths. Going into the Sunday’s final round of the Wells Fargo Championship, there’s 28-year-old former NCAA champ Max Homa, who in his second year on the PGA Tour missed 15 of 17 cuts in 2016-17
No one would have blamed Chris Wardrup if he walked off the course after his opening hole of the Desert Empire League boys’ golf championship on Wednesday. The Palm Desert High School sophomore hit three shots out of bounds at the par-4 first on the Gary Player Course at Westin Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage,
9:17 AM ET Frenchman Benjamin Hebert surged into a three-shot lead with a fine round of 64 on the penultimate day of the China Open. Hebert holed six birdies and an eagle to deliver a stunning back nine of 28 and leave himself on 17-under par going into the final round at the Genzon Golf
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — How to describe Jason Dufner’s last 12 months? Let’s just say Dude Wipes was a useful sponsorship deal to sign. In Dufner’s last 22 starts, he has missed the cut a dozen times, finished in the top 50 just three times and tallied a whopping 10.32 world ranking points. Total. So naturally
10:33 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — So Yeon Ryu shot a 2-under 70 on Friday afternoon at difficult Lake Merced to take a one-stroke lead over follow South Korean player Sei Young Kim and American Ryann O’Toole in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. Tied for the first-round lead with Eun-Hee Ji and Anne
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There are Tiger tournaments, and then there is everything else. This week’s Wells Fargo Championship was expected to be the former. Three weeks removed from his Masters victory, two weeks before the next major, the PGA Championship, and a course in Quail Hollow where Woods has often played in the past, it
Through 34 holes, Rory McIlroy was a lock to be in the weekend mix at the Wells Fargo Championship. In truth, a sentiment was true the moment he set foot on the property, as the Ulsterman boasts two wins and six top 10s in eight tournament appearances. But while McIlroy’s name will factor into the
11:43 AM ET Associated Press SHENZHEN, China — Having only recently completed his midterm exams in high school, 14-year-old Chinese golfer Kuang Yang felt underprepared heading into his first event on the European Tour. It hasn’t stopped him making the cut in historic fashion at the China Open. Kuang holed a par putt from nearly
In January, the European Tour held the inaugural Saudi International in Saudi Arabia, an event marked by heated debate over the appropriateness of playing the tournament in the Middle East country. Months before Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor who lived in Virginia and was a critic of the Saudi government, was killed at the