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Another week, another PGA Tour event featuring a loaded field that includes the top five golfers in the world. This time the tour is in Connecticut at TPC River Highlands for the Travelers Championship. Unlike the preceding two events in the tour’s return to golf, this will be the first tournament on the revised schedule

Following the two worst seasons of an otherwise solid career, Daniel Summerhays has decided he won’t be going back to Q School ever again. Instead, he’s going back to a different school at the end of this season. High school. The 36-year-old tour pro is walking away from the game to return to his alma

7:41 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Mackenzie Hughes shot a career-low 60 Thursday to take the first-round lead at the Travelers Championship as the PGA Tour tried to switch its focus back to golf amid growing concerns about the coronavirus. Hughes, a 29-year-old Canadian, had a chance to shoot the 12th sub-60 round

This was supposed to an off week for Tyler McCumber. Fresh off missing the cut in last week’s Korn Ferry Tour event, he wanted to get away, so he did what any other bearded 29-year-old might do: he went to the woods. McCumber packed his car up and drove from the Jacksonville area to the

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The most obvious reminder of their absence is the silence. Stuff an approach to kick-in range or miss a three-footer, and you’re getting the same reaction. Or, more precisely, the same lack of one. The PGA Tour has now conducted two tournaments without fans, a common-sense precaution aimed at mitigating the risk of spreading COVID-19.

CROMWELL, Conn. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan addressed safety concerns at tour events during an impromptu press conference Wednesday following five players withdrawing from the Travelers Championship in the last two days due to coronavirus-related issues. “While we’ve been thorough in building and implementing a program that mitigates as much risk as possible, we

5:29 PM ET PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that extra testing and stricter monitoring of protocols that could result in “serious repercussions” for offenders will go into effect in the wake of three positive COVID-19 tests this week at the Travelers Championship. Monahan said across both the PGA Tour and the developmental Korn

CROMWELL, Conn. — Brooks Koepka is planning to withdraw from the Travelers Championship, according to a Golfweek report, after his caddie Ricky Elliott tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, multiple sources tell Golf Digest that an announcement of other positives tests will come this afternoon. The PGA Tour has scheduled a 2 p.m. press conference with

3:59 PM ET The common refrain from PGA Tour players is that it has been an adjustment not having fans on site at events during the first two stops since golf’s return after a three-month shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. “It doesn’t feel normal at all,” Brooks Koepka said. Jordan Spieth, though, thinks there

There’s an old saying, particularly appropriate in these times, that proclaims “be the change you want to see.” Mike McCartin and Will Smith, golf course shapers and designers turned public golf advocates, have done exactly that by taking the fate of three of their hometown’s historic old courses into their own hands—with some significant help