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Following a T-55 finish at the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills, Ernie Els knew that he may have just competed for the final time in the event. Despite winning two U.S. Opens, one in 1994 at Oakmont and another in 1997 at Congressional, he was still out of luck, because the USGA does not

John Peterson, a former PGA Tour pro who retired, un-retired, then re-retired from professional golf last summer, is making a comeback. The former NCAA D-I individual champion made the announcement on Wednesday on the radio show “After Further Review,” hosted by Matt Moscona on 104.5 FM ESPN Baton Rouge. Peterson was last seen competing on

You can’t win the Masters without all parts of your golf game in good shape, but Tiger Woods was clearly led by a dazzling display of iron shots that helped him hit a field-best 80.56 percent of greens in regulation at Augusta National. This shouldn’t come as a surprise for a player long considered the

9:46 PM ET Tiger Woods will be playing in Japan this fall at the PGA Tour’s first official event in the country. Woods announced his intention to play the ZOZO Championship on Wednesday and is expected to play an exhibition match in Asia as part of a content agreement he signed last year with GolfTV.

USC, Stanford, Texas and Duke each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selections of 72 teams and 24 individuals to participate in the four 2019 NCAA Women’s Regionals, May 6-8. Defending NCAA champion Arizona, which returns four players from last year’s title team (seniors Haley Moore and

Tiger Woods’ triumph at the Masters is a story of many things, chief among them fortitude. But days before he would don the green jacket for a fifth time, Woods provided some inspiration to a fellow golfer dealing with a far greater battle. Daniel Meggs, who played college golf at Wake Forest, was diagnosed with

7:13 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Scott McCarron birdied the par-5 18th hole Saturday to take a three-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. The 53-year-old McCarron completed a 4-under 68 in the morning in the rain-delayed second round and shot a 70 in the afternoon to reach 6-under 138

Every week on the PGA Tour there’s a discrepancy over money. Somebody hasn’t been paid what they think they’re owed. Multiple times I’ve had caddies who worked for me previously call to say their new boss hasn’t paid them in a while, and might I nudge that player? Caddies are a desperate lot. Too often

7:36 PM ET Associated Press Captain Tiger Woods and part of his U.S. team can expect to be bleary-eyed at the Presidents Cup this year. Woods announced Tuesday that his Hero World Challenge will return to the Bahamas in December and end on Saturday (Dec. 7) instead of Sunday to give him and some of

Michelle Wie’s 2019 has been one of highs and lows. Highs off the course, as her boyfriend Jonnie West proposed in March. And lows on the course, coming in the form of a persistent wrist injury that once again has her sidelined indefinitely. The caption reads: Had an encouraging visit with my doctor, however we

Tiger Woods has slighted changed the dates to his Hero World Challenge to accommodate one event in Australia. But another tournament will still be calling foul. The Hero World Challenge, Woods’ non-official event featuring 18 of the world’s best in the Bahamas, is annually held in the beginning of December. A date that proved problematic

2:47 PM ET Steve Williams said he has not watched any golf on television since leaving the full-time caddie ranks at the end of 2017. But he couldn’t help but tune in during the wee hours of a Monday morning in New Zealand to catch the end of the Masters. And he said he could

Jim Nantz has been widely praised for his handling of Tiger Woods’ win at the 2019 Masters, most notably for the two-and-a-half minutes he went without saying anything in the immediate aftermath while Woods celebrated a long-awaited 15th major title with his caddie, family, and other members of his inner circle. A week later, the

5:07 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Four members of a Texas family are facing federal charges in what prosecutors say was a scheme that used stolen identities to get tickets to the Masters golf tournament, then resell those tickets at a healthy profit. Documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Augusta charged

Four relatives of a Texas family were charged in a scheme to attempt to obtain Masters tickets, according to a release by the U.S. Attorney’s office on Monday. Charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft were brought onto Stephen Michael Freeman, of Katy, Texas. His parents, Steven Lee Freeman

Historically a ho-hum event, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans transformed into one of the more intriguing affairs of the spring slate in 2017 thanks to a revamped team configuration. It was the first time since 1981 that the PGA Tour hosted an official team event, and the tournament was able to corral an impressive

9:13 AM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Scott McCarron completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Sunday for his third victory at TPC Sugarloaf. The winner of the PGA Tour defunct BellSouth Classic at the course in 1997 and 2001, McCarron closed with a 1-under 72 for a two-stroke victory over

Playing the week after the Masters is tricky business for some PGA Tour pros, the mental grind of Augusta National causing more than a few to skip the next event rather than reboot the internal computer and return to the action on Hilton Head Island. It’s no surprise, then, that for the third straight year,