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That’s not the opening Rickie Fowler had in mind. Fowler, playing for the first time since his win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, turned in an even-par 71 during the first round of the WGC-Mexico Championship, a score that left him eight shots back of Rory McIlroy. Unfortunately for Fowler, that deficit grew by

8:21 PM ET MEXICO CITY — The first-tee announcer at Club de Golf Chapultepec had Tiger Woods laughing as he teed up his ball, introducing the 80-time PGA Tour winner in most unusual fashion. But Woods’ introduction to a Mexico golf competition was not so funny. Woods promptly knocked his tee shot out of bounds,

With high altitude and tree-lined fairways, Club de Golf Chapultepec is taking driver out of a lot of players’ hands this week. That even includes Rory McIlroy. Well, at least when driver is too much club. RELATED: 20 things you need to know about Rory McIlroy McIlroy caught fire during the opening round of the

Tiger Woods gave it a good run last weekend at Riviera, charging up the leader board late on Saturday night and into Sunday morning. But the marathon days clearly got to him, as Woods faded in the final round and ultimately finished in a tie for 15th, still impressive considering he made the cut by

5:27 PM ET Sydney amateur Doey Choi has a two-stroke lead heading into the second round of the Australian Ladies Classic after a record-setting effort at the Bonville golf resort. The reigning Queensland and South Australian amateur champion fired an impressive six-under 66 in tricky morning conditions on Thursday to top the leaderboard from Sweden’s

As expected, Tiger Woods will not play in all of the PGA Tour’s upcoming Florida Swing events. Shortly before his opening round on Thursday at the WGC-Mexico Championship, Woods announced he would be skipping next week’s Honda Classic, while officially adding the following two weeks’ events, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players, to his

9:55 PM ET MEXICO CITY — Jordan Spieth‘s caddie, Michael Greller, had to leave the WGC-Mexico Championship because of the death of his father, John Greller. Shawn Spieth, Jordan’s father, will take Greller’s place at Club de Golf Chapultepec, where the first round begins Thursday. The Golf Channel first reported the news, and tournament officials

Last week at Riviera offered a lesson in how difficult it is to predict winners on the PGA Tour. For 54 holes, Justin Thomas dominated the Genesis Open—to the point where sportsbooks made him a live -400 favorite (-400 meaning, you have to bet $400 to win $100) entering the final round. JT looked unstoppable:

Jordan Spieth will be playing with a new caddie this week. And likely a heavy heart. Michael Greller, who has been at Spieth’s side since the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur, has left the WGC-Mexico Championship to be with his family following the passing of his father, John “Bear” Greller. The news was first reported by

12:34 PM ET MEXICO CITY — Deciding where to play this year in a busy lead-up to the Masters has been a challenge for Tiger Woods, who admitted Tuesday that choosing between a slew of events where he’s had success or that are near his Florida home remains difficult. The change this year, however, is

I was there in 2014, in Akron, Ohio, watching the final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. This was dead in the chronological middle of Rory McIlroy’s last stretch of true dominance, between victories at the Open Championship at Hoylake and the PGA at Valhalla, but the star of the Bridgestone until Sunday afternoon had been

12:38 PM ET Steve Stricker will be named the U.S. Ryder Cup captain on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN, becoming the first American to serve in the role despite never having won a major championship. Stricker, 51, will become the 29th U.S. captain for the matches to be played in his home state of Wisconsin

Seventy-two of the top players in the world head South of the border this week for the WGC-Mexico Championship, the second of four World Golf Championships on the schedule. This marks the third year the event will be played at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico, after spending nearly a decade at Doral’s

Mike Weir knows the question is coming. It’s loaded in the chamber, waiting, begging to be unholstered. Even as it’s not initially asked, it hovers over the conversation, because it doesn’t take a clairvoyant to foresee the ask will, eventually, be coming. There are many layers to probe in the Canadian’s past, from his improbable

5:19 PM ET MEXICO CITY — Even for pro golfers used to hitting the ball a long way, there is something kind of cool about launching a tee shot high into the sky when playing in the thin air that comes with altitude. Tiger Woods said it really would be fun if it were just

The Stanford men’s golf program has always been a deep one, and all the proof of that is on their legendary list of alumni that’s made it to the PGA Tour. One of the most shining examples of this depth came in 2014, when Cameron Wilson won the NCAA Individual title despite being the third