10:14 PM ET Baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz will be taking some swings on the PGA Tour Champions this season. The 51-year-old Smoltz has received sponsors’ exemptions to play in three events, beginning with the Cologuard Classic in Arizona next month. The former Braves right-hander also will play in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic outside
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7:31 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Phil Mickelson hit every fairway for the first time in 21 years on his way to a 6-under 65 at Monterey Peninsula, an ideal start Thursday on perhaps the last ideal day at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Brian Gay and Scott Langley each had a
Patrick Cantlay, tabbed as one of the favorites for this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, withdrew from the event on Wednesday afternoon. The 26-year-old cited illness as the reason for pulling out of the tournament. Though Cantlay has only made three appearances in the AT&T, he posted a T-9 in 2013, and opened last year’s
5:47 PM ET A controversial new rule that resulted in high-profile incidents over the past two weeks has led to a clarification from golf’s governing bodies that should help alleviate the confusion over what is allowed as it relates to caddies standing behind a player prior to hitting a shot. The United States Golf Association
Most golfers consider it sacrilegious to make anything resembling a slight toward Augusta National. In that same breath, while the following from Tiger Woods may convey blasphemy, at its heart is the truth. In an interview posted on TaylorMade’s Instagram page, Woods, owner of four green jackets, was asked his thoughts about the Masters and
John Smoltz spent nearly all of a Hall-of-Fame baseball career that spanned more than two decades playing in MLB’s senior circuit. But now the 51-year-old is going to spend a fair amount of time on golf’s senior tour. The PGA Tour Champions announced on Wednesday that Smoltz has been given sponsor exemptions into three tournaments
4:40 AM ET Three-times major champion Brooks Koepka has publicly rebuked Sergio Garcia for a temper tantrum at the European Tour’s Saudi International on Saturday, and says it is time for the Spaniard to “grow up”. Garcia was disqualified from the event after the third round for what the tour deemed “serious misconduct” under rule
NEW YORK—Brooks Koepka looked beat. The gait he displays inside the ropes, so brash and buoyant, was nowhere to be found. He plodded his way through a tight corridor in a New York City high-rise on Wednesday, decanting himself into a chair as if he’d just run a marathon. Which, in a sense, he had,
11:26 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When golfers walk up to the 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open on Saturday amid the craziness and rowdiness of 20,000 fans, they’ll pass by a tribute to Jarrod Lyle, who died in August after a long battle with cancer. Lyle, who hit a hole-in-one on the
Sergio Garcia’s meltdown on Saturday at the Saudi International, where reportedly he intentionally damaged as many as five greens, not only earned him a disqualification from the tournament, but has drawn the ire of fellow players. That includes Brooks Koepka. Appearing on the Playing Through podcast on Tuesday (of which your author is a co-host
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