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“It’s like my funeral going on,” Johnny Miller said—without choking, mind you—during a conference call Wednesday with the media discussing his impending farewell to his television career. “Funeral of broadcasting,” chimed in his longtime 18th tower partner Dan Hicks. Well, no one came to bury Miller. Or to praise him, really, though there was some
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1:12 PM ET American Lucy Li is among the players announced Tuesday as accepting invitations to the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur, which will have its final-round staged at the home of the Masters on April 6. Li, 16, who was the youngest player to ever qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open, is among 66
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Tiger Woods makes his 2019 debut at the Farmers Insurance Open this week, his first official PGA Tour appearance since last fall’s triumph at East Lake. Thanks to his successful comeback campaign in 2018, this year’s foray at Torrey Pines doesn’t boast the build-up as Woods’ previous post-surgery starts in La Jolla, the attention shifted
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The new Ping G410 metalwoods, led by the transformational G410 driver, embody a bold direction in technology for the company, yes, but also in tone. In short, Ping’s engineers are describing its latest driver’s capabilities—arguably its most complex ever—in the simplest of terms: “no sacrifice.” That sounds like an aggressive line for a company whose
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LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — We’ve heard of rules officials getting on golfers for playing too slowly. But for playing too fast? To be fair, R&A director of rules Grant Moir wasn’t upset with the fact that Mexico’s Alvaro Ortiz was trying to speed things up during Saturday’s third round of the Latin America Amateur
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11:20 PM ET Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — Tom Lehman rallied to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship on Saturday, taking advantage of David Toms‘ closing three-putt bogey. The 59-year-old Lehman closed with his second straight 7-under 65 for a one-stroke victory over Toms. Phil Mickelson topped the leaderboard for the third
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