It took only one PGA Tour event in 2019 for a few widespread overreactions to materialize. “Bryson DeChambeau has discovered the secret to putting!” “Francesco Molinari’s 2018 was a fluke!” And “Xander Schauffele is going to win the Grand Slam!” Of course, all three are slight exaggerations, but you get the point. Of course, there’s
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For players such as Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele and a host of others, the Sentry Tournament of Champions served as a nice opportunity to put some new equipment in play. The wide fairways and generous greens of the Plantation Course at Kapalua, along with the limited-size field, offers a less-than-normal stress
In failing to reach the Tour Championship last season, Jordan Spieth violated a PGA Tour policy, one that requires its players to appear in 25 events for tour membership or to appear in a tournament they haven’t been in four years. Though his punishment was never publicly announced, many interpreted the three-time major winner’s recent
11:43 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Xander Schauffele never had a better round or a more peculiar ending. After holing out for two eagles, and closing with four birdies over his last five holes for an 11-under 62, he chose to wait inside the scoring trailer to see if it would be enough
KAPALUA, Hawaii – As he walked off the 18th green at the Plantation Course Sunday afternoon with a disappointing par and approached the scoring trailer, Gary Woodland spotted Xander Schauffele and made a beeline for him. Forcing a smile, Woodland playfully hit him in the shoulders, knocking him back slightly. Too bad he couldn’t have
9:22 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Gary Woodland made a 65-foot eagle putt and finished with a birdie for a 5-under 68 to keep his three-shot lead in the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Saturday. Rory McIlroy briefly caught him for the lead until the birdies stopped falling. He shot 68 and starts
Ariya Jutanugarn, the No. 1 player in the world, will be starting the new year with a new caddie, Amy Rogers of the LPGA reported. This comes after a season in which Jutanugarn won three times, including the U.S. Women’s Open. She also won each award available to her: everything from money leader to lowest
Gary Woodland would already be playing the final round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions with plenty to ponder mentally. The 34-year-old takes a three-stroke advantage over Rory McIlroy into Sunday’s action at Kapalua well aware that in the six previous times he has held the 54-hole lead in a stroke-play event on the PGA
10:39 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Webb Simpson was searching for his ball in the weeds short of the fifth green Saturday at Kapalua when he stepped on a clump of grass and out popped the ball. Five days ago, he would have had to add one shot to his score. Under the
KAPALUA, Hawaii – Things are going according to plan for Rory McIlroy in his debut at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, filling him with both satisfaction and trepidation. He is playing well despite both a relative lack of practice and his unfamiliarity with the quirky Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort. At 14-under 205, he is
Jan 3, 2019 It’s the most wonderful time of year, a time to start saying and writing things that wind up roasting your chestnuts on an open fire. If I’m going down this prediction road, I’m going to be driving a stolen Lamborghini with 50 cop cars and a helicopter chasing me. The passenger seat
Bryson DeChambeau’s putting experiment is garnering news in Kapalua this week, as the 25-year-old has been the most prominent player to endorse a new rule that allows the flagstick to remain in at all times. However, it’s another rules revision that caught DeChambeau’s attention on Friday. Following a five-under round of 68 at the Tournament
High winds wreaked havoc on the scorecards of some of the best players in the world on Friday at Kapalua, including Dustin Johnson, who for the first time in his career shot an over par round at the Plantation Course. Bubba Watson struggled mightily, as did Patrick Reed. Justin Thomas, who still managed to post
10:36 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — Gary Woodland chipped in for the first of five consecutive birdies on the back nine Friday on his way to another 6-under 67 that gave him a three-shot lead going into the weekend at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Just about everyone in the winners-only field at
KAPALUA, Hawaii – Ted Potter Jr. will join Bubba Watson in Saturday’s third round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions, two left-handers who hail from the gulf coast of Florida, a nice pairing. They aren’t likely to talk much to each other, however. Oh, there’s nothing bad between the two good old boys. Just distance.
10:17 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Kevin Tway returned to Kapalua a lot older, taller and better, and made his Sentry Tournament of Champions debut with a 7-under 66 to build a one-shot lead Thursday after the first round of the new year. Tway last came to this idyllic resort on the west
Callaway’s lineup of new balls for 2019 are a reminder that as compelling as tour-played golf balls might be, there are a lot more golfers who aren’t tour players and those golfers just might need a different kind of ball. That’s why the company is debuting three new balls aimed at players who will never
10:26 PM ET Kevin Na withdrew from the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, Hawaii, before his scheduled tee time Thursday because of a fractured bone in his right pinkie finger. Na told the Golf Channel that he injured the finger last week and estimated he would miss about four weeks. He was in the