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FORT WORTH — Players at the Charles Schwab Challenge who participated in virtual press conferences on Tuesday said they accept and support the conditions imposed for the first PGA Tour event since the abbreviated Players Championship in mid-March, protocols that involve both testing for coronavirus and restrictions on the golf course. Still, the “new normal”

FORT WORTH — More than 900 volunteers originally were scheduled to work this week at Colonial Country Club. They couldn’t wait to put on their new uniform shirts, reunite with old friends and do their parts, whether it be making sure practice balls were washed, players got safely to the first tee, corporate hospitality was

As chairman and chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack oversees golf’s largest retail footprint, which includes about 100 Golf Galaxy locations. Before the pandemic forced his stores to close, the golf business in 2020 was off to one of its best starts ever. Then, as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy stores began

Brooks Koepka has already made his feelings known about the idea of September’s Ryder Cup being held without fans. He doesn’t like it. Wednesday, he took things a step further. Asked at the Charles Schwab Challenge if he could see a scenario in which a player protests no spectators at Whistling Straits by opting not

The PGA Tour resumes operations this week, and one of its players will do so with a heavy heart. On Wednesday, an emotional Camilo Villegas—who is playing in the Korn Ferry Tour event at TPC Sawgrass—announced his 20-month-old daughter Mia is battling tumors. “She went through surgery and obviously needed treatment. She just started her

Marcia Chambers was never much of a golfer, but she became the voice of reason on all of golf’s serious issues pertaining to the law and discrimination during an important period of change—the late 1980s and 1990s. I met Marcia in 1982 when she was dating Stan Wheeler, a sociology professor at Yale Law School.

The way 2020 was going, Brooks Koepka needed something to happen. When he arrived at TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship, he had played just three tournaments in the calendar year: T-43, T-47 and a missed cut. He was struggling with a nagging knee injury, one which required surgery last fall, and felt like he

With the PGA Tour re-starting this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, it also served as a re-start for the tour’s road warriors—those who work out of the equipment vans that go from tournament to tournament servicing the equipment needs of their respective players until the opening tee shot on Thursday. As with everything in

9:32 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf and most

4:19 PM ET The Memorial Tournament will require fans to wear masks when next month it becomes the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators. The tournament was given approval last week by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to allow a limited number of spectators at Muirfield Village Golf Golf in Dublin, Ohio, a number that

7:46 PM ET Associated Press The LPGA Tour is still six weeks away before resuming its schedule, but two of its members had that winning feeling last week in state opens against solid competition. Jennifer Kupcho, the former NCAA champion at Wake Forest and inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion, shot 68 in the final

2:13 PM ET The PGA Tour has set aside the 8:46 a.m. tee time on Thursday at both the Charles Schwab Challenge and the Korn Ferry Tour Challenge to honor the memory of George Floyd. The tee time will go unused with no players teeing off and a moment of silence will be conducted for

6:07 PM ET With no spectators, golf promises to be quite different when the PGA Tour returns this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Long-time CBS lead announcer Jim Nantz, for example, will be alone in the 18th hole tower — with lead analyst Nick Faldo working from a studio in Orlando, Florida, and other

7:44 AM ET For the first time in 90 days, PGA Tour players are gathering at a golf course to prepare for a tournament that begins Thursday and will be the first played since the coronavirus pandemic halted sports across the country. On March 12, the first round of the Players Championship was played in

4:40 PM ET After getting state approval to allow a limited number of spectators, the Memorial Tournament has already reached out to fans who have purchased badges to assess their interest in attending and to notify them of options, which include a lottery system to determine who will be allowed to attend. The longtime tournament

8:16 AM ET Associated Press The chief executive of the European Tour says the fate of this year’s Ryder Cup will be decided by the end of the month. Keith Pelley says in an extensive interview with the McKellar Journal podcast that the European Tour and the PGA will have “conversations” about the Ryder Cup

Just over a year ago, Matthew Wolff was finishing up his sophomore season at Oklahoma State by becoming the ninth Cowboy to win an individual national title with a five-shot victory at the 2019 NCAA championships. A week later, California-Berkeley senior Collin Morikawa qualified for the U.S. Open at a sectional qualifier in Columbus, Ohio.

5:48 PM ET The PGA Tour will return in a big way next week with a blockbuster field at the Charles Schwab Challenge, where 16 of the top 20-ranked players in the world have entered the event. Tiger Woods is not among them, but each of the top five players, including No. 1-ranked Rory McIlroy,