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7:52 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Brett Quigley birdied six of the last seven holes Friday for a 9-under 64 and the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Cologuard Classic. The winner a month ago in Morocco in his second Champions start, the 50-year-old Quigley birdied Nos. 12-15 and 17-18 on Tucson

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla—Brooks Koepka shot a second-straight four-over 74 Friday to miss the cut at the Honda Classic. It was his worst 36-hole start since the same tournament three years ago. “I struck it really well,” the 29-year-old four-time major champion said, despite hitting just 10 greens and being more than two strokes in

Days after San Francisco’s mayor declared a state of emergency over coronavirus concerns, the PGA of America—set to host its PGA Championship in the city in May—acknowledged the organization is keeping tabs on the matter. “We are carefully monitoring the situation as it relates to the 2020 PGA Championship in San Francisco,” the PGA of

2:24 AM ET Associated Press QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — LPGA major winner Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden has missed the cut at the New Zealand Open after becoming the first woman to play in the 101-year-old men’s professional tournament. Lindberg shot 1-over 73 Friday to follow her first round 9-over-par 80, finishing in a tie for

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brooks Koepka is lord of many things. At just 29, he has already won four major championships, reached No. 1 in the world, been unafraid and unapologetic about calling out his peers, played golf with the President of the United States and posed both in a Louis Vuitton shirt for

6:53 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Sponsor exemptions are basically free-play gifts handed out by the people in charge of golf tournaments, a handful of invitations available most weeks to those who wouldn’t have otherwise qualified for an event. Tom Lewis and Harris English were among the recipients for The Honda

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — There are just four golfers on the PGA Tour older than 46 who have full status without the aid of some sort of longevity milestone, like lifetime membership, career money, etc. Zach Johnson, 44, is still a few of years away from joining that group, but he has some work

Two European Tour players, Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari, have been quarantined, reportedly, over fears they have contracted the coronavirus, and forced to withdraw from this week’s Oman Open. Gagli and Molinari were approached by a European Tour doctor at breakfast on Wednesday, Gagli told Italian newspaper La Nazione. Though the two were supposed to

4:59 PM ET Italian golfers Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari have been reinstated in the Oman Open after the pair had withdrawn from the tournament on Wednesday amid concerns that they had coronavirus. Gagli and Molinari, who have been sharing a hotel room in Oman, were subject to concerns that they had coronavirus after Gagli

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Twenty-five years ago Cristie Kerr won the Girls Junior PGA Championship at PGA National. This week, she’s back, without her clubs. The 20-time LPGA Tour winner will be an on-course reporter for Golf Channel during for its coverage of the Honda Classic. “It’s just kind of a fun thing,” Kerr

4:59 PM ET Associated Press MUSCAT, Oman — Italian golfers Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari have withdrawn from the Oman Open on the European Tour amid reports they are being isolated to determine if they have the virus spreading in Europe. Gagli tells Italian newspaper La Nazione that a European Tour doctor told him at

It says it there on the giant plaque as you walk off the 14th green at PGA National, engraved in glistening gold all-cap lettering: “It should be won or lost right here.” If the words of course architect Jack Nicklaus don’t intimidate you, maybe the eight-foot-tall menacing statue of a bear standing beside them will.

10:25 AM ET The Open Championship will return to Royal Troon for its 152nd edition in 2023, organisers announced on Monday. The tournament was last held at the links course in South Ayrshire, Scotland in 2016, when Henrik Stenson lifted the Claret Jug prize. It will be the 10th time Royal Troon has hosted the

In our efforts to help you, our beloved readers, we’ve done a weekly best bets ranking leading into the four major championships the past few years. With the Players Championship back in March, we figured why wait for the Masters? All the game’s best players are expected to be at TPC Sawgrass, and golf fans/gamblers

Keith Mitchell is looking for his second professional victory after collecting a breakout win a year ago at the Honda Classic. The former University of Georgia golfer is joined by a strong field including Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose and Gary Woodland, all seeking their first wins at the notoriously difficult Champion course at PGA National

10:59 AM ET With the PGA Tour now in Florida, Tiger Woods said Tuesday that “it feels like the Masters is right around the corner.” It is just six weeks away, and Woods said he’s been thinking about his pursuit of a sixth green jacket since returning from the Presidents Cup in Australia. But the

A tale of two major championships, the first he lost and the second he won, separated by nine months, an ocean and a sea of emotions, Tiger Woods absorbed most poignantly through the faces of his two young children. In winning the 2019 Masters, Woods secured a long-sought prize that a few years ago must

7:01 PM ET Despite a rejection from the world’s No. 1-ranked player and without having a single player formally commit to the venture, backers of the proposed Premier Golf League are forging ahead with their idea to create a world tour that would stage limited-field tournaments with massive prize money. Andy Gardiner, a London-based director