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No matter what name the PGA Tour’s stop in Palm Springs, Calif., has taken over the years—the Desert Classic, the Bob Hope, the Humana, the CareerBuilder and now the American Express—the secret to winning lots of prize money has been no real secret at all. You have to make birdies—lots and lots and lots of

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9:00 AM ET Associated Press Lee Westwood secured his 25th European Tour win with victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Sunday. Westwood, who had a one-shot overnight lead, has now won in four different decades starting in the 1990s. The Englishman’s 5-under par final-round 67 gave him a two-shot margin over a chasing

It won’t be known for awhile, but if the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Haulalai is a harbinger of the PGA Tour Champions’ season ahead, it will be a memorable one. Four World Golf Hall of Famers were tied for the lead at one point on the back nine at Hualalai Golf Club on the Big

11:16 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHI-KONA, Hawaii — Miguel Angel Jimenez made a 12-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff Saturday with senior newcomer Ernie Els to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Fred Couples dropped out on the first extra trip down the par-4 18th at windy Hualalai,

ORLANDO, Fla. — Sunday’s final group at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions is an interesting one. Inbee Park, leading by two, and Sei Young Kim start the 2020 LPGA season with different levels of momentum. Kim has the most of anyone on tour: the 10-time LPGA Tour winner won the most recent LPGA event,

ABU DHABI — Almost 10 years have passed since Lee Westwood was, statistically at least, the best golfer on the planet. These days, the 46-year-old is mentioned more as the strong ante-post favorite to be European Ryder Cup captain in 2022 than for anything he does out on the links. Which makes sense: Westwood, who

10:29 AM ET England’s Lee Westwood will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship after carding a 7-under-par 65 on Saturday. Westwood, who last won on the European Tour at the 2018 Nedbank Challenge, produced a mighty approach shot to set up an eagle on the par-5 eighth

Just how good was Jose Vega’s bogey-free 65 during the second round of the Latin America Amateur Championship on Friday? Let’s start by noting it was the fourth-lowest 18-hole score in the six-year history of the championship. But that doesn’t put it into the proper context given the conditions facing the field at Mayakoba Resort’s

7:27 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Rickie Fowler came to The American Express for the first time in six years to prepare for the next two weeks at Torrey Pines and TPC Scottsdale. He’s ahead of schedule after two days, shooting an 8-under 64 on Friday at PGA West’s Jack Nicklaus Tournament

During a round at the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic in the mid-1970s, Leonard Kamsler, the renowned golf photographer, was trying to get a shot of the famously irritable tour pro Bruce Crampton. Things weren’t going well. “Crampton hated photographers,” Kamsler recalls, “and he was onto me.” So Kamsler went a few holes ahead and found

Bryson DeChambeau’s body transformation is one of the biggest PGA Tour storylines entering 2020. But while DeChambeau has seen some serious gains in the gym, the early results on the course indicate some, um, growing pains for the 26-year-old. At 225 pounds, DeChambeau certainly looked more imposing when he teed it up at this week’s

9:09 AM ET Italy’s Francesco Laporta carded a superb bogey-free 9-under 63 to leap into a one-shot solo lead after 36 holes at the Abu Dhabi Championship, while stars America’s Bryson DeChambeau, Ireland’s Shane Lowry and England’s Danny Willett missed the cut. Laporta, 29, was at 4-under for the day before putting together a blistering

Si Woo Kim’s stay in La Quinta was short. But it was adventurous. Kim, 24, withdrew from the American Express on Thursday after shooting a 15-over 87 in Round 1 at the Nicklaus Course. It was a score that garnered its share of glances; the former Bob Hope Classic annually boasts one of the easier

10:44 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHIKONA-Kona, Hawaii — Bernhard Langer and Miguel Angel Jimenez shot 8-under 64 on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Ernie Els struggled in his debut on the 50-and-over tour, shooting a 72. The four-time major winner from South Africa turned 50

Cameron Smith’s first solo victory on the PGA Tour last Sunday at the Sony Open in Hawaii capped what has been a wild month for the 26-year-old Australian. Consider everything that’s gone on over the last handful of weeks: • Played in his first Presidents Cup, beating the Americans’ hottest player, Justin Thomas, in Sunday

10:21 AM ET World No. 1 Brooks Koepka carded a bogey-free 66 to sit tied for third, two shots behind leaders South African Shaun Norris and Italian Renato Paratore after the first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship. American Koepka started well in his competitive return after three months out with a knee injury, making

There are professional golfers who are very good at using Twitter, and there are professional golfers who are very bad. Ryan Palmer falls somewhere in the middle, but his recent interactions on the Accursed Website (as it should be known to all) prove that he is definitely not a master of the medium. As Joel