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Imagine spending New Year’s week on a tropical island, you and your family staying in a luxurious resort, spending a few days sightseeing, maybe lounging around a pool or the beach. Now imagine you’re getting paid at least $64,000 to do it. Such is the difficult life for the 34 players in the field at

11:19 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — The only thing that resembled paradise to Xander Schauffele at Kapalua was his name atop the leaderboard Friday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Through bursts of rain and gusts that topped 30 mph, Schauffele managed to go bogey-free for the second straight day with a 5-under

I know what you’re thinking. Another look back at the past decade?! We’ve moved on to a new decade! ENOUGH! And I get it. I really do. But in researching a couple of those PGA Tour decade retrospective pieces (Check them out here and here!) I kept coming across things that made me realize something.

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Before he became a mainstay on the PGA Tour, Patrick Reed cut his teeth on Monday qualifying, which was an integral part of his development as a professional golfer. Whether it made him tough or enabled him to prove his toughness as a competitor, his run of Monday qualifying success in 2012,

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The quirkiness of the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort—with its sloping fairways and hard-to-read greens—tends to produce a brand of golf seldom seen the rest of the year on the PGA Tour. It’s entertaining stuff as players execute a variety of shots. It’s about to get more entertaining starting Friday at the

11:17 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Fresh off his Presidents Cup debut, Joaquin Niemann of Chile brought fresh confidence and plenty of form to Maui by opening the year with a 7-under 66 for a one-shot lead over Justin Thomas after the opening round Thursday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Niemann is

Glenn Greenspan, a longtime publicist for Tiger Woods, is no longer working for Woods or his company, TGR Ventures. Golfweek was the first to report on the split. Greenspan—one of the first people Woods embraced after winning the Masters last spring—had been Woods’ spokesperson since 2008, and held a vice president title with TGR Ventures.

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Just about anyone who plays golf professionally – or plays golf at all, for that matter – experiences his share of highs and lows. The 34 competitors in this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions experienced the ultimate high of winning a PGA Tour event last year. And, sure, they’ve all likely swallowed

11:05 AM ET The 84th Masters Tournament will tee off on April 9 at Augusta National Golf Club with a well-known defending champion: Tiger Woods. In addition to whether Woods can defend his green jacket and add a sixth Masters win and 16th major title, there will be plenty of others to keep an eye

Dustin Johnson press conferences are a beautiful hodgepodge of monotony and performance art, but they are seldom revelatory. Johnson tends to play things close to the vest, especially when it comes to his own consciousness. However, on Wednesday ahead of competing in the Sentry Tournament of Champions to start 2020, Johnson broached a topic that’s

KAPALUA, Hawaii – The deterioration in Dustin Johnson’s game over the final three months of last season actually started as early as last January at this idyllic venue. He already knew he was having problems with his left knee, but he elected to rehab it throughout the year and held off on surgery until after

Editor’s Note: On Jan. 1, 2020, the World Handicap System goes into effect in the United States along with several countries around the globe. In the U.S., the new process replaces the old USGA system. You can read a general overview of the new system and five keys you need to know here. For those

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Justin Thomas is a hard man to please. Mostly, he’s hard on himself. As a new year dawns, you have to think this attitude will make him a hard player to beat. It’s not that Thomas, 26, seeks perfection. He’s smart enough to know that’s a fool’s errand in the unpredictable milieu

It’s time for PGA Tour golf again! Now that the holidays are (almost) over, 34 golfers will tee it up at the winners’ only event at the re-imagined Kapalua Resort. Fifteen first-time winners will make their debut including Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Matthew Wolff. They will be joined by previous Sentry TOC champions Justin

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Collin Morikawa is among the 15 first-time participants in this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Resort, but he’s not a stranger to the Plantation Course. With family born in Maui, Morikawa had a chance to play the Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw design on one of his holiday visits. He doesn’t remember

When the USGA and R&A modernized the Rules of Golf in 2019—the most comprehensive update in decades—the governing bodies challenged the stereotype that they’re resistant to change. They’re set to do that again with the launch of the World Handicap System, which starting in 2020 will consolidate the half dozen handicap calculations previously used around

At just 25 years old, Jon Rahm is on a steady progression. He was the No. 1 amateur in the world in 2015, and after turning professional the next year, it took him only 61 weeks to crack the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking. (Only Tiger Woods, who did it in 33

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Don’t call the upgraded Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort a renovation or a redesign, even though either of those descriptive terms would suffice. “The word we like to use is refinement,” said Ben Crenshaw, who with his design partner Bill Coore came in after the completion of the Sentry Tournament of Champions