Women’s golf will make its way to Saudi Arabia in 2020. A year after the European Tour debuted the Saudi International to the sport, the Ladies European Tour announced on Thursday the creation of a 72-hole event to be held in March. The tournament will feature a $1 million purse, one of the highest payouts
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MELBOURNE — To discuss Adam Scott’s smile, you must first discuss Adam Scott’s looks. Please don’t fire a bullet through your computer screen or throw your phone into the nearest full bathtub—I swear the rest of this post will be less unsettling than the first line. It’s not my fault, anyway. It was the inescapable
1:49 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Tiger Woods figured he had a team more than capable of cruising to another Presidents Cup victory without him. Little did he know that all the off-course effort he put into his Presidents Cup captaincy over the past several weeks and months would be a backstory to his play
Patrick Reed has gone from shushing at opposing crowds to shoveling at them. During Friday’s four-ball session at the Presidents Cup, Reed resorted to this new motion after being heckled during a birdie putt on the 11th hole. Captain America turned toward the direction where someone had shouted “Miss!” after he stroked the putt, motioned
1:59 PM ET Associated Press BARTOW, Fla. — A professional golfer was one of 124 people arrested in Florida in a prostitution and human-trafficking sting. Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey, 44, was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree misdemeanor solicitation, news outlets reported. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Gainey was arrested in an
During his peak, Tiger Woods was a stone-cold killer. On Sundays he’d stroll onto the range knowing he already had you beat, and his competitors knew it too. Woods was all business, all the time. After saying hello and good luck on the first tee, chances are that’d be the last interaction his opponent had
MELBOURNE — Ernie Els is bracing for an American resurgence during the second session of this 13th Presidents Cup on Friday. He knows his International team might have stirred the heavily favored U.S. squad out of its slumber after taking a surprising 4-1 lead Thursday at Royal Melbourne. “We have to keep our jets down.
1:39 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Perhaps out of necessity, Tiger Woods will play again Friday during the second day of the Presidents Cup. He’ll again partner with Justin Thomas, with whom he won his opening match Thursday — the only American victory in what was a surprising 4-1 deficit after the first session at
MELBOURNE — The playing captain’s objectives were simple: set the tone and make sure the first point of the Presidents Cup went red, white and blue. Tiger Woods birdied his first two holes of the day. Tone, set. He birdied his last two holes of the day. Point, secured. Woods made six birdies overall in
9:47 AM ET The U.S. has the bigger names. After all, Tiger Woods is the captain. Oh, and he’s a player, too. Then there’s Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed and … well, you get the point. Every player on the U.S. roster is in the top 23 in the
Golf World’s “Newsmakers of the Year” package is always one of our favorite projects to work on. Treating readers to a comprehensive review of the previous 12 months allows us vicariously to rewind through the year’s highs and lows, and re-live some of the game’s special moments. The package dates back more than two decades
MELBOURNE — Everyone is saying the same thing, so it must be true. In the run-up to this, the 13th Presidents Cup, non-playing captain Ernie Els has already made a positive difference to the atmosphere within the International squad. It may be the youngest group in the event’s history, but this team drawn from all
1:51 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — He may have been left in the locker room for the opening Presidents Cup pairings but Australian Cameron Smith did not retreat from his comments about United States team member Patrick Reed. Just an hour before Els and U.S. captain Tiger Woods took to the stage to announce the
The 13th edition of the Presidents Cup features two dozen of the world’s best golfers gathering at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. The United States and International teams begin the four-day event on Thursday morning in Australia—Wednesday evening in the U.S. thanks to the 16-hour time difference between there and the East Coast. Since the
10:18 AM ET Patrick Reed could be in for a long week in Australia in the aftermath of a rules-breaking controversy that occurred Friday at the Hero World Challenge. Reed was due to arrive Monday morning in Melbourne with the rest of his U.S. teammates for the Presidents Cup. And a couple of members of
MELBOURNE—Earlier this year Justin Thomas was trying to wrap his head around the idea of playing for U.S. captain Tiger Woods in the Presidents Cup, saying, “If you would have told me when I was a kid that I could play on a Presidents Cup team with Tiger Woods as my captain, I probably would
Patrick Reed walked in smiling to his Tuesday press conference at Royal Melbourne, and the smile turned into a laugh—shared with Justin Thomas—when he saw the buzzing scrum of reporters gathered in front of his podium spot. Reed can be inscrutable when he wants to be, and this was a case where it was hard
12:39 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The rules violation that cost him two strokes and, perhaps, part of his reputation has followed Patrick Reed from the Bahamas to Australia. The seven-time PGA Tour winner who was deemed to have improved his lie in a sandy waste area last week at the Hero World Challenge heard
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