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A little more than a year ago, Brendon Todd (above) was thinking about giving up golf after being beaten down by a long battle with the full-swing yips. He was stuck in a miserable slump that at one point saw him miss 37 of 40 cuts and plummet outside the top 2,000 in the world.

The 2019 Mayakoba Golf Classic will be remembered, as least in part, for its Thursday wash out, rain delaying the start of the event and causing it to spill past the scheduled Sunday finish into Monday morning. But it also will go down as the PGA Tour fall stop where aces were wild as PGA

9:35 AM ET England’s Tommy Fleetwood beat Sweden’s Marcus Kinhult in a play-off to win the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City, South Africa on Sunday. Fleetwood made an up and down to save par on the first play-off hole, while Kinhult struggled with his tee shot and went on to make bogey. 1 Related The

The race to finish the Mayakoba Golf Classic before nightfall on Sunday is on as the 82 players who made the cut in Mexico will try to play the third and fourth rounds of the tournament and avoid a Monday finish. The task was made more difficult by the fact that 82 players actually did

7:26 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Harris English feels he got away from the basics that carried him to a promising start to his PGA Tour career. He hopes he’s headed in that direction again. English holed a chip-and-run from off the 18th green Saturday for birdie and a 7-under 64,

Like the term “yips,” the word “shank” is one some golfers are too afraid to even say. The thinking being that the less you acknowledge these scourges, the less likely you’ll be plagued with them. But one European Tour pro proved a shank can actually work to your advantage. If you combine it with one

After shooting a two-under 69 in the second round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic, Russell Henley did what many of the tour’s “nice guys” do: he went into his bag to grab a few golf balls to sign and hand out to fans. Nice gesture, one that should be met with some good karma from

9:09 AM ET South Africa’s Zander Lombard held his lead despite struggling to a 72 at the third round of the European Tour’s Nedbank Golf Challenge on Saturday. Lombard, 24, stumbled on the front nine, making bogey and double bogey in the final few holes before the turn. The South African fought back to make

Is playing too much golf a bad thing? Apparently, at one famed UK golf club, it is. According to the UK Times, the exclusive Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire is being sued by a former member who says he was kicked out for teeing it up too often. The membership of John Cawood, a 72-year-old

8:25 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Danny Lee felt as though he could make everything Friday, and for the longest time he did. Already at 10 under par through 13 holes, Lee started thinking about a sub-60 round when he hit a downhill birdie putt too hard and wound up three-putting

You might be rolling your eyes at another “luckiest break ever” headline, but we assure you, this one from Friday at the Nedbank Golf Challenge truly is the luckiest break in golf history. After going four under on his first 16 holes, Belgium’s Thomas Detry ran into some serious trouble at the par-4 17th at

Matt Kuchar’s return to the Mayakoba Golf Classic this week has prompted an obvious slew of stories regarding his payment of the local caddie who helped him win last year’s event. Kuchar has talked about it. El Tucan has talked about it. And now, the caddie will be back in the spotlight after getting a

Golf is hard, as Mina Harigae would have known from rounds on her high school’s home course. The golf teams at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach play their home matches at Spyglass Hill, a tougher course than AP calculus. But there are variations of hard. One of them is when a game that ostensibly came

2:03 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Heavy rain has washed out the opening round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic until Friday. El Camaleon Golf Club has received nearly 9 inches of rain since Monday. The lead rules official at the tournament, Slugger White, says there has been so much rain that

When Jason Dufner withdrew from this week’s Mayakoba Golf Classic to open the door for first alternate Rob Oppenheim to get into the field, Oppenheim hopped a last-minute flight from his home in Orlando to Cancun, arriving on Wednesday night. The only snag? Getting his regular caddie, Dean Emerson, from his home in Boston to

Lee Westwood has never been known for possessing a brilliant short game, but he produced a bit of bunker magic during the opening round of the 2019 NedBank Golf Challenge. Faced with a fried-egg lie on the eighth hole, Westwood somehow splashed his ball onto the green and within a few feet of the hole

10:59 AM ET Home favourite Louis Oosthuizen produced a stunning birdie blitz to card a faultless nine-under-par 63 for a three-shot lead after the first round of the European Tour’s Nedbank Golf Challenge on Thursday. Former Open champion Oosthuizen, seeking his maiden title in the tournament regarded as ‘Africa’s Major’, turned in 32 and roared

Christmas is still more than a month away, but we already know Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson are going to get some nice Official World Golf Ranking points in their stockings. And they can thank Tiger Woods. On Wednesday, the pair of major champions were named by the Tiger Woods Foundation as the two special