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You might not think of Bryson DeChambeau as one of the PGA Tour’s most powerful golfers, but he is. He averaged 302.5 yards off the tee last season, good for T-34. And though he’s not among the top-5 or so most physically imposing guys on tour (we’d take Brooks Koepka or Gary Woodland in a

8:38 AM ET For a good part of his career, Kevin Na was easy to dislike, simply based on his plodding nature on the course. Not only did he play slow, but he had numerous idiosyncrasies that were maddening. So frustrated by Na’s on-course issues at one 2014 tournament, caddie Steve Williams, then working for

Author’s Note: Payne Stewart began the 1989 PGA Championship in superior form, with five top five finishes that season, including a victory at Hilton Head and a pair of seconds. He shot an underwhelming 74 in the first round at muggy Kemper Lakes in suburban Chicago. It looked like yet another miss in a major

For so long, Tiger Woods made it look so easy. So much so, that every time a guy is in the lead on Sunday at a PGA Tour event we expect him to win, the way Woods did nearly every time, including on Oct. 6, 1996, when he beat Davis Love III in a playoff

1:45 PM ET Associated Press MADRID (AP) – Jon Rahm won the Spanish Open for a second consecutive year Sunday, beating Seve Ballesteros’ record for the fastest Spaniard to reach five European Tour wins. Golfing great Ballesteros needed 49 events to get five wins on the tour. The 24-year-old Rahm did so in 39 tournaments

The Players Championship remains golf’s unofficial fifth major, but it will be the site of a major breakthrough in golf coverage beginning next year. Get ready to watch every shot hit by every player in the field during every round at TPC Sawgrass. Sounds pretty good, right? The PGA Tour announced this media milestone on

9:46 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Kevin Na lost a three-shot lead on the back nine, saved his chances with a clutch par putt on the 17th hole and won the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in a playoff Sunday when Patrick Cantlay three-putted the second extra hole. It was a wild finish

Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here’s every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of Oct. 7. Na beats Cantlay at Shriners Kevin Na is proof that

5:27 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Cheyenne Knight struggled so much her rookie season that she made the cut in only half of her tournaments and figured she was headed back to the LPGA Tour qualifying series. One week changed everything. In the only LPGA event in her home state of Texas,

Entering this week’s Volunteers of America Classic, LPGA rookie Cheyenne Knight knew she was in jeopardy of losing her tour card. The former University of Alabama All-American was 114th on the money list and needed a top-five finish in this, the final full-field tournament of the LPGA season, to get inside the top 100 and

Tony Finau’s third-round 62 put the big-hitting Utah native into contention at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. But even if he doesn’t go on to win, Finau accomplished a PGA Tour first at TPC Summerlin that is worth acknowledging. Finau, despite carding seven birdies and an eagle on Saturday, actually lost 1.507 strokes/putting relative

6:59 AM ET Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Jon Rahm shot an eight-under 63 Saturday to match the course record and take a five-shot lead entering the final round of the Spanish Open. The defending champion had a back-nine 28 to charge to the front at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid. The crowd

Dave Bennett, one of the Old School golf course architects who drew volumes of blueprints and took pride in sticking to a construction budget, no matter how small, passed away in Round Rock, Texas on October 2, 2019. He was 84. A 1958 graduate of Texas Tech, earning degrees in landscape architecture and park administration,

6:37 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Jaye Marie Green sometimes struggles not to look too far ahead, and she had a double dose of that Saturday. She caught herself thinking about becoming only the second player in LPGA Tour history with a 59, and winning her first tournament at the Volunteers of

It is early, as far as the PGA Tour season is concerned, but Tony Finau is looking to make a late run in pursuit of a spot on the U.S. Presidents Cup team. Toward the goal, Finau shot a nine-under par 62 in the third-round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Saturday to

With a three-over 74 at the LPGA’s Volunteers of America Classic on Friday, Lee-Anne Pace likely played the final round of her professional career. The 38-year-old South African has struggled with pain and stiffness in her body in 2019, her missed cut at the Old American Golf Club outside Dallas after an opening-round 76 marking

9:33 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas resident Kevin Na had two back-nine eagles and shot a 9-under 62 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Playing alongside Phil Mickelson at TPC Summerlin, Na eagled the par-5 13th and 16th holes and added

We’re still about a year away from the 2020 Ryder Cup, but if the matches are anywhere close to being as entertaining as the recent competition between the two captains then golf fans are in for a treat. Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington got together on Tuesday at Whistling Straits, the site of the biennial