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8:04 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Alena Sharp shot a 6-under 65 on Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Brittany Altomare and Cheyenne Knight in the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Classic. Sharp closed with a bogey on the par-4 18th to drop into the tie for the lead

You know what they say: The PGA Tour season doesn’t really start until Phil Mickelson hits a ridiculous recovery shot. Or something like that. In any event, the tour’s third event has given us that first spectacular and quintessential Mickelson moment. Well, spectacular in a good way, that is. Mickelson did make a 9 at

Dropping “the finger” is bound to generate outcry. But the shouts from Bio Kim’s bird have resulted in an interesting debate. Kim, a former PGA Tour player, shot a fan the Bronx salute last Sunday at a Korean Tour event following a cellphone click in his backswing, an occurrence Kim said happened multiple times throughout

10:47 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Nick Taylor had to scramble for par on his opening two holes Thursday, and then he couldn’t miss in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Taylor ran off a six-hole stretch at 6-under par, including a drive on the 314-yard 14th hole at the TPC Summerlin that

How can Brooks Koepka improve? On the surface, this is a demanding, heedless ask. The man became the first player to be a repeat PGA Championship and the U.S. Open winner in a career, and became just the fourth player to finish top four or better at every major in a calendar year. It is

3:05 PM ET Associated Press Kristian Krogh Johannessen of Norway shot a career-best 8-under 63 to match the course record and take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Spanish Open on Thursday. Johannessen birdied four of his last six holes at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid for the lowest opening

At a point on the calendar when many of golf’s biggest names are taking some down time and playing little to no golf, Phil Mickelson is having his busiest fall in years. Last week, he played in the Safeway Open, a tournament he’s competed in the previous three seasons. This week it’s the Shriners Hospitals

It is no secret that professional golfers enjoy a friendly, and sometimes spirited, wager, often in a Tuesday game at PGA Tour stops. But what happens when the tour stops in a city where spirited wagers can be found everywhere—on and off the course? The PGA Tour is in Las Vegas this week, with its

Here is what you won’t see in the wake of the new California law allowing college athletes who attend public and private schools in the state to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness: A parade of high school golfers being wooed to come to State U. by the potential to sign

Tiger Woods was a bad man in the way “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” was good. In his prime, Woods didn’t so much beat his opponents as live rent-free in their heads. Evidenced in this story from Adam Scott. Scott is making an appearance in this week’s Shriners Hospital for Children Open, played in Las Vegas. An

3:33 AM ET Tony Romo is never going to scare anyone on the PGA Tour, which is why he was back at his day job on Sunday in an NFL broadcast booth in Chicago rather than on the fairways of Silverado in Napa, California. As late as Friday afternoon, Romo was in position to make

3:55 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Brooks Koepka spent the majority of his short offseason recovering from stem cell treatment on his left knee, he revealed Wednesday. Koepka returns to competition at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, with the No. 1 player in the world giving Las Vegas its strongest field in

HAVEN, Wis. — “You’re sure bringing up a lot of negatives here, Julius.” That light jab, directed at the PGA of America’s Julius Mason from United States Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker, elicited laughs from around the Irish Barn at Whistling Straits on Tuesday morning. There, inside the beautiful, dimly lit stone-and-wood building on a

9:46 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Even as he bolted to the top of the leaderboard at the Safeway Open, Cameron Champ‘s mind was elsewhere. Champ’s grandfather, Mack, is in hospice battling stomach cancer and the family has been commuting back and forth between the tournament and his hometown of Sacramento, about 65

Making his 2019-’20 PGA Tour debut, Brooks Koepka will be joining early-season winners Joaquin Niemann and Sebastián Muñoz in Las Vegas for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. A three-time winner last season, Koepka is back to prepare for the Presidents Cup quickly approaching this December. RELATED: In an upset, Rory McIlroy wins PGA Tour

10:54 AM ET The Korean Tour has suspended current money leader Bio Kim for three years after he made an obscene gesture to fans during the final round of a tournament this past weekend. Holding a one-shot lead on the 16th hole of the DGB Financial Group Volvik Daegu Gyeongbuk Open in Gumi, South Korea,

Padraig Harrington made his Ryder Cup debut in 1999 at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., which, despite the outcome, he said, “Still goes down as probably the most electrifying week I’ve ever had on a golf course.” But it was an incident at the 2004 matches at Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit that

In the early weeks of the PGA Tour’s new driver testing program for the 2019-’20 season, a handful of players appear to have had drivers tested that have exceeded the speed limit. According to a story from Reuters, five tour pros at last week’s Safeway Open were found to have drivers whose spring-like effect was