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With her victory at the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship on Thursday, Ina Kim-Schaad, 35, becomes an immediate contender for the unofficial title of USGA champion with the most unconventional resume. How many national champions can say they took 11 years off from the competitive game? Kim-Schaad, who defeated Talia Campbell, 3 and 2, in the

It hasn’t been an Aussie invasion, precisely, maybe more of an intrusion, but those from Down Under have left an indelible mark on USGA championships this summer, including a historic U.S. Mid-Amateur victory from Lukas Michel on Thursday. Michel, 25, became the first foreign-born player in its 39-year history to win the U.S. Mid-Am, defeating

11:21 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Rory McIlroy made six bogeys and a double bogey in his last 11 holes to shoot 4-over 76 at the BMW PGA Championship, leaving the world No. 2 already 11 strokes off the first-round lead held by Matt Wallace on Thursday. McIlroy’s round fell apart after

VIRGINIA WATER, England — Never mind those 17 sub-70 rounds in succession on the PGA Tour. Even more impressively during his admittedly still brief professional career, Viktor Hovland has never failed to shoot in the 60s on the European Tour. Not even once. Of course, the three-under-par 69 with which the 22-year-old Norwegian began the

11:25 PM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods is playing another skins game with two big differences. This one is in Japan and will be broadcast live around the world by Discovery-owned GOLFTV. The exhibition is called “The Challenge: Japan Skins,” and it will be played Oct. 21 leading into the PGA Tour’s first official event

Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama are set to square off in a globally-televised skins game, the first in a series of annual competitions staged by GOLFTV. “The Challenge: Japan Skins” will take place Oct. 21 ahead of the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino C.C. in Chiba, Japan. The

VIRGINIA WATER, England — One month after announcing a four-point plan—regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes—to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word. At this week’s BMW PGA Championship, two of those four building blocks will be in play. Because

12:19 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — European captain Padraig Harrington has selected Robert Karlsson as his first vice captain for the 2020 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Karlsson performed the same role under Thomas Bjorn when the European team regained the trophy at Le Golf National in Paris last year.

Editor’s Note: Three weeks after an Irishman won the first Open Championship played on the island in almost seven decades, Shane Lowry sat down with Golf Digest having had time to savor the enormity of his accomplishment. Lowry, 32, was interviewed by Contributing Editor John Huggan before the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship at Medinah, and

9:30 AM ET LPGA Tour hopeful Celia Barquín Arozamena was murdered at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa, on Sept. 17, 2018. Collin Richards pled guilty to first-degree murder on June 14, 2019, and was sentenced to life in prison last month. On the one-year anniversary of Barquín Arozamena’s death, South Carolina senior golfer Ana

Upgraded for the 2019-’20 PGA Tour season, the Sanderson Farms Championship has a standalone date for the first time in its history. That means this week’s tournament comes with all of the benefits of a standard, regular-season tour event. The overall purse will be $6.6 million with a $1,188,000 payday for the winner, which is

Akshay Bhatia, the 17-year-old prodigy from Wake Forest, N.C., is making his professional debut at this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. Bhatia’s amateur degree is not in doubt, becoming the first golfer still in high school to compete for the United States in Walker Cup history just two weeks ago. However, while Bhatia submitted promising starts

10:12 AM ET Tiger Woods‘ girlfriend is no longer named in a wrongful death lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant that bears the golfer’s name. According to court records from state court in Palm Beach County, Florida, Erica Herman, Woods’ girlfriend and general manager of The Woods Jupiter, was voluntarily removed as a defendant in

Akshay Bhatia has signed an endorsement deal with Callaway. Bhatia, 17, is making his professional debut this week at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship, in the field via a sponsor exemption. Fifth in the World Amateur rankings, Bhatia won five junior and amateur events in the past year, highlighted by a victory at the

5:20 PM ET Associated Press GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Jerry Kelly played bogey-free Sunday at Warwick Hills and closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Ally Challenge, his second victory this year on the PGA Tour Champions. Kelly also won two months ago in his native Wisconsin at the American Insurance

Joaquin Niemann joined elite company last week with his six-stroke win at The Greenbrier, becoming just the third non-American to win on the PGA Tour before turning 21. He also becomes yet another young star to earn a victory in the past couple of months, joining the likes of Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa, who

The hype train travels quickly, especially in today’s social-media environment. See: Wolff, Matthew; and Morikawa, Collin. Not that high praise for the two rookies is without merit or substance. Both of the former collegiate stars have been impressive in their play, winning almost immediately after reaching the PGA Tour. Keeping the wheels on the track,

9:25 AM ET A sleepy September it is not. Golf sprung alive over the weekend at a time of year when fans are typically preoccupied and the transition from one golf season to the next is blurred. Give credit to a stunning Solheim Cup — which, in truth, should not have had to share the