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Paul Barjon was en fuego in the short-season Mackenzie Tour this year, winning twice and posting seven top-six finishes in 12 starts this season. That was good enough to win the tour’s Order of Merit…by all of $2,746. That’s because Taylor Pendrith enjoyed a similar lights-out performance on the PGA Tour’s Canada circuit, also owning

6:28 PM ET Associated Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Joaquin Niemann became the first player from Chile to win on the PGA Tour, shooting a 6-under 64 on Sunday for a six-stroke victory in A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. The 20-year-old Niemann entered the final round of the season opener with a two-stroke

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 Sept. 16. Dramatic finish at Solheim Cup Suzann Pettersen entered the Solheim

Everybody starts at zero as the PGA Tour began the 2019-’20 season this week at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. More importantly, every player teeing it up at Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., had dreams that this is the year they take their game to new heights. Getting off to a

VOLATILE!! 9 guys moved from outside to inside the Finals 25, earning their PGA Tour cards after Monday’s final round of Korn Ferry Tour Finals (formerly Web.com Tour). 50 players; top 25 from the season-long Korn Ferry Tour money list, and 25 from the 3 Korn Ferry Tour Finals events’ money list earned their full

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — The players have made it clear that the Solheim Cup is unlike any other event they compete in. That holds true as well for the folks who have following them every step of the way this week at Gleneagles: their caddies. For Kyle Morrison, on the bag for U.S. Solheim Cup team

8:05 PM ET Associated Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Joaquin Niemann was an 18-year-old amateur when he arrived in West Virginia two years ago and tied for 29th in the only PGA Tour event he played outside of the U.S. Open. In 2018, he improved to a tie for fifth at the tournament. Now

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Juli Inkster has been using her “pod system” in each of the three Solheim Cups she has captained, following the lead of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger, who successfully used one in the 2008 Ryder Cup. In Inkster’s version, she has had players take personality tests, then based on the tests

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Joseph Bramlett surmises that every week on the PGA Tour a different player could emerge on the leader board with a story about his bad back. And already in the season opener, A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier, we have the emotional return of Kevin Chappell, who fired a 59

1:33 PM ET Associated Press AMSTERDAM — Sergio Garcia and Callum Shinkwin shot 6-under 66s and shared the lead at 15 under after the third round of the KLM Open Saturday. Playing together in the second-to-last pairing at The International on the outskirts of Amsterdam, Garcia and Shinkwin traded birdies all day. Garcia drew level

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Going into Saturday at the Solheim Cup, Chris Kelly, a three-time Scottish PGA champion, summed up the prevailing mood on Twitter. “When I grow up, I’d like to swing the golf club like Anne Van Dam,” he said. And, at least for a while, the legend that the 23-year-old Solheim Cup rookie

6:05 PM ET ESPN News Services WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Kevin Chappell shot an 11-under 59 on Friday in the second round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier for the 11th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history. Chappell missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-4 ninth to fall a stroke short of

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -– Yes, Kevin Chappell beat up on a defenseless golf course Friday at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, scorching the Old White TPC for an 11-under 59 that gives the place the distinction of becoming the first course in PGA Tour history to surrender two sub-60 rounds. The course was

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Americans Angel Yin and Ally McDonald had only played three Solheim Cup matches between them (all by Yin) before they partnered in Friday’s four-ball session at Gleneagles. But the record-tying fashion in which they dominated Europe’s Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall, 7 and 5, would make you think differently. The two went

2:49 PM ET AMSTERDAM — Scott Jamieson of Scotland shot a 7-under 65 in the second round, including seven birdies, to lead the KLM Open by two strokes at the halfway stage on Friday. Jamieson, whose only European Tour title came in 2013, birdied the par-5 18th in a bogey-free round at The International on

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Regina Korda is easy to spot. She’s statuesque, like her daughters who are both nearly six feet, and carries herself with a quiet yet intense energy. It’s the demeanor of someone who has the perspective to understand what it means to have daughters making history, and the ability to handle the moment

2:21 AM ET Associated Press AMSTERDAM — Unheralded Callum Shinkwin shot five birdies and an eagle Thursday on his way to a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead after the first round of the 100th edition of the KLM Open. The 26-year-old British golfer is ranked No. 446 and hasn’t made the cut in his

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – With four bulging discs in his back, Marc Leishman didn’t need any further injuries to make it uncomfortable to play golf. He got one anyway. The timing couldn’t have been worse. Leishman felt his cranky back seizing up on him Wednesday morning before playing in the pro-am for the PGA