News

The PGA Tour makes its way to the Garden State this week for the Northern Trust, the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The event, formerly known as the Barclays, makes its return to Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J., which previously hosted in 2009 and 2013. Liberty National also played host

7:01 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Jack Heath made a 40-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-4 18th hole for an 8-under 62 and a one-stroke victory Friday in the Boys Junior PGA Championship. “I knew if it went in, I would most likely win, and it went in,” Heath said.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — When Tiger Woods arrives on the grounds this week at Liberty National, it will have been nearly a decade since he first stepped foot on the picturesque, though architecturally unusual, New Jersey course. Judging from his comments, and the comments of many pros from back at the 2009 Barclays (which is

9:07 AM ET Starting with this year’s tournaments, the reigning U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur champions will be able to utilize their exemptions in the following year’s U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open even if they decide to turn pro. In the past, the reigning winners of the amateur championships received exemptions in the

It’s a caveat familiar to most every elite amateur golfer, male or female. Win the U.S. Amateur and you earn an exemption into your respective U.S. Open the following summer. However, to take advantage of it, you have to still be an amateur when you actually play in the major championship. That is until now.

Since their inception in 2007, the FedEx Cup Playoffs have been evolving. During the first few years, PGA Tour brass tinkered with how many points golfers received for regular-season events versus playoff events. For 2009, they made sure players couldn’t clinch the FedEx Cup before the end of the Tour Championship (as Vijay Singh had

3:01 PM ET Associated Press MILTON KEYNES, England — Hinako Shibuno of Japan finished with a birdie to win the Women’s British Open by one shot over Lizette Salas as she wrapped up a stunning major championship debut Sunday. The 20-year-old Shibuno, a rookie on the Japan LPGA Tour who was making her LPGA Tour

Viktor Hovland didn’t need to earn his PGA Tour card to prove that he belongs on the circuit. The quality of his play in his last four starts offered plenty of validation. Unfortunately, FedEx Cup points usurp style points, so Hovland won’t be joining fellow All-Americans and new professional sensations Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa

6:54 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — J.T. Poston won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, shooting an 8-under 62 for a one-stroke victory. Poston tied Henrik Stenson‘s 2-year-old tournament record at 22-under 258. He became the first player since Lee Trevino in 1974 to win a 72-hole stroke-play

It would be hard to find a player less likely to win the AIG Women’s British Open than Hinako Shibuno. The 20-year-old from Japan is a rookie on the Japanese LPGA Tour and when she teed it up at Woburn Golf Club, it was her first time playing a tournament outside of Japan. Before she

Jordan Spieth’s contention that he is making progress toward ending a two-year winless skid hit another weekend obstacle on Saturday and he won’t be playing Sunday as a result. Spieth, who began the third round of the Wyndham Championship four strokes off the lead, shot the highest score of the tournament, a seven-over par 77

3:30 PM ET Associated Press MILTON KEYNES, England — Hinako Shibuno’s dream debut continued Saturday as she fired a 5-under 67 to seize a two-shot lead going into the final round at the Women’s British Open. The 20-year-old Shibuno, a rookie on the Japan LPGA Tour who is making her LPGA Tour and major championship

Canadian Garrett Rank makes his living in a winter sport, yet he also is accomplished at a summer sport, as he demonstrated again on Saturday, when he won the prestigious Western Amateur at Point O’Woods Golf and Country Club in Benton Harbor, Mich. A National Hockey League referee, Rank, 31, defeated Daniel Wetterich of Cincinnati,

6:20 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — The rounds are starting to repeat for Byeong-Hun An: no bogeys, a bunch of birdies and more time atop the Wyndham Championship leaderboard. An shot a 4-under 66 on Saturday for a one-stroke lead after three rounds at the PGA Tour’s final event before the playoffs. An,

Brendan Steele already was facing a difficult task at this week’s Wyndham Championship. The three-time PGA Tour winner was 169th on the FedEx Cup points list, meaning he had to have a top-three finish at Sedgefield Country Club in order to leap inside the top 125 at week’s end and be eligible to compete in

Charley Hull has a home-course advantage this week at the AIG Women’s British Open at Woburn Golf Club: She’s been a member for about eight years. But she says she spends most of her time on the Dutchess course, because it’s more narrow than the Marquess’ course, where the championship is being played. You’d think

7:33 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Byeong Hun An shot a 5-under 65 on Friday in the Wyndham Championship to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend. An was at 13-under 127 halfway through the PGA Tour’s final event before the FedEx Cup playoffs. Brice Garnett was a stroke back after a 64,

In victory at the U.S. Open in June, Gary Woodland suggested that winning his first major championship might not be the biggest thing that happened to him all summer. The Kansas native revealed during the week at Pebble Beach that he and his wife, Gabby, were expecting twins. On Friday, Woodland announced via social media