12:28 PM ET Tiger Woods will skip next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, opting to go into the PGA Championship having played just one event in the PGA Tour’s revised schedule. Woods, who tied for 40th at the Memorial Tournament last week, had been weighing whether or not to enter the World Golf Championship event
After two straight weeks at a major-like venue that brought out two major-like fields and produced two major-like finishes, the 3M Open had a tougher act to follow than the comic who comes on stage after Dave Chappelle. And yet, even though the very top of the leader board may send some casual fans to
8:27 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — The coronavirus pandemic has squelched the upbeat and welcoming vibe that marked the debut of the 3M Open last year. The fans might have been absent, but the soft greens were plenty friendly Thursday for Richy Werenski to take full advantage. “I have a good feeling they’ll
Adidas released a bold pink golf shoe as part of the Tokyo Collection that was initially designed for the 2020 Olympics. The capsule includes 41 footwear silhouettes across 19 sports–including golf–that would unite each Adidas athlete as they compete in their respective events. With the Olympic Games postponed until 2021, Adidas repurposed the collection with
What’s wrong with Dustin Johnson? It’s a question filled with contradiction but also relevance. The immediate answer: An apparent back injury, which was the reason he gave for withdrawing from the 3M Open on Thursday afternoon following an opening-round eight-over 78. To say things have taken a dramatic turn for Johnson would be an understatement.
As expected, the PGA Tour is back to its birdie fest ways this week at the 3M Open. Half the field has yet to tee off and there are already nearly 40 players under par, including Kyle Stanley, who went out in six-under 30 on TPC Twin Cities’ back nine. But, as four-time PGA Tour
11:41 AM ET The PGA Tour will begin to let more people on site, beginning with next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. In a memo the tour sent to the players and released on Thursday, Tyler Dennis, chief of operations, outlined a program that will expand access to select tournament representatives and other VIPs while
Uncertainty reigns in college golf at the moment. Men’s and women’s coaches and players are waiting for their athletic departments, school presidents and conference commissioners to decide whether they’ll allow athletic competitions to be played during the fall semester. If there was hope a month ago that some semblance of a schedule would be contested,
9:35 PM ET Grayson Murray, who announced over the weekend that he had tested positive for COVID-19, was the only player to do so this week in advance of the 3M Championship. Murray took his test at home and never traveled to the tournament site, where tests for those competing in the tournament are mandatory.
While the PGA Tour has said that it will not allow fans at its tournaments for the remainder of the current season and in its opening event of the 2020-21 campaign, Golf Digest has learned that the organization will start allowing more people on-site, beginning with next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. In
Nike is set to release three of its most popular golf shoe styles in a new and colorful design. The exact launch date is unknown, but the brand has teased the shoe on its website all week generating a ton of buzz in the golf world. The blue and purple motif will available in limited
Chances are, Michael Campbell isn’t going to win this week’s British Masters. Despite shooting an opening three-under-par 68 over the endlessly undulating Close House course in northeast England, the 51-year old, Spain-based New Zealander is already four shots off the early pace set by Scotsman David Law. Nevertheless, Campbell might be the most heartwarming/interesting/surprising story
10:58 AM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Series-China season has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The China-based tour’s executive director says attempts to move the qualifying tournaments to other sites in Asia were not practical and restricted access into mainland China made it too difficult to stage tournaments in 2020. Greg Carlson