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9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,

Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew that one day this test

Four takeaways from Saturday’s third-round action of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. Adam Long came out of the golf wilderness to win the PGA Tour’s Desert Classic in January of 2019. A potential victory on Sunday won’t be as surprising. The former Duke Blue Devil followed up a Friday 65 at Puntacana with

It was Moving Day on Saturday at the Irish Open, and Englishman Aaron Rai produced among the strongest rounds on the tough Galgorm Spa course in shooting three-under 67 to own the solo lead at eight under. But that was far from the most eye-catching development of the day. Ballymena, an inland Northern Ireland town

8:19 AM ET The European Tour has scrapped plans to allow a limited number of fans to attend the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian next month due to the tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in the U.K.. The Tour planned to allow 650 spectators per day for the Rolex Series tournament, which

You might say that Tyler McCumber has an affinity for tropical locales and water. The 29-year-old is an avid surfer and some of his best results on the PGA Tour have come while being surrounded by surf and palm trees. McCumber didn’t, however, expect to get “stuck” in one of those slices of paradise. For

It’s not a leader board full of stars, but, as expected, the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship looks like it could produce a few intriguing stories. There are young guns in the mix, veterans looking to end long win droughts and a few 30-somethings still search for their first tour victory. Here are our

6:44 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — A hornet sting early and a bunch of birdies late carried Hudson Swafford to a 5-under 67 on Friday for a two-shot lead going into the weekend of the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Joining him in the final group will be Sean O’Hair,

Adding to a distinguished list of luminaries, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has announced that Ernie Els, Nick Price, Padraig Harrington and Catriona Matthew have accepted invitations to become honorary members of golf’s most famous and influential club. “I would like to congratulate Catriona, Ernie, Padraig and Nick on becoming honorary

7:29 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Tyler McCumber was the only player to reach 8 under par Thursday in the Caribbean breeze until he dropped a shot on his 17th hole and fell into a four-way lead in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Sepp Straka was the only one

Another reminder you did not need: The U.S. Open at Winged Foot was just last week, and it was one we could remember for a long time, mainly for it potentially being the moment that Bryson DeChambeau broke the sport. All this left the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in the very unenviable spot

Pat Perez was in the field at the Safeway Open two weeks ago, although you’re forgiving if you failed to notice. The 44-year-old PGA Tour veteran looked like a different man after cutting his long black hair and shaved the thick beard and mustache. He played like a one, too, shooting four straight sub-70 rounds

5:49 PM ET Mark Calcavecchia played golf Thursday, which seems simple enough, as he is a professional golfer. But this was different. Much different. It was the first time he teed it up since testing positive three weeks ago for COVID-19. The PGA Tour Champions player decided he felt well enough to venture out to

In the wake of Bryson DeChambeau’s convincing six-stroke triumph at the U.S. Open, there was an avalanche of analysis regarding the short- and long-term impact his victory might have on the game. Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan summarized well what the Bryson Effect could wind up looking like, noting the immediate upshot was that DeChambeau

7:42 PM ET Tiger Woods announced his commitment to next month’s Zozo Championship at Sherwood Country Club, where he will be the defending champion of an event that has moved from Japan to Thousand Oaks, California, this year amid to the coronavirus pandemic. Woods, 44, won the event over Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama last year at

He should be in Northern Wisconsin. But instead Padraig Harrington is making do with Northern Ireland. Making his first competitive appearance since March’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain is in County Antrim, at the Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort for the European Tour’s Irish Open. Physically anyway. Understandably, however, Harrington’s mind was wandering—if

As long as Tiger Woods was upright and swinging a golf club, there was little question he would attempt to defend his title in the Zozo Championship. After all, because of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s basically playing on one of his home courses at Sherwood Country Club in Southern California. Woods made his participation official

7:35 AM ET Their relationship might seem a bit peculiar, but clearly Tiger Woods sees something in Bryson DeChambeau that might amuse, entertain, intrigue — or all of the above. They are frequent practice-round partners, and it is not often that someone whom Woods does not care to have in such settings steps into that

For Tiger Woods, the Ryder Cup has been something of a mixed bag. It’s one of the few golf competitions he hasn’t dominated—Woods has a 13-21-3 overall record across eight Ryder Cups and has actually only been on one winning American team. But that one victorious week was special. Incredibly special. Woods recounts the famous

7:02 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jim Furyk joined Arnold Palmer and Bruce Fleisher as the only players to win their first two PGA Tour Champions starts, beating Jerry Kelly with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff in the Pure Insurance Championship. Furyk and Kelly both laid up on

If you keep up with trends in golf architecture, you know there’s been a huge movement toward cutting down trees on courses around the world. The thought process here is generally to open up vistas, increase optionality and help turf grow better. Gary Player isn’t having it. Not even close. Player stepped into the broadcast

Two days after the world’s most strenuous golf tournament wrapped up, a much lighter affair played out in the Missouri mountains. The Payne’s Valley Cup was the anti-U.S. Open in so many ways. Instead of a grind on a 99-year-old course, this was a stroll on a brand new one. On the week that was

2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as

I played with him at Colonial the first week back out, but I sort of said, ‘OK, wait until he gets to a proper golf course, he’ll have to rein it back in.’ This is as proper as they come, and look what’s happened.”—Rory McIlroy, on Bryson DeChambeau “So many times I relied on science,

8:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Georgia Hall won the Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory in the United States, beating Ashleigh Buhai with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Hall won after falling into a tie with a bogey on the par-4 18th in

Coming into the 120th U.S. Open, it was questioned if Bryson DeChambeau’s bomb-and-gouge style of play could work at a U.S. Open venue where the fairways are narrower and the rough meatier than a typical tour event. His six-shot win at Winged Foot answered that question, but there is one other query we sought to

The 2021 Solheim Cup at Ohio’s Inverness Club is a year away, but conversations about the teams have already begun. More specifically, conversations about how the teams will be built. Given the changes to and shortening of the LPGA Tour and LET schedules, respectively, due to the coronavirus, Team Europe announced on Monday that it

8:41 PM ET The U.S. Open did what it often does, bruising and battering the best golfers in the world, sometimes making them look silly, but also highlighting how good they really are when considering the immense obstacles in the path at America’s national championship. That might have been of little consolation to Matthew Wolff

The PGA Tour’s swing season includes the Corales Puntacana Resort Championship for the third straight year, and though this week isn’t a major and doesn’t include the game’s elite players, there’s intrigue at this fall season event. Someone other than Bryson DeChambeau who made a name for himself at Winged Foot is Korn Ferry star

8:19 PM ET MAMORONECK, N.Y. — As Bryson DeChambeau walked the final fairway at Winged Foot early Sunday evening, heading toward the iconic clubhouse that was about to be the backdrop for a photo opportunity with the U.S. Open trophy, there was quiet. It seemed fitting, really, because his performance, a four-day exhibition of strength