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In terms of all-around likability, Peter Malnati ranks near the very top on the PGA Tour. However, he may have gained a few enemies in the golf architecture crowd with his post-round comments on Thursday at the Sony Open. Following a first-round 62 at Waialae Country Club, which gave him a share of the Day

Ralph Lauren has “discontinued” its sponsorship of Justin Thomas after Thomas uttered a homophobic slur during last week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions. “We are disheartened by Mr. Thomas’s recent language, which is entirely inconsistent with our values,” the company said in a statement. “While we acknowledge that he has apologized and recognizes the severity of

12:10 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Nick Taylor pitched in for eagle to get his round headed in the right direction, and he kept going until he finished with a good break and one last birdie for an 8-under 62 and a two-shot lead Friday in the Sony Open. It’s still as crowded as

There aren’t many drawbacks to the PGA Tour’s Hawaii swing for the golf viewer. If we had to come up with one, though, it’d be the long wait for television coverage to begin. The five-hour time difference (for East Coasters), and no PGA Tour Live featured group coverage, means eager golf fans have to sit

4:49 PM ET The World Golf Championship event scheduled for Mexico City is being moved for one year to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic. The sponsors of the WGC-Mexico Championship, Grupo Salinas, did not want to play at Chapultepec Golf Club – where the tournament relocated to in 2017 – due to restrictions that

All eyes were fixated on Bryson DeChambeau at the Masters last November. He had won the U.S. Open by six stroke just two months earlier with a breathtaking display of power, and there was some belief—fueled by Bryson himself—that he’d bludgeon Augusta National into submission. It didn’t work out that way. DeChambeau made the cut

The PGA Tour has three opening days. The first is the Safeway Open, the official first tournament of the wraparound season. The second is the Sentry Tournament of Champions, which is always the first tournament of the calendar year. The third is the Sony Open, which…well, come to think of it, it’s a rather weak

10:15 PM ET SAO PAULO — Brazil’s federal police arrested Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera on Thursday for extradition to his homeland to face charges for several crimes allegedly committed from 2016 to last year, two officers said. Cabrera, who won both Masters and U.S. Open championships, was on Interpol’s red code list. Police said in

HONOLULU — At age 77, Butch Harmon’s days of wandering PGA Tour driving ranges are over. But that hasn’t stopped players from going to see him in Las Vegas. In recent weeks, golf’s swing whisperer has provided council to players ranging from Jordan Spieth to Aaron Baddeley. Thursday, it paid off for Baddeley. The 39-year-old

12:59 PM ET The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will be played without its traditional pro-am format next month when the event is contested over two courses in Northern California. The PGA Tour announced the change due to local COVID-19 circumstances in the Monterey Peninsula area. 2 Related The professional portion, featuring 156 players, will be

The PGA Tour announced Thursday that the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is suspending its traditional amateur competition for 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The professional portion of the tournament, featuring a 156-player field, will continue as scheduled, beginning play on Feb. 11. However, without the amateur component, the tournament will be held on just

HONOLULU — This week’s Sony Open in Hawaii is one of Kevin Kisner’s favorite tournaments of the year. “It’s Point A to Point B and make some putts,” he said of Waialae Country Club. “That’s kind of my M.O. on the PGA Tour. So I appreciate when we get the golf courses that play that

4:49 PM ET Associated Press The Gainbridge LPGA tournament is moving to Lake Nona, giving the LPGA Tour three consecutive events in Florida to start the 2021 season. The Gainbridge LPGA, to be played Feb. 25-28, is in its second year. It was played last year at Boca Rio Golf Club in Boca Raton. The

HONOLULU — Success can sometimes have its pitfalls. Take Harris English, for example. In 2013, English won twice in a five-month span on the PGA Tour. Just two years removed from turning pro, many considered the four-time All-American out of the University of Georgia to be one of the game’s rising stars. And that’s when

8:59 PM ET The PGA Tour Hawai’i two-stop swings over to Honolulu and Waialae Country Club for the Sony Open. Defending champion Cameron Smith, as well as 13 of the top 30 players in the world will be in the event. So which players are the favorites, who offers good odds and what props are

New York City is ending its contracts with the Trump Organization related to running three entertainment venues, including the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point. The decision, announced Wednesday morning by the New York City mayor’s office, comes after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 during a joint

As if you didn’t know picking winners was hard enough already, Harris English won the Sentry Tournament of Champions last week. Yes, the same Harris English who a number of our experts picked to win outright numerous times in 2020, only to never be rewarded. Fittingly, he finally won a tournament you usually have to

10:53 PM ET Associated Press Jhonattan Vegas has tested positive for the coronavirus and withdrawn from the Sony Open in Hawaii. Vegas is the second PGA Tour player to withdraw because of a positive test this year. Jim Herman tested positive before leaving for Hawaii for the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Xander Schauffele and Webb

The second stop on the PGA Tour’s two-week Hawaiian swing brings players to Honolulu for the Sony Open in Hawaii. Thirty-two of the 42 golfers who competed last week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions—including winner Harris English—are making the short flight from Maui to Oahu to play in the first full-field event of 2021.

7:39 AM ET The PGA Tour is expected to announce shortly that the WGC-Mexico Championship will not be played in Mexico City this year. The Feb. 25-29 is likely to be relocated because Grupo Salinas, the sponsorship group in Mexico, was unwilling to stage the event locally without the ability to have spectators or hospitality

Arizona State’s Missy Farr-Kaye has stared down breast cancer twice in her life and gone on to become a success story in women’s college golf, overseeing ASU’s NCAA title team in 2017. Revealing on Tuesday that she’s begun chemotherapy once more after being diagnosed with colon cancer in November, she sounded upbeat that she’ll be

Playoff losses are never easy, but Joaquin Niemann’s runner-up to Harris English at Kapalua comes with a statistical distinction that might make the result even more heartbreaking. If he even knows about this particular statistical distinction, that is. We’re pretty sure the 22-year-old golfer was unaware that his 31 birdies during the Sentry Tournament of

9:48 AM ET The Open Championship’s rotation of 10 links courses has — for now — been shrunk to nine. The R&A announced Monday that Trump Turnberry, the most picturesque of the venues and where Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus staged their memorable “Duel in the Sun” in 1977, will not be granted an Open

The first full field PGA Tour event of 2021 is upon us, as Waialae Country Club will host the Sony Open for a 51st consecutive year. The Hawaiian Open dates back to 1965 (the event was skipped in 1970), and though this year’s field might lack a bit in starpower (only five of the top

2:00 PM ET There are myriad reasons why golf’s governing bodies lock in their major championship venues years in advance. A good deal of planning is required to stage one of the four biggest tournaments of the year, not the least of which is making sure the course is up to top playing standards. Other

Consider, for a moment, Denny McCarthy. In the 2019-20 season, he was the strokes gained/putting champion of the PGA Tour, and almost became just the second person (after Jason Day) to average an entire stroke gained over the field per round. It was his second straight mythical putting title, and it’s not even a little

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Eighteen months ago, Harris English was cruising along in the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship when he crashed and burned. Five bogeys over his last seven holes at Victoria National Golf Club in Indiana caused him to tumble down the leader board and play his way out of a

10:39 PM ET The PGA of America is moving on from President Trump, announcing Sunday in a statement that it will relocate the 2022 PGA Championship scheduled for the New York suburbs at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. The venue was awarded the tournament in 2012 and was to be the first men’s major championship

In case you thought 2021 was going to be any less weird than the year that preceded it, a non-champion won the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Riddle us that, Batman. Of course, we knew there was a very good chance that would happen when the field was expanded to allow 2020 Tour Championship qualifiers in.

11:19 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Ryan Palmer went through a range of emotions over the final 15 minutes Saturday that ended with him posting a 9-under 64 for the best round of the week and a share of the lead with Harris English in the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Palmer thought he