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7:09 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — David Toms flipped the script Saturday at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic with a four-shot swing on the 15th hole and closed with pars for a 1-under 71 that gave him a two-shot lead over Ken Duke going into the final round on the PGA Tour Champions. Toms

Editor’s Note: Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan’s new book, The Cup They Couldn’t Lose: America, the Ryder Cup and the Long Road to Whistling Straits goes on sale May 10 (Hachette Books, $29 hardcover). The book explores the modern history of the matches between the U.S. and Europe that led to the showdown at Whistling

On Monday the PGA of America announced the field for its 2022 PGA Championship beginning next week at Southern Hills. Though 156 players will tee it up in Tulsa, most eyes gravitated towards two names. That would be Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Woods made his first tournament start since his February 2021 car accident

6:49 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Steve Flesch rallied from four shots behind Sunday with a 7-under 65 for a one-shot victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, his second title at the TPC Sugarloaf. Flesch also won this tournament in 2018, his only other win on the PGA Tour Champions. Flesch finished the

Keegan Bradley entered the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship Sunday with a two-shot advantage over Max Homa, but Homa birdied the first hole at TPC Potomac and Bradley made double-bogey on the par-4 second hole and the see-saw battle continued for the next four hours. Ultimately, Homa shot a final-round 68 and walked

6:38 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Max Homa kept hearing from his coach, caddie and other supporters that he needed to carry himself with more confidence, an attitude befitting a multiple PGA Tour winner. With his fourth win overall, third in 15 months and second since he gave up his popular podcast to

These are the days Max Homa used to dread. The combination of a saturated golf course, juicy rough, swirling winds and layer-up temperatures expose any player not in full command of his swing and his emotions. And while it might feel like another lifetime, it wasn’t so long ago that Homa had little control of

If Ken Duke is in 32nd place when this disaster happened, we’d have never seen it. But that’s what made it all the more painful. Duke was leading the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Saturday, and thus giving himself a chance for his first PGA Tour Champions victory. What happened then, at the 15th hole at

2:35 PM ET Associated Press Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie for the second straight day to win the British Masters by one shot in a dramatic fashion Sunday, earning his first European tour title in nearly four years and igniting his career after a damaging court case. Olesen shot 1-over 73 to finish a stroke ahead

Anybody who’s attended a professional golf tournament has been there. You’re standing by the green, whispering to a friend or rustling the pairings sheet a bit, and you think to yourself: How much do these guys hear of what goes on outside the ropes? For some, apparently, all it takes is chewing. Yes, chewing! James

7:26 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Keegan Bradley did nothing special on the only easy scoring day this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, opening with an even-par 70 that left him around the cut line. Since the conditions got tougher, Bradley has been the best player at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.

They were out there because they are paid to be. There was no other justification for playing golf on Saturday at TPC Potomac, which was pounded with ceaseless downpour for the second consecutive day—only this time, the rain brought the cold and the wind with it. The vast majority of fans opted against ruining a

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — “It’s nice to see him with a smile on his face,” said a member of the DP World Tour media team. And so it was. Just six months after he almost lost his liberty in a court of law, Thorbjorn Olesen is in position to win for a sixth time on

1:11 PM ET Associated Press SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie to shoot 3-under 69 and take a 3-stroke lead into the final round of the British Masters as he bids for his first win in four years amid a career rebuild. The Danish golfer broke a four-way tie for the lead on

POTOMAC, Md. — Max Homa figured they’d get eight holes in, and even that felt optimistic. The radar forecast around TPC Potomac on Friday showed green, yellow and some more green, promising to make the second round of the Wells Fargo Championshiip a slog that could well bleed into Saturday, when the weather’s supposed to

7:55 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Jason Day shook his head vigorously after holing an 11-footer for birdie on his ninth hole at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm — not out of disgust, but to whip the excess water off his cap. For the rest of the round, Day shed the hat entirely.

Perhaps more than any player in the world, Jason Day has been on the career roller coaster since the very start, with extremely high highs—his wins at the 2015 PGA Championship and 2016 Players Championship—and some shocking low lows, marked by totally unexpected droughts. Since his last resurgence in 2018, when he won at the

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — He’s not leading. He’s not even on the medal podium at the halfway stage of the Betfred British Masters at The Belfry. But no one was happier on day two than two-time tournament host Danny Willett. After a mildly disappointing opening round of 73, the former Masters champion nipped round the

2:55 AM ET Associated Press Former Ryder Cup player Thorbjorn Olesen and Ryan Fox shared a one-shot lead following the first round of the British Masters on Thursday. Both shot rounds of 66 to finish the day on six under par, while a trio of players — Hurly Long, Richie Ramsay and Ashun Wu —

Thursday was not short on fireworks. There were bright bangs from Jason Day, Matthew Wolff and Rory McIlroy, along with a someone-knocked-over-the-cannister-and-the-bottle-rocket-hit-dad’s-Camry mishap of Sergio Garcia as the Spaniard was caught on camera saying “I can’t wait to leave this tour” after a ruling didn’t go his way. Lost in the booms was the work

6:17 PM ET Sergio Garcia‘s frustration over a ruling on a lost ball in the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Thursday might have caused him to reveal where he’s soon headed. After driving his tee shot on the 10th hole into a hazard at TPC Potomac in Potomac, Maryland, Garcia became frustrated

At TPC Potomac’s par-5 10th hole, Garcia snap-hooked his drive into marsh on the left side of the hole, which was marked as a penalty area with red stakes. Garcia, having to wade across a creek and trudge through tall grasses, eventually spotted his ball, but a rules official deemed he found it outside the

POTOMAC, Md. — Matthew Wolff is not here to win the Wells Fargo Championship. These are his words, not ours. “To be honest—it’s funny,” the 23-year-old said after a five-under 65 at TPC Potomac on Thursday that had him tied for the early lead. “But I’m not here to win a golf tournament, I’m here

10:35 AM ET Former world No. 1 golfer Lee Westwood told Sky Sports on Wednesday that he has requested releases from the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to play in the first Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London next month. Westwood, 49, told Sky Sports that any impact on his future

POTOMAC, Md. — One question Scottie Scheffler’s been repeatedly asked during his recent run is some version of the following: What’s given you the confidence to achieve so much, so young? He then says it comes from seeing other college hotshots have immediate success on tour. Watching Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Matt Wolff win

9:22 AM ET The PGA Tour is shifting locations for the Wells Fargo Championship, moving from its traditional stop at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Maryland. Rory McIlroy headlines a field that is readying itself for the year’s second major, the PGA Championship, which begins May 19

It’s already been quite a week for Gregory Odom, Jr., and it’s only Wednesday. The senior from Howard University has a team and individual victory under his belt, and in less than 24 hours after his last putt dropped at the PGA Works Collegiate Championship, he’ll be playing alongside the best players in the world

As a showdown looms between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour against the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, another entity is trying to remind the golf world it wants in the mix. That entity would be the Premier Golf League, a group once viewed as a potential rival to the PGA Tour and DP World

6:49 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Potomac, Maryland, this week. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile? Betting analysts Anita Marks and sports betting deputy editor David Bearman offer their tips to help you

Rory McIlroy will tee it up for the first time since his hot final-round finish of 64 at Augusta National when he plays this week at the Wells Fargo Championship. Not only will he be coming off of one of the lowest rounds in Masters history but he’ll be looking to defend his 2021 Wells