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KAPALUA, Hawaii—Collin Morikawa has endured a roller-coaster ride worthy of a Six Flags amusement park since his thrilling victory at the PGA Championship any TPC Harding Park last August. There’s been the good: a chance to capture the European Tour’s Race to Dubai (without ever actually playing in Europe last year) before a T-10 the

11:57 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawaii — Justin Thomas apologized Saturday afternoon for uttering an anti-gay slur under his breath when he missed a 5-foot par putt on the fourth hole of the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “It’s inexcusable,” Thomas said. “First off, I just apologize. I’m an adult. I’m a grown man, there’s

The PGA Tour announced Friday that its China series has canceled its season due to the coronavirus pandemic. The circuit, one of the tour’s international developmental leagues, was one of the first professional sporting operations to halt play in 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak. According to a PGA Tour statement, efforts were made to host

9:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The weather might not be an indication, but golf season is here. At least for the PGA Tour. A loaded 42-player field will get things going at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, Hawai’i. Justin Thomas will defend his title at the Plantation Course against a field of

KAPALUA, Hawaii—A year ago, Xander Schauffele reached the Plantation Course’s par-5 18th in two and had two putts on Sunday to win the Sentry Tournament of Champions. He three-putted, then was eliminated from a playoff after another three-putt on the same hole. Friday, he took just one roll on the 18th, and it was a

Through 36 holes at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, golf fans could not have asked for a better leader board to kick off 2021. The top three players in the world—Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas—are all in striking distance, as are the likes of Patrick Reed, Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa. Need

1:21 AM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — A new year, and Harris English keeps right on rolling. English finished with a 10-foot birdie to cap off an ideal Friday of low scores and whale watching at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. His 6-under 67 gave him a two-shot lead over a quartet of players

KAPALUA, Hawaii—Scottie Scheffler is playing in this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions for the first time. But he arrived on Maui with a heavy heart. Or at least without a close companion by his side. “Yeah, my trusty 3-wood cracked on Saturday on the range at Royal Oaks [in Dallas],” Scheffler said, adding that it

3:47 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hall of Fame golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, along with the late Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias, have been presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday. The award is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. President Donald Trump has generally held public

For golf fans, the wait lasted 32 days and four hours. The Mayakoba Classic, the last real PGA Tour event of 2020, wrapped up with Viktor Hovland’s 72nd-hole birdie on Dec. 6. A month and a day later, the Tour resumed on a picturesque Thursday morning at Kapalua’s Plantation Course, which seems to specialize in

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The last time Sergio Garcia played in the Sentry Tournament of Champions was 15 years ago. A lot’s changed since—marriage, two kids, a major on his résumé—but not everything. “The course is definitely playing a lot slower than it used to last time I played here,” Garcia said of the Plantation Course,

10:38 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — Justin Thomas kept bogeys off his card, thanks in part to Dustin Johnson‘s caddie, and birdied three of his last five holes Thursday for an 8-under 65 to share the lead with Harris English in the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Thomas couldn’t have asked for a better

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The 18th hole on the Plantation Course measures 675 yards, although it’s all runway and tumble down the volcanic island paradise toward the Pacific. Still, Bryson DeChambeau needed just 7-iron to reach the green in two during Thursday’s opening round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “So I implemented some of his

11:09 AM ET Mike Whan, who took over the LPGA Tour during a tumultuous time in its his history more than 10 years ago, announced Wednesday that he will step down as commissioner sometime in 2021. Whan, 55, notified the LPGA board of directors that he will transition out of the role this year, with

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Tropical vistas, swaying palms, soaring drives. This week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions on Maui serves as a welcome paradisiacal backdrop as the PGA Tour resumes its 2020-21 season after a month-long intermission. It’s a new year, yes, but a dozen events have already been played on the wraparound schedule. Lucky No. 13

Adam Svensson played a full season on the PGA Tour in 2018-2019, but the 27-year-old Canadian kicked off 2021 by making more in a mini-tour event than in any of his starts on golf’s highest level. On Wednesday, Svensson captured the inaugural Big Money Golf Classic, and as the name indicates, this isn’t your typical

1:12 PM ET British golfers Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell have backed calls for the resumption of recreational golf in England after courses were temporarily closed. Under the new lockdown restrictions announced by Boris Johnson earlier this week, recreational golf courses have been forced to close. Westwood and McDowell have both promoted an online petition

KAPALUA, Hawaii—The green jacket is hanging in a closet at home. No need for a coat in Maui. “I’ve worn it a couple of times, not a whole lot,” Dustin Johnson said Wednesday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “I’ll put it on every once in a while at the house.” This week marks Johnson’s

7:29 AM ET Let’s get one thing straight, now that we have said goodbye to 2020, this is not a challenge to 2021. Like saying, “Welp, it can’t be any worse, right?” (forced uncomfortable laughter) ESPN + Subscribe to ESPN+ to get access to all premium articles, Fantasy tools, plus thousands of your favorite sporting

Picking winners in golf is tough—perhaps the toughest sport to cash outright wagers. Usually tournaments have 156 players, and there are so many variables each week. That’s why it’s imperative to trust the right information—and in addition to our anonymous tour caddie making picks from the range each week, we have three of the best

A trio of Hall of Fame golfers—Annika Sorenstam, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Gary Player—will receive the United States’ highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on Thursday from President Donald Trump. W.L. Pate Jr., president of the Babe Zaharias Foundation, is expected to accept the medal in honor of Zaharias, who died in 1956.

KAPALUA, Hawaii—Xander Schauffele, like everyone else at this week’s sun-splashed Sentry Tournament of Champions, is happy to be teeing it up in paradise. But not for the reasons one might think. First, he’s one of 16 players in the field who failed to win an official event last season (though he did have the lowest

7:44 AM ET The year has changed, but golf on the PGA Tour will be largely as we saw it when 2020 came to a close: virtually no spectators, weekly COVID-19 testing and possible withdrawals, Dustin Johnson as a solid No. 1 in the world, Bryson DeChambeau bombing tee shots, and never-ending speculation about where

Thankfully at Golf Digest, we listen well. Three of the sharpest data scientists in golf, Brandon Gdula of numberFire/FanDuel; Rick Gehman of RickRunGood.com; and Pat Mayo of Mayo Media Network, DraftKings and Fade the Noise, contribute their picks every week to our Golf Digest weekly experts’ picks column. Routinely, they will point us to players

The PGA Tour’s “super season” resumes this week in Maui, a celebration that calls for a super list. Over the holidays the Golf Digest staff batted around the question, “Who are the top 100 players on the PGA Tour?” It is a question judged by what we expect from players in 2021 while acknowledging their

It’s a good time to be a fan of the PGA Tour—or someone who bets on it. The 2020-’21 season resumes this week with the 2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions, the first of 29 consecutive weeks of PGA Tour events through the Olympics in July. This stretch follows 24 straight weeks of golf—from the tour’s

You can forgive Sarah Ingram if she feels like she’s experiencing some déjà vu in the coming weeks. In December 2019, the U.S. Curtis Cup captain hosted a group of top female American amateurs for a practice session in preparation for the scheduled June 2020 matches versus Great Britain & Ireland in Wales. But, like

The race for the 2021 FedEx Cup title is under way as the 2020-’21 tour season resumes with the Hawaii swing. The season-long FedEx Cup points standings will help determine who keeps their PGA Tour cards and who’ll be eligible for the FedEx Cup Playoffs come August. For all regular-season PGA Tour events, 500 FedEx

In any other year on the island of Maui, PGA Tour players would find their loyalties divided. Should they hit a few more balls on the range or join the kids in building sandcastles on the beach? Playing in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in the first week of January is the reward for extraordinary

There are New Year’s proclamations touted on social media we all know are coming each January that are accompanied with a bit of a collective eye roll. Promising you’re going to get into better shape. Vowing to read more books. Pledging to lower your handicap by three strokes. But there is one traditional post that