Power rankings: The Players Championship

The PGA Tour has a home game this week, with The Players Championship emanating from the Tour’s headquarters at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The tournament is hard to predict, in part because the host course is so democratic in nature. At 7,215 yards, it’s not long by modern standards. Pete Dye’s design […]

Power rankings: Wells Fargo Championship

The PGA Tour heads into North Carolina this week, playing the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The home of the 2017 PGA Championship plays host to defending champion Rory McIlroy, a two-time winner here, as well Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and J.B. Holmes.  With so much talent assembled the […]

Snedeker ’embarrassed’ as Lingmerth leads Aussie PGA Championship

Brandt Snedeker shot 75 to miss the cut on Friday at the Australian PGA Championship, a day after an opening 84 in windy conditions left him near the bottom of the leaderboard. Unfortunately, the nine-shot improvement was nowhere near enough to get the American to the weekend at Royal Links. At 15-over 159, Snedeker missed […]

Schwartzel wins Alfred Dunhill Championship for fourth time, 10th Euro Tour win

It must be that home cookin’ for Charl Schwartzel. The 2011 Masters champion won the Alfred Dunhill Championship for the fourth time on Sunday, taking the title at Leopard Creek in his native South Africa with a 15-under 273 total. Schwartzel was four better than Frenchman Gregory Bourdy, with Bourdy’s countrymen Benjamin Hebert and rookie […]

Ko trails Jang by two at CME Tour Championship, hangs onto CME Globe edge

Despite a late 3-over stretch on Friday, Lydia Ko is in position to win both the CME Group Tour Championship and the Race to the CME Globe for the second year in a row. Ko shot 5-under 67 at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., to trail Ha Na Jang by two shots heading into […]

Jordan Spieth wins Tour Championship by four, takes FedEx Cup

If there was any debate as to who should win the PGA Tour’s peer-voted Player of the Year award, Jordan Spieth made the closing statement on Sunday that ended the race. Spieth won the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta by four shots and, in the process, clinched the 2014-15 FedEx Cup, […]

Spieth one round away from FedEx Cup and Tour Championship

Jordan Spieth is one round away from ending the season by ending the discussion.  Spieth carries a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson into the final round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, and, if he can finish off his fifth PGA Tour win of the season on Sunday, he’ll win […]

Jordan Spieth photobombs Tour Championship fans during his round

Jordan Spieth is always great with the fans — apparently, even if they sometimes don’t know it.  Ansley Fetz showed up to the Tour Championship open practice round on Wednesday with a friend and wanted to get a selfie to mark the occasion. It just so happened for Fetz that Spieth was walking by inside […]

Jason Day dominating BMW Championship, leads by 5 shots

Right now, Jason Day is unstoppable. On Friday, Day first finished off a first-round 10-under 61 at the BMW Championship before shooting 63 in Round 2 at Conway Farms Golf Club just outside of Chicago. His 18-under 124 total is five clear of the 69-player field.  For the second consecutive round, Day dropped a shot […]

Henrik Norlander takes Hotel Fitness Championship with final-round 62

Henrik Norlander entered the final round of the Hotel Fitness Championship trailing leader D.H. Lee by six shots, with a crowded path of contenders to pass along the way to the top.  Then Norlander made 10 birdies and no bogeys on Sunday at Sycamore Hills Golf Club, shooting a 62 that allowed him to sprint […]