KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In front is a green, surrounded by waste bunkers and marsh and dunes against the backdrop of the Atlantic. Behind stands all of America. It is a beautiful convergence that can make the biggest titan feel small and turn the coldest S.O.B. sentimental. Yet to one observer, the appeal of the
6:35 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Monday qualifier Dicky Pride won the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing with a 5-under 67 for a 3-stroke victory. Making his 11th senior start, the 51-year-old Pride had six birdies in an 11-hole stretch before dropping a stroke on
By Jason Lusk | May 17, 2021 5:07 pm Follow @GolfweekJLu Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course takes its second turn as host of the PGA Championship this week, welcoming players and fans back to the South Carolina seaside just south of Charleston. The Ocean Course was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1991
The 2021 LPGA Tour season moves on to its 10th tournament of the year this week at the Pure Silk Championship. At a glance, it would seem like a run-of-the-mill event, albeit one that begins a parade of 11 straight weeks of tournaments through early August. But with a closer look, the stop at Kingsmill
By Steve DiMeglio | May 17, 2021 10:00 am Follow @Steve_DiMeglio A dozen years have passed, but the conversation remains vivid in the scholarly mind of Rick Sessinghaus. The noted golf instructor in Southern California who was giving 50-60 lessons per week back then, especially to those in the junior ranks, sat down next to
Here’s a problem golf fans should be glad to have: There will be more hours of live coverage from this week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah than there are actual hours in the day. For the second straight year, the PGA Championship will feature wire-to-wire 72-hole coverage via CBS Sports, ESPN, ESPN+ and Paramount+. According to
May 13, 2021 John Daly‘s story has always been the stuff of fiction. You just don’t win one of golf’s four major championships having never seen the course, let alone getting into the field as an obscure alternate. Yet, 30 years ago, in 1991, John Daly emerged as the long-hitting “grip-it-and-rip-it” folk hero when he
By Julie Williams | May 16, 2021 7:15 pm Follow @Golfweek_Jules Once again, Methodist’s women are the NCAA Division III national champions in women’s golf, having edged Carnegie Mellon on May 14 at Forest Akers West Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan, to win their 14th national title. The week – particularly the final round
“I always called him after each round. I texted him first. ‘Today I was hitting better … today I was shit.’ It was always something like that. And then I’d end up calling him when I got to the hotel, and I’d go through every single shot. What I ate for dinner. What I ate
6:32 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — K.H. Lee was more than happy to play through a steady downpour in the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson, and didn’t mind waiting out a weather delay of more than two hours Sunday. The reward was the final spot next week in the PGA Championship.
By Julie Williams | May 16, 2021 6:26 pm Follow @Golfweek_Jules A year separates Illinois Wesleyan’s last national title from its current one, but let the record show that the Titans are COVID-era back-to-back national champions. Illinois Wesleyan capped off its second NCAA Division III National Championship at Speidel Jones Course at Oglebay Resort and
Don’t look now, but another major week is upon us. A little more than a month after Hideki Matsuyama delivered for Japan, the world’s best head to Kiawah Island for this week’s PGA Championship. By some metrics—this is the only major to give exemptions to the top 100 players in the World Ranking—this is the
By Adam Schupak | May 15, 2021 7:10 pm Follow @AdamSchupak A decade after his coming out party at the AT&T Byron Nelson as a 16-year-old prodigy, Jordan Spieth is in position to win his hometown tournament for the first time. Or, if nothing less, perhaps record his first top-10 finish in his 10th attempt
6:32 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Paul Goydos shot a bogey-free 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Billy Andrade into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Goydos, 56, had an 8-under 136 total at TPC Sugarloaf. He has five senior victories after winning twice
Sam Burns is looking to test the “flood gates” theory on Sunday at the AT&T Byron Nelson (and we’re not talking about the early tee times the PGA Tour implemented to try to avoid the wet afternoon forecast outside Dallas). The 24-year-old former college player of the year at LSU had held the 54-hole lead
By Adam Woodard | May 15, 2021 8:10 pm For Stephan Jaeger, promotion to the PGA Tour is just 18 holes away. Looking for his third win of the season, which would earn him automatic promotion to the big leagues, Jaeger kept his foot on the gas and extended his lead at the Korn Ferry
Jordan Spieth’s 55-foot, triple-breaking eagle conversion at TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th on Thursday was going to be an impossible highlight to top this week, especially for himself. But this is Jordan Spieth we’re talking about, a man who can fill up half of SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays just on the back nine when he
6:43 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sam Burns still has the lead going into the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson despite more magic on the 18th green from local favorite Jordan Spieth. Now it’s a race to beat the weather in Texas in the final round with a good number of
By Tim Schmitt | May 15, 2021 5:43 pm MCKINNEY, Texas – Scoot over, 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale. The PGA Tour might have new royalty when it comes to golf insanity. The 17th hole at TPC Craig Ranch, the new venue for the AT&T Byron Nelson, is enclosed much like the famous 16th at
Nobody beats Richard Bland more than 477 times in a row. Finally putting an end to almost two decades of professional futility, the 48-year-old Englishman is at last a winner on the European Tour. In his 478th start, Bland shot a final round of 66 at The Belfry on Saturday to reach 13 under par
By Adam Schupak | May 14, 2021 8:00 pm Follow @AdamSchupak Brooks Koepka’s return to action this week at the AT&T Byron Nelson turned out to be a short visit to ‘Big D.’ The four-time major champion shot 71-70—141 at TPC Craig Ranch and missed the cut. It took 6-under 138 or better to play
8:39 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Now that Sam Burns has figured out how to turn an early lead into a victory, it’s already time to try again. Burns birdied six of his last eight holes Friday for a 10-under 62 and a two-stroke lead over Alex Noren at 17 under after the
Imagine dedicating years of your life to achieving a single goal, only to have it ripped away from you at the last minute. That’s what happened Wednesday at the NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Regional in Baton Rouge, La. That morning, 110 women headed to The University Club, home to LSU’s men’s and women’s golf,
By Adam Woodard | May 14, 2021 8:49 pm It’s Moving Day in Dallas. The PGA Tour is back in the Lonestar State this week as TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, hosts this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson for the first time. Sam Burns claimed the 36-hole lead thanks to a bogey-free second-round 62 that
When you’re hot, you’re hot. It also helps when your last name is Burns. OK, so maybe that’s just a coincidence, but there could be something to it given how scalding hot Sam Burns is right now. Two weeks removed from his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Valspar Championship, Burns has grabbed the 36-hole
5:52 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Stephen Ames shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. The 57-year-old Ames had an opening bogey and seven birdies for a one-stroke lead over Paul Goydos. “I don’t think I had one highlight, I think
By Beth Ann Nichols and Adam Schupak | May 14, 2021 2:56 pm As the candidate list for LPGA commissioner continues to narrow, Golfweek has learned that another prominent female leader in the industry is no longer in the mix. Alex Baldwin, current president of the Korn Ferry Tour, confirmed that she has made her
Just two weeks after saying he was unsure if he’d accept a special exemption into the U.S. Open, the USGA announced on Friday that Phil Mickelson did accept its special exemption into the 121st U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Mickelson, who now its at 116th in the Official World Golf Ranking following his 69th-place finish
By Todd Kelly | May 13, 2021 8:11 pm The Seminole State Raiders won the 2021 NJCAA Women’s National Championship at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond Beach, Florida on Thursday. The Florida junior college won the four-day event at 46 over, 45 shots better than Daytona State College. Ranger CC (+154) was
6:41 AM ET Omar Uresti has gone from an obscure, little-known PGA Tour player to a full controversial PGA Professional in a very short amount of time. But through everything that’s happened to him, Uresti’s just a guy who wants to play golf for a living. Full disclosure: My journey into the professional golf world
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