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Tiger Woods joins another White House meeting as PGA Tour moves closer to Saudi deal
Read full article: Tiger Woods joins another White House meeting as PGA Tour moves closer to Saudi dealTiger Woods and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan are part of a White House meeting that signals more progress in getting a deal done with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf.
Monahan says bringing LIV players back into the fold is a top priority for golf
Read full article: Monahan says bringing LIV players back into the fold is a top priority for golfPGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says the White House meeting with President Donald Trump last week gets golf closer to reunification.
Trump and Jay Monahan meet at White House as PGA Tour deal with Saudis gets closer
Read full article: Trump and Jay Monahan meet at White House as PGA Tour deal with Saudis gets closerPGA Tour Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is thanking President Donald Trump for helping the tour close in on a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf.
What to stream: 'Severance' returns, a Mac Miller album and Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx pair up
Read full article: What to stream: 'Severance' returns, a Mac Miller album and Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx pair upKieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg playing mismatched cousins in the acclaimed movie โA Real Painโ and Mac Millerโs second posthumous full-length album โBalloonerismโ are some of this weekโs new streaming entertainment releases.
PGA Tour moves toward changes to FedEx Cup finale. Finding a solution everyone likes won't be easy
Read full article: PGA Tour moves toward changes to FedEx Cup finale. Finding a solution everyone likes won't be easyCommissioner Jay Monahan wasnโt kidding when he told the PGA Tour staff in his year-end message that everything was on the table.
PGA Tour commissioner says sides are making progress on deal with Saudi backers of LIV Golf
Read full article: PGA Tour commissioner says sides are making progress on deal with Saudi backers of LIV GolfPGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says the difficulty in finalizing a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf isnโt a reason for concern.
Webb Simpson offers to resign from PGA Tour board. But only if McIlroy replaces him, AP source says
Read full article: Webb Simpson offers to resign from PGA Tour board. But only if McIlroy replaces him, AP source saysRory McIlroy could be rejoining the PGA Tour board just six months after he resigned.
Lee leads the Australian PGA Championship by 3 shots from Hoshino of Japan
Read full article: Lee leads the Australian PGA Championship by 3 shots from Hoshino of JapanMin Woo Lee has extended his lead to three shots at the Australian PGA Championship after a 5-under 66 to move to 17 under after three rounds.
After catching escaped murderer, officers took a photo with him. Experts say that was inappropriate
Read full article: After catching escaped murderer, officers took a photo with him. Experts say that was inappropriateA group of two dozen officers posed for a photo with escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante, minutes after his capture.
Denny McCarthy shoots 60, Rory McIlroy has his first ace on PGA Tour in the Travelers Championship
Read full article: Denny McCarthy shoots 60, Rory McIlroy has his first ace on PGA Tour in the Travelers ChampionshipDenny McCarthy came inches from shooting a 59, settling for a 10-under 60 for the lowest round of his PGA Tour career, and Rory McIlroy made his first ace on tour on a day of low numbers at the Travelers Championship.
Hatton in 3-way tie for lead at Wells Fargo; McIlroy falters
Read full article: Hatton in 3-way tie for lead at Wells Fargo; McIlroy faltersTyrrell Hatton shot a 6-under 65 to move into a share of the second-round lead at the Wells Fargo Championship, while Rory McIlroyโs bid for a record fourth tournament title hit a major snag.
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Column: Golf fortunes change quickly for Antoine Rozner
Read full article: Column: Golf fortunes change quickly for Antoine Rozner(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AUSTIN, Texas โ For a sport known for its glacial pace, fortunes can change quickly in golf. That was the cutoff for the top 64 players to get in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Rozner won all four of his matches at Formby Golf Club on the Lancashire coast of England. Rozner said he spoke to Dubuisson last week to find out why he did so well in the Match Play in 2014. I'm trying to take it match after match, step after step.โHe makes it sound like a slow process.
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Jones survives a challenging day, takes 3-shot lead at Honda
Read full article: Jones survives a challenging day, takes 3-shot lead at HondaโI'm happy to go low with the ball flight and I'm probably a little more conservative when the wind is up," Jones said. Thatโs when his woes started, and what became a nine-shot turnaround between he and Jones began. Jones grabbed a share of the lead with a birdie at the par-4 14th. And when Wise made bogey at the par-3 15th, Jones was the outright leader again. โJust keep doing what I'm doing," Jones said.
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Match Play field set with possibilities that remain for more
Read full article: Match Play field set with possibilities that remain for moreThen, Brian Harman shot 69 to tie for third at The Players Championship and went from No. Most curious is the case of Gary Woodland, the former U.S. Open champion and a Match Play finalist in 2015. Under the PGA Tour guidelines, he has to self-isolate for 10 days. THE BOUNCEIt didnโt take Collin Morikawa long to learn how to win on the PGA Tour. A year later, he won a playoff over Justin Thomas at Muirfield Village and a major at the PGA Championship.
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Great start and a better finish gives Burns lead at Riviera
Read full article: Great start and a better finish gives Burns lead at Riviera(AP Photo/Ryan Kang)LOS ANGELES โ Sam Burns had the ideal start at Riviera. The 24-year-old Burns is still looking for his first PGA Tour victory. On one of the best courses of the year, against another stacked field, it was a good first step. โYou canโt ask for a course in better shape,โ said Johnson, who won two weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. The 72-hole record, 20-under 264 that Lanny Wadkins set in 1985, has stood the longest of any PGA Tour event.
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Broken clubs behind him, Koepka feeling better about game
Read full article: Broken clubs behind him, Koepka feeling better about gameIt's just sometimes results take a little bit longer.โThere are photos to illustrate what Koepka did to his clubs, but those stay among his posse. A lot of players feel that way, but not to the point of naming their son after Riviera (Johnson's youngest is River). โI feel like itโs a tough golf course,โ Johnson said. โGenerally, the quality of golf course theyโre played on is at a very high standard and Riviera fits that category. I feel like if youโve had a good week here, itโs a good measure certainly generally of where your game is at.โ
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Reed dodges controversy to share 54-hole lead at Farmers
Read full article: Reed dodges controversy to share 54-hole lead at Farmers(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO โ Patrick Reed was involved in another rules controversy Saturday in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Believing the ball didn't bounce, Reed picked it up to see if it was embedded before a rules official arrived. Reed told the official that no one in his group, as well as a nearby volunteer, saw it bounce. โAt that point we go with what the rules official said and also with what the volunteers and what we see,โ Reed said. Reed shared the lead with Alex Noren after the first round and was one shot off the lead after 36 holes.
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Viktor Hovland vaults into Farmers lead at wet Torrey Pines
Read full article: Viktor Hovland vaults into Farmers lead at wet Torrey PinesViktor Hovland, left, of Norway, waits to putt on the eighth hole of the South Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO โ Viktor Hovland birdied his final for a 7-under 65 on Torrey Pinesโ tough South Course on a rainy, miserable Friday, giving him a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Famers Insurance Open. Reed shot an even-par 72 on the South Course a day after firing an 8-under 64 on the easier North Course. AdThe weather is supposed to clear up for the weekend rounds on the South Course. โI just played really solid and made some putts.โHe had just one bogey, on the par-4 15th.
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Stewart Cink, Webb Simpson share early lead at Sony Open
Read full article: Stewart Cink, Webb Simpson share early lead at Sony OpenStewart Cink follows his shot from the first tee box during the second round of the Sony Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Jamm Aquino)HONOLULU โ Stewart Cink could not remember a more ideal day in Hawaii, and he had a round that matched the occasion. Enjoying a surge in the twilight of his career, the 47-year-old Cink putted for birdie on all but one hole Friday on his way to a 7-under 63 that gave him a share of the early lead with Webb Simpson. Cink already won the season-opener in the Safeway Open in September, his first victory since the 2009 British Open at Turnberry. Simpson holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventh hole, hit it tight on No.
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Masters behind him, Johnson ready to keep going in new year
Read full article: Masters behind him, Johnson ready to keep going in new yearโMotivation for me, it's not that hard,โ Johnson said Wednesday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, where he has won twice. Johnson was runner-up at the PGA Championship, losing a one-shot lead at Harding Park to a closing 64 by Collin Morikawa. And he did enough at the Tour Championship to claim the FedEx Cup for the first time. Johnson spent much of last week down the coast in Makena to chill out and do a little work. Because of the shortened season, anyone who made it to the Tour Championship joined the 26 winners at Kapalua.
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Familiar place, unfamiliar faces at Kapalua to start year
Read full article: Familiar place, unfamiliar faces at Kapalua to start yearNo one has ever gone more than a year without winning and ended the drought at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Winning is the only way to get to Maui at the start of the year, so Schauffele and 15 other players ordinarily wouldn't be here. โI got an asterisk for winning the Tour Championship that counted in certain things and not in others,โ Schauffele said. Horschel said the tour has crunched numbers and in a normal year, it would add eight to 10 players to Kapalua. The tour has contemplated an expanded field over the years, such as giving a two-year exemption to Kapalua for winning a tournament.
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Not good enough: Smith runner-up despite four rounds in 60s
Read full article: Not good enough: Smith runner-up despite four rounds in 60sOn the heels of shooting 67, 68 and 69 over the first three rounds, Smith finished with a 15-under total that would've been good enough to win most years. โIt would have been cool to do that and win,โ Smith said โI would take 15 under around here for the rest of my career. Smith, playing up ahead in the next-to-last threesome, brilliantly scrambled for birdies at the seventh and ninth holes, leaving him two behind at the turn. โI wouldn't say I brought my best stuff, especially my longer stuff,โ Smith said. Unfortunately for Smith and Im, Johnson was even better.