Category: Golf

There was no more impressive score Wednesday in Abu Dhabi than Ian Poulter’s opening 66. The Englishman endured a 34-hour door-to-door travel adventure as he hightailed it from the Sony Open in Hawaii on Sunday night to Abu Dhabi by Tuesday evening. Fighting through jet lag, Poulter managed five birdies early before running out of […]

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — In the three years since Costa Rica’s Paul Chaplet won the Latin America Amateur Championship, he’s matured a great deal. He’s done that thanks in part to a solid ass kicking (his words) at the hands of Augusta National. Chaplet won the second edition of the LAAC when he was just 16 years […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Lexi Thompson will try to keep the chemistry going. She will tee it up in the LPGA’s season opener this week with her youngest brother, Curtis, as caddie. He was on her bag when she won the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship last year. While Curtis has his own playing […]

Click:platform satellite Justin Rose is as curious as anyone entering the Desert Classic. The world No. 1 is in the midst of a remarkable run of consistency – he has just one finish outside the top 25 in the past 10 months – but he admits there are plenty of unknowns as he makes his […]

With one last birdie putt and an emphatic fist pump, Zecheng “Marty” Dou put an exclamation mark on the season-opener on the Web.com Tour. Dou started the final round of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic with a three-shot lead, seemingly in position for an easy victory to start the year. But he made three back-nine […]

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — For the first time in the history of the Latin America Amateur Championship, the defending champion isn’t here to defend. Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, the 2018 LAAC winner, is a professional these days, having made the jump after playing the Masters as an amateur last April. He needed just five starts to […]

Defending champion Sergio Garcia, battling a sinus infection and an upset stomach, shot 2-under 69 to trail by three in Round 1 of the Singapore Open. Taiwan’s Hung Chien-Yao was able to complete a 5-under 66 to take the outright lead before inclement weather suspended play. Despite his illness, Garcia felt he played – if […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – If legalized gambling is going to boost interest in golf, the LPGA doesn’t want to be left behind. Commissioner Mike Whan is positioning the tour to be ready to manage and benefit from real-time betting when it takes off. He’s preparing to invest the tour in a shot-tracking system that […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Being invited to the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions is a special way to start the season, all the more for those who won their first career LPGA event in 2018. Pernilla Lindberg’s first tour title came at the ANA Inspiration, after a two-day, eight-hole playoff against Inbee Park. An […]

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Will players really be allowed to putt with the pins in during at the Masters? Asked that question Thursday at the Latin America Amateur Championship, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley didn’t say no. Under the new Rules of Golf, which went into effect on Jan. 1, players are now allowed […]