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HONOLULU – Following his victory last fall at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, his first on the PGA Tour in over four years, Matt Kuchar’s first thought  was “aloha.” The victory checked off a lot of boxes for the 40-year-old, but the one that immediately came to mind was that he’d qualified for the winner’s-only Sentry […]

HONOLULU – Although he came up four strokes short in his quest to win for the second time on the PGA Tour, Andrew Putnam left the Sony Open with one reason to be optimistic. The third-year Tour player paced the field with 447 feet of putts made. To put that into context, Matt Kuchar, who won […]

Internet sensation Hosung Choi has accepted a sponsor exemption into next month’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It’s the first Tour start for Choi, the South Korean journeyman who now has a legion of fans after his unorthodox swing made the rounds on social media. The 45-year-old, who is ranked 200th in the world, has […]

After bagging his second win in the last three months, Matt Kuchar made another jump in the latest installment of the Official World Golf Ranking. Kuchar captured the Sony Open with a closing 66, turning a two-shot lead into a four-shot margin of victory. As a result, he moved up 10 spots to No. 22 […]

John Oda overcame a double bogey Monday to maintain his lead at the Web.com Tour’s season opener. The UNLV product offset his double on the par-4 fifth hole with six birdies as part of a second-round, 4-under 68. At 13 under, Oda leads the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay by two shots over Marty Dou, […]

Let’s look back in history at this week in golf from Jan. 14-20. Information courtesy Golf Channel Research unit. Jan. 15, 2004: Michelle Wie makes her PGA Tour debut when she tees it up in the Sony Open in Hawaii at the age of 14 years, 2 months, 29 days. Jan. 16, 2000: Paul Azinger wins the […]

There’s a trend in golf of Australian standout amateurs turning pro as teenagers. Jason Day, Adam Scott and Cameron Smith all made the jump to the paid ranks at age 19. Minjee Lee, the sixth-ranked women’s player in the world, turned pro when she was 18 years old. Lee’s younger brother, 20-year-old Min Woo Lee, […]

Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING Kooch (+9%): At an age and with a skill set that should have relegated him to an afterthought on the bomb-and-gouge Tour, Matt Kuchar has dink-and-dunked his way to two wins in four worldwide […]

Tommy Fleetwood has officially broken up with his trusty set of irons. It was reported last summer that the Englishman was down to his last set of Nike VR Pro blades, which he’d used for the past several years as he soared up the world rankings. Nike exited the hard-goods industry in 2016, meaning Fleetwood […]

Rory McIlroy has committed to next week’s Farmers Insurance Open, marking the first time that he’ll tee it up at the San Diego-area event. The world No. 8 said that his primary focus in 2019 is on the PGA Tour, and so far that’s been true. He’s already added two new events in the first […]