Tag: Golf

To say Adam Hadwin is comfortable at the Desert Classic would be an understatement. Hadwin has finished T-6 or better in each of the past three editions of the La Quinta, Calif., Tour stop. That includes a runner-up finish in 2017, the same year he fired a third-round 59 at La Quinta Country Club. And […]

A Marino is looking to pull off a “Hail Mary” Sunday in the California desert. Steve Marino, 38, is burning the final start of his major medical extension to compete in this week’s Desert Classic. The veteran, who has battled numerous injuries during his 222-start PGA Tour career, needs around 260 FedExCup points to keep his […]

Phil Mickelson’s plan Saturday on PGA West’s Stadium Course was simple: Be aggressive. Though the Pete Dye design is the most challenging of the three courses in the Desert Classic rotation, Mickelson felt that if he was going to miss the Stadium’s tight fairways then he’d better have a short-iron or wedge into the greens. So […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Georgia Hall didn’t enjoy the offseason. It lasted way too long for her liking. After breaking through to win the Women’s British Open as her first LPGA title late last summer, she moved into the top 10 in the Rolex Rankings, becoming the first woman from England to do so […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Lydia Ko continues to evolve. She is just 21 years old, but she looks so much different than she did when she first joined the LPGA as a rookie five years ago. Her glasses are gone. Her black hair is blonde. Her body is transformed and reshaped. That’s what made […]

There are lucky breaks and then there is this one that Jerry Kelly got Saturday at the PGA Tour Champions’ season opener, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii. Sitting at 1 under through six holes of his final round (and 10 under overall), Kelly fanned his second shot well right at the par-5 seventh hole […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Brooke Henderson wasn’t happy with her finish Saturday at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, but she could take solace in knowing the tough conditions blowing in Sunday may favor her. Henderson bogeyed the final hole to lose a share of the lead. After a 2-under-par 69, she will start […]

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — On the strength of a back-nine 31 and a final-round of 6-under 66, Mexico’s Alvaro Ortiz won the Latin America Amateur Championship by two Sunday over Costa Rica’s Luis Gagne. Playing what would have been his final event as an amateur, Ortiz started the day with a one-shot lead but […]

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Luis Gagne couldn’t have summed it up any more succinctly Sunday: “You can’t lay up into a bunker.” Making his first and only Latin America Amateur Championship start for his native Costa Rica, Gagne finished runner-up to Mexico’s Alvaro Ortiz on Sunday at Casa de Campo. Two back to start […]

On Friday in St. John (Fla.) County court, Krista Glover, wife of PGA Tour player Lucas Glover, entered a deferred prosecution agreement following her arrest in May on charges of battery and resisting an officer without violence. For the Glovers, it marks the end of a long and emotional period as well as a chance […]