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One added wrinkle of the PGA Tour’s revamped schedule was revealed Monday when the USGA announced its lineup of sectional qualifying sites for the upcoming U.S. Open. Officials typically held a qualifier in early June in the Memphis area, with many PGA Tour pros in town for the FedEx St. Jude Classic. But with that […]

Golf fans everywhere were heaping praise on Dustin Johnson after he collected his 20th PGA Tour win at the WGC-Mexico Championship, including from inside the White House. Monday morning after Johnson cruised to a five-shot victory over Rory McIlroy in Mexico City, President Donald Trump tweeted his congratulations to DJ.  Johnson played golf with President […]

Let’s look back in history at this week in golf from Feb. 25-March 3. Information courtesy Golf Channel Research unit. Feb. 26, 1978: Jack Nicklaus birdies his final five holes to win the Honda Classic by one stroke over Grier Jones for his 65th career victory on the PGA Tour. Feb. 27, 1972: Tom Weiskopf wins […]

Akshay Bhatia, the 17-year-old reigning AJGA Rolex Junior Player of the Year, has received a sponsor exemption into the 2019 Valspar Championship. Bhatia is ranked eighth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He recently won the Jones Cup and is coming off a year in which he won the Boys Junior PGA, AJGA Polo Golf […]

Erik Compton earned his first PGA Tour start since 2016 after Monday-qualifying into this week’s Honda Classic. Compton, a 39-year-old two-time heart-transplant recipient, shot 7-under 65 Monday at Banyan Cay Resort & Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., to share medalist honors with Canadian Drew Nesbitt. Compton eagled the par-5 18th hole to qualify […]

Each week on GolfChannel.com, we’ll examine which players’ stocks and trends are rising and falling in the world of golf. RISING DJ (+9%): Meet the new king, same as the old king. When he’s locked in, as he was in Mexico, there’s no one else in golf who can touch him. Martin Trainer (+6%): Hey, […]

The R&A announced Tuesday that Royal Liverpool Golf Club will host The Open in 2022. Located in the town of Hoylake in northwest England, Royal Liverpool has hosted The Open 12 times before, although just two of those instances have come since 1968. But they both produced notable champions: Tiger Woods won on a crispy […]

With the announcement that The Open will return to Royal Liverpool in 2022, the wait for Trump Turnberry continues. The Ailsa Course along the southwest coast of Scotland has hosted The Open four times previously, the last coming when Stewart Cink beat Tom Watson in a playoff in 2009. The course was purchased by Donald […]

The introduction this year of various new elements to the Rules of Golf have not been painless, from issues with caddie alignment to putting with the flagstick in the hole, golf’s guardians have been busy in 2019. “I think it’s fair to say that it hasn’t gone as smoothly as I would have liked, but […]

Returning The Open to Royal Portrush for the first time in nearly 70 years, the R&A had plenty of variables to consider about staging this summer’s tournament. And that was before the term “Brexit” came into existence. Portrush was awarded The Open back in 2015, more than a year before the United Kingdom voted on […]