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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The top two golfers in the world are back in action this week, although their locations represent somewhat of a role reversal. World No. 1 Justin Rose is making his 2019 debut in the desert, just not the one where the European Tour is setting up shop. Rose is making his return to the Desert […]

Lee Westwood removed himself from consideration for the 2020 European Ryder Cup captaincy, but that won’t be the case when the matches head to Italy two years later. “I’d love to have it in Italy. I’ll not lie to you,” he told reporters Tuesday at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. “That would be ideal for […]

The PGA Tour heads back to the mainland this week, as Palm Springs plays host to the Desert Classic where several of the game’s bigger names will take their shot at the three-course rotation. Here’s a look at some of the marquee, early-round groupings in California as Phil Mickelson makes his 2019 debut on familiar […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Stacy Lewis really likes one of the rule changes in effect this year. She likes the ban on caddies aligning players for shots and putts. The practice has always been more prevalent in LPGA than PGA Tour events, but you won’t see it in this week’s LPGA season opener, the […]

The Sanderson Farms Championship is receiving an upgrade this fall. Played opposite a PGA Tour event every year since the advent of the FedEx Cup in 2007, the tournament’s organizers announced Tuesday that it will stand alone during the fall portion of the PGA Tour’s 2019-20 schedule. The event’s new dates are Sept. 16-22, a […]