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KAPALUA, Hawaii – In September, the PGA Tour unveiled the new strokes-based scoring format for this year’s Tour Championship, but one unanswered question was how world ranking points would be allocated at what is, essentially, a handicapped event. Under the new winner-take-all format, the FedExCup points leader will begin the Tour Championship at 10 under […]

Michelle Wie is taking the next step in her latest comeback, this time  from right-wrist surgery, and has been given the green light to start a bit of short game work. Wie posted this video to her Instagram page with the caption, “I still remember how to hit a chip shot!” Wie had wrist surgery in October […]

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Webb Simpson was searching for his ball in the weeds short of the fifth green Saturday at Kapalua when he stepped on a clump of grass and out popped the ball. Five days ago, he would have had to add one shot to his score. Under the new Rules of Golf, he put […]

Ah, golf. The sport can giveth and the sport can taketh away. Xander Schauffele found out both Sunday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. After bogeying his opening hole of the final round at Kapalua’s Plantation Course, Schauffele birdied four holes in a five-hole stretch on the front nine before holing a chip from 18 […]

Click:HEMC While Gary Woodland appeared ready to start the year with a stress-free victory, Xander Schauffele had other ideas. Here’s how things ended up at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, where Schauffele tied the course record to race past Woodland and top an elite field: Leaderboard: Xander Schauffele (-23), Gary Woodland (-22), Justin Thomas (-18), […]

Prize money payouts and FedExCup points breakdowns for all 33 players at the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions, including winner Xander Schauffele: Finish Player FedEx Money 1 Xander Schauffele 500 $1,300,000 2 Gary Woodland 300 759,000 3 Justin Thomas 190 475,000 4 Dustin Johnson 115 305,333 4 Marc Leishman 115 305,333 4 Rory McIlroy 115 […]

In the first week of the new year, Brooks Koepka played tournament golf while Justin Rose stayed home. As it turned out, that was all it took to reverse the top two spots in the Official World Golf Ranking. Koepka ended the year ranked No. 1 in the world, but he needed a top-8 finish […]

Kapalua’s Plantation Course not only offers picturesque views, it also serves as a playground for the PGA Tour’s longest drivers of the golf ball. Eighteen 400-plus-yard drives were sent into the Hawaiian air this week in Maui with Jon Rahm’s 421-yard tee ball on the 17th hole Friday ranking as the longest of the tournament. […]

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Rarely can a player point with complete conviction to a singular moment that proved pivotal to victory. In Xander Schauffele’s case Sunday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, there were actually two moments. Following a bogey at the first hole that dropped him six strokes off the lead, Schauffele rebounded with four birdies […]

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Rory McIlroy added the Sentry Tournament of Champions to his schedule this season for the first time in his career because he wanted to get his year off to a fast start and test his game after an intense offseason. To varying degrees he checked both items off his to-do list. Although he […]