Golf

10:01 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Michelle Wie West struggled through a round of 9-over 81 in her first tournament in nearly two years, and Inbee Park shot a 6-under 66 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the Kia Classic at Aviara. Park had a solid, bogey-free round in rainy, breezy conditions

9:20 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Bob MacIntyre grew up playing the rough-and-tumble Scottish sport of shinty, and he had more than enough fight to give Dustin Johnson all he could handle Thursday in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Johnson had to rally late with an eagle and a clutch birdie to send

5:57 PM ET The spectators who will be allowed to attend the Masters in two weeks will no longer be required to show a negative COVID-19 test to enter, Augusta National announced. The tournament, which begins April 8, will have a limited number of spectators on-site, although the exact figures have not been disclosed. The

8:56 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Jon Rahm and Patrick Cantlay thrust their fists in celebration with birdies on the final hole to win, the kind of emotions typical for a final round. In the Dell Technologies Match Play, every day can feel like Sunday. The opening round of group play Wednesday featured

3:39 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Rory McIlroy hasn’t walked off the course this early in 10 years at the Dell Technologies Match Play. Ian Poulter had a lot to do with that. He hit two pivotal shots to pull away and applied enough pressure on the other holes that McIlroy had to

Jon Rahm ‘ready to go’ at any time with first child due during Masters Jon Rahm, whose first child is due during Masters week, said Tuesday that “being a father is much more important than any golf event would ever be” and that he was ready to head home at a moment’s notice.

10:36 AM ET Water hazards are part of golf. A pond here. A lake there. Throw in a couple of oceans, even an island green. Typically, though, pools don’t often come into play on the PGA Tour. Well, Rory McIlroy has been struggling — even he admits that — so anything is possible. On the

3:13 PM ET Jon Rahm is considered among the favorites to win the Masters in a few weeks, but the golfer said that recommendation should come with an asterisk: His wife, Kelley, is expecting the couple’s first child. “All I can say is if anybody’s thinking of betting on me [at] the Masters, maybe think

8:00 AM ET Christiaan Bezuidenhout does not remember what happened. He was just 2 years old at the time. All these years later, though, he knows how close he came to death. Bezuidenhout, 26, might be the best golfer in the world you don’t know about. He has climbed to 35th in the Official World

8:15 PM ET Two weeks before the Masters, Rory McIlroy is making a formal coaching addition, tapping longtime instructor Pete Cowen to help with his game. McIlroy has sought help from Cowen in recent weeks at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship and now will have the Englishman on board in a more

6:17 PM ET March Madness will makes its way to the golf world this week, as the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event is set to commence Wednesday at Austin Country Club in Texas after a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who won this event in 2017, is the

4:55 PM ET A bone chip in his left hand suffered in 2018 may have been part of the reason why Jordan Spieth struggled for a good bit of time since his last victory on the PGA Tour at the 2017 Open. Spieth, reluctant to give much detail or use it as an excuse, said

11:32 AM ET Associated Press The Rocket Mortgage Classic made its debut on the PGA Tour in 2019 and won the inaugural “Fair Way Award” for diversity and inclusion by leaning on minority-owned vendors at Detroit Golf Club and having a volunteer base that reflected the community. Turns out that was just the start. The

9:14 PM ET Another knee procedure has Brooks Koepka‘s Masters status in doubt more than two weeks prior to the start of the first major championship of 2021. Koepka, 30, a four-time major champion who won earlier this year at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, told Golfweek on Sunday that he had surgery on his

6:36 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — When Matt Jones won his first PGA Tour title seven years ago, he needed a 45-foot birdie putt just to get into a playoff and then a 40-yard chip-in to take the victory. This win was far less dramatic, yet just as meaningful. It got

10:35 AM ET South Africa’s Justin Harding produced a flawless final round of five-under-par 66 at the Kenya Open on Sunday to seal a two-shot victory over Kurt Kitayama and his second European Tour title. Overnight leader Harding, whose maiden tour win came two years ago at the Qatar Masters, maintained his composure amid a

6:56 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Aaron Wise had a six-shot lead during the third round of The Honda Classic, looking poised to turn the tournament into a rout. Everything went wrong from there, and Matt Jones took full advantage. Jones, a 40-year-old Australian, handled the wind at PGA National to

1:46 PM ET Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Justin Harding will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the European Tour’s Kenya Open after a 7-under 64 on Saturday. The South African moved to 16 under overall at Karen Country Club. American Johannes Veerman is one of three players sharing second place after