1:05 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The RBC Canadian Open, the fourth-oldest national championship in golf, has been canceled for the second straight year because of circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament, which dates to 1904, was to be played June 10-13 at St. George’s Golf & Country Club outside Toronto. “Even
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12:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The PGA Tour is slowly seeing a return of spectators to its events, and this week’s Players Championship will have the most yet, a capacity of 20% at the TPC-Sawgrass Stadium course that will equate to roughly 8,000 to 10,000 people per day. PGA Tour commissioner Jay
7:20 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — One year ago, on Thursday afternoon at the Players Championship, Rory McIlroy wasn’t worried about a virus. He was annoyed. The defending champion at the PGA Tour’s signature event, he had just opened with even-par 72, sat 9 shots behind leader Hideki Matsuyama and was staring at
7:08 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The long ball helped Bryson DeChambeau outlast Lee Westwood on Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational, only the key shots were as much with his putter as his driver. DeChambeau holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the front nine and a 50-foot par putt early on
8:32 PM ET Phil Mickelson has fallen out of the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since 1993, when he won the International tournament for his second PGA Tour victory. He stayed in the top 100 for a record 1,425 weeks. Mickelson, 50, who did not play this week’s
5:04 PM ET Brooks Koepka, who was making a strong return in 2021 after several frustrating injuries, has withdrawn from next week’s Players Championship due to a right knee strain. It is not the same knee that plagued him at the end of 2019 and into 2020. Koepka had a stem cell procedure on his
8:31 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Arnold Palmer might have given Bryson DeChambeau a few quizzical looks. He might have wondered about DeChambeau’s single-length irons and the wild diet and all the talk about science. Surely, he would have made fun of the Ben Hogan cap. But the late namesake of the tournament DeChambeau won
6:04 PM ET Associated Press OCALA, Fla. — Austin Ernst won the Drive On Championship on Sunday for her third LPGA Tour title, pulling away to beat fellow former NCAA champion Jennifer Kupcho by five strokes at Golden Ocala. Tied for the lead with Kupcho after each of the first two rounds and a stroke
5:22 PM ET Tracey Stewart, the widow of PGA Tour golfer Payne Stewart, is selling more than 200 items from her late husband’s personal collection with The Golf Auction, available now through March 14. Stewart died in a plane crash in 1999 at the age of 42. He was survived by Tracey and their two
1:57 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Steve Stricker wore red and black in honor of Tiger Woods on Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and said he hopes to have his longtime friend at the Ryder Cup this fall “in one way, shape or form.” But the U.S. Ryder Cup captain would not go so