9:30 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players has never had a back-to-back champion, and it won’t again this year with defending winner Cameron Smith playing in the LIV Golf League. Top stories of the week from Get exclusive access to more than 3,000 premium articles a year from top writers.• Kiper picks
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10:00 PM ET Rory McIlroy called it “a slap in the face” for James Hahn to miss Tuesday’s player meeting after Hahn had strongly criticized the PGA Tour’s new format of play announced for 2024. “Like, you say all this s— and you’re not even in the meeting?” McIlroy said of Hahn. “If you want
2:18 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — While acknowledging that the emergence of the LIV Golf League led to radical changes on the PGA Tour, including future events with limited fields of 70 to 80 players and no 36-hole cuts, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan insisted Tuesday that the rival circuits won’t be the
3:19 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods isn’t the only familiar name missing at the Players Championship this week. Defending champion Cameron Smith, who had eight one-putts in the final nine holes to win by a stroke over India’s Anirban Lahiri last year, also isn’t at TPC Sawgrass to defend what was
7:03 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A year ago, Cameron Smith captured what was then the richest winner’s purse in men’s golf history when he one-putted eight of the last nine holes to win the Players in a Monday finish. Smith collected $3.6 million after surviving rainy and windy conditions, along with a
8:15 AM ET Golf fans won’t get to see Tiger Woods at The Players, the PGA Tour’s signature event, but they won’t have to wait long to see him back on the course. Woods is expected to return at the Masters, the first major championship of the season. The start of the tournament at Augusta
8:00 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Arizona — David Toms got up-and-down for his third bogey of the week on the par-4 18th hole at Tucson National on Sunday to beat Robert Karlsson by one stroke in the Cologuard Classic on the PGA Tour Champions. The 56-year-old Toms was surprised to learn that his tee
6:26 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “You can’t ignore it. You got to
5:23 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Colombian rookie Nico Echavarria seized control with two straight birdies on the back nine and closed with a 4-under 68 for a 2-shot victory in the Puerto Rico Open for his first PGA Tour title. Echavarria was soaked on a sunny day at Grand Reserve,
3:42 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Jin Young Ko won for the first time in a year at the HSBC Women’s World Championship and hopes this signals a new start from a year of battling injuries that cost her the No. 1 ranking. Ko answered an early charge by Nelly Korda, held her nerve