1:45 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Champions Boeing Classic scheduled to be held in August outside of Seattle has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tournament director Brian Flajole said Thursday that uncertainty about the ability to hold large public gatherings in Washington state led to the decision to not hold the
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8:26 AM ET World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has said he wants to see greater racial diversity in golf and hopes the Black Lives Matter movement will lead to lasting change in society. The Northern Irishman said he idolized Tiger Woods when he was growing up and hopes to see more racial diversity in professional
8:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a three-month hiatus, PGA Tour golf is back. A loaded field will descend on Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, this week. The tournament has attracted the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking, including No. 1 Rory McIlroy, and eight of the top 10.
9:32 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf and most
8:59 PM ET Fan favorite Rickie Fowler will be the lone PGA Tour player miked up when golf returns Thursday at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. “Other players have agreed to wear mics. But there’s only certain groups that are within the TV window,” Molly Solomon, an executive at Golf Channel, which
7:56 PM ET Associated Press One player and three caddies on the developmental Korn Ferry Tour have tested positive for the coronavirus. The PGA Tour said it administered 1,559 tests — at home and at tournament sites — for the PGA Tour event in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Korn Ferry Tour event in Ponte
4:19 PM ET The Memorial Tournament will require fans to wear masks when next month it becomes the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators. The tournament was given approval last week by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to allow a limited number of spectators at Muirfield Village Golf Golf in Dublin, Ohio, a number that
3:51 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — If the Ryder Cup does not have fans when it is scheduled to be played in September, Brooks Koepka said it is possible he would not participate. “The fans make that event,” Brooks Koepka said Wednesday as he prepared for this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge. “The fans make
11:46 AM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — PGA Tour member Tony Finau took to Instagram Wednesday to put his support behind social justice reform and Black Lives Matter in response to the death of George Floyd. “It hit me today that the worst thing I could say pertaining to Black Lives Matter, police brutality and
8:39 AM ET The United States team is changing the way it selects players for the 2020 Ryder Cup, due to the number of PGA Tour events that were canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. captain Steve Stricker will now have six at-large selections — up from four — when the automatic qualifiers are determined