3:59 PM ET James Leow and Nicklaus Chiam are hoping that local knowledge may give them an edge at the Sentosa Golf Club as the two tee off in the 2020 SMBC Singapore Open on Thursday. The two amateur golfers are among 13 Singaporeans looking to make home advantage count in a large field that
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2:55 PM ET Coming off one of the worst years of his career and approaching his 50th birthday, Phil Mickelson has a positive outlook about 2020 – and his goal is to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Mickelson is making his first start of the new year this week at the American Express in
5:14 PM ET Lisa D. Mickey LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The banter was lively among three LPGA Tour members and four celebrity golfers earlier this week during a short-game skills challenge leading into the LPGA’s season-opening Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions. Larry the Cable Guy produced faux flatulence in the backswing of tour veteran
1:50 PM ET The PGA Tour has unveiled a new pace-of-play policy that will include keeping a list of its slowest players on a week-to-week basis and levying penalties for “excessive shot times.” Based on ShotLink data the tour compiles, players will be placed on an observation list with warnings given if they exceed 60
1:52 PM ET Everyone complains about slow play. It’s definitely the easiest subject to get people to threaten they will stop watching golf. So what’s the truth from inside the ropes? This week, the PGA Tour announced some changes with the intention of getting players to pick up the pace. Will it work? We recently
10:52 AM ET Brooks Koepka said Tuesday he felt “excruciating” pain after re-tearing the patella tendon in his left knee when he slipped on wet concrete in October, forcing him to miss nearly three months. Koepka, the No. 1-ranked player in the world who is making his 2020 debut at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
8:34 AM ET Now that all your (our?) New Year’s resolutions have officially been discarded, why not start a new list of things we want from golf, hope from golf — oh, and also the things we are terrified to see in golf — in 2020? Sounds fun, right? So just a warning: My inspiration
8:41 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The PGA Tour will move the Byron Nelson away from Trinity Forest Golf Club after the tournament is played there for only the third time this May. The links-style course south of downtown Dallas was built in 2014 on the site of a former landfill. The Nelson moved
9:11 PM ET Lisa Mickey The LPGA Tour returns to Orlando for the second year to open its 2020 season and a new decade of women’s professional golf. This week’s Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions will welcome 26 LPGA tournament winners from the past two seasons in a low-key $1.2 million limited-field event that pairs
11:21 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Cameron Smith of Australia won his first PGA Tour title on his own Sunday when he least expected it. Two shots behind with two holes to play, Smith made an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole to force a playoff against a faltering Brendan Steele, and won