10:35 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA Tour golfer Phil Mickelson confirmed Thursday that he and his wife, Amy, hired William Singer and his for-profit college tutoring company to prepare their children for the college admission and selection process. Mickelson, speaking after his opening round at The Players Championship, said everything was done
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6:06 PM ET Pratima Sherpa, a 19-year-old amateur golfer from Nepal, will make her first appearance in a professional event on the Symetra Tour later this month. Sherpa, the subject of an Emmy-winning SC Featured installment last April, will play in the IOA Championship presented by Morongo Casino Resort & Spa on a sponsor exemption
5:15 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Phil Mickelson will play this summer in the 3M Open, the new PGA Tour stop in Minnesota. Mickelson’s commitment was announced Wednesday by tournament officials, giving the July 4-7 event a five-time major championship winner as a premier attraction. Mickelson is currently 20th in the world rankings.
2:23 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Plenty of controversy has enveloped the unveiling of several new golf rules in 2019, but that will not be cause for the PGA Tour to break away from the game’s governing bodies and come up with its own rulebook. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan made that clear
12:30 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods said the neck strain that kept him from playing last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational is no longer causing him pain, and that seemed apparent Tuesday during a nine-hole practice round that followed a lengthy practice session on Monday at TPC-Sawgrass. Woods missed a scheduled tournament
8:00 AM ET The relationship between caddies and players has never gotten more attention. You can thank Matt Kuchar and the controversy surrounding his initial payment of $5,000 to fill-in caddie David “El Tucan” Ortiz after Kuchar won the Mayakoba Classic in November. Kuchar, who took home $1,296,000, eventually got around to giving Ortiz a
8:59 AM ET The Players has a new date, making a March appearance for the first time since 2006. A variety of players have won the PGA Tour’s marquee event, from Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to Tim Clark and Stephen Ames. So, yes, it really is anybody’s game this week at TPC Sawgrass. So
8:56 AM ET In its most pressure-packed moments, golf can be a particularly lonely sport. There is no teammate to pass you the ball, no coach who can, in the moment, help you quiet your mind. You can talk to your caddie for a minute (or several minutes if you’re J.B. Holmes or Bryson DeChambeau),
8:18 AM ET It’s almost here. One month from now, returning champion Patrick Reed, along with Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods return to Augusta, Georgia, for the 83rd edition of the Masters Tournament. That’s right, the grandest golf tournament in the world and the first major championship of the PGA Tour
9:05 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Kirk Triplett made a 12-foot eagle putt on the second hole of a playoff with Woody Austin on Sunday to win the Hoag Classic for his seventh PGA Tour Champions victory. The 56-year-old Triplett forced the playoff with a similar left-to-right breaker for birdie on the