7:32 PM ET ATLANTA — Golfers know how nice it looks to see 3s on the scorecard, and Tiger Woods made a bunch of them Saturday at East Lake to take his first 54-hole lead in a tournament since his last victory in 2013. Woods began his round with five consecutive 3s and six birdies
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1:56 AM ET ATLANTA — The chaos that constantly surrounds him can never be overstated. An incessant combination of cheers, chatter and combustion follows him from green to tee, down the fairway, with moments of peace coming only during his shots. You wonder how Tiger Woods manages to deal with the level of noise and
1:12 PM ET Australia’s Lucas Herbert will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Portugal Masters after carding a 7-under-par 64 at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course on Saturday. Herbert’s score of 19 under in Vilamoura, his best after 54 holes on the European Tour, put him ahead of Englishman Tom
12:33 PM ET Associated Press AMES, Iowa — Iowa State honored slain golf star Celia Barquin Arozamena with an elaborate ceremony ahead of the Cyclones’ game against Akron on Saturday. Iowa State’s band used a formation that spelled out Barquin’s initials, and both teams wore a decal on their helmets in her memory. A tribute
8:08 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Steve Stricker shot a 7-under 63 on Friday to share the first-round lead at the Sanford International. The 51-year-old Stricker was 8 under through 17 holes at Minnehaha Country Club but closed with a bogey to fall into a tie with Jerry Smith, Brandt Jobe and
8:24 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover shot his second consecutive 7-under 64 on Friday to take a one-shot lead at the Web.com Tour Championship. The 38-year-old Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, can still regain his PGA Tour card through a medical
6:05 PM ET ATLANTA — The goal all along was to win a tournament, as silly as that may have sounded — even to Tiger Woods. First came being able to play, and then putting together a game, and then giving himself chances. All of that has happened in rapid succession throughout a ninth-month run
8:15 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — Chris Paisley birdied four of the last five holes for a 10-under 61 and the first-round lead Thursday in the season-ending Web.com Tour Championship. The South African Open winner in January for his first European Tour title, Paisley played the back nine first at Atlantic Beach
9:04 AM ET ATLANTA — His career was in its infancy, the professional game still new and humbling. Bryson DeChambeau came to it with a good bit of fanfare, having won at the top levels of amateur golf, but now he had been beaten up and chastened and had little idea what lay ahead. And
9:39 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York prison artist who never played golf but became known for drawings of lush courses he could only imagine was set free Wednesday after authorities agreed that another man committed the murder that put him behind bars for nearly three decades. Valentino Dixon walked out