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A potentially historic vote on the possible merger of the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour did not take place as expected on Tuesday. The LPGA issued a statement that read: “Earlier today, LET Membership met to vote on whether to join the LPGA organization. Recognizing the significance of this decision to its stakeholders, based on additional information received just prior to the meeting, the LET Board decided to adjourn today’s meeting and postpone the planned vote. The LPGA Board is support…
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Heading into this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Alex Noren had 161 starts registered on the PGA Tour. He’s earned a whopping $11.7 million. He’s posted 11 top-5 finishes. And yet the 41-year-old Swede had never lifted a trophy on the PGA Tour. Incredible, really, considering Noren has 11 international victories. He’s that talented. And now Noren has another extremely good chance for a breakthrough, with maybe a little extra karma in his back pocket. Noren goes into Sunday’s final roun…
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There are few places more special on the planet to Maverick McNealy than Pebble Beach. He’s a Northern California native who grew up in Portola Valley, 100 miles north of the famed links, and in 2021 the Stanford alum nearly pulled off the stuff of dreams when he shot 66 in the final round of the AT&T National Pro-Am to lose by two to Daniel Berger. That’s what makes McNealy’s struggle through a shoulder injury this season so cruel, because he was derailed with one swing at Pebble Beach on argua…
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Betsy Rawls, whose career on the LPGA Tour ranks among the all-time best, died on Saturday at her home in Lewes, Delaware. She was 95 years old and only a few years ago was raving to another World Golf Hall of Famer, Kathy Whitworth, about how well she was hitting her new clubs. Whitworth, who died in December 2022, won 88 times on the LPGA to be the winningest player among men and women professionals, and Rawls joined her at the most elite level, with 55 career victories and eight major champio…
3 months ago
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If you were a friend to pre-teen Chase Johnson in the late aughts, it would have boosted your relationship to share one or two keen interests of his: golf (and more specifically Tiger Woods), and anything related to Harry Potter. A self-proclaimed “nerd” from a young age while growing up outside Akron, Ohio, Johnson remembers a birthday party in which he set up game systems on TVs throughout his house to engage his playmates. One was “Tiger Woods PGA Tour” and the other “Harry Potter: Quidditch…
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Tiger Woods announced the field for the 2023 Hero World Challenge on Monday, and at the end of the impressive list that includes eight of the top-10 ranked players in the world was “TBA tournament exemption.” Could that spot be for the tournament host himself? It would seem to be a possibility, though Woods has not indicated anything yet. He hasn’t played in a tournament since April’s Masters, after which he underwent ankle surgery. Speculation about Woods possibly playing at the Hero in the Bah…
3 months ago
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For most golfers who Monday qualify for a PGA Tour event, that very feat will probably be their biggest accomplishment of the week. Making the cut and a decent check becomes the goal. Winning? Good luck. Only five players since 1980 have gone from open qualifying to lifting the trophy on Sunday, and only two (Arjun Atwal and Corey Conners) have pulled it off over the last 37 years. Count Isaiah Salinda among those with the longest odds when he teed it up as one of the Monday qualifiers for this…
3 months ago
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At 6-foot-4 and with a shock of red hair, Andy Bean cut an imposing figure on the PGA Tour for nearly three decades. His skills intimated fellow competitors, too. “He’s awesome long, he’s straight, and he can putt,” Masters and PGA champion Raymond Floyd once told Sports Illustrated. Bean never won a major—he finished second three times—but the Florida Gator standout scored 11 victories on the PGA Tour in the era dominated by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson and had another three wins on the senior…
3 months ago
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It happens every year at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. PGA Tour players meet and interact with kids who are sometimes suffering grave or debilitating illnesses. This year, for the first time, the young girls among that group will see someone who most resembles them, and LPGA Tour player Lexi Thompson insists she’s focusing on that connection more than how she’ll play at TPC Summerlin as only the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event. “Yes, good golf is a successful week,” Tho…
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ROME — Two years ago, Rory McIlroy broke down in sobs upon Europe’s lopsided loss in the Ryder Cup. On Sunday at Marco Simone, he spoke with a tone of grit and defiance after the Irishman polished off his best Ryder Cup showing with a 3-and-1 victory over Sam Burns in what appeared to be Europe’s march toward a triumph. McIlroy and American caddie Joe LaCava created a controversy on Saturday evening with their dust-up following an 18th hole in which McIlroy and his team believed LaCava was too e…
4 months ago
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ROME — Europe is off to a roaring start in the first Ryder Cup ever played in Italy. With a historic sweep of the morning foursome matches, the home team took a 4-0 lead over the Americans as Europe tries to win back the Cup it lost handily two years ago in Wisconsin. Europe had never before swept an opening session in the Ryder Cup, but it did so emphatically on Friday at Marco Simone Country Club, with none of the four matches extending to the 18th hole. The rout was so complete that at no poi…
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