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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Scottie Scheffler returned home from his British Open victory, made a few brief appearances in New York and used the claret jug to get 15-month-old son Bennett into the men’s grill at Royal Oaks in Dallas. He is rested. The key for Scheffler, regardless of the tournament,...

His rookie year on the PGA Tour was challenging enough for Jacob Bridgeman. He got in 20 tournaments, none of them majors or The Players Championship, $20 million signature events or the FedEx Cup playoffs. He played seven times in the fall and did just well enough to keep his...

Two days after taking an errant golf ball to his head, Ronald DeNunzio was back at work and feeling fine following a short stay in the hospital. “I’m good. I’m OK,” the part-owner of DeNunzio Italian Restaurants told TribLive by phone Tuesday morning while making a food delivery to Norwin...

South Greensburg Mayor Kevin Fajt, one of the area’s top amateur golfers, insists on the value of his relationships with others more than just about anything else. Even a round on the links. While Fajt managed to capture his seventh title Sunday at the Westmoreland County Golf Association Amateur Championship...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cameron Young finally got his first PGA Tour victory Sunday after seven runner-up finishes, and he made it look easy. He had five straight birdies early to build a nine-shot lead and coasted home to a 2-under-par 68 to win the Wyndham Championship by six shots. He...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first major title Sunday when she withstood a charge by Charley Hull by not making a bogey until the outcome of the Women’s British Open was no longer in doubt. She closed with a 2-under-par 70 for a two-shot victory. Yamashita...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first major title Sunday when she withstood a charge by Charley Hull by not making a bogey until the outcome of the Women’s British Open was no longer in doubt. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot victory. Yamashita...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cameron Young ran off four straight birdies on the front nine and stretched his lead to eight shots Saturday before he settled into a series of pars for a 5-under 65, giving him a five-shot lead in the Wyndham Championship as he goes for his first PGA...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Miyu Yamashita was crooked off the tee and struggled on the greens, a rough combination that led to a hard-fought round of 2-over 74 on Saturday that shrunk her lead to one shot over A Lim Kim in the Women’s British Open. Yamashita, who led by three...

When Bob Allshouse hits his drive on No. 1 at Greensburg Country Club, it will mark the 46th consecutive year he has played in the Westmoreland County Golf Association’s Amateur Championship. Allshouse, 74, and former Lincoln Hills Country Club pro Steve Shefchek, also 74, helped to revive the tournament. Shefchek...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cameron Young made two straight birdies to move ahead of defending champion Aaron Rai and then stuffed his tee shot on the par-3 16th into 6 feet when storm clouds gathered and halted play Friday in the Wyndham Championship. The second round was to resume at 7:30...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Miyu Yamashita started and finished with short birdie putts and was flawless in between as she posted a 7-under-par 65 on Friday to build a three-shot lead over Rio Takeda going into the weekend of the Women’s British Open. The Japanese players, both among the top 15...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joel Dahmen started his long-shot bid to make the PGA Tour postseason by closing with three straight birdies for a 9-under-par 61 on Thursday to match his career best and give him a one-shot lead over Alex Noren in the Wyndham Championship. The Wyndham Championship is the...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Rio Takeda overcame a double bogey at the turn with four birdies over her final seven holes Thursday for a 5-under-par 67 to share the lead with Eri Okayama in a Women’s British Open that featured a Japanese surge and a mixed day for Lottie Woad. Japanese...

The Women’s Scottish Open wasn’t the first time Lottie Woad made an immediate impression. Florida State coach Amy Bond had been recruiting the English girl with a strong work ethic, limited to chatting online and studying the swings Woad posted on social media because of the covid-19 pandemic. When travel...

Katie Miller-Gee won her second Mid-Am tournament within a week on Monday by running away from the pack at Fox Chapel. The 40-year-old Hempfield Area grad, a three-time PIAA 3A champion, and wife of Oakmont Country Club pro Devin Gee, shot 78-74, to finish at 6-over par 152 in the...

Neal Shipley inched closer to earning his PGA Tour card with a third-place finish at the Korn Ferry Tour’s NV5 Invitational at the Glen Club in the Chicago suburb of Glenview. Shipley shot an 8-under-par 63 in the final round and ended up 23-under 261. Johnny Keefer won the event,...

IRVINE, Scotland — Lottie Woad tapped in one final birdie, plucked the ball out of the cup and gave a simple wave to the crowd as if she had done this before. The English star made it look easy Sunday when she won the Women’s Scottish Open in her professional...

BLAINE, Minn. — Thorbjorn Olesen aced the par-3 eighth and shot a 4-under-par 67 on Saturday in the 3M Open for a share of the third-round lead with Akshay Bhatia. Olesen, the 35-year-old Danish player who led after the second round, used a 6-iron on the 209-yard eighth at the...

IRVINE, Scotland — Lottie Woad had four birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn and posted a 5-under-par 67 on Saturday to maintain her two-shot lead in the Women’s Scottish Open as she closes in on victory in her professional debut. Woad has such control of her game at...

BERKSHIRE, England — Padraig Harrington birdied the final hole Saturday for another 5-under-par 65 for a two-shot lead over Justin Leonard going into the final round of the Senior British Open as the Irishman goes for his second senior major of the year. Harrington was among four players who had...

BLAINE, Minn. — Thorbjorn Olesen worked out of trouble more than once Friday at the TPC Twin Cities to take a one-stroke lead over Jake Knapp into the weekend in the 3M Open. Olesen followed an opening 9-under-par 62 on Thursday with a 66, hitting out of the rough to...

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Lashed by cold winds and overlooking choppy, steel-gray North Sea waters, the breathtaking sand dunes of Scotland’s northeastern coast rank among Donald Trump’s favorite spots on earth. “At some point, maybe in my very old age, I’ll go there and do the most beautiful thing you’ve ever...

BLAINE, Minn. — Adam Svensson made a 48-foot eagle putt on the closing hole to complete an 11-under-par 60 on Thursday that gave him a two-shot lead over Sam Stevens and Thorbjorn Olesen after one round of the 3M Open. Svensson also made nine birdies and did not drop a...