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NEW ORLEANS — Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event Sunday, beating Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer with a par on the first hole of a playoff. Trainer pushed a 6-foot par putt to the right of the cup to end it, with...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — This wasn’t the kind of attention Rory McIlroy was hoping for on the day after the Masters. A London financial paper, City A.M., cited anonymous sources as saying McIlroy was believed to be close to an $850 million deal to join LIV Golf. The publication did not...

Volunteer registrations for the 125th U.S. Open Championship are now available online. The United States Golf Association is hosting the tournament June 9-15, 2025, at Oakmont Country Club and has made the official callout for volunteers. Positions currently are available on nine committees, including access control, corporate hospitality, disability services,...

It’s back to reality Friday for Neal Shipley. A week after playing in the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, Shipley, a Mt. Lebanon native and Central Catholic graduate, will be leading the Ohio State Buckeyes golf team at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate tournament at Ohio State’s Scarlet course. But...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler had no doubts about this Masters, and neither did anyone watching. He pulled ahead with magnificent shots Sunday around the turn and poured it on along the back nine at Augusta National for a 4-under-par 68 to claim his second green jacket in three years....

HOUSTON — Stephan Jaeger won his first PGA Tour title in his 135th attempt, closing with nine straight pars for a 3-under 67 and avoiding a playoff when Scottie Scheffler missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday in the Houston Open. Scheffler was trying to become the...

Golf courses are where the deals are made — it’s a business sport. Juanita Lomax, founder and CEO of Hit Like A Girl, found this to be the case during her 20-year tenure in corporate America. Being unskilled in a club-and-ball sport predominantly saturated with white men, Lomax knew she...

Whether they’re into golf, Oakmont or squirrels, there’s plenty of merch for lovers of all of the above at the Oakmont Country Club’s gift shop. Merchandise for the 125th U.S. Open Championship, which the country club will host in June 2025, is already for sale at the shop in Plum....

On this episode of Next on the Tee, host Chris Mascaro is joined by top instructor Tom Patri, along with three Next on the Tee rookies — 1984 national champion John Inman, 1986 Florida State amateur champion Barry Cheesman, and Robert Morris men’s golf coach Steve Shingledecker. Patri talks this...

LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods is starting a new year with a new look. Just not a different color. Woods makes his 2024 debut this week in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera, a signature event on the PGA Tour in which he is the tournament host. The first order of...

Tyrrell Hatton of England made it official Wednesday by joining Saudi-funded LIV Golf, giving the league another player from the top 20 in the world and filling out the new team led by Masters champion Jon Rahm. Hatton had been mentioned as a LIV Golf target ever since the Saudi-funded...

Tiger Woods is no longer a Nike athlete after 27 years, ending a partnership between the swoosh and golf’s biggest star and raising questions about the future of both in the sport. Woods in a social media post thanked Nike co-founder Phil Knight for his “passion and vision” that brought...

Of the two clear signs the PGA Tour is about to embark on a new year at Kapalua, one is obvious: The magnificent view from the first tee of an 80-yard fairway that seemingly drops into the Pacific Ocean. The other is more bizarre: Jon Rahm sightings. Rahm is the...

The next season on the PGA Tour already has the perception of being two tours. The elite are in the $20 million signature events with a big boost in FedEx Cup points. The rest are playing for less money ($8.5 million on average) and having to play well to advance...

ORLANDO, Fla. — No wonder Tiger Woods jokingly refers to the PNC Championship as the fifth major. Woods was together with 14-year-old son Charlie on Friday, their swings eerily similar and the encouraging words coming as only Woods can deliver them. They were warming up ahead of the pro-am, hitting...

LIV Golf released a 2024 schedule on Wednesday that includes a trip to Las Vegas the same weekend as the Super Bowl and three U.S. events held the same week as the PGA Tour’s signature $20 million stops. The Saudi-funded league announced 12 sites on its 14-tournament schedule, leaving out...

Mark Goetz secured future starts on the Korn Ferry Tour, but he wants more. The 25-year-old Greensburg native and Hannastown Golf Club member tied for first in the second stage of tour Q-School with a 19-under-par total of 269 at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Highland Oaks —...

NAPLES, Fla. — Already offering the single-largest payday in women’s golf, the LPGA said Wednesday that next year’s winner of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship will receive $4 million, equal to the PGA Tour’s new signature events. The big increase — double what the winner gets this year —...

Tiger Woods says he is pain-free when it comes to his right ankle that was fused in April. It’s the rest of the leg that remains a work in progress. And there’s no indication when he’ll get back to work on the golf course. “My ankle is fine. Where they...

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing modern technology to the royal and ancient game with TGL, a team-based golf league played over 15 holes that combines an oversized simulator with actual shots to a tech-infused green that can change contours depending on the shot. Fourteen months after it was...

BOSTON — Women’s professional golf has picked up another big money event. The LPGA Tour and FM Global announced Friday they will be stage a new tournament at TPC Boston that will feature a $3.5 million purse, the largest on the LPGA Tour outside of the majors and the tour...

AUSTIN, Texas — Patrick Mahomes “jumped” at the chance to invest in a Formula One team when he was asked to join a group of celebrity backers behind the Alpine team. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, along with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, golfer Rory McIlroy and former heavyweight champion...

LAS VEGAS — Lexi Thompson delivered star-power moments built for a stage like Las Vegas, and when she poured in a pair of long birdie putts Friday, she was on the cusp of history. Thompson was 4 under with seven holes to play. In her sights was a chance to...