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NASSAU, Bahamas — Just because he has nothing left to prove on the golf course doesn’t mean that Tiger Woods has nothing left to gain by extending his competitive career as long as he possibly can. At this stage of the soon-to-be 47-year-old’s life, having been decimated by injuries that limit his competitive opportunities and

2:15 PM ET Golf fans will have to wait a few more weeks to watch Tiger Woods play again. The 15-time major champion was forced to pull out of this week’s Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosts in the Bahamas, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Woods said doctors told him that

MELBOURNE, Australia — Despite winning five times worldwide in 2022—including his first major championship—there’s one milestone Cameron Smith will miss out on. At No. 3 on the Official World Golf Rankings, the reigning Open champion will not be able to reach No. 1 given this week’s Australian Open is his last tournament of the year

Three additional schools will have a chance to compete for the NCAA D-I women’s title this spring at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. On Monday, the NCAA announced it is expanding the size of the field at the women’s national championship from 24 teams to 27 beginning in 2023. “There is extreme importance in providing

1:21 PM ET Rory McIlroy had a season to remember, but there’s at least one thing he regrets. “I’m like, ‘F—ing hell, I’ve just given Tiger COVID!'” In an interview with the Sunday Independent, McIlroy recounted the circumstances that he says led to him and Tiger Woods both getting COVID-19 ahead of The Open. McIlroy

Tiger Woods has dropped out of this week’s Hero World Challenge due to injury. Woods, who serves as host for the exhibition event, announced Monday that he has developed plantar fasciitis in his right foot. “After consulting with my doctors and trainers, I have decided to withdraw this week and focus on my hosting duties,”

3:17 PM ET Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, he announced on Twitter on Monday. The tournament, which benefits the Woods’ charity, TGR Foundation, was supposed to be his first start since he missed the cut in the 150th Open

On July 4, 1999, in just his sixth professional start on the then European Tour (and a month before his breakout showdown with Tiger Woods at the PGA at Medinah), Sergio Garcia claimed a three-shot victory over Angel Cabrera at the Murphy’s Irish Open. It was the first of 16 wins for the Spaniard on

What the public wasn’t aware of was that a week before The 150th Open at St. Andrews, McIlroy thinks he came down with COVID, and believes he could have passed it on to Tiger Woods. Speaking in an interview with the Irish Independent, the first part published on Sunday, McIlroy told Paul Kimmage the story

Somewhere in one of the corners of his mind on Sunday, Dan Bradbury had to be wondering if his good fortune might run out at South Africa’s Houghton Golf Club. Sure, the Englishman had held the lead for the first three days of the Joburg Open. But this was just his sixth start since finishing

7:50 AM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Dan Bradbury completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Joburg Open on Sunday to win his first European tour title at Houghton Golf Club. The Englishman’s 4-under 67 final round proved to be more than enough as his closest challenger, Sami Valimaki of Finland, dropped a further two shots

BRISBANE, Australia — Geoff Ogilvy is wearing two hats at the Australian PGA Championship, and wearing them well. These days, the 2006 U.S. Open winner is at most a part-time tour player. But you wouldn’t know it based on his two-under-par score [68, 72] after 36 holes at Royal Queensland G.C.. He’s eight shots behind

4:24 AM ET An exhausted Cameron Smith has fought back tears as he credited his grandmother for fuelling the final push to a third Australian PGA Championship and cap a magnificent homecoming. The Brisbane favourite captured a fifth title for 2022 in fading light on Sunday at Royal Queensland, rallying after twice being forced off

BRISBANE, Australia — Lucas Herbert’s hopes of using the Australian summer of golf to climb back inside the top 50 on the World Rankings in time for a Masters invitation have taken a blow after he withdrew due to injury midway through the second round at the Australian PGA Championship. Herbert “twinged” his back on

BRISBANE, Australia — Cameron Smith is comfortable being uncomfortable. The Australian has made that crystal clear throughout 2022, most notably at the Open Championship at St. Andrews in July when he stared down Rory McIlroy and others to win the 150th edition of golf’s oldest major at the Home of Golf. It was his sixth

That Tiger Woods sits 1,266th in the latest Official World Golf Ranking is both hard to fathom and hardly a surprise. The man who had held the No. 1 ranking more weeks than any golfer since the OWGR’s inception in 1986 (683) has played just nine rounds of competitive golf since his single-car accident in

BRISBANE, Australia — High on the leaderboard after 36 holes at the Australian PGA Championship are some names you may not have heard of and a few you definitely have. Leading the way at 10 under par is Jason Scrivener, an unheralded Australian who is a regular on the DP World Tour. He’s banked almost

As Charlie Woods, the son of Tiger Woods, has grown older and stronger, the duo has come closer to lifting the trophy in the PNC Championship, the tournament that features pros playing alongside family members. Now that Charlie is 13, is this the year for Team Woods? They will get their chance, with tournament officials

1:28 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods and 13-year-old son Charlie are returning to the PNC Championship with hopes of doing one better than last year. The 20-team field is for winners of majors or the Players Championship and a child or parent. This will be the third time Woods plays. A

Rain interrupted the final round of the regular-season finale on the 2018 European Tour at Valderrama in southern Spain. As they often do during such delays, players retreated to the clubhouse to watch TV. Chase Koepka was among them, bottled water in hand. The CJ Cup, a PGA Tour event in South Korea, was on

BRISBANE, Australia — Adam Scott knows he will have to make a number of adjustments over the coming days, weeks and months as the Australian gears up for a new-look, condensed PGA Tour schedule in 2023. This week’s Australian PGA Championship, where the former World No. 1 is playing, has already offered plenty of practice

BRISBANE, Australia — Lucas Herbert thought he had a strong case to be a captain’s pick for Trevor Immelman’s International team in the lead up to last September’s Presidents Cup. Herbert had won the PGA Tour’s Bermuda Championship late in 2021, which came after two wins on the DP World Tour in the two years

The EMT said I was OK, although it was unclear if he was trying to reassure me or himself. He told me we were going to the emergency room, then asked my name and if I knew the day’s date and where I was. It was about this time the pain in my upper body

BRISBANE, Australia — Ryan Fox’s journey to Australia from the DP World Tour’s finale in Dubai will give you travel anxiety. After signing off on an incredible, breakthrough season on the Old World circuit with a runner-up finish to Rory McIlroy in the season-long points standings, the big-hitting New Zealander and his family hopped on

That’s what Texas Tech senior Ludvig Aberg has to look forward to having finishing atop the Velocity Global Ranking heading into the winter break. The 23-year-old from Sweden ended the fall with 1220.39 points, 73.98 clear of North Carolina’s Austin Greaser in second place and 118.89 ahead of Florida’s Fred Biondi in third place. (See

Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth headline the winners from the PGA Tour’s revised Player Impact Program, according to documents reviewed by Golf Digest. The PIP bonus pool was instituted in 2021 to reward players who boosted engagement and publicity for the tour. Ostensibly a response to some of the lucrative deals rumored to

For years, it has been rumored that major changes would be coming to Augusta National’s iconic 13th hole. This past August, aerial photos taken by Eureka Earth confirmed that work had begun on the famous par 5, and that it would play significantly longer once the project was completed. That work is now done, confirmed

2:30 PM ET Despite playing only nine rounds in three major championships this past season, Tiger Woods has once again claimed the top bonus in the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program, according to documents obtained by ESPN on Tuesday. World No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy let the cat out of the bag on Nov. 8

With so much juicy golf news going on, what hope is there for a staid charitable organization getting some attention on its birthday? While a Masters champ sues golf writers, the brother of the current U.S. Open champ defends allegations about a sketchy free pass into Q-School, the top pros openly squabble about world ranking

11:17 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald appointed Nicolas Colsaerts as his third vice captain on Tuesday for next year’s event in Rome. The Belgian golfer, who turned 40 last week, joins Thomas Bjorn of Denmark and Edoardo Molinari of Italy as vice captains for the European team. Colsaerts