JON RAHM

Matt Kuchar has his name in the record book with Tiger Woods in the Dell Match Play.

Rory McIlroy is really digging the long ball at the Dell Match Play.

The last edition of the Dell Match Play means this is Matt Kuchar's last chance to break a tournament record belonging to Tiger Woods.

The final Match Play could be the last chance for some players to get into the Masters.

Jordan Spieth can speak with authority on the remarkable run of Scottie Scheffler, except that Spieth never liked that term when he was the subject. Spieth had won seven times in 13 months — two majors, a shot at all four of them, No. 1 in the world and a FedEx Cup title — when he showed up at Kapalua to start 2016 and was asked what he had planned for an encore. Golf has a couple of hit shows, and for now Scheffler is top billing.

A long day at The Players Championship has ended with Masters champion Scottie Scheffler in the lead.

Storms have interrupted The Players Championship.

Jon Rahm, the top-ranked golfer in the world, withdrew from The Players Championship shortly before his second-round tee time on Friday.

World No. 1 Jon Rahm withdrew from the Players Championship before Friday's second round, citing stomach illness.

Jon Rahm is out of The Players Championship.

Jon Rahm withdrew from The Players Championship on Friday because of a stomach illness, leaving the strongest field of the year without its No. 1 player. Rahm opened with a 71. Rahm already is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, allowing him to regain the No. 1 ranking.

Kurt Kitayama kept finishing one shot behind the game's best players.

Kurt Kitayama has experience facing some of the best players in golf.

Stop if you've heard this one before — Jon Rahm is playing great golf.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are closer to seeing their high-tech golf league become reality.

LIV Golf decides when to hold tournaments by avoiding what its leader, Greg Norman, calls heritage events. More attention should have been given to what LIV Golf has to follow, and what's ahead, that might make the start of its second season have a hard time living up to its moniker. Phoenix delivered Masters champion Scottie Scheffler returning to No. 1 in the world.

Jon Rahm is back to No. 1 in the world and looking very much the part.

The cheers sounded as though someone was making a charge at Riviera.

Jon Rahm is one round away from another victory and a return to No. 1 in the world.

Tiger Woods had a loud and successful return to PGA Tour competition.

Getting to No. 1 in the world is difficult enough.

Scottie Scheffler successfully defended his WM Phoenix Open title at TPC Scottsdale to regain the No. 1 spot in the world.

Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to successfully defend his title and regain the No. 1 spot in the world.

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler took the lead into the weekend in the WM Phoenix Open, with local favorite Jon Rahm right behind at TPC Scottsdale.

Kurt Kitayama has a one-shot lead at Pebble Beach and now comes the hard part.

Southern California native Max Homa came from five shots off the lead to win the Farmers Insurance Open by two strokes over Keegan Bradley on Saturday at Torrey Pines, where Jon Rahm imploded early and missed a shot at winning his third straight start and moving to No. 1 in the world.

Jon Rahm made an impressive charge up the leaderboard on his favorite course with a 6-under 66 at Torrey Pines to pull within two shots of leader Sam Ryder after the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open.

Sam Ryder extended his lead to three shots in the Farmers Insurance Open with a 4-under 68 in challenging wind in the second round on Torrey Pines’ South Course.

Jon Rahm struggled to a 1-over 73 at Torrey Pines South while Sam Ryder, Aaron Rai and Brent Grant all shot 8-under 64 on the more forgiving North Course to tie for the first-round lead at the Farmers Insurance Open.

CBS Sports is gearing up for its 66th consecutive year covering the PGA Tour and one of its busiest seasons.

Jon Rahm took advantage of mistakes by rookie Davis Thompson over the adventuresome final three holes to win The American Express by one stroke.

Rookie Davis Thompson made three more eagles for a total of five through 36 holes to tie the PGA Tour record for the most in a 72-hole tournament since 1983, and he still didn’t put any more distance between himself and Jon Rahm at The American Express.

Jon Rahm thinks he has played as well as anyone of late, and he has three victories worldwide in his last five tournaments to show for it.

Jon Rahm pulled off a stunner to win the Sentry Tournament of Champions after trailing by seven shots.

Most PGA Tour players have been playing golf most of their lives.

Jon Rahm shares the lead at the Sentry Tournament of Champions with a 64.

The Masters Club is the formal name of the annual dinner Tuesday night at Augusta National during the Masters in April, and the guest list is restricted to Masters champions and Chairman Fred Ridley. Scottie Scheffler is in charge of the menu as the reigning champion, and one moment last year illustrates how this might be a dinner unlike any other. Scheffler and his wife took a short vacation to Tennessee, walked into a restaurant and were surprised to see Bubba Watson and his wife sitting at one of the tables.

Following last month's news that LIV golfers would be eligible to compete at the 2023 Masters, Jon Rahm said he foresees heightened tensions at the Champions Dinner.

Rory McIlroy finished the year as Europe’s top-ranked golfer for the fourth time - and first since 2015 - despite Jon Rahm winning the DP World Tour Championship.

Rory McIlroy is well-placed for another Race to Dubai title after his 7-under 65 left him three shots off the lead heading into the final round at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.

Eight-time European Tour winner Jon Rahm is no fan of the new changes implemented by the Official World Golf Ranking system in August, which seemingly favors field size over competition.

Rory McIlroy is back at No. 1 in the world for the first time since the summer of 2020.

Rory McIlroy picked up two big prizes Sunday.

Rory McIlroy is one round away from returning to No. 1 in the world.

Jon Rahm hardly looks like a player easing his way to the end of the year.

Gary Woodland and Trey Mullinax share the lead at the CJ Cup with a 65.

A person with direct knowledge of the plans says the PGA Tour is announcing that four tournaments will have elevated status and $20 million purses next year.

Jon Rahm says it has taken time for him to adjust to changes in his personal life this year and that made it tougher for him to meet expectations on the course.

Tiger Woods has another loaded field for the Bahamas and his Hero World Challenge.

Shane Lowry tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole and then had to wait and see if Rory McIlroy could produce something special to force a playoff at Wentworth. McIlroy gave himself a chance and the crowd cheered as his long eagle putt on the final hole crept slowly toward the cup, only to stop less than an inch short. McIlroy crouched down, staring at the ball in disbelief, while Lowry hugged his caddie in the scorer's tent to celebrate a one-shot victory at the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday.

Don't expect Rory McIlroy to spend much time reminiscing with his former Ryder Cup teammates at Wentworth this week.

Scottie Scheffler has a one-shot lead over Xander Schauffele in the Tour Championship.

Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is still playing great golf and could easily have made the Tour Championship a runaway.

Patrick Cantlay is a winner again at the BMW Championship in another thriller.

Getting to the Tour Championship isn’t all that’s at stake in the second FedEx Cup playoff event.

The PGA Tour is in Delaware for the first time and so is Tiger Woods.

This is turning out to be a strong group of rookies on the PGA Tour, including three players with one thing in common down the home stretch: None has won yet.

Cameron Smith is a tough-as-nails Aussie.

Justin Thomas wanted to honor the spirit of the game. The PGA champion’s drive on the fourth hole at The Country Club on Saturday came to rest awkwardly beside a drain in the fairway. Thomas asked for a ruling, but confessed to the official that the drain didn't interfere with his swing; if he'd said it did, he he would have been entitled to free relief.

Phil Mickelson lumbered his way down the first fairway and flashed a thumbs-up almost by habit, even if he wasn't responding to an occasional encouraging word from behind the ropes or in the grandstands. This is his 31st appearance, and any degree of normalcy — for Mickelson and so many other big names in golf — is hard to find. Brooks Koepka had heard enough.

Tiger Woods is expected to return after a 17-month hiatus from official competition.

Tiger Woods is expected to return after a 17-month hiatus from official competition.

Jon Rahm lost his match and still made it to the weekend. Scottie Scheffler needed only 14 holes to win his match against Matt Fitzpatrick, and then six more to beat him in a playoff. The third full day of endless action in the Dell Technologies Match Play finally ended Friday when Collin Morikawa drove the green on a par 4, this one not nearly dramatic as his shot that won the PGA Championship but still effective in getting him through group play.

The Mermaid Run happened in San Francisco Sunday morning, celebrating 13 years of the event in the city. The race is all about inspiring women and girls to pursue their fitness goals. KTVU's Amanda Quintana reports.

Patrick Cantlay delivered the goods again, this time with a 6-iron instead of a putter. “Patty Ice” was just a clutch with a $15 million shot that allowed him to hold off Jon Rahm and win the FedEx Cup on Sunday. In a tense duel with the world's No. 1 player, Cantlay had a one-shot lead going to the par-5 18th hole at the Tour Championship when he hit 6-iron from 218 yards to just inside 12 feet that secured the biggest victory of his career.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are weighing revising their COVID-19 guidelines to recommend that even fully vaccinated individuals wear masks in public. Fauci, the nation’s top government infectious disease official, told CNN’s “State of the Union” TV show that he’s taken part in conversations about altering the guidelines, something he described as being “under active consideration.” Fauci said those local rules are not incompatible with the CDC’s recommendation that the vaccinated don’t need to wear masks in public.

The 24-year-old American remarkably played the final 31 holes at Royal St. George's without a bogey.

NBC Sports said the final round of the 121st U.S. Open peaked at roughly 8.9 million viewers and was the most watched golf event since 2018.

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Rahm made a bending 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to catch Louis Oosthuizen, then buried another birdie putt on the final hole for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot victory.

Rahm birdied his final two holes to shoot a 4-under 67 and win the U.S. Open by a shot over Luis Oosthuizen.

Patrick Cantlay delivered a clutch birdie late in the round and a 12-foot par putt in a playoff to win the Memorial on a Sunday filled with drama, a little rain and no Jon Rahm. Cantlay closed with a 1-under 71 and won the Memorial for the second time in three years, and he said he felt the same range of emotions in the final hour at Muirfield Village in his duel with Collin Morikawa. Only a day earlier, Cantlay walked off the 18th green six shots behind Rahm, whose 64 ranked as one of the great rounds at the course Jack Nicklaus built and tied two Memorial records, including largest 54-hole lead.

Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials in the state's most populated county eliminated evidence.