Begay back in action to learn more about APGA Tour
Notah Begay III is competing in a tournament for the first time in nearly 10 years, and the score isn’t what matters to him. Begay, a four-time PGA Tour winner and now an on-course reporter for NBC Sports, was on the broadcast crew for the APGA Tour event on the Sunday after the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Begay’s last tour event was in August 2012 at the Reno-Tahoe Open.
news.yahoo.comPGA Tour commissioner: All options on the table for Hall of Fame in St. Augustine
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan ran the gamut of topics in his Players Championship press conference on Tuesday, addressing things like a rival golf league, embattled golfer Phil Mickelson and the future of the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine.
Ace propels Jimenez into share of Cologuard Classic lead
Miguel Angel Jimenez felt the breeze at his back and pulled a 6-iron, believing it would be the perfect club at Tucson National’s 196-yard seventh hole. Jimenez's ace propelled him to a 6-under 66 in breezy conditions Friday to match Jeff Sluman for the first-round lead at the Cologuard Classic. “The ball never left the flag,” Jimenez said.
news.yahoo.comMonahan: Players tempted by Saudi tour need to make up minds
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says he has “zero complacency” when it comes to the threat of a Saudi-funded rival league, and he has a clear message for any player still tempted to leave. “I told the players we're moving on and anyone on the fence needs to make a decision,” Monahan said Wednesday in a telephone interview. Monahan said the tour had “incredible momentum” coming off its West Coast swing.
news.yahoo.comDustin Johnson says he's sticking with the PGA Tour
A proposed Saudi-financed rival golf league took a big hit Sunday morning when Dustin Johnson said he was “fully committed” to stay with the PGA Tour. Johnson added his name to a growing list of golf's top players who have said they are not interested in taking guaranteed riches from the “Super Golf League” that Greg Norman and his LIV Golf Investments are trying to create.
news.yahoo.comKuchar skeptical about PGA players needing overseas releases
Matt Kuchar is not up to speed on the PGA Tour's guideline for granting releases to play in a conflicting events, mainly because it has never been an issue for him. Kuchar played the Scottish Open and Dutch Open during his first full year on tour 20 years ago. Only four years ago, he played three regular European tour events.
news.yahoo.comPlayers with Saudi releases have to decide if it's worth it
The PGA Tour is giving conditional releases to more than two dozen of its members who have signed up to play the Saudi International. The Saudi International is Feb. 3-6, the same week as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The tour said it would grant conflicting event releases provided players put Pebble on their schedule once in 2023 or 2024, or twice through 2025 if it has been more than five years since they last played the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
news.yahoo.comSpieth and caddie looking for an edge in reading putts
At Spieth’s request, Greller has been studying up on AimPoint, the methodology of reading greens that starts with using feet to feel the slope of the green and then holding up fingers for each percent of slope. Among those who use it are Dustin Johnson and his brother, Austin, whom other caddies say has mastered the technique. Spieth said Greller met with John Graham, the putting coach for Justin Thomas, for a crash course.
news.yahoo.comMickelson wins finale; Langer takes 6th Schwab Cup title
Phil Mickelson stood on the 18th green at Phoenix Country Club, a wide smile across his face as he held yet another PGA Tour Champions trophy. Next to him was 64-year-old Bernhard Langer, grinning just as broadly as he hoisted the Charles Schwab Cup trophy at an age when most players are playing from the front tee boxes, not fighting for championships. Mickelson birdied three of the final holes Sunday to win the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and Langer held on to win his sixth PGA Tour Champions season points title.
news.yahoo.comReport: Casey Martin has right leg amputated
Casey Martin, the Oregon golf coach who successfully sued the PGA Tour for the right to use a cart because of a rare circulatory disease, had his right leg amputated in what he told Golf Digest was always going to be “my destiny.” The magazine, which has been in touch with Martin over the last few weeks, reported on its website that he had surgery Friday and was recovering at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Martin suffered from Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, which restricted circulation in the lower portion of his right leg and made it virtually impossible for him to walk 18 holes.
news.yahoo.comScottish Open added to PGA Tour schedule, two WGCs out
Gone are two World Golf Championships from the PGA Tour schedule. New to the schedule is the first PGA Tour-sanctioned tournament in Scotland that doesn't involve a claret jug. The PGA Tour released next season's schedule on Tuesday that gives a glimpse of its strategic partnership with the European Tour, including players from both tours being eligible for certain tournaments on each side of the Atlantic.
news.yahoo.comSpieth shoots 63, shares lead at low-scoring hometown Nelson
Jordan Spieth had his longest stretch all day of mere pars — a whopping four holes — on the besieged new home course of the AT&T Byron Nelson when the local favorite stepped over a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th. Spieth, Spaun and plenty of others had little trouble with TPC Craig Ranch north of Dallas. Hideki Matsuyama sputtered on the front nine in his first appearance since becoming the first Japanese player to win the Masters, then stalled again after three straight birdies to start the back nine.
news.yahoo.comFormer PGA Tour player Sir Nick Faldo reacts to Tiger Woods' car accident
Former PGA Tour player Sir Nick Faldo reacts to Tiger Woods' car accident CBS Sports lead golf analyst Sir Nick Faldo joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss Tiger Woods' car crash and how PGA Tour players are responding to the devastating news.
cbsnews.comGolf star Justin Thomas apologizes for using "inexcusable" homophobic slur after missing putt
Justin Thomas apologized Saturday afternoon for uttering a homophobic slur under his breath when he missed a putt on the fourth hole of the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. The Golf Channel reported Thomas was caught by a TV microphone using the slur after he missed a 7-foot par putt. Patrick Reed also had to apologize in Shanghai in 2014 when he cursed in conjunction with a homophobic slur after three-putting. "Usually being four back going into Sunday I'm thinking about one thing and one thing only, and that's trying to win the golf tournament. I made a terrible, terrible judgment call."
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