SERGIO GARCIA

European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at Marco Simone when his celebrating players standing beside him started a chant that quickly swept through the grandstands.

Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of their defections to join LIV Golf.

The Americans have won more majors.

Luke Donald is ignoring history when it comes to starting off the Ryder Cup.

Danielle made the journey from Las Vegas to the south of Spain for the Solheim Cup.

Ludvig Aberg is sure to draw comparisons with Sergio Garcia in the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia will not be going to the British Open for the first time since he was a 17-year-old amateur in 1997.

Talor Gooch became the first player to win back-to-back LIV Golf titles after a playoff hole victory against Sergio Garcia at the LIV Singapore tournament at Sentosa Golf Club.

Sergio Garcia shot a 7-under 64 at Sentosa Golf Club to move into a share of the second-round lead with Talor Gooch at the LIV Singapore tournament.

U.S. Open qualifying starts this week and a dozen or so LIV Golf players already have decided they won't be playing the third major of the year.

Augusta National crews made quick work disposing of the three towering pine trees that fell near the 17th tee late Friday during the second round of Masters, forcing the postponement of play.

Heavy rain that left pools of standing water across Augusta National brought play to a halt at the Masters on Saturday.

Phil Mickelson is still a popular figure at Augusta National, even if the crowds that followed him during the first round of the Masters were smaller than previous years.

Sergio Garcia is tired of talking about the LIV-PGA Tour feud.

An independent tribunal has ruled that the European tour was within its rights to sanction members who competed on the Saudi-funded LIV Golf without permission.

The Times of London is reporting that the European tour has won a court case against LIV Golf.

Rory McIlroy is detailing how his relationship soured with Greg Norman in a lengthy interview with the Sunday Independent in Ireland.

British Open champion Cameron Smith has his first LIV Golf trophy.

Bryson DeChambeau insists he has “no buyer's remorse” about jumping from the PGA Tour to the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.

For Rory McIlroy, it’s a flat-out “no_” U_S_ Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick is open to having LIV Golf players on Europe’s team at next year’s Ryder Cup because he says “I just want to make sure that we win.”.

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

LIV Golf has made it official.

The PGA Tour is asking a federal judge not to allow three suspended players from LIV Golf to take part in the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Joohyung Kim is the second-youngest PGA Tour winner since World War II.

Luke Donald is Europe's new captain for the Ryder Cup in Italy next year.

Golf’s breakaway bunch have turned into a band of brothers.

None of the golfers who have opted to join the Saudi-funded breakaway series know if they will be allowed to keep playing at the sport’s four biggest events.

R&A chief Martin Slumbers is blasting the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as being driven by money.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice is now interested in the dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.

The Saudi-funded LIV Golf series has added three more players to its roster for its second tournament.

The last victim of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is being laid to rest.

Here's a look back at key anniversaries from the U.S. Open.

Rory McIlroy says he was wrong about his prediction in February that the Saudi-backed rival golf league was “dead in the water.”.

Defending U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm says one of his biggest concerns about the schism in golf is how it might impact the Ryder Cup.

Bryson DeChambeau says it's a business decision to play for the LIV Golf series.

Phil Mickelson never had such a conservative strategy for the U.S. Open.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is blasting the Saudi-based LIV Golf league as a series of exhibitions that spends billions to recruit players without getting a return on the investment.

The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events.

The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed are the latest players to join the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series.

Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week.

Phil Mickelson is ending his 4-month hiatus from competitive golf and is joining the Saudi-funded rival league.

Dustin Johnson is joining the Saudi-funded golf league.

The PGA Tour is denying releases to golfers who want to play in the first Saudi-funded tournament next month in England.

Jason Day expected a grind on a rainy day at the Wells Fargo Championship.

As tradition dictates, there is now very bad news to report about Canadian golfers Mike Weir and Mackenzie Hughes.

As if the Dell Technologies Match Play isn't fickle enough.

The Players Championship offers the richest prize in golf.

Joaquin Niemann has finished off a wire-to-wire victory at Riviera.

Players were expecting low scores at The Summit Club and Robert Streb led the way.

Will Zalatoris is usually spot-on with his iron.

Sahith Theegala has the lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship with a 64.

The PGA Tour is moving the Farmers Insurance Open off a big NFL Sunday.

In the post-defeat dissection that’s sure to come for Europe's Ryder Cup team, certainly the disappearing act by Rory McIlroy will be one of the top talking points.

The United States wrapped up the Ryder Cup in record-setting fashion.

Not even the rest afforded by a career-first Ryder Cup benching in the morning could turn things around for Rory McIlroy.

All the drama Saturday at the Ryder Cup was to see if Europe could make a game of it.

Nobody has collected more wins at the Ryder Cup than Sergio Garcia.

Brooks Koepka lost a long argument with rules officials who would not grant him relief from an awkward lie near a drain on the 15th hole at the Ryder Cup.

The U.S. closed out Saturday’s fourball matches with an 11-5 lead in the Ryder Cup for its biggest two-day advantage since 1975.

The U.S. Ryder Cup squad zoomed out to its biggest opening-day lead since 1975, pummeling defending champion Europe in both the foursomes and fourball matches to build a 6-2 cushion.

Europe trails the Ryder Cup 6-2 after an opening day that saw Rory McIlroy lose twice and the entire team post only one victory.

Youth is being served for this U.S. team in the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia blew a kiss to the crowd.

The United States took a 6-2 lead for its largest opening-day advantage at the Ryder Cup since 1975.

No team in sports embraces the underdog label like Europe's Ryder Cup squads.

The Americans always seem to bring the better players to the Ryder Cup.

Bryson DeChambeau is determined to be a team player in the Ryder Cup and he is wasting no time proving it.

Civic-minded Wisconsinites wanted to make sure Bryson DeChambeau, who was chomping on a sandwich during a practice round Tuesday, sampled the local fare.

American and European players have arrived at Whistling Straits for the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia is still the youngest Ryder Cup player in history.

Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Shane Lowry have been picked by European captain Padraig Harrington to fill out the team for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.

Billy Horschel became the second American after Arnold Palmer to win the BMW PGA Championship following a dramatic final round.

Sergio Garcia and Erik van Rooyen are headed to the Tour Championship after narrowly qualifying in the second event of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Patrick Cantlay has won the BMW Championship in a thriller at Caves Valley.

Bryson DeChambeau went from a four-shot lead to a one-shot deficit in just two holes.

Bryson DeChambeau goes into the weekend at the BMW Championship with a one-shot lead over Patrick Cantlay.

Rory McIlroy suddenly has found a pep in his step.

The hardest part of Sergio Garcia's day was before he even got to Royal St. George's.

The PGA Tour will have required COVID-19 testing at 50 official events when testing stops.

Louis Oosthuizen and Sergio Garcia are among Olympic qualifiers who aren't going to Tokyo next month.

Jason Kokrak has another win on the PGA Tour.

Jordan Spieth is still leading after 54 holes at Colonial.

Jordan Spieth and Sergio Garcia shared the first-round lead at Colonial after both former champions shot 7-under-par 63.

Jordan Spieth and plenty of others are having little trouble with the new home course of the AT&T Byron Nelson.

Two-time champion Stewart Cink has set the 36-hole tournament scoring record at the RBC Heritage.

Dustin Johnson is scheduled to be in Butler Cabin on Sunday evening, draping the green jacket over the shoulders of the Masters champion.

Justin Rose picked one of the toughest days at Augusta National for his lowest score in the Masters.

Justin Rose picked one of the toughest days at Augusta National for his lowest score in the Masters.

Rory McIlroy hit his approach on the seventh hole Thursday at the Masters right where he was aiming.

Bubba Watson will be enjoying the elegant Masters Club dinner menu chosen by Dustin Johnson.

Jon Rahm, of Spain, right, congratulates Scottie Scheffler on the 17th green after Scheffler won their round of eight match at the Dell Technologies Match Play Championship golf tournament Saturday, March 27, 2021, in Austin, Texas. I just have memories of me and my dad sitting on the couch and watching this guy make putt after putt. AdHe won the Match Play in 2013 and lost in the championship match last time to Kevin Kisner. He scrambled for par, and Spieth missed a 6-foot birdie putt. Spieth went 30 feet long, Kuchar was 6 feet short, and Kuchar won with a birdie.

Already the most fickle event in golf, the Dell Technologies Match Play on Friday was an endless frenzy. “You just never know what can happen out there," Billy Horschel said after beating Max Homa on the third playoff hole. 64 seed in Match Play history to make it to the weekend. 60 seed, while Erik van Rooyen (62) advanced by beating Daniel Berger with a par on the second playoff hole. The eight playoffs to decide group winners broke the previous mark of five in 2017 since group play began six yeas ago.

“It was a tough match,” Johnson said. “Obviously, I was dying to win that match,” MacIntyre said. The Spaniard, whose American home is in Austin, won his second match and thus eliminated Hatton, the No. He missed the birdie putt and Rahm, who would have had a putt from the same range, smile a sigh of relief. Johnson was 10 feet away for eagle, and MacIntyre still had him putt it (Johnson made it).

That's how it was last week at Bay Hill, when DeChambeau came from one shot behind to beat Westwood with a par on the final hole at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Westwood, who turns 48 next month, no longer has to go up a few classes to face DeChambeau, golf's fearsome heavyweight. Also four shots behind was Brian Harman, who began his day by holing a wedge for eagle and shot 69. DeChambeau can't blast away at Sawgrass because of the bending tree-lined fairways and water hazards. He also knows from recent experience — seven days ago — that it might not be easy the way Westwood is playing.

Westwood, who turns 48 next month, played well enough to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week at Bay Hill except that DeChambeau was one shot better in a fascinating duel of generations on a course that favors power. Ad“I think to compete in any of these tournaments against the best players in the world, you can’t have any weaknesses in your game,” Westwood said. "I wouldn’t be able to say I’m doing this better or that better. His 36-hole total of 154 was his highest ever in his 11 appearance at The Players Championship. AdFour players from the top 10 in the world missed the cut — Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Tyrrell Hatton and Webb Simpson, whose hopes ended with one of 13 balls in the water at the island-green 17th.

Garcia thought he had plenty of time to get from the range to the 10th tee to start his round. Then he fired off a 7-under 65, capped off by a birdie-birdie-eagle finish for a two-shot lead over Brian Harman. AdWhen darkness brought the first round to a halt — 21 players didn't finish — there already were 13 scores of 80 or higher. “For some reason, it just kind of fits my eye,” said Garcia, who won The Players in 2008 and has twice been runner-up. British Open champion Shane Lowry took bogey on his final hole for a 68 and was tied with Corey Conners and Matt Fitzpatrick.

No one has ever gone more than a year without winning and ended the drought at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Winning is the only way to get to Maui at the start of the year, so Schauffele and 15 other players ordinarily wouldn't be here. “I got an asterisk for winning the Tour Championship that counted in certain things and not in others,” Schauffele said. Horschel said the tour has crunched numbers and in a normal year, it would add eight to 10 players to Kapalua. The tour has contemplated an expanded field over the years, such as giving a two-year exemption to Kapalua for winning a tournament.

It's November, and I think everybody just has to embrace that we're here and we're playing and that's a great thing." In some respects, this Masters is a celebration of what golf has done and a sendoff the sport has never had. For many, it signaled the start of golf season, whether that meant playing or watching. “All the Masters I've watched over the years in Ireland, the golfing season started normally the weekend of the Masters,” British Open champion Shane Lowry said. “I think when The Open Championship was canceled, I had serious doubts we'd play a Masters this year in 2020,” McIlroy said.

Instead of Augusta National members and their guests, the course was filled Monday with Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas, Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth, all of them playing a practice round on a course that only looked the same. The COVID-19 pandemic that shut down golf for three months forced a reconfigured major championship schedule unlike any other, particularly at the Masters. "The things that will be the same is it still means the same to us all, and maybe even more so because we return to Augusta National every year. This is the Augusta National hardly anyone gets to see. When it means going to Augusta National to get ready for the Masters — April, November, doesn't matter — it takes the sting off.