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USATSI Patrick Cantlay has had tremendous success at the Shriners Children’s Open over the years. In fact, Cantlay finished on top of the leaderboard in 2018 and secured back-to-back runner-up finishes in 2019 and 2020. Cantlay could certainly find himself in the mix again this week when the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open gets underway from

Oct 2, 2022 Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Whether it was sheer confidence or remarkable resilience, Mackenzie Hughes never doubted he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship. He just never imagined how it would unfold Sunday evening. Hughes had to make six key putts on the final seven holes — four of them for par

Rory McIlroy teed it up at St. Andrews Saturday for the first time since the final round of The Open, when he had to watch Cameron Smith hoist the claret jug after McIlroy could only manage a final-round 2-under 70 at the famed links course. The world No. 2 fared a little better in the

Getty Images Thomas Detry signed for a second consecutive 5-under 67 to earn a share of the lead of the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship heading into the weekend. A PGA Tour rookie in name only, Detry sits at 10 under alongside Mackenzie Hughes who fired a 9-under 63 on Friday to push his name back

Rory McIlroy is worried about golf’s future. McIlroy said Wednesday ahead of the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship that he believes the sport is “ripping itself apart” amid the ongoing feud between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. “I don’t want a fractured game,” McIlroy said. “I never have. You look at some

The PGA Tour filed a countersuit against the LIV Golf Invitational Series this week, accusing the new Saudi Arabian-backed league of trying to induce top golfers to breach their contracts with the Tour by claiming that the Tour couldn’t enforce them, according to The Associated Press’ Doug Ferguson. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in

Patrick Reed’s $750 million defamation lawsuit against the Golf Channel is growing. Reed pulled his initial $750 million defamation lawsuit against the Golf Channel and analyst Brandel Chamblee on Wednesday and refiled it in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida. Reed added several other Golf Channel employees to the lawsuit, including Eamon Lynch, Shane Bacon and

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jay Monahan has never faced a more tumultuous time as PGA Tour commissioner. More than two dozen PGA Tour members have defected to the LIV Golf circuit, which is being fronted by two-time Open Championship winner Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The PGA Tour is currently facing

USATSI Coming off his Presidents Cup debut, Sam Burns aims to repeat as champion at the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship this week in Jackson, Miss. The 26-year-old set the course tournament record with a 22-under 266 at the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall. It was the first of his three victories last season. He comes

The U.S. team captured the Presidents Cup again, taking down the International team 17½ to 12½ at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday. It was the Americans’ ninth straight victory and 12th in 14 editions of the event. Over four days, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas emerged as the face of American

American dominance in the Presidents Cup continues. Team USA rolled to an early 17.5-12.5 win over the International Team on Sunday afternoon at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina, marking its ninth straight win at the biennial event. The Americans now hold a 12-1-1 overall record and have never lost in the United States. Team

Getty Images The race to 15.5 is officially on at the 2022 Presidents Cup as a mad dash to end Day 3 saw the International team turn what was thought to be a blowout into a legitimate ball game. Trimming the United States’ overnight lead from six points to four with an overall score of

3:35 PM ET The Americans’ victory parade at the Presidents Cup will have to wait. The International team did what it had to do to stay alive on Saturday morning, splitting two of the four alternate-shot matches to remain six points behind, 10-4, at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. 2 Related With four

Jordan Spieth is known for his ridiculous par saves, and he did it again during his Friday four-ball match at the 2022 Presidents Cup. The regular 18th hole at Quail Hollow Club is playing as the 15th this week, and Spieth’s drive found the right-hand rough just along the tree line. With his partner, Justin

USATSI The Internationals will be major underdogs, but the event will go on this week when they face the United States in the 2022 Presidents Cup in Charlotte, N.C. Defections to LIV Golf have left the International squad without top players Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann, and the Americans have most of the world’s top-ranked

LIV Golf members still can’t earn Official World Golf Rankings points at their events, something that is going to start hurting players on the Saudi Arabian-backed circuit. In Justin Thomas’ eyes, however, they only have themselves to blame. Thomas, speaking ahead of the Presidents Cup this week at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina, doesn’t

The International team has none, after Australia’s Cameron Smith, the third-ranked player in the world and The Open winner, jumped to the new LIV Golf circuit in late August. History is on the Americans’ side, too. They have won 11 of the past 13 Presidents Cup competitions, losing just once and tying one other time.

It sounds like Greg Norman’s lobbying efforts for LIV Golf aren’t going well. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) reportedly called Norman’s lunch with members of the Republican Study Committee on Wednesday “propaganda” and said the RSC shouldn’t spend it’s time with a league backed by the Saudi Arabian government. Why is LIV lobbying? Norman met with