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Getty Images The 2020-21 PGA Tour season will make its fourth stop in Texas as the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson tees off Thursday, May 13. However, while most tour pros are familiar with the Dallas suburb of McKinney, which will host the event, they likely aren’t familiar with TPC Craig Ranch, which will host the

3:59 PM ET World No. 1 Dustin Johnson has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, citing knee discomfort. Johnson made the announcement Monday. He last played in the Valspar Championship from Apil 29 to May 2, finishing 48th. “It is with deepest regret that I must withdraw from this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson,” Johnson

The top-ranked golfer in the world has pulled out of the AT&T Byron Nelson. Dustin Johnson announced Monday that he has withdrawn from the Dallas-area tournament due to a lingering knee injury. “Unfortunately, the knee discomfort I occasionally experience has returned and after consultation with my team and trainers, I feel it is best that

8:08 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In golf’s pandemic world, golf without spectators has often felt like the beach without sun. For Rory McIlroy, the return of living, breathing souls along the ropes, behind tee boxes and surrounding greens — ever so slowly but increasing week by week — may have been just as important

For the first time in 553 days, Rory McIlroy is once again a winner on the PGA Tour. The 32-year-old Northern Irishman earned his first win since the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions — the second longest winless drought of his career — on Sunday, claiming the Wells Fargo Championship at 10 under. McIlroy shot a final-round

Jordan Spieth will try to become part of history when the 2021 PGA Championship tees off Thursday, May 20 at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina. The 27-year-old has won three major championships, but the PGA Championship is the only one he hasn’t claimed. A win would put him in

1:27 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bryson DeChambeau had an early wake-up alarm set for Saturday morning. Very early. Even by the standards of an 8:10 a.m. tee time. That’s because DeChambeau began the day in Dallas — where he went Friday afternoon after believing he had missed the 36-hole cut at the Wells Fargo

USATSI This week’s stop on the PGA Tour, the Wells Fargo Championship at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Quail Hollow Club, the location of the 2017 PGA Championship and 2022 Presidents Cup, has an impressive field. Ten of the top 15 players in the world — including four of the top five — will tee it up

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Keith Mitchell straightened out his putter and delivered big tee shots Saturday that carried him to a 6-under 66 and a two-shot lead over Rory McIlroy and Gary Woodland in the Wells Fargo Championship. The putter issue is not a figure of speech. After closing with an 82 in the Valspar Championship

Phil Mickelson thought he played well in Round 1 on Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship; in Round 2 he said he wasn’t doing enough high-level thinking en route to a 4-over 75. “I just wasn’t sharp,” he said, later providing an example from his water-bound tee shot on No. 14. “I stepped in there,

Pete Dye and Alice Dye are two of the best golf architects in the world, and arguably their top creation is the expansive, extreme Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. Buffeted by non-stop gales off the Atlantic Ocean, the course first burst into notoriety with the 1991 Ryder Cup. Now, it will play host to the

12:33 PM ET Associated Press JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Members of the U.S. and Great Britain & Ireland teams at the Walker Cup are dealing with a stomach bug and are under observation at the team hotel, organizers said Friday. The amateur golf tournament is held every other year and is set to begin Saturday

JUNO BEACH, Florida — This weekend’s 48th Walker Cup at Seminole Golf Club got off a rocky start Friday when the USGA released a statement that said players on both the American and Great Britain-Ireland teams are battling stomach issues. “Over the past 24 hours, a number of players from both the GB&I and USA

Getty Images It’s been an eventful week for Phil Mickelson. Lefty’s name was linked to reports of the super golf league — a breakaway tour from the PGA Tour — earlier in the week with an apparent $100 million price tag attached to his bag. Then he went out in Round 1 of the Wells

Phil Mickelson grabbed his first opening-round lead at a PGA Tour event for the first time in 840 days on Thursday. (Photo by Ben Jared/PGA TOUR/Getty Images) Phil Mickelson’s golf game, despite wins on the PGA Tour Champions, has been on a steady decline since his last PGA Tour win in 2019. One would’ve never

6:22 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Darren Clarke took the lead Thursday in the Regions Tradition, opening with a 6-under 66 in the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. The 2011 British Open champion from Northern Ireland had a one-stroke lead over Stephen Ames and Jerry Kelly at Greystone Golf & Country

7:11 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Just last week, Phil Mickelson complained about his inability to focus properly as he struggled yet again, missing the cut at the Valspar Championship. It was Joel Dahmen who got Mickelson’s full attention Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship, when Dahmen mentioned him in a couple of good-natured social