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Jordan Spieth will enter this week’s 2021 PGA Championship needing a win to complete his career grand slam. The three-time major champion has made a remarkable turnaround after bottoming out at No. 92 in the Official World Golf Ranking earlier this year. Spieth ended a nearly four-year winless drought at the Valero Texas Open and

7:19 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The pudgy face is gone. So too is the curly hair sticking out from beneath an odd-looking cap. Now, the look is more mature, one of a husband and father, someone whose priorities have evolved. After all these years, Rory McIlroy returns to the same place, but he

Kiawah Island is a beautiful setting for this year’s PGA Championship. (Gary Kellner/The PGA of America via Getty Images) The season’s second major is upon us, the latest in a COVID-initiated seven majors in 12 months. After a one-year delay, the PGA Championship returns to its new spot on the sports calendar. Here’s all you

Kyoung-Hoon Lee’s first career win on the PGA Tour couldn’t have come at a better time. After enduring a wet and delayed final round to win the AT&T Byron Nelson on Sunday, Lee earned the final spot in next weeks’ PGA Championship. “[It was a] long day for me, I think [for] everybody,” Lee said,

The 2021 PGA Championship starts Thursday from Kiawah Island, and the top golfers in the world will be in attendance. The 2021 PGA Championship field features former winners like Rory McIlroy, who fired a bogey-free Sunday and won by eight strokes at this very same venue nine years ago. Also among the top 2021 PGA

6:43 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sam Burns still has the lead going into the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson despite more magic on the 18th green from local favorite Jordan Spieth. Now it’s a race to beat the weather in Texas in the final round with a good number of

For Stephan Jaeger, promotion to the PGA Tour is just 18 holes away. Looking for his third win of the season, which would earn him automatic promotion to the big leagues, Jaeger kept his foot on the gas and extended his lead at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Visit Knoxville Open on Saturday. The 31-year-old fired

Getty Images McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Now that Sam Burns has figured out how to turn an early lead into a victory, it’s already time to try again. Burns birdied six of his last eight holes Friday for a 10-under 62 and a two-stroke lead over Alex Noren at 17 under after the second round

Phil Mickelson is assured at least one more crack at the major that has given him the most heartache. He accepted a special exemption Friday to play the U.S. Open. Mickelson becomes the first player since Vijay Singh in 2010 to receive an exemption without having won the U.S. Open, and he’s not without merit.

6:41 AM ET Omar Uresti has gone from an obscure, little-known PGA Tour player to a full controversial PGA Professional in a very short amount of time. But through everything that’s happened to him, Uresti’s just a guy who wants to play golf for a living. Full disclosure: My journey into the professional golf world

Getty Images Following a month off and a short recovery after testing positive for COVID-19, nobody really knew what to expect from Jordan Spieth in Round 1 of the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch. So of course, he delivered the full Jordan Spieth Experience. There were chunked chips, thinned irons, insane recovery

With plenty of questions surrounding the Olympics, and all of the safety restrictions that are certain to be in place, Jon Rahm gets why golfers wouldn’t want to deal with the Tokyo Games this summer. Dustin Johnson, the top-ranked golfer in the world, and Adam Scott have already said that they won’t be making the

Many coaches and players don’t feel that the NCAA and organizers even tried to make the University Club course in Baton Rouge playable for them this week. (Tim Clayton/Corbis/Getty Images) Six schools, as planned, advanced out of the Baton Rouge Regional on Wednesday to earn a spot in the NCAA Division I women’s golf championships.

Hideki Matsuyama’s celebration after his historic Masters win last month was perhaps unlike anyone else who has earned the iconic green jacket. Matsuyama went home and read. He read “by far” the most about himself than he’s ever done before in his life. “I was able to probably read every news article and newspaper and

Getty Images This week’s AT&T Byron Nelson has found a new home — its third in four iterations — at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. The reviews for Craig Ranch are good thus far, and a lot of PGA Tour pros should like it because it’s wide open and should be easy to score

A few months ago on an obscure February weekend in Pebble Beach, Akshay Bhatia made a statement. The 19-year-old professional golfer from California hit 18-of-18 greens on the hallowed course, a feat that has been accomplished only six other times, including once by Jack Nicklaus. Bhatia didn’t win the tournament as he finished T30 and

5:19 PM ET Hideki Matsuyama is making his first start since winning the Masters last month, looking to regain the form that saw him become the first male Japanese golfer to win a major championship. There was little time for Matsuyama to work on his game as he went home to Japan immediately after his

8:00 AM ET Coming off last week’s Wells Fargo Championship (won by Rory McIlroy, who was picked by betting deputy editor David Bearman to win at 18-1), the PGA Tour heads to McKinney, Texas, for the AT&T Byron Nelson for a tuneup before the PGA Championship. This year’s event is moving to TPC at Craig