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Getty Images The par-71 Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort in Florida has produced some memorable finishes in recent years. In fact, the Valspar Championship winner has been decided by two strokes or less in each of the last 13 tournaments. That could certainly be the case again this year as the 2021 Valspar Championship tees

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Omar Uresti started Wednesday’s final round of the 53rd PGA Professional Championship with a seven-shot lead, and he needed most of it. After playing flawless golf for the first 54 holes, Uresti struggled throughout the final round. The Austin, Texas, resident was 4-over after four holes and saw his once-invincible

Getty Images The Valspar Championship has sometimes gotten buried during the PGA Tour’s Florida swing in recent years. That’s really unfortunate because it has become a terrific tournament with an often compelling field playing a tough, good golf course at Innisbrook Resort. This year is a bit of a mini-resurrection for the Valspar, which is

12:39 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Paul Casey is unsure how all of his peers will handle the situation, but he said he’s happy that the PGA Tour has instituted a policy that will allow him to forgo COVID-19 testing if he is fully vaccinated. The 43-year-old, who is the two-time defending champion of

Getty Images The PGA Tour returns to the Innisbrook Resort for the 2021 Valspar Championship on Thursday after a one-year hiatus, and the Copperhead Course is ready to strike. The course plays as one of the toughest on tour, and world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and second-ranked Justin Thomas will take center stage. They are

6:13 AM ET Coming off last week’s team event in Louisiana, the PGA Tour returns to traditional play this week for the Valspar Championship. Paul Casey won the last two times the event was played, in 2018 and 2019, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor Florida. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Omar Uresti doesn’t hit the ball 330 yards. He doesn’t have a mullet or a catchy nickname. Heck, he’s old enough (52) to be eligible for some AARP discounts. All he has is a game that travels – usually near the top of the leaderboard. The Austin, Texas native has

(Reuters) – World number one Ko Jin-young, two-times champion Inbee Park and holder Park Sung-hyun head the field at the HSBC Women’s World Championship starting on Thursday as the LPGA Tour returns to Asia for the first time in 18 months amid the COVID-19 crisis. The 13th edition of the tournament, which has been dubbed

2:17 PM ET ESPN News Services Tyrrell Hatton is the fourth player to have to withdraw from the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook because of a positive test for the coronavirus. Hatton is the No. 8 player in the world ranking, making him the highest-ranked player to test positive on the PGA Tour since world No.

Getty Images Four players have withdrawn from this week’s Valspar Championship after testing positive for COVID-19, the most at any event since the PGA Tour returned at the Charles Schwab Challenge at the beginning of June 2020. Tyrrell Hatton, Will Gordon, Brice Garnett and Sepp Straka are all out after positive tests. Tim Wilkinson, J.J.

4:30 PM ET PALM HARBOR, Fla. – A day after he qualified for his first PGA Tour event and saw an emotional video go viral in which he told his father about the feat, Michael Visacki still had difficulty grasping the reality of his situation. A long-time mini-tour player who said he’s logged some 170,000

Getty Images Rickie Fowler is reportedly among the participants to receive a special invitation to the play in the 2021 PGA Championship next month at Kiawah’s Ocean Course, eliminating the questions as to whether he could qualify on his own in the coming weeks.  Fowler could make the field thanks to his 2018 U.S. Ryder

The video has been watched more than a million times. Michael Visacki, on the phone with his father, tears flowing down his cheeks. “I made it,” Visacki says, fighting through the tears. “You did it?” his father asks. “Yes.” “Oh my, God!” “It” is Thursday’s Valspar Championship. The tears were the result of seven years

PGA Tour After seven long years, pro golfer Michael Visacki qualified to compete for his first PGA Tour start. As one can imagine, it was an emotional experience that was only made more beautiful by the fact that he called his father immediately after the greatest sporting achievement of his career so far. Video of

USATSI Dustin Johnson is expected to be among the top PGA DFS picks this week for the 2021 Valspar Championship. Johnson earned his 24th-career PGA Tour victory at the Masters in November and he enters the 2021 Valspar Championship ranked inside the top-10 in driving distance (312.0) and stokes gained: tee-to-green (1.319). The long ball

Olympic gold and silver medallists Park In-bee and Lydia Ko said Tuesday they were not worried about playing at the coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Games despite a surge in infections in Japan. A new virus state of emergency in Tokyo and several other regions was announced last week just three months before the Games begin, although officials

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6:22 PM ET Associated Press Will Gordon and Brice Garnett have tested positive for the coronavirus and have withdrawn from the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship this week in Palm Harbor, Florida. That brings the number to 12 players who have tested positive since the start of the year. That total does not include Jim Herman,