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Getty Images This week’s stop on the PGA Tour, the Valspar Championship gives players a chance for a clean start as they begin prepping for next month’s PGA Championship. Its new spot on the schedule is a nice reprieve from the overwhelming Florida swing in March, and the field this week reflects a better week

At a visually stunning 7,849 yards, Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course is rated the toughest in America by the USGA. The course, which is on the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina and was made famous by the 1991 Ryder Cup, gets its second shot at major-championship golf as the host site for the 2021 PGA Championship.

Prestigious Portmarnock and Pine Valley golf clubs to ditch all-male policies – ROBERTO BOREA /AP Two of the final bricks in golf’s notorious male-only facade are set to be removed with the all-male Pine Valley, often rated as the best course in the world, ready to emulate Portmarnock by opening up its membership to females.

8:15 AM ET China’s Lin Xiyu carded a superb five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Australia’s Hannah Green and South Korea’s Inbee Park heading into the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Lin got off to a poor start with a bogey on the first hole and

(Reuters) -China’s Lin Xiyu carded a superb five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Australia’s Hannah Green and South Korea’s Inbee Park heading into the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Lin got off to a poor start with a bogey on the first hole and faltered again

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Scott Harrington was disqualified from the Valspar Championship after the second round for signing an incorrect scorecard. The DQ was a mere formality as Harrington, 40, had shot 1-over 72, which combined with his opening-round 4-over 75, would have been several shots too many in order to stick around and play

8:42 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns kept piling up birdies Friday, turning a solid start into a great round of 8-under 63 for a share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. Keegan Bradley got there with one shot. Bradley ended his round by holing out for eagle from 100

8:08 PM ET ESPN News Services PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Phil Mickelson said he is struggling to keep his concentration on the golf course, leading to short spells where his mind goes numb. One such example came Friday at the end of his round, and it cost him at the Valspar Championship. Two bogeys over

Getty Images PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Sam Burns kept piling up birdies Friday, turning a solid start into a great round of 8-under 63 for a share of the lead in the Valspar Championship. Keegan Bradley got there with one shot. Bradley ended his round by holing out for eagle from 100 yards in

Two men have separated themselves from the field heading into the weekend at the Valspar Championship. Overnight leader, Keegan Bradley, was able to avoid a meltdown similar to 2016 and instead put together another fantastic round of golf. Bradley, who has not won on the PGA Tour since the 2018 BMW Championship, carded a 5-under

5:53 PM ET Associated Press Nicolai von Dellingshausen of Germany took a three-shot lead of the Tenerife Open after matching a career-best 62 through the second round on Friday. Von Dellingshausen carded a 9-under round at the Golf Costa Adeje course on the Canary Islands. He made seven birdies to go with one bogey before

As Mike Whan readies to make the move from Florida to New Jersey – he bought a place at Hamilton Farm Golf Club – the search for his replacement at the LPGA has begun to narrow. Golfweek has learned that the number of candidates for LPGA commissioner has been whittled down from hundreds to eight,

5:01 AM ET Inbee Park was unable to hit the heights of her opening round but a three-under-par 69 gave her a share of the lead with fellow South Korean Park Hee-young at the halfway stage of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore on Friday. Park Hee-young drained a 10-foot birdie putt at the

6:14 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister’s Award in Tokyo on Friday for winning the Masters golf tournament. He was the first Japanese winner at Augusta National, the famous American club. Matsuyama won the low amateur title at the 2011 Masters just weeks after the earthquake, tsunami and the

Getty Images The first round of the Valspar Championship on Thursday played a bit easier than most have come to expect at the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort and Keegan Bradley took advantage by firing a bogey-free 64 which leads the tournament by two over five different golfers tied for second. The three top-10 players

Keegan Bradley was able to overcome the Snake Pit en route to a bogey-free round of 7-under 64. Bradley made easy work of the difficult finishing stretch, making birdie on two of his final three holes. He’s no stranger to starting hot at the Valspar Championship. In 2016, he co-led after Round 1, only to

7:27 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley can’t recall having an easier time than he did Thursday at Innisbrook. He missed only one green. His longest par putt was just over 4 feet. It added to a 7-under 64 and another great start in the Valspar Championship. It’s the second round

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Keegan Bradley just equaled his finest round of golf in 18 months during what he called “an all-around great day” that was “basically zero stress.” And the best part of his Thursday had yet to come. After a 7-under 64 that gave the Jupiter resident a two-shot lead after one round