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6:12 AM ET It has been nearly a month since the Masters, the first major championship of the season, and the PGA Championship, the second major, is just two weeks away. Not much has changed since Scottie Scheffler won his first major and slipped on a green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club on April

Jon Rahm went wire-to-wire to win the inaugural Mexico Open. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images) For the first time in nearly a year, Jon Rahm has won on the PGA Tour. The second-ranked golfer in the world went wire-to-wire and held on late on Sunday to take home the inaugural Mexico Open at Vidanta title. Rahm posted

Getty Images The term “Jon Rahm and everybody else” normally refers to how good Rahm is compared to the rest of the world. This week at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, however, it refers to a field in which Rahm, who holds the lead after Round 2, is the best player by an extraordinary margin.

Viraj Madappa and Rashid Khan kept their nerves and held their rivals at bay to earn the coveted Asian Games berths in golf after a gruelling five-round affair, on Saturday. From the women’s section, amateur Avani Prashanth booked her ticket to the Games. Avani continued her impressive march as she shot a steady final round

10:50 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Hannah Green took the lead into the weekend in the Palos Verdes Championship, rebounding from consecutive bogeys Thursday in gusting wind to birdie the two late par 5s in a 5-under 66. Green had a three-stroke lead over five players at hilly Palos Verdes Estates

The Tiger Woods Rehabilitation Tour continues. Woods, just over a year removed from a catastrophic single-car wreck that could have cost him his leg, has traveled to Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a practice round of golf. The significance, of course, is that Southern Hills hosts the PGA Championship next month, and

Getty Images The term “Jon Rahm and everybody else” normally refers to how good Rahm is compared to the rest of the world. This week at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, however, it literally refers to a field in which Rahm is the best player by an extraordinary margin. Rahm is the only player in

The board for the Mexico Open is incredibly unique. Most tournaments have a handful of players you can consider favorites. Not this tournament. Thanks to a weak field and Jon Rahm’s presence, Rahm is far and away the heavy favorite to win this weekend. The No. 2 player in the world opened at +500 to

Phil Mickelson is seeking a release from the PGA Tour that would allow him to play in the first LIV Golf Invitational Series event in June. The procedural move doesn’t commit Mickelson to the event, but leaves open the possibility he’ll take part in the Saudi Arabia-backed upstart tour, which intends to compete with the

12:38 PM ET Associated Press When he isn’t busy trying to get the Golden State Warriors back to the NBA Finals, Stephen Curry is doing his part to create golf opportunities for minorities. His latest venture is expanding his “Underrated” brand into golf by launching a series of five tournaments in conjunction with the American

Xander Schauffele has come a long way. Schauffele teamed up with Patrick Cantlay on Sunday to win the Zurich Classic with a tournament-record total of 29 under, but more than a decade earlier, Schauffele was receiving a heavy dose of reality as Cantlay’s college counterpart. It was at the 2011 Gifford Collegiate, held at CordeValle

Getty Images The top of the field at this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans is as good as it has ever been. Among those in the field are the reigning Masters champion, as well as two other teams made up of players currently in the top 12 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Scottie

10:27 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Nasa Hataoka took advantage of Jin Young Ko‘s late meltdown Saturday to take a four-stroke lead into the final round of the DIO Implant LA Open. Tied for the lead with Hataoka after a birdie on the par-5 15th, the top-ranked Ko bogeyed the par-4 16th and

World number one Ko Jin-young fired eight birdies in a seven-under par 64 on Friday to grab a share of the second-round lead alongside Japan’s Nasa Hataoka in the LPGA’s Los Angeles Open. Ko, aiming to bounce back from a disappointing finish in the first major of the year at Rancho Mirage two weeks ago,

The 2022 PGA Championship will get underway on Thursday, May 19, and a number of players will enter Southern Hills Country Club confident they can secure their first major championship. Cameron Smith is coming off a third-place finish at the Masters and has finished on top of the leaderboard twice since the calendar flipped to

2:40 PM ET Associated Press Pebble Beach is the third course to become an anchor site for the U.S. Open, with the USGA announcing Wednesday four U.S. Opens and four U.S. Women’s Opens over the next 26 years. Pebble Beach joins Pinehurst No. 2 and Oakmont Country Club as anchor sites, a strategy that allows

The Zurich Classic of New Orleans takes this place week and is the only team event on the PGA Tour that counts for FedEx Cup points. The Aussie duo of Marc Leishman and Cam Smith won this event last year, shooting 20 under. For the viewers, it’s a fun event but from a betting perspective,

Bettors like Scottie Scheffler’s chances of getting yet another win. Scheffler and teammate Ryan Palmer are the most-bet duo at BetMGM ahead of the Zurich Classic in New Orleans. The Zurich is the only team event on the PGA Tour schedule and the unique format is fun for bettors. The field is comprised of 80