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Getty Images Compared to the events that surround it on the golf calendar, this week’s Fortinet Championship is about as low-key as it gets. That could pave the way for a great start to both the fall golf season as well as the 2021-22 PGA Tour season. It’s fitting that this tournament is played in

Carlota Ciganda shook off an early double bogey Thursday to post a four-under par 68 and join a three-way tie for the lead in the LPGA Portland Classic in Oregon. Spain’s Ciganda, coming off Europe’s victory in the Solheim Cup match play clash with the United States, said the chilly morning temperatures required some adjustment.

J.R. Smith is a two-time NBA champion and a former Sixth Man of the year who earned millions of dollars over the course of his 16 seasons.  When he retired after his second title, with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, he could have done just about anything. Smith had enjoyed a long basketball career,

As far as Paul Azinger is concerned, Brooks Koepka doesn’t need to be at Whistling Straits next week with the U.S. Ryder Cup team. If he doesn’t like the event, the former team captain and current Golf Channel analyst said Wednesday, Koepka should give up his spot. “I’m not sure he loves the Ryder Cup

Getty Images The 2021 Fortinet Championship is the start of the new PGA Tour season, and three of last season’s four major champions will be on hand when it tees off Thursday in Napa Valley. World No. 1 Jon Rahm leads the field and will be joined by PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson and Masters

8:15 AM ET Golf never really ends, it just takes a brief break. This year, it’s a grand total of one week. The actual number of days between PGA Tour events will be 11. Before the 2021-22 seasons begins on Thursday in Northern California, a look back at the 2020-21 “super season” that saw 50

9:02 AM ET Associated Press Patrick Cantlay was voted PGA Tour player of the year on the strength of his four victories, including a 1-shot advantage at East Lake that made him the FedEx Cup champion. Tuesday’s announcement was another big step for Cantlay, a 29-year-old Californian who went from being the No. 1 amateur

Eleven of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker’s troops showed up for a two-day reconnaissance excursion at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin ahead of next week’s biennial battle with Europe, with all playing the Straits Course that will be home to the 43rd edition of the matches in rain, sunshine and warm temperatures while dealing with

Whenever Ben Crow played a tournament, whether in junior golf, high school, or college, his father Ken would be right there, walking nearby and watching. Every time father and son would get in the car for the drive back to their home in Pinehurst, N.C., Ken would start conversation with the same line: “What was

Tiger Woods isn’t ready to assist the U.S. team for the upcoming Ryder Cup, but the team’s captain thinks he’s on the road back to playing golf again. Steve Stricker, serving as the U.S. captain this year, revealed his captain’s picks to fill out the team that will head to Whistling Straits later this month

2:01 PM ET Steve Stricker called himself old school. He is, after all, a big part of the U.S. Ryder Cup effort over the past decade. Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Stricker have been a constant in just about all of the U.S. team competitions for the better part of

Getty Images The worst-kept secret in major championship golf is no longer a secret. The Open Championship is going back to Royal Portrush. The R&A announced Wednesday morning that the final major of the year would return to Northern Ireland in 2025 for the 153rd playing of The Open. This will be just six years

Getty Images United States captain Steve Stricker made six selections Wednesday to round out his Ryder Cup team, and there were few surprises. The U.S. side is now complete and will head to Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin, for the 43rd Ryder Cup to take on Europe in two weeks. Stricker went by the book

6:00 PM ET Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio — Europe retained the Solheim Cup on Monday, clinching just its second victory on U.S. soil when Matilda Castren closed out Lizette Salas 1 up to give the visitors the decisive point in a 15-13 victory. Castren calmly curled in a 10-foot par putt on the 18th to

Rory McIlroy is firmly in tennis star Naomi Osaka’s corner as she prepares to take time away from the sport following her third-round loss at the US Open last week. Osaka, who has been very open about her struggles with anxiety and depression in recent months, said that she simply has lost the love of

Getty Images Patrick Cantlay is a star, and now he’ll have to meet the expectations that come with being one. He emerged this season as perhaps the most well-rounded golfer on the planet and will enter next season coming off a FedEx Cup Playoffs of his dreams with wins at the last two playoff events

8:52 PM ET ATLANTA — The system is one Patrick Cantlay still dislikes, one that saw him earn $15 million on Sunday as the PGA Tour’s season-long champion despite not shooting the lowest 72-hole score at the Tour Championship. No matter. Cantlay followed the format, and he hit the big shots when necessary to hold

When you’re watching a golfer compete while in last place during the final round of a major tournament, it is a mostly boring endeavor. The golfer may be in last place, but he isn’t spectacularly bad. He will still hit many fairways and reach par more often not. He is just a professional, one of