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Getty Images Golf is officially back, and with it is a tremendous tournament. This week’s Tournament of Champions marks the first week of nine straight months of PGA Tour golf and the $8 million 2021 winners-only field is among the best events of the year. Not only do we get Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa

8:22 AM ET The first event on the PGA Tour schedule in 2022 is a small one. Only 38 players will tee it up at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. The reason? You have to win to get in. Only tournament champions from the previous 12 months are invited to the Plantation Course at Kapalua

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Brooks Koepka has a pair of 68s to start the new year at Kapalua, putting him in the top 10 of PGA Tour winners gathered on Maui, still seven shots behind but reason to be pleased. He’s working hard and it’s not even a major. And he’s in Hawaii, a tough

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker revealed on Tuesday that he has spent the last several months in and out of a hospital battling a “mysterious ailment.” Though it wasn’t related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stricker told WisconsinGolf’s Gary D’Amato on Thursday that he’s “lucky to be alive.” “I’m down 25 pounds,” he said, via

Getty Images Golf is back, and it brought a tremendous tournament with it. This week’s Tournament of Champions marks the first week of nine straight months of PGA Tour golf and the $8 million 2021 winners-only field is among the best events of the year. Not only do we get Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa

Patrick Reed’s enticing odds have made him the most popular pick to win the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Maui. Nearly 10% of bettors at BetMGM have placed a bet on Reed (+2500) to win the tournament. Those bets account for over 12% of the handle and Reed is one of three golfers getting over

8:16 AM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Max Homa was sitting on a plane, flying back to Arizona from the RSM Classic in Sea Island, Georgia, on Nov. 19, when he started to think about how to get better. It was his 31st birthday, and earlier in the day, he missed the cut by 3 strokes.

The world’s top-ranked golfer is back in action this week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, his first competitive outing in nearly three months. That time off after a wild 2021, Jon Rahm said Tuesday from Kaplua’s Plantation Course, was much needed. “I get my moments with COVID, became a dad, won a U.S. Open,

Getty Images The first PGA Tour event of the calendar year tees off Thursday with a champions-only field of 39 golfers at the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions in Maui, Hawaii. Last year’s event on the Plantation Course at Kapalua had an expanded field after the pandemic wiped out several tournaments. All of the golfers

The PGA Tour has been keeping average driving distance stats since 1980. In 2003, the mark of 321.4 yards was achieved by Hank Kuehne and was the standard-bearer for almost two decades. During the 2019-20 season, Bryson DeChambeau broke Kuehne’s 17-year-old mark. One year later, DeChambeau broke his own mark. Go back to 1997, where

Getty Images During the 2020 Ryder Cup this September, a shroud started to settle over Whistling Straits as Jon Rahm wasted anybody the United States threw at him for the first two days of the event. Wait, how good is this guy actually? Did we have it all wrong? This is the gateway to finding

Tiger Woods knows he’s lucky to be alive. Fortunate to still have use of both of his legs. Blessed to once more be hitting golf balls with authority. And elated to be able to play with his two children again. “I’m very grateful that someone upstairs was taking care of me, that I’m able to

The PGA reached a settlement with former President Donald Trump after the association pulled an event from one of Trump’s golf courses, according to Reuters.   The PGA released a statement confirming the settlement. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the PGA said both sides “expressed satisfaction with the agreement.” The association was supposed

Getty Images This week’s Official World Golf Rankings list looks a lot like last week’s Official World Golf Rankings list, except that last week’s list was mostly for discussion, and this week’s list may have gotten you an invite to the 2022 Masters. One of the myriad ways to qualify for the Masters is to

As a remarkable year in golf comes to a close, we’ve been combing through the numbers, story section by story section, reviewing which stories drew your attention during a year unlike any other. This got us thinking — why not share the findings with you, our loyal and wonderful readers, so we can reminisce together?

USATSI Talk to any of the top players in golf, and they’ll tell you their goals at major championships are quite simple. Because winning can often be the result of a lucky bounce or ridiculous break, golfers will give you some variation of the narrative that all they’re trying to do is give themselves a

Getty Images The 2022 golf year is a mere two weeks away, which means that the Masters is just over 100 days away. In the first extended break from major championship golf since the sport returned in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone in this little niche world will be hungry for what are

3:42 PM ET Associated Press KAPALUA, Hawai’i — Phil Mickelson is headed back to Hawai’i for golf, not a vacation, committing to play the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua for the first time in 21 years. Mickelson won the winners-only tournament at La Costa Resort in 1998, then has played only twice since it