Golf

7:39 PM ET Associated Press BURLINGTON, N.C. — JR Smith couldn’t help but feel anxious. Sure, he had spent 16 years playing in the NBA, making millions and winning two world championships in packed arenas at the highest level of a global sport. But he had never been in the situation like he was Monday:

The world’s most famous collegiate golfer got off to a strong start, but ultimately struggled in the first 36 holes of his North Carolina A&T career. J.R. Smith, who joined the Aggies’ golf team as a walk-on earlier this year after a 16-year career in the NBA, shot a 12-over 83 and a 7-over 78

This is borderline unfair.  Phil Mickelson has played four Champions Tour events. He’s now won three of them. Even by the standards of the 50-and-over tour, where the newest members are always the most skilled, this is quite the achievement from golf’s reigning Troublemaking Uncle.  The Champions Tour doesn’t exactly carry the gravitas of the

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sungjae Im was so dialed into his game that he didn’t realize how many birdies he was making in turning a shootout into a one-man show in Las Vegas. Only when he saw a leaderboard after his big run was over — seven birdies in an eight-hole stretch around the turn

Tiger Woods‘ road to recovery has apparently reached the golf course. Eight months after the horrific car crash that left him with multiple fractures in his right leg, the golf great was spotted on a course, club in hand, overseeing his son competing in a junior event this weekend. Woods appears to still have a

Getty Images The Shriners Children’s Open, which began Thursday with a 10-under 61 by Sung Kang that gave him a two-shot lead after the first round, features the best field of the still-young 2021-22 PGA Tour season — and it’s not really that close. A majority of the world’s top 50 golfers are teeing it

10:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sam Burns won the Sanderson Farms Championship last week and is trying to put it behind him. He’s playing as though it never ended. Burns made a pair of 6-foot par putts on the only two greens he missed in regulation and ran off eight birdies in

For the second consecutive week, the ladies are up in New Jersey for the Cognizant Founders Cup at Mountain Ridge Country Club. The Donald Ross design is an absolutely beauty, especially this time of year in the northeast. Jin Young Ko, the 2019 Founders Cup champion, was off early this morning, and didn’t wait long

Getty Images The fourth event of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season gets going on Thursday, Oct. 7, in Las Vegas when the 2021 Shriners Children’s Open tees off at TPC Summerlin. The total purse comes out to $7 million and 500 FedEx Cup points are on the line for the winner. No PGA golfer has

8:04 PM ET Associated Press Next year will be the final leap into “Poppie’s Pond,” ending 40 years of the only LPGA major held on the same course and still known in some corners simply as the Dinah Shore. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday that Chevron is taking over as title sponsor of the year’s

Kapil Dev is an avid golfer and feels India can improve in golf.© AFP Former India cricket team captain Kapil Dev on Tuesday said that golf as a sport was neglected for a long time but the recent performance by Indian golfers increased the awareness towards the game. Dev who is also an avid golfer

Sam Burns fired a 5-under 67 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship by a shot Sunday at the Country Club of Jackson. Here’s everything you need to know from Sunday’s finish in Mississippi. Leaderboard: Sam Burns (-22), Nick Watney (-21), Cameron Young (-21), Henrik Norlander (-20), Hayden Buckley (-20), Andrew Landry (-20), Trey Mullinax (-20)

Getty Images It’s difficult to follow last week’s thrilling Ryder Cup, but this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship offers up a pleasant way to ease back into the PGA Tour. The event has been played at the Country Club of Jackson in Mississippi and it.has featured some intriguing young stars looking to make a name for

Ryu So-Yeon shot a six-under 65 in the opening round of the LPGA Tour’s ShopRite Classic on Friday to grab a share of the lead with Jodi Ewart-Shadoff. Starting on the back nine, South Korea’s Ryu began her round with back-to-back birdies then closed with three straight birdies beginning at the par-three seventh. In between

Bryson DeChambeau may be one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour, but his run at the Professional Long Drivers Association’s World Championships didn’t go far enough on Friday night. DeChambeau, after making it into the final eight, was eliminated from the competition on Friday in Mesquite, Nevada. DeChambeau fell only six yards shy

Jim “Bones” Mackay is headed back to the bag. Mackay, who spent 25 years caddying for Phil Mickelson on the PGA Tour, will now caddie for Justin Thomas full time this season, he told the Golf Channel on Thursday. Mackay has spent the past four seasons working as an analyst for NBC Sports and the

Getty Images Jim “Bones” Mackay, who spent the last four years with an on-course reporter, is set to transition back to his career as a caddie and will be on the bag for star Justin Thomas, he told Golf Channel this week. Mackay is expected to continue in his role as a broadcaster when his

3:46 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Delayed a year due to the pandemic, the much-awaited Ryder Cup delivered, even if the final-day drama was missing. Plenty of passion and pageantry, a slew of impressive shots and putts, the usual nitpicky irritation between both sides and — in the end — a joyous winning team and