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Getty Images The 2021-22 PGA Tour schedule rolls on this week as the 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship tees off from the Country Club of Jackson on Thursday, Sept. 30. The Sanderson Farms Championship 2021 features a strong field, headlined by defending champion Sergio Garcia. Meanwhile, a handful of players who’ve never won on the PGA

A text message from Tiger Woods ahead of the final day of the Ryder Cup helped motivate the American side and avoid any potential upset.  Woods, who is still rehabbing after a car accident in February, reached out to the Americans and captain Steve Stricker throughout the week. Stricker said early in the competition that

The United States crushed Europe 19-9 to recapture the Ryder Cup on Sunday in a performance captain Steve Stricker called the “greatest of all time”. Collin Morikawa, the 24-year-old world number three, delivered the winning half point when he tied his match with Viktor Hovland at Whistling Straits. He was one of eight 20-somethings on

8:56 PM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — As the United States team celebrated wildly around the 18th green after winning the Ryder Cup in a record-breaking 19-9 rout at Whistling Straits on Sunday, the 12 European players and captain Padraig Harrington sat on stools in a nearby tent for postmatch interviews. With Queen’s “We Are the

8:15 PM ET SHEYBOYGAN, Wis. — United States Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker is a crier. It’s known enough that he gets considerable, good-natured grief about it. You could have made money if you bet the under on when the tears would start flowing during his opening ceremony speech. He is one of golf’s good

For all the flag-waving, all the jingoism, all the “U-S-A!” chants, a sense of dread always hangs over the head of the American team at the Ryder Cup. That’s what happens when you’ve lost seven of the past nine and nine of the past 12 — you’re just waiting for the inevitable blue-and-gold tide. So

Victory isn’t quite yet in sight for the United States at the Ryder Cup, but it’s a lot closer than anyone would have expected at this point in the tournament. With all team play complete, the United States leads Europe 11-5, an all-but-insurmountable lead heading into Sunday’s singles matches.  Through the first three rounds of

Golf Channel Jordan Spieth pulled a rabbit out of his hat Friday morning at the 43rd Ryder Cup during foursomes. In doing so, he nearly baptized himself in the process. Paired with Justin Thomas facing World No. 1 Jon Rahm and veteran teammate Sergio Garcia, the Americans needed to win the final two holes just

7:43 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Tiger Woods won’t be playing in this week’s Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Neither will Phil Mickelson, though he is here and will serve as a non-playing assistant captain for the United States team. Six rookies are giving a face-lift to the American side, which has lost four of

Actor Tom Felton collapsed on the 18th hole at Whistling Straits on Thursday ahead of the Ryder Cup and had to be carted off the course due to a medical emergency. Felton, the British actor best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” franchise, was participating in the celebrity event ahead of the

An American squad featuring nine of the world’s 11 top-ranked golfers tries to reclaim the Ryder Cup from Europe this weekend, aided by 40,000 loud supporters and a home course edge. The European side, however, has won nine of the past 12 editions of the biennial team matches, including three of the past six on

Sergio Garcia’s wife wants U.S. fans to be nice.  Ahead of this week’s Ryder Cup, Angela Akins Garcia made the plea in an interview with CNN while chiding past U.S. fan behavior as “embarrassing.” Akins Garcia, who is American, recounted a less-than-cordial fan encounter she experienced during the 2016 Ryder Cup held at Minnesota’s Hazletine

Bettors are confident in the United States’ chances of winning the Ryder Cup on home soil.  The American team’s odds are now at -190 at BetMGM ahead of the tournament beginning on Friday. The U.S. opened at -140 to win and the odds have grown as the U.S. has gotten nearly 49% of wagers and

Getty Images The 2020 Ryder Cup — being played in 2021 — gets cranking this week in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, as the United States looks to bounce back from a tough defeat a few years ago. The Americans are looking to win their second straight Ryder Cup on their home soil, though Team USA is just

Though Brooks Koepka was battling a wrist injury at the end of the PGA Tour season and sounded like he didn’t care about this week’s Ryder Cup, U.S. team captain Steve Stricker doesn’t have any doubts that Koepka is ready to go this week in Wisconsin. Stricker said Monday at Whistling Straits that he’s spoken

7:37 AM ET SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. — Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are unlikely to sit together, eat together or chit-chat together this week at the Ryder Cup. But what if they played together? Would the previously derisive “Brooksy” chants from the gallery then be considered complimentary? As silly as all that sounds, that is where

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Max Homa’s decision to give up his poplar and often comical golf podcast to concentrate on his game is already paying off. Homa holed out from the rough from 95 yards for eagle on the par-4 12th to start a back-nine comeback and added three birdies for a 7-under 65 and

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