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Wyndham Clark takes 5-shot lead into final round at BMW Championship
Wyndham Clark shot 5-under-par 65 to expand his lead in the BMW Championship on Saturday in St. Louis.,Clark, the U.S. Open champion earlier this year, moved to 17-under 193 for a five-stroke advantage over Patrick Cantlay and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy at Bellerive Country Club, where the seco...
Wyndham Clark (64) grabs outright lead at BMW Championship
Wyndham Clark pulled off his second consecutive round of 64 Friday to establish a one-stroke lead at the BMW Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.,Clark is at 12-under-par 128 at the halfway mark of the FedEx Cup playoffs' middle event. The top 30 in the points race after Sunday will ...
Rory McIlroy shoots 64, part of five-way tie for lead at BMW
Rory McIlroy shook off last week's difficulties and birdied four of his final six holes to earn a share of the first-round lead at the BMW Championship on Thursday at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.,The six-time major champion from Northern Ireland signed for a 6-under-par 64, tied with Gary Wo...
Matt Fitzpatrick: Scottie Scheffler has sewn up PGA Player of the Year
What a difference a year makes for Matt Fitzpatrick entering this week's BMW Championship in St. Louis.,The Englishman entered each of the last two BMW Championships firmly on the top-30 bubble to make the Tour Championship.,Entering this year's event at Bellerive Country Club, he's No. 2 in the Fed...
2026 BMW Championship: Preview, Prop Picks, Best Bets
The second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs begins Thursday with the top 50 players in the standings teeing off at the BMW Championship in St. Louis.,Only the top 30 after this week advance to the Tour Championship, and our golf experts preview the event at Bellerive Country Club while sharing their fa...
Scottie Scheffler adds momentum to everything going for him at BMW Championship
Scottie Scheffler is back on top, even if it never felt like he went anywhere.,The World No. 1 and FedEx Cup points leader grabbed his first win since January when he ran away with the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight strokes Sunday.,Near the end of a highly consistent season, Scheffler is the h...
Rory McIlroy: It'll be 'tough road' for LIV players to return to PGA
Rory McIlroy has been one of the most adamant PGA Tour defenders throughout the LIV defection era this decade.,So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that he wasn't exactly welcoming of some of these players potentially returning to the PGA amid LIV's future uncertainty.,LIV officially canceled its...
Scottie Scheffler targets Tiger Woods at BMW Championship
The best player on the PGA Tour is not about to rank himself among some of the greats in the game, even as he is about to become the leader in all-time career earnings.,Scottie Scheffler will enter this week's BMW Championship set to pass Tiger Woods on the career money list, but he scoffs at the no...
Viktor Hovland's latest swing coach change has familiar ring
Viktor Hovland is returning to a familiar voice in the Norwegian's constant quest to improve his golf swing.,Hovland confirmed in a segment with HBO Max ahead of this week's BMW Championship that he has reunited yet again with swing coach Joe Mayo.,The two worked together when Hovland won the 2023 B...
Gary Woodland named to U.S. Presidents Cup staff
Gary Woodland is set to cap a triumphant year after he was named a captain's assistant on the United States' staff for the upcoming Presidents Cup.,Woodland, 42, is the fourth and final assistant, joining Jim Furyk, Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson on the staff of captain Brandt Snedeker.,The U.S. sq...
Golf Glance: FedExCup playoffs continue; LIV season concludes
The final battle for spots in the PGA Tour's Tour Championship takes place in St. Louis, the LPGA Tour is in Canada and LIV Golf holds its final event of 2026 in Indianapolis.,PGA TOUR,THIS WEEK: BMW Championship, St. Louis, Aug. 20-23,Course: Bellerive Country Club (Par 70, 7,448 Yards),Purse: $20M...
Near top-30 bubble, Viktor Hovland enters BMW with surprising St. Louis connection
Viktor Hovland's first set of golf clubs came from St. Louis -- an odd fact about a boy who grew up across the ocean in Norway.,Hovland's father, Harald, was working in the St. Louis area and bought his son's first set of clubs to bring home to him at age 11.,"I don't know exactly where he lived and...
Open champion Ryan Fox adjusting to life on the radar
At his press conference Tuesday ahead of the BMW Championship, Ryan Fox recited the ways his life has changed since winning The Open Championship last month. ,Starting with the fact that he was having a press conference.,"I mean, I'm sitting here," the 39-year-old New Zealander told reporters at the...
Scottie Scheffler’s Dominant Win Shows Why He Remains Golf’s Best Player
Scottie Scheffler ended his winning drought in dominant fashion, winning the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight strokes to begin the FedEx Cup playoffs....
England's Jack Whaley storms back to win US Amateur
Nothing was keeping Jack Whaley from the U.S. Amateur Championship. Not weather, not a 2-hole deficit heading into the final session -- not even a wasp sting that left his ankle throbbing.,The 22-year-old native of Doncaster, England and rising senior at Florida State stormed back through less-than-...
Rory McIlroy: 'So far away from where I need to be' in return at St. Jude
Rory McIlroy left the FedEx St. Jude Championship with his place in the next round of the playoffs secure, but with considerably less confidence in his golf swing.,The World No. 2 finished 66th out of 68 golfers at 8 over par after closing with a 2-over 72 on Sunday at TPC Southwind in Memphis. McIl...
Sungjae Im plays way into FedEx Cup top 50; Jordan Spieth knocked out
Despite holding a share of the lead after the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Thursday, Jordan Spieth didn't have enough in the tank this weekend to push himself into the top 50 of the FedEx Cup points race.,Instead, Sungjae Im of South Korea was the only golfer to play his way int...
Scottie Scheffler walks away with dominant FedEx St. Jude win
Scottie Scheffler shot 4-under-par 66 and pulled away to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship and extend his lead in the FedEx Cup playoffs Sunday in Memphis, Tenn.,Scheffler is the World No. 1 golfer, but this marked his first victory since January, so it was his second triumph of 2026.,He finished ...
Scottie Scheffler holds 2-shot lead with round to play at FedEx St. Jude
Scottie Scheffler shot 2-under-par 68 to maintain the lead Saturday in the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn., as he aims for his first victory since January.,Scheffler moved to 13-under 197 for a two-stroke lead on Sam Burns and South Korea's Sunjae Im at TPC Southwind, where the opening...
Scottie Scheffler fires 61 to jump into FedEx St. Jude lead
Scottie Scheffler fired a 9-under-par 61 to rocket into the lead at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the playoffs, on Friday in Memphis.,The World No. 1 birdied the first five holes at TPC Southwind and added a sixth at No. 7. Bogeys at Nos. 8 and 12 around one birdie at No. 10 took...