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Golf Glance: Chase for vital FedEx Cup status grinds on at Sanderson Farms
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: Procore Championship (Patton Kizzire),THIS WEEK: Sanderson Farms Championship, Jackson, Miss., Oct. 3-6,Course: The Country Club of Jackson (Par 72, 7,461 Y...
PGA Tour, LIV chiefs in same grouping; Rory McIlroy shares tee time
Two of professional golf's heavy hitters -- as executives of the rival PGA Tour and LIV Golf League -- will be in the same grouping Thursday in the pro-am format of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.,PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan and his partner for the week, tour player Billy Horsche...
Rickie Fowler ‘rusty as can be’ but relaxed after extended break
Rickie Fowler hasn't played a golf tournament since the Open Championship, taking 2 1/2 months off from competition.,Fowler -- who finished the regular season outside the top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings -- was already unlikely to make the 70-man playoffs before choosing to skip the Wyndham Champi...
Sanderson champ Luke List thinking of home hit hard by Helene
Luke List is in Jackson, Miss., this week to defend his title at the Sanderson Farms Championship, but his mind is on his adopted hometown of Augusta, Ga., and the other parts of the Southeast hit by Hurricane Helene.,List planned to fly from Augusta to Jackson on Monday, but with the storm approach...
Tom Kim clears air with Jim Furyk, Xander Schauffele
Tom Kim apologized to U.S. captain Jim Furyk and Xander Schauffele on Sunday, one day after his public comments caused a bit of a stir at the 2024 Presidents Cup.,On Saturday, Kim told reporters that unidentified members of the U.S. team were "cursing at us" during their foursomes match in which he ...
U.S. beats International team to win 10th straight Presidents Cup
The United States continued its historical dominance of the Presidents Cup when it beat the International team 18 1/2 to 11 1/2 at Royal Montreal Golf Club on Sunday for its 10th consecutive victory in the event.,Needing to pick up only 4 1/2 points from the 12 singles matches on the final day, the ...
U.S. grabs 11-7 lead over International team at Presidents Cup
The Presidents Cup is tight going into the final day of competition after a long Saturday at Royal Montreal Golf Club.,The U.S. team regained the lead, holding an 11-7 margin on the International team.,The U.S. won the final three afternoon foursome matches. The first team to 15 1/2 points wins.,The...
U.S. regains lead over International team at Presidents Cup
The U.S. team won three of four matches in four-ball to regain the lead in the Presidents Cup on Saturday at Royal Montreal Golf Club.,The U.S. led 8-6 on the International team going into afternoon foursomes. ,This is the first day of multiple sessions, with four foursome matches set for the aftern...
Augusta National assessing Helene damage
One of the nation's most storied golf courses is dealing with the aftermath of Helene, the former Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Florida on Friday and was downgraded to a tropical depression as it continued its wrath into Georgia on Friday. ,Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridle...
Adam Scott, International team roar back to tie Presidents Cup 5-5
Adam Scott of Australia notched a milestone as the International team dug out of a big hole on Day 2 of the Presidents Cup, sweeping all five foursomes matches against the United States at Royal Montreal Golf Club on Friday.,After being swept in the fourball matches on Thursday, the Internationals n...
U.S. sweeps International team 5-0 on Day 1 of Presidents Cup
The U.S. team clicked at almost every turn in sweeping five four-ball matches to open Presidents Cup competition by blitzing the International team Thursday at Royal Montreal Golf Club.,The 5-0 count marked the first sweep of a four-ball session for the U.S. since the 1994 Presidents Cup.,The most d...
Fired-up Jim Furyk, U.S. eye 10th straight Presidents Cup win
Though there have been some close calls in recent memory, the United States has won nine straight Presidents Cups and counting, making its every-other-year contest against the International team pretty predictable., ,But don't tell U.S. captain Jim Furyk that an upset would spice up the event. One A...
Presidents Cup captain's assistants having fun, chasing 'pinnacle'
International team captain's assistant Geoff Ogilvy said defeating the U.S. at this week's Presidents Cup would be "the pinnacle of the sport.","We don't hate the other team," the Australian told reporters Wednesday during a media session with all nine assistants at the Royal Montreal Golf Club in Q...
Scottie Scheffler talks Presidents Cup, upcoming match vs. LIV duo
Before he sets out for a December exhibition that will get the golf world talking, Scottie Scheffler has a team event of a different kind to attend to at Royal Montreal Golf Club.,The World No. 1, whose incredible season included a green jacket, a Players Championship title, an Olympic gold medal an...
Corey Conners amped for 'amazing' Presidents Cup atmosphere in Canada
The International Presidents Cup team enjoyed some team bonding in one of the most Canadian ways imaginable: by attending a Montreal Canadiens preseason hockey game.,It was Corey Conners' first time visiting Montreal's Bell Centre, a building he called "unbelievable," packed with history and with fa...
Jim Furyk, Mike Weir ready for Presidents Cup pressures
There are different kinds of pressure on the two captains at this year's Presidents Cup, whether they let on about it or not.,Jim Furyk's job is to extend the U.S. team's dominance in the event to 10 straight victories. Mike Weir is captaining the International squad at Royal Montreal in his native ...
Report: LIV player returns are sticking point of PGA-PIF talks
Recent reports have suggested that PGA Tour players want members of LIV Golf to return the money they received from LIV as a condition of any reunification of men's golf, but according to a Golf Digest report Friday, the bigger sticking point is whether to allow players back to the tour at all.,Few ...
Golf Glance: LIV plays for team championship, LPGA heads to Cincy
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: Procore Championship (Patton Kizzire),THIS WEEK: OFF.,FedEx Cup Champion: Scottie Scheffler,NEXT TOURNAMENT: Presidents Cup, Montreal, Sept. 26-29,LPGA TOUR...
Jordan Spieth expects to be ready for start of 2025 season
Jordan Spieth said he is progressing well following wrist surgery and expects to be ready for the start of the 2025 PGA Tour season.,"I think that by 2025, by Jan. 1, it's my goal to be tournament-ready," Spieth told Golfweek in a Q&A published on Monday. "And for me, that would be not just going ou...
Patton Kizzire wins Procore for first victory in six years
Patton Kizzire had his most uneven round of the tournament Sunday, but it ended up being more than enough for him to secure his first PGA victory of the season at the Procore Championship in Napa, Calif.,Entering the day with a four-stroke advantage, Kizzire made that lead stick by shooting a 2-unde...