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Kevin Yu wins Sanderson in playoff for maiden tour title
Kevin Yu of Taiwan birdied the first playoff hole to defeat Beau Hossler and win his first title on the PGA Tour at the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday in Jackson, Miss.,Yu shot a 5-under-par 67 to match Hossler (68) at 23-under 265. They returned to the tee at the par-4 18th hole at the Coun...
Another stellar round puts Keith Mitchell in lead at Sanderson Farms
Keith Mitchell shined on the back nine to card a 7-under 65 on Saturday to move into the lead after three rounds of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss. ,Mitchell, who recorded a 64 on Friday to share low-round honors with Beau Hossler, also managed to post the best score of the third ...
Beau Hossler takes narrow lead at Sanderson Farms Championship
Beau Hossler drained a long eagle putt down the stretch on his way to an 8-under-par 64 Friday, earning himself a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss.,Hossler is 15-under 129 through two rounds at the Country Club of Jackson, with Daniel Berger on hi...
David Skinns fires 60 to lead Sanderson Farms Championship
David Skinns of England missed a 9-foot putt for 59 but was thrilled to shoot a career-best and tournament-record 60 to take the lead after one round of the Sanderson Farms Championship on Thursday in Jackson, Miss.,Skinns teed off on the back nine at the Country Club of Jackson and rolled in six bi...
Report: Viktor Hovland done for '24 due to injury
Viktor Hovland will not play again in 2024 as the world No. 8-ranked golfer recovers from an undisclosed injury, according to Bunkered.co.uk.,Hovland, 27, withdrew from the BMW PGA Championship last month and will not play in the final stretch of events on the DP World Tour. Despite Hovland having p...
Augusta National chairman 'confident' Masters will be held
Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said Thursday that he believes the Masters will be held as scheduled despite the golf course sustaining "a lot of damage" from Hurricane Helene.,The Masters is scheduled for April 10-13, 2025 in Augusta, Ga.,"I'm confident that the Masters will be held, it will ...
2024 Sanderson Championship: Preview, Prop Picks, Best Bets
Why is Rickie Fowler ending his PGA Tour hiatus to kick off his October in Mississippi?,It's the quest for vital FedEx Cup points that the new fall schedule introduced last year has created. Fowler last played at the Open Championship in July. Having failed to qualify for the playoffs, he took an ex...
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...