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FedEx Cup playoff field set; Gary Woodland, Adam Scott miss cut
The PGA Tour solidified its field of 70 golfers for the FedEx Cup playoffs following the final round of the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, and Gary Woodland was among a host of notable names that failed to qualify.,Germany's Matti Schmid began the regular-season finale sitting 70th in the points st...
Cameron Young cruises to historic first victory, ties scoring record at Wyndham Championship
Cameron Young was in such a good position as the Wyndham Championship wound down that he knew he'd have the right finishing touch.,Young shot 2-under-par 68 in the final round and wasn't challenged on his way to his first PGA Tour victory Sunday at Greensboro, N.C.,"It's the end of my fourth season ...
Cameron Young holds five-shot lead at Wyndham Championship
Cameron Young shot 5-under-par 65 and threatened to run away from the pack during the Wyndham Championship's third round Saturday at Greensboro, N.C.,Young, seeking his first victory on the PGA Tour, is at 20-under 190 for a five-stroke advantage on Colombia's Nico Echavarria. Young has been a runne...
Cameron Young on top as Wyndham Championship halted by lightning
Cameron Young held a one-stroke lead over defending champion Aaron Rai of England when the second round of the Wyndham Championship was suspended due to lightning on Friday in Greensboro, N.C.,The PGA Tour's regular-season finale was halted at 4:32 p.m. local time with lightning in the area of Sedge...
Charlie Woods stumbles at Jr. PGA, falls short in Ryder Cup qualifying bid
Charlie Woods dropped into a tie for ninth on the final day of the Junior PGA Championship, which took him out of the running for a qualifying spot for the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team on Friday.,The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods shot back-to-back 66s in the second and third rounds at the Birck Boile...
Charlie Woods tied for 2nd entering final round of Jr. PGA
Charlie Woods is in a strong position to earn a spot on the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team as he enters the final round of the Junior PGA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind.,The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods is tied for second place at 12-under-par 202 after shooting a 5-under 66 at the Birck Boilerm...
Joel Dahmen fires 61 to take Wyndham Championship lead
Joel Dahmen tied the lowest round of his career with a 9-under-par 61 to set the early pace at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C.,Dahmen needs a strong showing at the regular-season finale in order to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs that begin next week. A win would vault hi...
Great (Adam) Scott: Birdie binge keeps Wyndham lead, playoffs in sight
Adam Scott rang off four consecutive birdies and shot a 5-under-par 65 in the first round of the Wyndham Championship on Thursday, not far from the position required to crash the FedEx Cup playoff starting next week. ,Scott missed a four-foot birdie at the Wyndham Championship in 2023 to snap his 16...
How Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 Did What the PGA Tour and LIV Golf Still Can’t
Happy Gilmore 2 features stars from both PGA and LIV Golf, poking fun at the feud with help from legendary golfers like McIlroy, Scheffler, Koepka and DeChambeau....
Rickie Fowler climbing FedExCup points list, but he seeks more
While professional golf's four majors have come and gone, there's still lots of money and prestige to be earned over the next month.,The PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship, which begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., is the final tournament before the $100 million FedExCup Pla...
Golf Glance: PGA's final playoff push; LPGA major hunting in Wales
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: 3M Open (Kurt Kitayama),THIS WEEK: Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C., July 31-Aug. 3,Course: Sedgefield Country Club (Par 70, 7,131 Yards),Purse: $8.2M...
Charlie Woods vaults into contention at Junior PGA Championships
Charlie Woods vaulted into contention at the Junior PGA Championships with a 6-under par 66 in the second round in West Lafayette, Ind. on Wednesday.,After carding a 70 during the first round on the Kampen-Cosler Course at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, Woods birdied six of his first eight hole...
Playoff push, desperation underscore drama of Wyndham Championship
The Wyndham Championship has a funny way of setting the table for the FedEx Cup playoffs. ,In 2023, Lucas Glover won the regular-season finale to jump from outside the top 110 in the points race into the playoffs. He capitalized by winning the very next week in the playoff opener in Memphis.,The yea...
PGA-LIV talks non-existent as new CEO takes over with full plate
Adam Scott helped hire Brian Rulapp, the new CEO of the PGA Tour, as part of the tour's search committee and player Policy Board, and he understands better than most the important role Rulapp will play in negotiations with LIV Golf. ,There is hope from the tour that Rulapp, a veteran of two decades ...
Adam Scott has unfinished business at Wyndham Championship
Adam Scott has unfinished business at the Wyndham Championship this week as he continues a season filled with incomplete performances.,Scott, who lost in a record-tying six-man playoff at this event in 2021, returns to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., still looking for his first top-10 f...
Local favorite Ben Griffin looks to work magic at Wyndham
Ben Griffin looks to rebound from missing the cut in each of his last two tournaments when he tees off at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday.,Griffin, a former University of North Carolina standout, admitted on Tuesday that he relishes playing in the tournament at Sedgefield Country Club in Greens...
Kurt Kitayama parlays red-hot weekend into 3M Open victory
Kurt Kitayama shot 6-under-par 65 and held on to win the 3M Open by one stroke Sunday in Blaine, Minn., for his second PGA Tour victory.,Kitayama finished at 23-under 261 at TPC Twin Cities for a one-stroke decision on Sam Stevens, who posted 66. Kitayama made a total of 20 birdies in the two weeken...
Thorbjorn Olesen, Akshay Bhatia deadlocked at 3M Open; Kurt Kitayama shines with 60
Akshay Bhatita's putter helped him enough to make a big difference during Saturday's third round of the 3M Open.,That was a boost because Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen, with a hole-in-one on the eighth hole, didn't need a putter all the time.,The duo co-leads the tournament through 54 holes at Blaine, ...
Thorbjorn Olesen, Akshay Bhatia deadlocked at 3M Open; Kurt Kitayama’s 60 keeps pressure on
Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen, with a hole-in-one on the eighth hole, and Akshay Bhatia co-lead the 3M Open after the third round Saturday in Blaine, Minn.,Bhatia shot 8-under-par 63 to surge into the lead before Olesen, who was the second-round leader, caught up and posted 67. They're at 18-under 195 ...
Kurt Kitayama scares 59, ties course record at 3M Open
Kurt Kitayama narrowly missed out on posting a 59 during the third round of the 3M Open on Sunday, settling for a tie of the TPC Twin Cities course record with a 60.,Kitayama was 11 under through 16 holes, needing a birdie on each of the final two holes to card a 59 in Blaine, Minn. However, he sent...