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Wyndham Clark WDs from Colonial after winning Byron Nelson
Wyndham Clark followed Brooks Koepka in deciding to withdraw from this week's Charles Schwab Challenge after Clark won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Sunday.,Clark posted an 11-under-par 60 in the final round to post a winning score of 30 under, just one shot shy of Scottie Scheffler's winning score the...

Teenager Blades Brown debating temporary PGA Tour membership
Teenager Blades Brown has a decision to make about his golf career.,With his T14 finish on Sunday at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas, Brown earned a special temporary membership on the PGA Tour for the remainder of 2026. That includes the fall season.,With that membership, Brown is entitl...

Charlie Woods scuffles to 28th in Team TaylorMade defense
Charlie Woods was unable to defend his title at the Team TaylorMade Invitational, finishing the three-day American Junior Golf Association event at Belleair, Fla., tied for 28th place at 4-over par.,Woods, the son of golf legend Tiger Woods, shot a 3-over 73 in the final round on Sunday. The tournam...

Tiger Woods breaks silence with Memorial Day post
Tiger Woods broke his silence with a Memorial Day post on social media honoring his late father, Earl, and other veterans.,"My father was a Special Forces operator with two tours in Vietnam and 20 years of service," Woods wrote on X. "To all those like my father, we all say thank you for your sacrif...

Japan's Ryuichi Oiwa fires 61 to qualify for U.S. Open
Japan's Ryuichi Oiwa carded a 61 in the second round on Monday and joined two countrymen in claiming spots in next month's U.S. Open.,Oiwa finished the 36-hole qualifying event in Hino, Japan, at 12-under 128, one stroke ahead of Kaito Onishi and two ahead of Taihei Sato.,Fourth- and fifth-place fin...

Wyndham Clark shoots 60, wins CJ Cup Byron Nelson going away
Once Wyndham Clark caught up to the lead Sunday, he didn't stop.,Clark shot an 11-under-par 60 to tie a course record in the final round and win the CJ Cup Byron Nelson by three strokes in McKinney, Texas.,"Any time you win and any time you do it in the fashion I did is very special," Clark said.,Cl...

Wyndham Clark wins CJ Cup Byron Nelson going away thanks to 11 under
Wyndham Clark shot an 11-under-par 60 to tie a course record in the final round and win The CJ Cup Byron Nelson by three strokes Sunday at McKinney, Texas.,Clark finished at 30-under 254 for four rounds at TPC Craig Ranch, one shy of the tournament record set last year by world No. 1 Scottie Scheffl...

After brief stay in U.S., Tiger Woods jets back to Switzerland
Tiger Woods' $50 million private plane returned to Switzerland on Sunday, with the injured golfer presumably in line to resume his rehabilitation process.,Per Celebplanes.com, the Gulfstream V took off Saturday night from Stuart, Fla., and flew just under nine hours to Zurich.,The New York Post publ...

Si Woo Kim keeps CJ Cup Byron Nelson lead, but Scottie Scheffler looms
South Korea's Si Woo Kim recovered from a bad mid-round stretch to shoot 3-under-par 68 and keep the lead through three rounds of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Saturday in McKinney, Texas.,Kim, who opened the day with a five-shot lead, sits at 21-under 192 and carries a two-shot edge over world No. 1 S...

Charlie Woods falls well back in Team TaylorMade title defense
Charlie Woods won the Team TaylorMade Invitational last year, but the son of Tiger Woods is tied for 23rd after a 3-over 73 in the second round Saturday in Belleair, Fla.,Woods, 17, a senior at The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Fla., began his round on hole No. 10 and offset a pair of bogeys ...

Si Woo Kim's 60 helps him move 5 strokes clear at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Si Woo Kim flirted with a sub-60 round and surged well clear of the rest of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson leaderboard in the second round on Friday in McKinney, Texas.,Kim's only bogey came on the 18th hole, when he overshot the green on his approach and left his chip short, missing an 18 1/2-foot par put...

Taylor Moore shoots 62 for early lead at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Taylor Moore birdied his last hole to complete a bogey-free, 9-under-par 62 and take a one-shot lead over Brooks Koepka during the first round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Thursday in McKinney, Texas.,Koepka posted a sterling 63, the lowest round of the morning wave at TPC Craig Ranch, with an eagl...

Jon Rahm commits to rare Scottish Open appearance
Jon Rahm will be returning to play in the Scottish Open for the first time since 2022, an additional tournament requirement that will clear the way for his participation in the Ryder Cup in 2027.,Rahm had been in a dispute with the DP World Tour, relating to his association with LIV. Rahm, 31, is on...

Jim Furyk, Keegan Bradley named Presidents Cup assistants
Jim Furyk, who captained the U.S. to a Presidents Cup win in 2024, and Keegan Bradley, who also contributed to that victory, were added to team skipper Brandt Snedeker's staff as assistant captains for this fall's tournament.,The Americans will look to make it 11 straight Presidents Cup victories ag...

Renovated TPC Craig Ranch hoping to present bigger challenge for Byron Nelson
Moments after Scottie Scheffler tied the PGA Tour scoring record on TPC Craig Ranch last year, they started tearing up the course.,That's only a slight exaggeration. Former pro golfer Lanny Wadkins was tagged to lead a two-year renovation that took a brief pause when the course hosted the CJ Cup Byr...

Scottie Scheffler eyes repeat at new-look CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Scottie Scheffler bolted out of the blocks and didn't look back last year at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.,Scheffler recorded a scintillating 61 during the first round and a 63 in the second and fourth rounds as part of his eight-stroke, wire-to-wire victory. The 29-year-old Dallas resident set the tourn...

Ex-caddie takes blame for Garrick Higgo's PGA tee-time flub
Garrick Higgo's former caddie shouldered responsibility for a missed tee time penalty that proved costly at last week's PGA Championship, saying he "fell short" of his duties.,Austin Gaugert was fired by Higgo on Monday.,Last Thursday at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., Higgo was one minu...

Brooks Koepka recalls CJ Cup Byron Nelson that got away
Brooks Koepka still is pondering a tough loss in this tournament 10 years ago as he prepares to play alongside the defending champion at this week's CJ Cup Byron Nelson.,Koepka lost to Sergio Garcia on the first playoff hole in 2016 when the tournament was played at TPC Four Seasons in Irving, Texas...

Report: PGA Tour aims to introduce 3+ new markets in ‘28
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp has begun presenting a more detailed plan for a revamped schedule to players, with a target date of the 2028 season, Sports Business Journal reported Tuesday.,Rolapp said in March that the tour was leaning toward a two-tiered system with "roughly 21 to 26 events on a first ...

Sungjae Im: ‘Added pressure’ to play well at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
This week's PGA Tour stop, the first of two straight weeks in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, has become a big week for the South Korea natives on tour.,The Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, is entering its third year of a sponsorship deal with CJ Group, a Korean conglomerate that...