PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Graeme McDowell one-putted the first 15 greens Saturday and shot his second straight 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. Winless since 2016, the 39-year-old major champion from Northern Ireland had a 15-under 201 total. He opened with a 73. ”I’ve been seeing […]
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AUSTIN, Texas – I walked 35 holes, and I’m grouchy. Scattered thoughts from a marathon and mostly fun day in Austin that saw Tiger Woods bounced from the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play after a 1-down loss to Lucas Bjerregaard. · He lipped a 5-footer when he had to have it. There’s kind of no way around […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Tiger Woods hit the putt he wanted. He just didn’t have the read he needed. Woods lipped out a 5-footer Saturday afternoon on the 18th green to lose his quarterfinal match to Lucas Bjerregaard and exit the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Woods hit a disappointing second shot into the front bunker and […]
Graeme McDowell held on for a one-shot victory at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, the first PGA Tour win since 2015 for the former U.S. Open champ. McDowell started the final round in the Dominican Republic with a one-shot lead, but he was trailing Chris Stroud by a shot with two holes to […]
Whether to avoid getting dirty or just to show off their six-pack abs, golfers going shirtless on the course is nothing new. But this might be the best result ever from a guy taking his shirt off to play a golf shot. During the final round of the Web.com Tour’s Savannah Golf Championship, Kevin Dougherty found […]
AUSTIN, Texas – For the first time since the third round of last year’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Francesco Molinari has lost a match, falling to Kevin Kisner in the semifinals on Saturday. The Italian was 5-0-0 this week at Austin Country Club, matching his mark from last year’s Ryder Cup, and rallied to tie […]
NEW DELHI – Stephen Gallacher birdied three of his last four holes in a stunning comeback to win Hero Indian Open on Sunday. Gallacher finished on a 9-under-par 279 to clinch the title, one shot ahead of Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura. Gallacher held a share of the first-round lead before second-round 74 saw him slip away. […]
When Morgan Pressel became the youngest major championship winner in LPGA history at the 2007 ANA Inspiration, it appeared as if the sky was the limit. But she hasn’t won in 250 starts, so it was newsworthy when she was in third place after one round at the Kia Classic. GGP+ Correspondent Ron Sirak writes […]
AUSTIN, Texas – Jim Furyk doesn’t appear to be spending his post-Ryder Cup days revisiting the crushing U.S. defeat last fall in Paris. He’s content to leave that to others. But if the 48-year-old captain, who has been busy the last few weeks contending on the PGA Tour, needed a chance to unpack the rare […]
AUSTIN, Texas – Lucas Bjerregaard’s run through the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play came to an end with a pair of losses Sunday at Austin Country Club. Bjerregaard’s bid to make the final came to an end on the 18th green, when Matt Kuchar closed him out, 1 up, in their semifinal match. And his bid […]