AUSTIN, Texas – On Sunday Kevin Kisner won $1.745 million for his victory at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and the largest payday of his career on the PGA Tour. “That’s it? We need to get bigger purses. That was a lot of work,” he laughed following his 120-hole marathon at Austin Country Club. Jokes […]
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BILOXI, Miss. – Scott Parel made a 12-foot par putt to match Kevin Sutherland on the fifth hole of a playoff before play was suspended because of darkness Sunday night in the PGA Tour Champions’ Rapiscan Systems Classic. They will finish Monday morning at Fallen Oak. Sutherland, the second-round leader, missed a 2-foot par putt […]
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 […]
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Nasa Hataoka won the Kia Classic on Sunday at Aviara Golf Club for her third victory in her last 16 LPGA starts. The 20-year-old closed with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory over playing partner Inbee Park, top-ranked Sung Hyun Park, Jin Young Ko, Azahara Munoz and Danielle Kang. Hataoka, the 20-year-old who won two LPGA titles […]
AUSTIN, Texas – Matt Kuchar’s consistency had been nearly flawless all week at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Other than a halved match with Jon Rahm in pool play he had been in control of every match. But that changed on Sunday. Kuchar fell behind early in the championship match against Kevin Kisner and was […]
Kevin Kisner defeated Matt Kuchar to end a long week of play at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Here’s a look at how the purse was paid out at Austin Country Club: Final Kevin Kisner ($1,745,000) defeats Matt Kuchar ($1,095,000) Consolation Francesco Molinari ($712,000) defeats Lucas Bjerregaard ($574,000) Quarterfinal losers [T-5, $315,000 each] Louis Oosthuizen […]
Shane Lowry and Justin Harding both qualified for the Masters thanks to their positions in the latest Official World Golf Ranking, bringing the field size for next week’s tournament in Augusta, Ga., to 86. Lowry and Harding were the only players inside the top 50 this week who didn’t start the year in the top 50 […]
BILOXI, Miss. – Kevin Sutherland made his first birdie in two days, and it was all he needed to finally win for the second time on the PGA Tour Champions. Sutherland, bothered overnight by a 2-foot putt that could have ended the sudden-death playoff, holed an 18-foot birdie putt on the seventh extra hole Monday […]
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 […]