CARLSBAD, Calif. – Inbee Park curled in an 18-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th for her second straight 5-under 67 and the third-round lead Saturday in the Kia Classic, the final event before the major ANA Inspiration. Winless in a full calendar year, the seven-time major champion from South Korea had a one-stroke advantage over Nasa Hataoka […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Graeme McDowell won the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title since 2016, closing with a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over Chris Stroud and Mackenzie Hughes. McDowell took the lead from Stroud with a birdie on the par-4 17th and closed with a bogey – […]
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 – 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 […]
AUSTIN, Texas – The clarity of pure match play arrived early Saturday at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play like a cold front sweeping across Texas, which also showed up as scheduled just as most matches were reaching critical mass. The Round of 16 featured a number of technical upsets, including Lucas Bjerregaard’s 3-and-2 victory over […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Tiger Woods moved on the quarterfinals of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play on Saturday with a wild 2-and-1 win over Rory McIlroy in the Round of 16. “Well, we had some interesting conditions today,” Woods said on the 17th green during a post-round interview with Golf Channel’s Steve Sands. Three up through […]