Fans attending this year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Fla., will have a unique opportunity to look back on the life of the tournament’s namesake. Tournament organizers announced Wednesday that an interactive exhibit known as the Arnold Palmer Experience will be on display all week long when the PGA Tour heads to Bay Hill from […]
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HONOLULU – Chris Thompson began his press conference Tuesday at the Sony Open with a predictable snafu. “Rookie mistake,” he smiled after being told he needed to use a microphone. In Thompson’s defense, the learning curve has been steep for the 42-year-old PGA Tour rookie. After three decades plying his trade on mini-tours from South Florida […]
HONOLULU – After more than five years of legal wrangling, Vijay Singh settled his lawsuit with the PGA Tour in November, and on Tuesday at the Sony Open he said it’s relief, not necessarily vindication, that he feels now. “I just thought it was a very unfair deal. That’s why I pursued it, and I’m […]
USC junior Cheng Jin is leaving school early to turn pro. Jin informed Trojans head coach Chris Zambri of his decision on Tuesday. The 20-year-old from Beijing, China, made it through Asian Tour Q-School last month and will relinquish his amateur status to play on the tour this year. The decision, though, wasn’t easy, as Jin wrote […]
HONOLULU – Last season the PGA Tour introduced a new pro-am format that allowed professionals the option to share their pro-am commitment with another player. It is called the “9 & 9” option. Under the “9 & 9″ format, which was used at seven events in 2017-18, players could choose to play nine holes of the […]
HONOLULU – Patton Kizzire’s playoff victory last year at the Sony Open was in many ways a life-changing event. Along with his victory earlier in the season in Mexico, it entrenched Kizzire atop the FedExCup point list, a position he held through the West Coast swing, and it put him within range of earning his […]
Japan’s Shugo Imahira has accepted a special invitation to participate in the 2019 Masters. Imahira, 26, won the 2018 Order of Merit on the Japan Golf Tour and ended last year ranked No. 53 in the world rankings when a spot inside the top 50 would have earned a Masters exemption. “Bobby Jones and Clifford […]
HONOLULU – Attention to detail. Expertise. Focus. Intensity. Padraig Harrington was, as expected, named 2020 European Ryder Cup captain. And those who have played with the Irishman had, as expected, no shortage of adjectives to describe Europe’s new skipper. “You would assume his attention to detail would be flawless because that’s just the way Padraig […]
Stephen Curry’s golden touch wasn’t enough to secure sponsorship for a new event the PGA Tour planned to add to its schedule this fall in Northern California. The San Francisco Chronicle first reported on Tuesday that negotiations with potential sponsor Workday Inc., the Pleasanton, Calif., based financial management company, unexpectedly fell apart. “While it has been reported […]
Padraig Harrington played in six consecutive Ryder Cups, helping Europe to four victories in the biennial matches in that span. But the most distinct match memory for Europe’s 2020 captain came from one of his team’s most bitter defeats. Harrington was a rookie during the 1999 matches at Brookline, when the Europeans built a seemingly […]