LAS VEGAS — When Phil Mickelson became the oldest golfer ever to win a major at age 50 at the 2021 PGA Championship, he also became the biggest long shot to win the event in the 21st century.

Four of the five biggest long shots to win the PGA Championship have cashed tickets in the past 15 years, according to sportsoddshistory.com, which has ...Read more

Less than two weeks after a thrilling 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby, another premier, annual American sports event is taking place in Louisville, Ky.

The 106th edition of the PGA Championship — the second men’s professional golf major of the year — will be played from Thursday to Sunday at Valhalla Golf Club.

This is the fourth ...Read more

CHICAGO — An ex-employee of Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday to stealing golf legend Arnold Palmer’s green jacket as part of a 13-year scheme to illegally fence more than $5 million worth of Masters Tournament memorabilia.

Richard Brendan Globensky, 39, of Augusta, Ga., entered ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The spiciest of the mud-slinging, back-stabbing, greed-soaked reality shows hits overdrive this week. It's not the Real Housewives of Poway. Forget the 177th season of "Survivor."

It's golf, the supposedly refined, civilized and well-mannered game.

When the PGA Championship tees off at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., on ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka enter the PGA Championship in top form, with each of them winning their last start.

Scheffler and McIlroy are the only golfers in single-digit odds to win the year’s second major, which tees off Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Xander Schauffele and Koepka are ...Read more

The idea of a club pro teeing it up among the stars of professional golf isn’t quite a fish-out-of-water scenario. But it’s close.

There will be 21 such entrants in this week’s PGA Championship, the second of the year’s four majors, at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Their existence, as day-to-day representatives of their sport, ...Read more

MIAMI — They haven’t been pictured together in months or appeared on each other’s social media.

And now, we hear Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll, who own a $10 million mansion at the Bear’s Club in Jupiter, are getting a divorce.

The pro golfer was the one who did the filing, on Monday, in Palm Beach County, according to court records. ...Read more

On a gorgeous Mother’s Day Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele staged one mother of a duel for two hours.

In the final twosome, in what felt like a match-play format, they entered the final nine holes dead even.

But then McIlroy showed why he’s the best player this golf tournament has ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Xander Schauffele will sleep on the lead after three rounds of play at the Wells Fargo Championship, and he’ll have plenty to think about.

Schauffele shot a 1-under-par 70 Saturday at Quail Hollow but lost three strokes off the four-shot lead he began the day with. He leads World No. 2 Rory McIlroy by one shot.

Schauffele...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If Xander Schauffele has any intricate details about Quail Hollow Club that gives him an upper hand, he’s not ready to unveil them just yet.

“I don’t know,” Schauffele said Friday. “I wish I could tell you. It’s a big golf course. You’ve got to execute shots. I don’t know, maybe it’s so hard it makes you ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The life of an elite PGA Tour caddie has always been somewhat mysterious to me.

There they are, always two steps behind the golfer getting the headlines. The top caddies know what is needed in a game where so much depends on confidence and provide it. They unofficially serve as coach, psychiatrist and pack mule.

Joe LaCava ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When is the toughest finishing stretch on the PGA Tour, not the toughest finishing stretch on the PGA Tour?

When golfers have to play those holes before making the turn.

Instead of potentially changing golfers’ fortunes as they finished their round, Quail Hollow’s famed Green Mile — holes 16, 17 and 18 — greeted 33 ...Read more

PINEHURST, N.C. — A year ago, Wyndham Clark was a 29-year-old pro on the PGA Tour still trying to find his way, trying to find a way to win as he went to the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.

A year later, his introduction Thursday on the first tee at Quail Hollow Club will be: “The defending Wells Fargo champion and the 2023 U.S. Open...Read more

It was inevitable.

Delayed but not derailed.

Not even Sunday’s deluge of rain could dampen Scottie Scheffler’s history-making performance Monday at the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island as he sauntered to a three-shot victory over Sahith Theegala, who finished alone in second place.

With the course closed to spectators, only a few ...Read more

Update: After a more than two-hour weather delay, play in the RBC Heritage resumed for 50 minutes Sunday night and then was called at 7:50 p.m. “due to darkness” with a handful of players needing to return Monday morning at 8 a.m. to complete their final rounds.

Scottie Scheffler briefly showed the golfing world he is actually human when ...Read more

AUGUSTA, GA. – Tiger Woods set a record with his 24th consecutive made cut at the Masters, then faltered on the weekend, shooting an amateurish 82 on Saturday.

That performance would make this a good time for Woods to retire from the PGA Tour. His body won't hold up for four competitive rounds, he rarely plays anymore and his latest Masters ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. – You have to go low on the back nine on Sunday to win the Masters. Neither Max Homa nor Collin Morikawa did, so they stood aside and watched Scottie Scheffler get fitted with another green jacket.

It wasn’t like two of the PGA Tour’s up-and-comers threw up on their shoes, though. They both played steady, respectable final ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bryson DeChambeau came to the Masters with a brand-new set of irons that weren’t even deemed legal until 72 hours before he teed off.

Collin Morikawa switched putters for the week, then, after shooting 1-under in the first round, switched again.

Max Homa spent the week near the top of the leaderboard because, he said, he’s...Read more

AUGUSTA, GA. – Running is not allowed at the Masters.

Dancing is approved, if you're doing the Scheffler Shuffle.

Scottie Scheffler flaunted his ball-striking dominance and unique footwork Sunday to win his second Masters in three years. The world's No. 1-ranked player surged when he could have stood still, becoming the only player on the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The one-and-only, the original was fading at a heartbreaking rate right before our eyes. So by Sunday afternoon at the Masters, auditions for the next Tiger Woods – or a reasonable facsimile – had become even more urgent.

Good news, though. Scottie Scheffler stepped up and dazzled. He once more confirmed that he is the most...Read more