VIKTOR HOVLAND

Europe’s 12 Ryder Cup players have delivered a mixed bag of scores in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship.

The PGA Tour completed another season.

Viktor Hovland is the FedEx Cup champion and it really wasn't close.

Viktor Hovland is one round away from the FedEx Cup title and its $18 million prize.

Scores can look inflated at the Tour Championship because players start at various points under par.

Collin Morikawa knew he had four days at East Lake to make up a nine-shot deficit in the Tour Championship.

Scottie Scheffler already has one small piece of history at the Tour Championship.

Viktor Hovland had the best round of his career at a good time.

Viktor Hovland shot a 7-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the rain-delayed RBC Heritage.

Rory McIlroy is missing his second designated event by pulling out of the RBC Heritage this week.

Jon Rahm has become the fourth Spaniard to win the Masters.

Augusta National has set the schedule to complete the weather-delayed Masters.

The second round of the Masters is done for the day after storms moved in and three pine trees toppled near spectators left of the 17th tee.

Brooks Koepka is in a three-way share of the lead at the Masters with Jon Rahm and Viktor Hovland.

Tiger Woods had three birdies and five bogeys during an opening round of 74 at the Masters on Thursday, leaving him in contention to play the weekend but hardly to win the tournament.

Sergio Garcia is tired of talking about the LIV-PGA Tour feud.

Jon Rahm overcame a four-putt double bogey on the opening hole to finish at 7-under 65 and tied for the first round lead with Viktor Hovland and LIV golfer Brooks Koepka at the Masters.

Keegan Bradley still hasn't won a match in 16 tries over 11 years in the Dell Technologies Match Play.

Scottie Scheffler is back to No. 1 in the world thanks to a masterful performance at The Players Championship.

Storms have interrupted The Players Championship.

The TPC Sawgrass rarely fails to entertain at The Players Championship.

Kurt Kitayama is hanging on at Bay Hill.

Viktor Hovland has joined Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the Hero World Challenge.

Former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama says players who left to compete in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series should be entitled to earn ranking points.

LIV Golf is turning up the heat on the Official World Golf Ranking.

One major takeaway from the just-concluded Italian Open at the Marco Simone club outside Rome that will host next year’s Ryder Cup is that the course is being set up to reward accurate tee shots with narrow fairways surrounded by nasty rough and even higher grass beyond.

Rory McIlroy’s first competitive round on next year’s Ryder Cup course was a success.

For Rory McIlroy, it’s a flat-out “no_” U_S_ Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick is open to having LIV Golf players on Europe’s team at next year’s Ryder Cup because he says “I just want to make sure that we win.”.

A truncated tournament should ensure a thrilling finish to the BMW PGA Championship with the top 10 players separated by two shots heading into Sunday’s final round.

It sure doesn't sound like Wentworth will be a place for PGA Tour players and LIV Golf players to visit over tea.

Cameron Smith is a tough-as-nails Aussie.

The birdies that flowed so freely for Viktor Hovland over the first three days of the British Open finally dried up.

Rory McIlroy's wait for his fifth major goes on.

Cameron Young was very briefly tied for lead on the 18th hole on the final day of the British Open with only three other golfers still out on the course.

Expect Cameron Smith to celebrate his British Open victory with a drink or two.

Cameron Smith started the third round of the British Open with a two-shot lead and finished it four strokes back.

Rory McIlroy is one round away from ending eight years without a major.

Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland will share the lead heading into the final round of the British Open.

Tiger Woods made an early and emotional departure from the British Open at St. Andrews, perhaps for the last time.

Tiger Woods may have played his final round of a British Open at St. Andrews.

Shaun Norris is headed home to South Africa to see his young children and decide on his future.

Jason Day describes himself as “obsessed” with the new swing he's working on with instructor Chris Como.

Harris English has been a forgotten figure in golf the last few months.

As tradition dictates, there is now very bad news to report about Canadian golfers Mike Weir and Mackenzie Hughes.

Golf has a bright future and isn't quite ready to let go of Tiger Woods.

It’s been 25 years since Tiger Woods famously won the first of his five Masters titles, so it would seem only natural that other players seek his advice on how to play Augusta National.

This is the final year the LPGA Tour's first major is at Mission Hills in California.

Sixteen players have made it to the weekend in the Dell Technologies Match Play.

As if the Dell Technologies Match Play isn't fickle enough.

Maverick McNealy was the last man to get into the Dell Technologies Match Play.

Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa are playing the Valspar Championship.

Scottie Scheffler didn't win the U.S. Open on Sunday.

Billy Horschel and Talor Gooch lead the group of survivors at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Viktor Hovland took advantage of an early start with a 66 to lead the Arnold Palmer Invitational by two shots at Bay Hill.

Joaquin Niemann has another scoring record at Riviera and is one step closer to winning the Genesis Invitational.

Joaquin Niemann returned from his best day of golf at Riviera and had another round just like it.

Scottie Scheffler outlasted Ryder Cup teammate Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a playoff in the WM Phoenix Open for his first PGA Tour victory, making a 25-foot birdie putt that had just enough momentum to tumble in.

Sahith Theegala crashed golf’s biggest party.

Top-ranked Jon Rahm starred at Arizona State and lives in the Valley of the Sun.

Viktor Hovland has beaten Richard Bland in a playoff to capture the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after Rory McIlroy missed a chance to win the title in regulation by bogeying the last hole.

Collin Morikawa has had plenty of thinking to do ahead of this week's Dubai Desert Classic.

The PGA Tour begins the new year in the idyllic setting of Kapalua that makes it feel like a working vacation.

Tiger Woods now has everyone guessing.

Viktor Hovland is the winner of the Hero World Challenge and even he couldn't believe it.

Collin Morikawa is one round away from reaching No. 1 in the world.

A holiday exhibition in the Bahamas suddenly is shaping up to be a lot more.

Talor Gooch is one round away from his first PGA Tour victory.

Players were expecting low scores at The Summit Club and Robert Streb led the way.

Sang Kang was doing everything right except putting his tee shots in play.

A young and hungry U.S. squad didn't just take back the Ryder Cup.

In the post-defeat dissection that’s sure to come for Europe's Ryder Cup team, certainly the disappearing act by Rory McIlroy will be one of the top talking points.

All the drama Saturday at the Ryder Cup was to see if Europe could make a game of it.

The U.S. closed out Saturday’s fourball matches with an 11-5 lead in the Ryder Cup for its biggest two-day advantage since 1975.

Europe trails the Ryder Cup 6-2 after an opening day that saw Rory McIlroy lose twice and the entire team post only one victory.

Capsules from the opening day at Whistling Straits in the Ryder Cup.

Youth is being served for this U.S. team in the Ryder Cup.

Tyrell Hatton made a 7-foot putt on the 18th green to salvage a half-point for the struggling European team late on opening day at the Ryder Cup.

No team in sports embraces the underdog label like Europe's Ryder Cup squads.

No team in sports embraces the underdog label like Europe's Ryder Cup squads.

The Ryder Cup will kick off Friday morning with Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas taking on the latest version of the Spanish Armada, Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia.

Bryson DeChambeau is determined to be a team player in the Ryder Cup and he is wasting no time proving it.

Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Shane Lowry have been picked by European captain Padraig Harrington to fill out the team for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.

Billy Horschel became the second American after Arnold Palmer to win the BMW PGA Championship following a dramatic final round.

Jon Rahm and Cameron Smith are tied for the lead at The Northern Trust.

Russell Henley and England’s Richard Bland share the lead going into the weekend at the U.S. Open.

Brooks Koepka always seems to bring his best to the toughest tests.

Rory McIlroy is a winner again after 18 long months.

Sam Burns finally finished atop the leaderboard on the right day of the week — Sunday.

Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel birdied six of their final eight holes Saturday to shoot a 9-under 63 and take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Zurich Classic.

Brooks Koepka’s surgically repaired knee wasn’t the problem in the opening round of the Masters.

Only a dozen players managed to break par in the opening round of the Masters.

Don't expect a repeat of Dustin Johnson's record-shattering 20-under win as the Masters tees off.

“It was a tough match,” Johnson said. “Obviously, I was dying to win that match,” MacIntyre said. The Spaniard, whose American home is in Austin, won his second match and thus eliminated Hatton, the No. He missed the birdie putt and Rahm, who would have had a putt from the same range, smile a sigh of relief. Johnson was 10 feet away for eagle, and MacIntyre still had him putt it (Johnson made it).

Garcia thought he had plenty of time to get from the range to the 10th tee to start his round. Then he fired off a 7-under 65, capped off by a birdie-birdie-eagle finish for a two-shot lead over Brian Harman. AdWhen darkness brought the first round to a halt — 21 players didn't finish — there already were 13 scores of 80 or higher. “For some reason, it just kind of fits my eye,” said Garcia, who won The Players in 2008 and has twice been runner-up. British Open champion Shane Lowry took bogey on his final hole for a 68 and was tied with Corey Conners and Matt Fitzpatrick.

Conners surged into the lead with a 25-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th hole — his second eagle on that hole in two days — for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot advantage over former Bay Hill winner Martin Laird (67). He was two shots behind, along with Viktor Hovland and Lanto Griffin, who each had a 68. The forecast featured plenty of rain Saturday, which figures to make Bay Hill play longer and tougher, while also keeping the greens from getting as crusty as they were last year when Tyrrell Hatton won with a closing 74. He won at Bay Hill in 2011 on a final round so tough a 75 was enough to get the job done. He played in the morning, had a pair of birdies and came to the 16th, the easiest at Bay Hill.

BRADENTON, Fla. – PGA champion Collin Morikawa shook off an early mistake and played a steady hand on a Concession golf course known for calamity, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-shot victory in the Workday Championship. And there was a tribute to Tiger Woods, his golf idol growing up. “We don't say ‘Thank you’ enough,” Morikawa said, referring to how much Woods has raised the profile and prize money in golf. He finished at 18-under 270 and became the 24th player to win a major and a World Golf Championship title since this series began in 1999. “If there was no Tiger Woods, I just the think the tour and the game of golf in general would be in a worse place.

Morikawa walked off the 12th hole with his seventh birdie in eight holes, stretching his lead to five shots with two par 5s still to play. He made bogey on both, shot a 5-under 67 and suddenly had four-time major champion Brooks Koepka and Billy Horschel on his tail. “I didn’t play great the last six, but a lot to learn from heading into tomorrow,” Morikawa said. Horschel also had a late rally with an eagle on the par-5 17th hole and shot 69. “I just kept rolling in birdie after birdie.

(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO – Showing no effects from a rules controversy a day earlier, Patrick Reed pulled away for a five-shot victory Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open. Reed closed with a 4-under 68 at Torrey Pines, making an eagle on the par-5 sixth and finishing off his ninth PGA Tour title with a birdie on the 18th. Reed told the official that no one in his group, as well as a nearby volunteer, saw it bounce. AdOn Sunday, Reed jump-started his round with a 45-foot eagle putt on the No. He played par the rest of the way until sinking an 8-foot birdie putt on No.

(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO – Patrick Reed was involved in another rules controversy Saturday in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Believing the ball didn't bounce, Reed picked it up to see if it was embedded before a rules official arrived. Reed told the official that no one in his group, as well as a nearby volunteer, saw it bounce. “At that point we go with what the rules official said and also with what the volunteers and what we see,” Reed said. Reed shared the lead with Alex Noren after the first round and was one shot off the lead after 36 holes.

Viktor Hovland, left, of Norway, waits to putt on the eighth hole of the South Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO – Viktor Hovland birdied his final for a 7-under 65 on Torrey Pines’ tough South Course on a rainy, miserable Friday, giving him a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open. Reed shot an even-par 72 on the South Course a day after firing an 8-under 64 on the easier North Course. AdThe weather is supposed to clear up for the weekend rounds on the South Course. “I just played really solid and made some putts.”He had just one bogey, on the par-4 15th.