OWINGS MILLS, Md. — If Robert MacIntyre wants to win his first PGA Tour event this season, he’ll have to beat the best golfer on Earth on Sunday at Caves Valley Golf Club. He’ll have to stare down Scottie Scheffler in front of a hostile crowd, too.

On the 14th hole Saturday, the top-ranked Scheffler buried an 18-foot birdie putt to move ...Read more

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — When Akshay Bhatia arrived at Caves Valley Golf Club on Saturday for the BMW Championship’s third round, he sat at 4-over par. He was fighting to hold onto a spot in the top 30 of the FedEx Cup standings after a tough first two days in Owings Mills for the sweet-swinging lefty, who opened with a 75.

His fortunes changed ...Read more

OWINGS MILLS, Md.— Denny McCarthy loves Maryland, and based on the reception Friday at the BMW Championship, Marylanders love him back.

As McCarthy stood on the second tee in dead silence readying to take his shot, the stillness was broken as McCarthy smashed the ball with his driver and a child yelled “Go, Deeennnny McCaaaarthy!”

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — After a challenging opening round at the newly redesigned Caves Valley Golf Club — marked by scorching heat and a two-hour rain delay in Owings Mills — players returned Friday for Round 2 rested, recalibrated and with adjustments made.

But even with the improved conditions and fresh approaches, one thing didn’t ...Read more

SEATTLE — A new generation might not remember Seattle native Fred Couples as the ultracool Hall of Fame golfer who won the 1992 Masters.

They might remember him as the guy who seemingly could not eat enough blueberry jubilee in Happy Gilmore 2," which came out last month on Netflix.

"Isn't that wild?" Couples said during a break from play at...Read more

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was only through the beneficence of Sedgefield Country Club owner John McConnell that Chesson Hadley was even playing the Wyndham Championship this week, the second-to-last player to get into the field, and that not even until last Sunday.

McConnell specifically requested an exemption for the longtime PGA Tour pro from ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Ten-year pro Kurt Kitayama needed all 65 shots Sunday to win the 3M Open in Blaine by a single shot, but it might have been one over all the others that won him his second PGA Tour title and enabled his mother to watch the TV again.

He chipped in from the thick greenside rough on the third hole to give his day a birdie-birdie-...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Michael La Sasso started his college golf career at his hometown school, North Carolina State. He played for the Wolfpack as a freshman and then decided to leave the familiar confines of Raleigh and transferred to Mississippi for the 2023-24 season.

And from what La Sasso had to say about the options available for a Rebels ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — More than four hours after Kurt Kitayama posted a record-tying 60, two-time PGA Tour winner Akshay Bhatia and Friday’s leader Thorbjørn Olesen together moved one shot ahead of him entering Sunday’s final round of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine.

Kitayama finished more than four hours ahead of Friday’s leader, ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Denmark’s Thorbjørn Olesen overtook the lead early Friday morning in the 3M Open’s second round and kept it all day long.

Olesen followed Thursday’s tournament-record-tying 62 with a Friday 66 that kept Californian Jake Knapp one shot away. Third-generation Texas pro Pierceson Coody and Thursday 62 shooter Sam Stevens ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Amid a lousy season, Canadian Adam Svensson putted nearly perfectly Thursday, when his 11-under-par 60 set a 3M Open tournament record and gave him a two-shot lead after one round.

The 31-year-old had missed the cut in 11 of 21 tournaments he started this season and had won $272,128 before he arrived at the TPC Twin Cities in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — British Open bettors have cashed six long-shot winners with odds of 125-1 or higher since 2003.

Tom McKibbin is worth a shot at 150-1 to win the year’s final golf major this week at Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland, according to Westgate SuperBook oddsmaker Jeff Sherman and handicapper Wes Reynolds, co-host of VSiN�...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — His swing is as smooth as ever, the one that was good enough to get him on the golf team at Furman and chase a professional career after college. At age 55, Garrett Smyth can still pop it out there 280 yards off the tee when pressed, and 260 regularly.

He has, however, had to adopt a new swing thought, the last thing that goes...Read more

DETROIT — Say what you will about this city — and people have said plenty over the years — but we keep showing up.

That alone should be reason enough for the PGA Tour to keep doing the same.

But it’ll take more than that if they’re going to continue to make this work here in Detroit, where Sunday’s entertaining — and exhausting �...Read more

DETROIT — The kid's all right, that's for sure.

Aldrich Potgieter, all of 20 years old, made a putt of more than 17 feet for birdie on the fifth sudden-death playoff hole to win the Rocket Classic on another wild and crazy Sunday at Detroit Golf Club.

Potgieter beat Max Greyserman, 30, on the fifth extra hole in a playoff featuring one ...Read more

DETROIT — Making the cut on the PGA Tour means more to some than others.

It meant the world to Will Gordon, who at the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club this week was on the last start before his medical exemption was set to run out. He needed a made cut to keep some status on the PGA Tour this season.

Gordon finished his first two rounds ...Read more

Detroit ― Collin Morikawa's been right here before.

Making his second appearance at the Rocket Classic, the field's highest-ranked player, at No. 5 in the world, will once again enter Sunday's final round four shots off the lead.

The last time he did that, in 2023, he shot a final-round 68 and made a playoff, losing to Rickie Fowler. This ...Read more

DETROIT — OK, Detroit Golf Club is not hard. We get it. The players go low here.

But the annual outcry on social media about how the home of the PGA Tour's Rocket Classic is embarrassingly easy is, well, simply not supported by facts.

The Rocket Classic, since debuting in 2019, never has had the lowest winning score on the PGA Tour during ...Read more

DETROIT — After a sluggish first round, it looked like a wrap for Jake Knapp at the Rocket Classic.

But at Detroit Golf Club, when the scoring conditions have been pristine so far this week, anything's possible, and Knapp on Friday did what's never been done before. Knapp shot a course-record 61, 11-under par, to move into contention halfway ...Read more