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Lee Trevino was throwing a party. He was on a driving range, putting on a show for an audience of two, a father and his son. Or three, if you count the ringmaster. With every word and swing, Lee Trevino was amusing himself, too. He was in his 80s. He was ridiculously boyish. It was

1:47 PM ET The next event on the 2023 PGA Tour is the Valero Texas Open, which begins on Thursday. The event will take place at the TPC San Antonio Oaks Course, a par-72 course in Texas. The purse for the event is $8.9 million, a $300,000 increase from last year. Editor’s Picks J.J. Spaun,

7:54 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — David Toms fired a 7-under 65 on Sunday for a four-stroke, wire-to-wire win at The Galleri Classic to become the first two-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions this season. Toms closed out his second win in three starts and fourth Champions victory with an eight-birdie,

It took a playoff for Celine Boutier and Georgia Hall to settle the LPGA Drive On Championship. And after both finished at 20 under at the par-72 Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club outside Phoenix, Boutier grabbed the title with a birdie on the first extra hole. In the process, the 29-year-old passed a notable

9:59 PM ET Associated Press GOLD CANYON, Ariz. — Celine Boutier of France beat Georgia Hall of England with a birdie on the first playoff hole Sunday to win the LPGA Drive on Championship. Boutier forced a playoff by making a testy birdie putt at the par-5 18th to close out a 4-under 68, matching

Celine Boutier made back-to-back birdies on the 18th hole at Superstition Mountain—the first to force a playoff with Georgia Hall, the second to beat her European Solheim Cup teammate—en route to victory at the LPGA Drive On Championship Sunday outside Phoenix. The 29-year-old Frenchwoman, who capped a 20-under 268 performance with a closing 68. “It

2:38 PM ET Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Nick Bachem pulled clear of the field with a faultless final-round 64 to win the Jonsson Workwear Open by four shots Sunday for his first European tour title. The German carded eight birdies, four on the front nine and four on the back, to go to 24 under

The payday is modest when you compare it to the amounts on the line at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship. But winning the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship on Sunday in the Dominican Republic comes with some handsome rewards. Victory locks up a PGA Tour card through the 2025 season. More specifically it guarantees the

5:59 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Nicolai Hojgaard of Denmark played bogey-free Saturday for a 6-under 66 and shared the lead with PGA Tour rookie Sam Stevens in the Corales Punta Cana Championship. Stevens twice had the lead down the stretch on the Corales course until a wobbly finish, making bogey

Come Monday, Jason Day will have more to celebrate than his strong recent form and deep run into this week’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. According to a tweet on Saturday by Official World Golf Ranking social media guru Nosferatu, Day is among four players who had not otherwise qualified for the Masters but will make

9:42 PM ET Associated Press GOLD CANYON, Ariz. — Celine Boutier of France had an eagle and six birdies in a round of 7-under 65 and moved atop the leaderboard when Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand stumbled down the stretch in Saturday’s third round of the LPGA Drive on Championship. Boutier, a 29-year-old two-time tour winner,

AUSTIN — Someday, when we’re talking about the old WGC-Match Play events and remembering all the winners, it will be worth taking a moment to recall the hot Saturday afternoon in 2023 when, minutes apart, Scottie Scheffler ended his quarterfinal match against Jason Day with a near-ace and Rory McIlroy buried a 12-foot birdie on

AUSTIN — Over the three days of group play at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, five of the top six seeds went undefeated. Jon Rahm struggled to a 1-2 finish in a difficult group, but the others—Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, and Max Homa—breezed to an undefeated record and a spot in

7:08 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Matt Kuchar has a place in the record book with Tiger Woods. Equally pleasing Friday was getting a spot in the weekend at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Kuchar had an easy time at Austin Country Club with a 7-and-6 victory over Si Woo Kim to win

An albatross is rare in any week at a professional golf event. After all, making a 2 on a par 5 happens far less frequently than holes-in-one, with only 48 of them in the LPGA Tour’s 73-year history. Yet Superstition Mountain Golf Club in Gold Canyon, Ariz., has celebrated two this week at the Drive

10:48 PM ET Associated Press GOLD CANYON, Ariz. — Jenny Shin of South Korea had a run of five straight birdies to close out her front nine on the way to a 5-under 67 on Friday and a share of the lead with Maddie Szeryk of Canada and Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand after two rounds

AUSTIN — The format of the WGC-Match Play lends itself to some interesting situations on Friday, the day when the group stages conclude, playoffs commence if necessary, and one player from each pool advances to the knockout rounds. One of those small oddities played out on the 14th green late in the afternoon, when Billy

9:03 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Matt Wallace of England birdied his last three holes Friday for a 6-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead going into the weekend in the Corales Puntacana Championship. Wallace had missed six out of seven cuts on the PGA Tour until he was in the