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Chris Kirk was practically flawless Thursday by hitting each of the wide fairways and missing only one green on his way to a 9-under 63 for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the World Wide Technology Championship.
Key developments of LIV Golf from the first threat to the PGA Tour to the launch of the league to the decision Thursday that it will not go forward and began a wind-down of operations.
BC Partners, a private equity firm that offered up $300 million to allow the league to continue, has withdrawn its offer, Bob Weeks writes.
LIV Golf is shuttering after five years that fractured the sport’s landscape, announcing Thursday in bankruptcy court it plans to wind down operations instead of launching a new version because it didn’t have enough support.
Rory McIlroy fared the best of the three Race to Dubai contenders in a low-scoring first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship. All were far behind Francesco Laporta.
Miyu Yamashita, who won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia over the weekend, was among three players atop the leaderboard after Thursday’s first round of the Toto Japan Classic.
LIV 2.0. appears to be dead. The Financial Times’ Sujeet Indap reports BC Partners Credit has ended its bid to relaunch LIV Golf after its bankruptcy filing in September.
LIV Golf wanted to “destroy” the European tour, the head of the worldwide circuit has said as he prepares to welcome back many of the players who defected to the Saudi-funded breakaway league over the past four years.
Rory McIlroy has played down safety concerns about competing at the Abu Dhabi Championship this week, amid tensions in the Middle East that have impacted the sports calendar in the region.
Nelly Korda clinched the points-based LPGA player of the year on Tuesday, her second such award in three years and moving her one victory away from qualifying for the LPGA Hall of Fame.
Former World No. 1 Lee Westwood doesn’t know what he’s going to do next. The two-time Masters runner-up quipped to The Chipping Forecast podcast “I’m currently unemployed” after leaving LIV Golf.
Jon Rahm can only hope peaceful times are ahead, except it’s not that simple.
Jon Rahm said Tuesday that if offered the same deal Brooks Koepka got to return to the PGA Tour, he'd be willing to accept the penalties.
Canadian ended the week tied for fourth and pushed himself up 17 spots on the FedEx Cup Fall standings, Bob Weeks writes.
Andrew Novak saw his six-shot lead cut in half until he ran off three straight birdies on the back nine Sunday that sent him to a 2-under 69 and a five-shot victory in the Mexico Open, his first individual title on the PGA Tour.
Miyu Yamashita successfully defended her title at the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship on Sunday, beating China’s Yan Liu by two strokes.
Andrew Novak built a comfortable lead at the turn and then poured it on by going 5-under par on the first five holes of the back nine on his way to a 9-under 62 to build a six-shot lead Saturday in the Mexico Open.
Andrew Novak caught up to the lead with an eagle and pulled away with three birdies on his last four holes Friday to match his low score on the PGA Tour, a 10-under 61 that gave him a three-shot lead in the Mexico Open.
Kihei Akina chipped in for birdie on the last hole Friday for a 7-under 64 and his name atop the leaderboard in the Mexico Open, and there was every reason for the 20-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young to feel like this was old hat.
Defending champion and world No. 4-ranked Miyu Yamashita shot a 6-under 66 Friday to take a two-stroke lead after two rounds of the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship.
Karl Vilips used two long bridie streaks to take the first-round lead Thursday in the Mexico Open, the first of two straight PGA Tour events in the country.
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