PHILADELPHIA — When Gil Hanse went to Aronimink Golf Club to do a social media video ahead of this week’s PGA Championship, the hat he wore wasn’t from the venerable golf course he restored or the many other esteemed courses he either renovated or designed.

It was a kelly green cap with an Eagles logo. Before Hanse left his Newtown Square...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Scottie Scheffler shot himself into a crowd of seven players tied for the lead after the first round of the PGA Championship at 3-under par late Thursday evening at Aronimink.

Scheffler, who is seeking back-to-back wins at the PGA Championship, finished with five birdies. According to researchers at Elias Sports Bureau, it is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When superstars Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship and Bryson DeChambeau won the 2024 U.S. Open, it looked like LIV Golf was on its way to becoming a true force in the sports world and a real threat to the PGA Tour.

As it turns out, there was no real threat, either on the course or off it.

In the seven majors between ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The PGA Championship was in full swing on Thursday with the first round of competition. Aronimink Golf Club gave fans great views — even though some created their own. Among the fans, there were plenty of Eagles supporters, and a few even let Scottie Scheffler have it during the practice rounds earlier this week. Meanwhile, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nick Faldo was out for a morning walk around Aronimink Golf Club in 2011 during the AT&T National when he stopped at the 10th green and stared.

Faldo was in a sort of awe when club pro Jeff Kiddie, making his morning rounds, came by.

“If you built it today they’d think you’re nuts,” Faldo said to Kiddie of the green ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — They’re not exactly the odd couple, but Matt Fitzpatrick and his brother Alex certainly are not cut from the same cloth.

For one thing, Matt is four years older, which, as any little brother will tell you, always matters. For another, in the world of professional golf, filled as it is with pocket-protector types, Matt, 31, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen years ago, on the advice of Jack Nicklaus, a 22-year-old Rory McIlroy took an early trip to Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., to get a feel for the golf course ahead of the 2011 U.S. Open. He then won the first of his six majors by eight strokes.

Many of the PGA Tour’s stops are at sites the players see ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There are few images in golf that feel more like the beginning to both a dream and nightmare than heading to the Green Mile with a one-shot lead.

The 16th, 17th and 18th holes at Quail Hollow — so destructive they garnered a nickname — are more spine-chilling than a case of the yips. Heading into this week, the Green ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Fitzpatrick has won on the PGA Tour in the same way you aced the group project.

Yes, it happened. No, you’re not bragging about it — you take the grade and pray that no one bothers auditing who did what.

None of that seems to matter now that two weeks removed from not being on the PGA Tour, Fitzpatrick holds the 54...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Keeping it in perspective, after wrapping up second-round action, Sungjae Im refused to rubber stamp his place atop the board at the Truist Championship.

“I’m leading now, but there’s a few more players to finish the round,” Im said Friday. “So, I’m leading now, but it might change later. But I’m very happy ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Four short years ago, the PGA Tour seemed to be coming apart and the Travelers Championship was one of the scenes of the splitting seams. This was 2022, and Commissioner Jay Monahan was in the press shed decrying the “irrational threat” caused by LIV Golf and its Saudi money.

Players were jumping ship daily. As the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Jackie Endsley had what she called a “déjà vu moment” earlier this year when the call came to take on what sort of is a second job.

Endsley, the 2026 PGA Championship director, already was based in Bethesda, Md., preparing for the 2027 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club when Ryan Ogle, the ...Read more

DORAL, Fla. — Well, the right side won. Sometimes that happens in sports. The PGA Tour even returned to Doral on Thursday for its first tournament in a decade, as if to officially mark the LIV Tour leaving everyone with the sour smell of a flopped hustle.

The only question left is what to do with the bank-rich, morally-bankrupt LIV players ...Read more

Two weeks ago, LIV Golf did its best to conceal the fact that the Saudi Public Investment Fund would cease to bankroll the league after the current season, only to have LIV Chief Executive Officer Scott O'Neil let the truth slip during a television interview.

This week, the intentions of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, or PIF, and ...Read more

Playing with Scottie Scheffler on a Sunday must be like trying to get through a round with a lion lurking behind you.

Merely the presence of the No. 1 golfer in the world is intimidating enough to put veteran players into a blender trying to out-duel the most steady golfer on Earth.

Which makes it that much more remarkable that Matt ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — LIV Golf appears to be dying on the vine but doesn't want to say so.

Amid several reports that the Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund will cease its abundant funding of LIV Golf after the 2026 season, officials with the four-year-old PGA Tour competitor chose to focus on the fact that the show will go on — at least through ...Read more

Tiger Woods’ legal team is fighting prosecutors’ efforts to subpoena the golfer’s prescription records following his DUI rollover crash in Florida last month.

Attorney Douglas Duncan in response to prosecutors’ request argued that providing such records would violate Woods’ privacy, TMZ reported. He also requested a hearing to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before anyone gets too heady about the reascendance of Rory McIlroy to the top of the golf world, understand that he blew a record six-shot lead after 36 holes at Augusta National and actually had to come back from two shots down on Sunday afternoon to become the fourth player to win back-to-back green jackets. He also is the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Lawrence Bennett wasn't only a guardian of the green jackets — the iconic garment of Augusta National — but he also oversaw their cremation.

That was among his many responsibilities in a career that spanned 51 years, where he first picked up litter then picked up everyone from celebrities to sports heroes to ex-presidents ...Read more