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

DETROIT — The man they call "The Chef" got cooking early on Day 1 of the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club, tying the course record with a blistering 9-under 63.

Min Woo Lee's place in DGC lore didn't last more than a few hours, as, later Thursday afternoon, a pair of little-known golfers — 20-year-old Aldrich Potgieter and Kevin Roy — ...Read more

DETROIT — Collin Morikawa's got a 1,000-watt smile, but there's some bite in there, too.

Morikawa, the No. 5-ranked player in the world, has had a couple of public dustups with the media this season, including once when he was criticized for not talking to the press after finishing runner-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and then this ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn.— Keegan Bradley wanted to play for Team USA in the Ryder Cup. So when he got the call from the PGA of America and was offered captaincy last summer, after Tiger Woods turned it down, he was caught off guard.

The U.S. hasn’t had a playing captain at the Ryder Cup in more than 60 years.

“When I get the call I’m thinking, ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Tommy Fleetwood left the door open for just too long in the final round at the Travelers Championship on Sunday.

Walking down the 18th fairway, staring into tens of thousands of spectators who lined the perimeter ready to watch what would’ve been his first-ever PGA Tour win, the Englishman came up short of the green with ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Sooner or later, the sun begins to set, the crowd gathers, but falls silent and the storylines fade to irrelevance. And then all that remains are those few precious feet and inches of real estate between the ball and the 18th hole.

The Travelers Championship has long been known for moments like these, just after 6 p.m. ET ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – There were some thoughts, in the back of some minds, that Scottie Scheffler just might be able to pull off a miraculous comeback as the world No. 1 and reigning Travelers champion fought to make up for his disastrous Saturday – which happened to be his 29th birthday.

Scheffler was tied with Tommy Fleetwood for the 36-hole ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — In a matter of minutes, the par-5, 509-yard No. 13 at TPC River Highlands saw the Travelers Championship leaderboard make a seismic shift.

Tommy Fleetwood, who made eagle on the same hole to start his back-nine blitz Friday evening, sunk a 30-foot putt for his third eagle in two days and improved his lead to 15-under. When ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — The TPC River Highlands golf course returned to its regular operation for Saturday’s third round.

Consistent swirling wind on Friday with gusts over 30 mph contributed to the highest scoring average (70.686) at the Travelers Championship since the second round in 2017 – when there was still a cut and a player field more ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Tommy Fleetwood has played this week with the steadiness of a pro with 41 career top-10 finishes, and with the fire of a pro who has been close that many times but never won a PGA event.

“It’s an element of your career that everybody wants,” Fleetwood said, after tapping in for par on the 18th green to finish a round ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Tommy Fleetwood’s drive on the 18th hole was headed left, on a line to land in the crowd at TPC River Highlands.

Then it hit a tree and fell nicely onto the middle of the fairway, 228 yards from the hole. It was that kind of day for Fleetwood.

He came an inch away from birdie and the solo lead two strokes later, but he’...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — This was not a day for data, not the time for the analytics and technical precision that defines golf at the highest level.

Justin Thomas’ kind of day, that’s what Friday at The Travelers was.

“I have had some good rounds in conditions like this, because I can’t really play the golf swing, I have to play more golf,...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — The putter was just off for Denny McCarthy in the first round of the Travelers Championship on Thursday, but not enough to worry.

He came back out on Friday, the windy conditions on the course helping to lower his internal expectations, and shot 6-under-par 64 in the second round, leaping 31 spots up to fifth on the ...Read more