CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Luke Donald is turning the Queen City into Redeem City.

Heading into the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow this week, even considering the 47-year-old Englishman a long shot to contend might have been generous. Once part of a back-and-forth battle with Rory McIlroy for the world No. 1 ranking, Donald has been absent from ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ol’ Tillie would’ve been proud.

Proud of his golf course. Proud of the players. Proud of his people.

The PGA Tour stopped in Philadelphia for the first time in seven years and the first time ever at Philadelphia Cricket Club, an undersized masterpiece of agronomy and agriculture built 103 years ago among horse farms and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — If it wasn’t going to be Rory McIlroy, another Irishman would suffice. In the final pairing Sunday, Shane Lowry was the no-doubt crowd favorite. Irish flags and soccer kits dotted some of the galleries. Every time he and Sepp Straka moved between holes, it was a Lowry love fest in the final round of the Truist Championship in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Winning a golf tournament is stressful, and so Sepp Straka’s Sunday will come with pressure and queasiness. The Austrian built like a linebacker is tied for the lead with Shane Lowry at the Truist Championship after a 4-under 66 Saturday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Sunday will be about managing all that comes with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — They don’t make short par-3s like they used to. In fact, they pretty much don’t make them at all anymore, at least on the courses designed for current professional golfers.

But that doesn’t mean the best in the game don’t appreciate the charm of a 100-125-yard hole, like the miniature, but vexing, No. 14 at Philadelphia...Read more

The 16-year-old son of golfing great Tiger Woods failed for the second time to qualify for the U.S. Open.

Charlie Woods came up seven shots off the mark to make the cut at Florida’s Wellington National Golf Club on Thursday.

It marked the second consecutive year he came up short of playing in the prestigious tournament his dad has won three ...Read more

DENVER — A California coroner’s office has officially ruled that the death of Jeff Sperbeck, the sports agent who died after falling from a golf cart driven by longtime friend and business partner John Elway, was an accident.

On Friday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department — which launched an investigation into Sperbeck’s death ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Rickie Fowler reached back 10 years deep in the memory bank when asked Thursday afternoon about the mixed reaction to his invitation to next week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C.

This isn’t the Fowler of 2015. And this surely isn’t the Fowler of 2011, when he walked around the grounds at Aronimink as ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The newest member of golf’s Grand Slam club, recent Masters champion Rory McIlroy, will play in the Truist Championship and defend his title. Xander Schauffele, who holds two major titles — the PGA Championship and the British Open — will be there, too. So will Justin Thomas, who won the PGA Tour’s last “Signature ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen-year-old Elyse Turner’s introduction to golf was as an eighth grader at Masterman High School. After growing fond of the game, she decided to join We Golf Now, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that aims to inspire more Black and brown youth to get involved in golf and the business side of the sport.

“Golf is changing,...Read more

DENVER — A California sheriff’s office is investigating the death of sports agent Jeff Sperbeck after he fell from a golf cart driven by former Denver Broncos quarterback and Hall of Famer John Elway on Saturday.

Sperbeck, 62, rolled and hit his head on the asphalt when he fell off the cart in a private California golf community, according ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Scottie Scheffler has come to trust Ted Scott implicitly, especially in navigating the TPC River Highlands course.

But there are times when Scheffler, known to be fiery, is ready to tell his caddie, “Enough, I get it.”

“Every time we stepped up on a tee box for about three years, he would just describe the hole,” ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The images from Augusta National on Sunday were nothing short of stirring, the palpable emotion when Rory McIlroy hugged his longtime caddie and best friend (Harry Diamond) and the relief felt when McIlroy dropped to his knees (and elbows) on the 18th green, a Masters champion at last.

And those were only photos from Ken Griffey ...Read more

Winning the Masters means choosing the menu for the champions dinner the following year. Ben Hogan came up with the idea in 1952, but not until 1986 did champions begin honoring their heritage by choosing traditional dishes from their home countries or regions.

Bernhard Langer, a West German in a green jacket, thought hard and chose ... Wiener ...Read more

PINEHURST, N.C. — Under different circumstances, Bryson DeChambeau might have been modeling a newly fitted green jacket at Pinehurst on Monday, basking in the glow of what would have been one of the best days of his life.

Instead, he had to settle for reliving the shot of his life, and what was unquestionably one of the best days of his life....Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — On a glorious Georgia spring afternoon, Charlie Brown kicked the football.

It was dicey at times. No one could have been blamed for fully expecting that, before the sun set on Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday, Rory McIlroy would do another cannonball into a pool of heartbreak. McIlroy said he wondered himself during the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy checked a lot of boxes with his emotional victory at the Masters on Sunday.

First green jacket? Check.

Career Grand Slam? Check.

Vindication from his 1994 Masters meltdown? Check.

Payback for his collapse at the 2024 U.S. Open — and sweet revenge over Bryson DeChambeau? Double check.

But it wasn’t until he ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Justin Rose.

Rory rose even higher.

Rory McIlroy finished a rollercoaster round Sunday by beating Rose in a sudden-death playoff — the first in the Masters since 2017 — becoming the sixth man in golf history to win a career grand slam.

With the two players tied at 11 under after 72 holes, it came down to a playoff on the...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Masters has itself an epic showdown.

Rory versus Bryson.

PGA Tour versus LIV.

Guy who has flailed at Augusta National versus guy who looks like he’s figuring it out.

Tournament leader versus hunter.

And, apparently, no phone and Bridgerton versus phone and James Bond.

A delicious final-round matchup has been set for ...Read more