Protests during the national anthem have swept through the sports world over the weekend after President Donald Trump's tweeted that players should stand for the anthem or be fired.

Thanks to some fortuitous timing, golfers have to weigh in on the matter.

The Presidents Cup will start on Thursday in Jersey City, N.J. Team events in golf start ...Read more

ATLANTA -- It was every bit of 360 degrees.

A full circle.

Geometry at its most fundamental.

Xander Schauffele watched as his career-changing putt traveled every inch of the 18th hole. When it finally fell -- succumbing to the law of gravity -- the relatively unknown golfer had a birdie and a Tour Championship victory. Schauffele finished at ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Paul Casey is in position to win his first tournament this year.

It's about time.

And if you are only going to win one, this would be it.

Casey is 12 under par following the third round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta on Saturday. He leads the finale of the FedEx Cup playoffs by two strokes over Kevin ...Read more

ATLANTA -- By unofficial count it was a simple two-fist-bump beginning at the first tee Thursday. And a simple cool handshake on the 18th green. No secret fraternal shakes or bro-hugs. Not so much as a playful locker room-style towel snap.

Just two good buddies enjoying the ultimate golf outing, with $11 million or so on the line.

Jordan ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Kyle Stanley is not exactly sure what he was doing one year ago.

Maybe sitting at home.

He sure wasn't playing in the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup playoff finale with more than $11 million at stake.

Stanley was once the nation's best college golfer and an early success on the PGA Tour. Times changed. The last three years have ...Read more

Being just 24 has its advantages, beyond even all the usual ones we'd repossess if only we could.

Say, for example, you're Justin Thomas and you're having a tough time of it on the golf course. Granted, that's a full-eclipse kind of rarity lately. Then, and only then, are you allowed to consider how absurd it all is that you have collected this...Read more

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Phil Mickelson pounded a drive onto the 18th fairway at Conway Farms and then had almost enough time before his second shot to fly home for one of his kids' graduations.

Sergio Garcia, who drove it 15 yards shy of Mickelson, laid up on the 585-yard hole. That left Mickelson and Charles Howell III to wait ... and wait ... ...Read more

The most stunning player-caddie breakup of 2017 was the Phil Mickelson-Jim "Bones" Mackay split. The golf world thought the two greeted each other each morning by saying, "You complete me."

A close second is taking place at this week's BMW Championship at Conway Farms. As first reported by Golf Channel, Jason Day is replacing mentor and coach ...Read more

Henrik Stenson might not know you personally, but he still knows you.

He knows you change into soft spikes in the parking lot, pay your green fee and then maybe, at most, spend 10 seconds stretching your upper body by grabbing a rail of the golf cart.

"All the guys who run straight to the first tee box, you'll want to make sure to give ...Read more

Tiger Woods reportedly had five different drugs in his system when police pulled him over in the middle of the night and arrested him on suspicion of DUI in Jupiter Memorial Day weekend, according to a toxicology report released by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office.

According to the report, Woods, 41, had two pain killers (Vicodin, Dilaudid), two...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Of course, any major would have been terrific, but Justin Thomas winning the PGA Championship added extra luster.

Thomas, from Goshen, Ky., got to spend time around the PGA Tour growing up because his father was heavily involved with PGA of America. Mike Thomas once served as a national board member and had been an official ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kevin Kisner's second shot from the fairway at the 18th hole Sunday evening was over-hooked and wound up in the creek beside the green, washing away his chance at winning the PGA Championship.

He needed to hole that shot to tie Justin Thomas, but realistically Kisner's fortunes fell with back-to-back bogeys at the par-4 12th ...Read more