CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The emotion flowed out of Si Woo Kim on the 15th green with a furious fist pump to celebrate the putt he rolled in to answer Justin Thomas. In almost the same motion, he put a finger to his lips to silence the crowd that had been so loud around that green all week.

Shush Woo Kim found a way to inject some drama into ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Xander Schauffele had some choice words for how he was feeling Saturday evening after falling in his afternoon four-ball match. Suffice it to say, he was upset.

“Wasn’t very pleased with myself personally,” he said “I can probably speak for my partner (Patrick Cantlay) as well, who is absent currently. Yeah, we didn�...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Among the youngest players ever to play in the Presidents Cup, International rookie Tom Kim has been among the brightest of stars for his team this week at Quail Hollow Club.

And under the most intense pressure he’s likely ever faced on a golf course, Kim etched his name among the most clutch performances in International ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Patrick Cantlay drained a putt from deep on one of the toughest par-4s on the course, Hideki Matsuyama and Tom Kim shook their heads and exchanged a smile as if to say, “What else can we do?”

It’s a legitimate question.

The U.S. pairing of Cantlay and Xander Schauffele again led another dominant day for the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The heavy favorites came to play early, but the underdogs didn’t leave without a fight.

What began as an anticlimactic rout — Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele ended their round up six with five holes to go — turned into a nail-biter that might be consequential later in the week.

The heavily favored Americans won ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — You know what Charlotte really needs, and what the U.S. Presidents Cup team can help us all out with this weekend?

An actual winning streak.

Charlotte’s sports fans would like to stop getting battered by a hurricane of bad news and actually start celebrating a few wins in a row.

Tuesday was a fine beginning, as the city ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 2022 Presidents Cup promises to be a mismatch of everything — a cocktail of different cultures and generations, of heralded and unheralded names.

Those storylines took a front-row seat on Wednesday.

Here’s what you need to know from Quail Hollow Club before live competition tees off on Thursday.

Ernie Els’ ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Webb Simpson knows a thing or two about Quail Hollow — including how to get on the course via golf cart from his front door.

“Living here, I can hop on a cart and get to work in about 30 seconds,” Simpson quipped Wednesday. “So I certainly spend a ton of time out here.”

The Raleigh native, Wake Forest University ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Max Homa was a rock star on Tuesday at Quail Hollow.

OK, that might be a tad generous, but his popularity underscores the United States team’s distinct advantage at the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow this week.

Homa, who has campaigned as hard as anyone in the past year to be on this team, arrived at the practice range ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Live competition for one of the biggest golf events of the year doesn’t start for another day, but the banter has already begun.

The Presidents Cup, an international golf tournament that pits some of the best golfers from the United States against some of the best from the rest of the world, begins at Quail Hollow Club in ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Adam Scott set his feet in the closely mowed, morning dew-draped grass, waggled his club behind a ball and swiped backward, then forward. About 30 feet away, the ball he struck landed among a swarm of practice balls, hopped twice and disappeared into the cup.

The Australian veteran turned to his caddie, laughed and walked ...Read more

At 16 years old, she's losing her fingernails.

The layers are flaking away, a side effect of her medication. It's hard for Fountain Valley High junior Dakota Lam to grip a pencil, let alone a golf club. Her fingers pulse after enough swings, and then the blood comes, spurting from the raw skin underneath the nails.

It always scares her father,...Read more

CHARLOTTE — I am riding on a golf cart next to Quail Hollow Club president Johnny Harris, but “flying” may be the more operative word, because it feels like not all four of our wheels are touching the ground.

There is so much to do at Quail Hollow in the final days before the Presidents Cup begins, and so much to see in the gleaming ...Read more

SUGAR GROVE, Ill. — Bryson DeChambeau is one of the most recognizable faces in golf and one of the LIV players involved in the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour that bars defectors from competing in its events.

But DeChambeau said he envisions a future in which both tours can work together, even as the PGA seems to be girding for a long,...Read more

DFW’s two major PGA Tour stops aren’t exactly sure how the competition between the Tour and LIV Golf will affect their respective tournaments, but there will be a cut line.

Neither the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial in Fort Worth nor the AT&T Byron Nelson knows where they are in relation to a line that is both imaginary, and quite ...Read more