CHICAGO -- Golfers at private clubs around Chicago will not be playing through.

Officials at three private clubs contacted by the Tribune all said they would abide by the latest directive by the governor's office to return the woods and wedges to storage.

A Thursday revision to the governor's stay-at-home Executive Order deemed golf courses as...Read more

CHICAGO -- The headline on the Chicago Tribune's weather page Wednesday sounded more like a commandment than a prediction: "Enjoy today before a wet end to the week."

For many Chicagoans, that meant retrieving golf clubs from the garage and ignoring the "stay at home" requests from elected officials.

For Jeff Carrier, it meant playing nine ...Read more

With coronavirus concerns canceling sporting events around the world, golf was one of the few to continue Thursday as fans witnessed Hideki Matsuyama tie a TPC Sawgrass course record with a 63 to take the first-round lead at the Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Starting with Round 2, however, the competitors were to be on their ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- For the second straight year, Tiger Woods will skip his hometown tournament.

Dealing with a stiff back, the 44-year-old golfer is passing on next weekend's Honda Classic at Palm Beach Gardens' PGA National. The deadline to commit to this year's tournament was Friday at 5 p.m. The Jupiter Island resident is also skipping...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Scott Brown tied for the best finishing round at Riviera Country Club on Sunday with a 68, and wound up in a three-way tie for second. Had Brown won, he would have qualified to play in the Masters for the first time.

Here's why that matters: Brown was partly raised by his grandparents, Elizabeth and Herman Thacker, whose home is ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With one hand on his putter, Rory McIlroy tapped in for bogey seconds after an errant putt on his second hole. Two holes later, the 30-year-old from Northern Ireland slammed his driver into the tee box after his drive hooked toward the Pacific Ocean.

It was that kind of morning for the No. 2 ranked player in the world -- and he had...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Patrick Reed's third round at the Farmers Insurance Open was eventful to say the least.

No problem. Reed is used to drama.

The 29-year-old Reed's path to 2-under 70 on Torrey Pines South on Saturday included one double bogey, four bogeys and eight birdies. He is 8 under through 54 holes and tied for seventh in search of his best ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Jesse Esparza, his brother Alex and buddies Steve Capps and Van Wordlaw staked out spots Saturday morning at Torrey Pines near the South Course's eighth green well before any golfers took the tee on the par-3 hole.

Esparza and crew were along the rope line, maybe 30 feet right of the flagstick.

And there they would be -- all day ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It was something of a mirage, Tiger Woods' early charge in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday.

Going off 11 groups in front of the threesome of leaders on the Torrey Pines South Course, Woods stirred a buzz by shooting a front nine of 4-under 32, and at one point he was only two shots off the pace of then-...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Phil Mickelson walked out of the scorer's room Friday afternoon at the Farmers Insurance Open, politely informed the autograph hounds gathered outside that he needed to hit on the range before breaking out his Sharpie and disappeared with coach Andrew Getson for over an hour.

There was much work to be done.

Just not for this ...Read more