FORT WORTH, Texas — The dividing line on the PGA Tour schedule has existed for decades, but beginning in 2028 that border will be a de facto wall that looks a lot like college football’s Power 4-and-everyone-else calendar.

Think of the PGA Tour’s future Track 1 tournaments as Georgia vs. Tennessee football, and Track 2 closer to ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — The wind was low and the TPC River Highlands course was soft when the second round of the Travelers Championship began after a short weather delay on Friday morning.

The conditions were perfect for some low scores. And the pros provided them.

Scottie Scheffler’s 10-under-par 60, two shots off the tournament record, ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Scottie Scheffler has made excellence so matter-of-fact, it’s easy to forget he is the best golfer in the world, and has been for years.

It’s easy to wonder what’s wrong when he goes a few months without hoisting a trophy, even though he has been in contention week after week.

It’s easy to forget, too, that we are ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Eric Cole was early to the top of the leaderboard in Round 1 of the Travelers Championship on Thursday.

He took advantage of the soft greens on a comfortable morning at TPC River Highlands and avoided mistakes as he followed a 2-under front nine with a 5-under 35 on the back. It was a 63-foot, nine-inch chip shot from just ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Eric Cole was having one of those days; the kind that makes the years it took to make the PGA Tour, and the years toiling, still in search of his first win, worthwhile.

Bogey-free, birdie-laden, Cole leaned over a chip shot, 63 feet, 9 inches from the cup on No. 13. This one hit the softened green just right and rolled in ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Matt Fitzpatrick, the English golfer ranked fourth in the world and second in the FedExCup standings entering the Travelers Championship, came to Connecticut with a different club in his bag.

He struggled off the tee last week at the U.S. Open, and has been struggling since his driver cracked before the Truist Championship ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Golf has always been a spectator sport a world apart from the rest. Could you imagine holding up a “quiet please” sign at Gampel Pavilion? Any baseball fan ever get offended when a ballplayer took his bat to the nearest water cooler after striking out?

In golf, a certain decorum has been part of the deal for a century ...Read more

DENVER — Bad guys don’t hug. Would a villain go out of his way to comfort a distraught teen while she watched her mother fade away? Would one of the PGA’s so-called scoundrels, his schedule crammed like weekend traffic on I-70, willingly offer up a free shoulder to cry on?

“He’s been great, just super gracious,” Jeff Higgins told me...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — For 20 years, the Travelers Championship has brought world-class golf to our neck of the woods. The tournament’s hierarchy took a struggling PGA stop and ran with it, making it a must-play for most of the top players in the world, and a keeper for the pro golf establishment.

And while pro golf has undergone quite a lot of ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Ben James walked through the back nine at the TPC River Highlands, his practice round squeezed in between rain showers.

This was his day at the office. It’s all about golf now for the rookie pro from Milford.

“I don’t call it a job, I’m very lucky I get to go play golf every day,” said James, who has played in the...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Keith Kaliszewski, who has coached the golfers at Hamden Hall for more than two decades, recalls a phone call he once received from a proud dad.

“You know, Don James called me one day,” Kaliszewski said, “and he said, ‘I have this kid. You don’t know us, but I have this kid and he’s pretty good at golf and we ...Read more

The ball kept flirting with the edge of the cup, kept sliding past by inches, kept leaving Sam Stevens with the same cruel reminder Saturday afternoon at Shinnecock Hills.

At a U.S. Open, especially one played in a howling wind, there is a fine line between surviving and thriving.

Stevens did plenty of surviving in the third round. He just ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Travelers Championship returns to Cromwell’s TPC River Highlands course next week and, once again, the player field is stacked for New England’s only PGA Tour signature event.

This year’s field, headlined by past champions Keegan Bradley and Scottie Scheffler, features all but one of the eligible top 50 players in ...Read more

Sam Stevens started his U.S. Open round Thursday in the kind of trouble Shinnecock Hills is built to punish.

By the time he finished, the Wichita, Kan., golfer had turned one ugly swing into one of the best opening rounds of his career.

Stevens, 29, shook off a double bogey on his first hole, poured in six birdie putts on some of the fastest ...Read more

Golf legend Phil Mickelson is refuting an accusation that he inappropriately touched a female employee at a prestigious golf club in Southern California a few months ago.

According to Golf Digest, Mickelson allegedly approached the worker at Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe and made “nonconsensual and inappropriate physical contact.” ...Read more

Golfing great Phil Mickelson has reportedly been banned from playing at Southern California’s The Farms Golf Club after being accused of making unwanted contact with a female employee.

The three-time Masters winner was “told to vacate” the grounds of The Farms Golf Club following the incident that allegedly occurred in the course’s ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit is losing its annual PGA Tour tournament.

The Rocket Classic will be held for the eighth and final time later this summer, The Detroit News has learned and Rocket Companies and the PGA Tour have confirmed. The 2026 tournament will take place July 30-Aug. 2 at Detroit Golf Club, but amid imminent changes to the PGA Tour ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nelly Korda watched someone else hoist the trophy at last year's U.S. Women's Open.

This time, it was Korda who did the heavy lifting.

The World's No. 1 women's golfer won for the fourth time in 2026 on Sunday and checked off the biggest item on her to-do list.

Korda claimed her first U.S. Open title, pulling ahead on the back...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two amateurs with unforgettable names made their mark at Riviera Country Club on Saturday.

Asterisk Talley and Aphrodite Deng — both barely old enough to get behind the wheel — turned in remarkable performances in the third round of the U.S. Women's Open, each proving she belongs among the best players in the game.

On a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Alison Lee is trying to balance a major championship and motherhood.

So far, so good.

The former UCLA standout shot a 68 at Riviera Country Club on Friday to inch to the top of the leaderboard in the second round of the U.S. Women's Open, putting the devoted mom in prime position for a weekend run at her first major victory.

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