10:54 PM ET Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — David Toms shot his second straight 7-under 65 on Friday to take a four-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship. Toms, 52, had eight birdies and a bogey on another windy day at Hualalai. “It was a tougher day today,” Toms said. “I
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8:29 PM ET For the first time in his professional career, Phil Mickelson will skip his hometown PGA Tour event, the Farmers Insurance Open. Mickelson, 48, who is leading the Desert Classic through 36 holes, said Friday he would not play next week at Torrey Pines, the San Diego course where he has played 28
7:40 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Phil Mickelson birdied four of his last five holes Friday in the Desert Classic to take a two-stroke lead into the weekend in his first event of the year. A day after matching his career-low score with 12-under 60 at La Quinta Country Club, Mickelson had
5:11 PM ET Associated Press LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — Juan Cayro Delgado shot a 4-under 68 on Friday to give the Dominican Republic gallery something to cheer as he took a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the Latin American Amateur Championship. Delgado is making his Latin American Amateur debut, though he has
4:52 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Brooke Henderson of Canada kept out of trouble and kept bogeys off her card Friday on her way to a 4-under 67 and a two-shot lead in the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, the winners-only start to the LPGA Tour season. Henderson had the only
1:36 PM ET Among the many new rules that players are dealing with at the start of the new year is the one that allows them to repair spike marks or any damage in the line of their putt. Until Jan. 1, that was a no-no, and for some it is a controversial exchange, including
12:39 PM ET Tiger Woods will make his 2019 debut at next week’s Farmers Insurance Open, the tournament announced Wednesday. The annual PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines in San Diego has been a standard opening tournament for Woods over the years and at a venue where he has won eight times, including the 2008
5:08 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Steve Stricker came to Hawaii for two weeks of work, just like the old days, but with a twist. Instead of starting at the winners-only field at Kapalua and then going over to the Sony Open, he started at the Sony Open and heads to the winners-only field
11:08 PM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Matt Kuchar overcame three early bogeys that cost him the lead with flawless golf and two key birdies on the back nine to close with a 4-under 66 and win the Sony Open for his second PGA Tour title this season. It wasn’t as easy as his four-shot
12:06 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Matt Kuchar kept another clean card and shot a 4-under 66 to take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Sony Open, a chance to win twice in one PGA Tour season for only the second time in his career. Kuchar ended a four-year drought by