KAWAGOE, Japan – For the second consecutive day, Xander Schauffele will tee off at Kasumigaseki Country Club alongside Hideki Matsuyama. Sunday’s final round, though, will be different. Schauffele was grouped with Matsuyama on Saturday and took a one-stroke lead at the Olympic men’s golf competition with a birdie at the last hole to set up […]
Rory McIlroy admits he was wrong about golf in the Olympics. Five years ago at The Open Championship, McIlroy addressed his decision to not participate in golf’s long-awaited return to the Olympics at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. He didn’t mince words, either. “Honestly, I don’t think it was as difficult a decision for me […]
The scores are low, the top of the leaderboard is tight and there is one more round of Olympic golf left at Kasumigaseki Country Club. The Olympic men’s golf competition heads into Sunday’s final round with American Xander Schauffele leading at 14 under and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama just a shot back. They will play alongside England’s […]
KAWAGOE, Japan – Officials raced to complete Round 2 at the Olympic men’s golf competition early Saturday as the field scrambled to get back on schedule following numerous weather delays. Hideki Matsuyama was one of 16 players to complete their second round early Saturday with a par at the last hole for a 7-under 64 […]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Annika Sorenstam shot a 3-under 69, racing to finish before dark, to take a three-stroke lead Friday in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. The 50-year-old Sorenstam, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion making her first appearance in the senior event, birdied Nos. 7-9 to get to 8 under and closed with pars […]
Australia’s Cameron Smith is known for donning a vibrant mullet on Tour, and for the Olympics, he’s added more spice to his hair, etching “AUS” on the side of his head. But you’ll never guess who styles his hair … Lee Trevino. No, not the six-time major champion. This Trevino runs a salon in Jacksonville, Florida, where […]
Emma Talley can’t remember the last time she was the solo leader after 36 holes in an LPGA Tournament and on Friday she carded a 7-under 65 to lead by three shots heading into the weekend at the ISPS Handa World Invitational. “This is the first time in a long time that I’ve been in this position,” […]
KAWAGOE, Japan — Xander Schauffele has been pointing to the Olympics ever since he began his rise into the elite of American golf three years ago. Now that he’s here, in the country where his mother was raised and enjoying an Olympic experience his father could only dream about, he is trying to treat this […]
KAWAGOE, Japan – Some considered the athlete’s village at the Olympics an inconvenience. Not Carlos Ortiz. While most of the golfers in this week’s Olympic men’s competition opted for accommodations closer to Kasumigaseki Country Club, which is located a little over an hour from the village, a few competitors, including Ortiz, traded a lengthy commute for the […]
KAWAGOE, Japan – Rory McIlroy isn’t the first professional golfer to succumb to hindsight when it comes to the Olympics, but he is the most high-profile player to make the transition. McIlroy had made no secret of the fact that he’s playing the Summer Games for the good of golf, not out of a patriotic […]