Golf

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Patrick Cantlay, often better at asking questions than giving answers, had one question as he walked up the final hole at Marco Simone two years ago at the Ryder Cup. Why is everyone waving their hats? “I knew they were yelling at me,” Cantlay recalled in a...

NEW YORK — Team USA’s Justin Thomas didn’t downplay the hype. “I think it’ll hands down be the biggest golf event ever,” Thomas wrote on social media. Long Island’s Bethpage Black has been home to numerous historic golf events this century, but arguably none bigger than the upcoming Ryder Cup,...

NAPA, Calif. — Bethpage Black is a big ballpark on Long Island that made the boy feel even smaller. He was holding his father’s hand on Father’s Day in 2002 as they watched the U.S. Open won by Tiger Woods. It was Cameron Young’s first glimpse of golf at the...

NAPA, Calif. — Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in golf, still remembers the time he was last. The Ryder Cup being next on the horizon serves as yet another reminder of how quickly his absurd level of dominance came together. The day Scheffler arrived in Napa was the four-year...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Amazon Prime Video will stream two hours of coverage during the first and second rounds of the Masters beginning next year. The Masters will stream on Prime Video from 1-3 p.m. daily April 9 and 10, leading into ESPN’s coverage both days from 3-7:30 p.m. “Working alongside...

NAPA, Calif. — Scottie Scheffler wanted to stay sharp ahead of the Ryder Cup, and the world’s No. 1 player looked every bit of that Sunday, closing with a 5-under-par 67 to win the Procore Championship for his sixth PGA Tour victory of the year. Scheffler made up a two-shot...

NAPA, Calif. — Ryder Cup rookie Ben Griffin made his first bogey of the tournament on the final hole as his lead narrowed Saturday in the Procore Championship. He had a 2-under-par 70 and leads a pair of players who are No. 1 in the world. One shot behind was...

NAPA, Calif. — Ben Griffin went about his business Friday like he was at any other PGA Tour stop, even with so many Ryder Cup teammates around him. He played bogey-free for the second straight day with a 6-under-par 66 to build a three-shot lead in the Procore Championship. Two...

VIRGINIA WATER, England — Hideki Matsuyama made two eagles in shooting 8-under-par 64 to take a one-stroke lead over a trio of European Ryder Cup players after the second round of the BMW PGA Championship on Friday. Viktor Hovland (66), Ludvig Åberg (69) and Justin Rose (66) were leading the...

NAPA, Calif. — Mackenzie Hughes of Canada quietly went about his work with a 9-under-par 63 on Thursday to lead the Procore Championship. The big crowds followed Scottie Scheffler and the U.S. Ryder Cup team and saw mixed results. For the longest time, Ryder Cup rookie Ben Griffin wasn’t even...

Scottie Scheffler was on the tee with three other Ryder Cup teammates during a practice round at the Procore Championship, a rare sight at a regular PGA Tour event in September. His caddie, Ted Scott, was offering options on which club to hit and the best lines, along with information...

NAPA, Calif. — Justin Thomas is in northern California’s wine country for a final tune-up before the Ryder Cup, just like he was two years ago. Only now he has plenty of company. The U.S. team, determined not to repeat the mistakes of two years ago, has 10 of its...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The late British golf writer Peter Dobereiner never liked the idea of continental Europe being invited to take part in the Ryder Cup, regardless of the Americans winning all but one time over the previous 30 years. He no doubt would feel the same if that...

On paper, the European team heading to New York to defend the Ryder Cup hardly could be more similar to the winning lineup two years ago. Look closer, and plenty of things are different. Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton have moved to LIV Golf. Bob MacIntyre, a rookie in Rome,...

The Fuhrer name carries a lot of weight in Western Pennsylvania golf circles. Frank Fuhrer Jr. was instrumental in staging the former Family House Invitational, a two-day event that attracted PGA Tour pros and ran for more than a decade, and later the Frank B. Fuhrer Invitational. Frank Fuhrer III,...

Miranda Wang lost the lead to the No. 1 player in women’s golf and then delivered the clutch shots over the final three holes for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory over Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday in the FM Championship for her first LPGA title. Wang became the seventh...

U.S. captain Keegan Bradley decided the best way to win back the Ryder Cup was to leave his golf clubs at home. Bradley filled out his 12-man roster Wednesday with six captain’s picks for the September matches that did not include himself. He had considered becoming the first playing captain...

The Masters is making a rare change to its qualifying criteria by eliminating invitations to PGA Tour winners in the fall and joining the R&A in recognizing winners of six national opens on every main tour in the world. Augusta National and the R&A announced plans Tuesday to align aspects...

ATLANTA — There is only one way out of this mess for U.S. captain Keegan Bradley, and that’s for the Americans to win the Ryder Cup. Anything else will result in endless second-guessing of what Bradley calls the biggest decision of his life. That starts Wednesday when he goes to...

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump says he will be at the opening round of the high-charged Ryder Cup next month in New York, and he thinks U.S. captain Keegan Bradley should be playing. Trump posted Saturday night on his social media site that he would be there on Friday, Sept....

ATLANTA — One swing cost Tommy Fleetwood the lead Saturday in the Tour Championship. Another great closing stretch gave Patrick Cantlay a shot at the ideal ending to three years without winning. Cantlay birdied four of the last five holes on a rain-soaked course at East Lake for a 6-under-par...

ATLANTA — Tommy Fleetwood is a familiar story hopeful of a different ending, posting eight birdies in his round of 7-under-par 63 to share the lead Friday at the Tour Championship with Russell Henley in what was shaping up as a tight race for the $10 million prize. Fleetwood, increasingly...

ATLANTA — Scottie Scheffler shies away from comparisons to Tiger Woods even as the numbers are starting to make that inevitable. Scheffler has been No. 1 in the world longer than anyone since Woods. He is the first player since Woods to have five-plus wins in back-to-back years. He comes...