Dick Ferris, co-owner of Pebble Beach and former PGA Tour Policy Board chair, dies at 85

In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: The PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field. Trump Bedminster, in tony, semi-rural central New Jersey? Out. Southern...

One by one, the questions marks entering next week’s PGA Championship are being answered. Phil Mickelson is out, still not ready to face the public in the wake of his Saudi comments. Harris English and Paul Casey, both dealing with injuries, have also sent their regrets. Sungjae Im won’t be in Tulsa, either, after testing positive last week in South Korea with COVID. Tiger Woods, however, was at Southern Hills on Sunday and appears ready to compete next week.

John Daly and pedestrian aren’t normally words that appear in the same sentence. Yet it’s safe to say that golf folk hero has had a pedestrian season to date on the PGA Tour Champions. In six starts prior to this week’s Regions Tradition, the first major on the...

There’s some mystery in the air this week at the PGA Championship. Southern Hills Country Club hosts the major for the fifth time, but the first since 2007, when Tiger Woods won his fourth Wanamaker Trophy in the scorching Tulsa heat. In 2018, the Perry Maxwell course underwent an extensive restoration.

After undergoing successful left-wrist surgery right after the Masters, Bryson DeChambeau said that he'd be taking the necessary time to recover and stated that he was looking forward to competing at the highest level "within the next two months." While he didn't rule the PGA Championship out, the way it was worded made his absence at Southern Hills a virtual certainty.

The post-Masters schedule hangover for the PGA Tour has been very real, though a handful of bright spots like Jordan Spieth's Harbour Town win and Max Homa's victory on a wet and wild week in D.C. have somewhat masked what's been an otherwise "meh" stretch of pro golf. This week's...

Tiger Woods appears all but certain to play in the PGA Championship after the 15-time major champion was on-site for a practice round at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday afternoon. Woods, 46, has not played in a tournament since he competed at the Masters just 14 months after sustaining...

It was a rule change that was considered, voted upon and instituted by the PGA Tour, and it made plenty of headlines over the winter. In December, the USGA and R&A made available Model Local Rule G-11 that allowed governing bodies to limit the detail in green-reading materials. The tour then issued a memo to its players to say it would implement such a restriction starting on Jan. 1, 2022. The Players Advisory Council supported the change.

There were low numbers to be had at Upper Montclair Golf Club in New Jersey during the final round the LPGA Tour’s Cognizant Founders Cup. But Minjee Lee, the eventual winner, didn’t shoot one of them. On a day where seven of the top 10 players shot five under or better, Lee closed out with a two-under 70. Still, it was enough to win by two over Lexi Thompson and secure the 25-year-old's seventh LPGA win.

Karl Kimball is currently the head professional at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, N.C., but in 1991 he was on the PGA Tour and playing in the Greater Greensboro Open at Forest Oaks Country Club. One of his playing partners during the second round of that tournament was Sean Murphy, a young player out of Iowa.

LIV Golf has the Shark, but it also attempted to land the Golden Bear. Greg Norman is the face of the eight-event Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, which begins next month (June 9-11) outside London at Centurion Golf Club. But a story released Monday by the Fire Pit Collective—which also appears on Golf Digest’s website—has comments from Jack Nicklaus saying he was presented with a chance to collect a massive payday if he would agree to help the fledgling tour.

In the final moments of his life, what were the last thoughts of Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger as he died in the macabre way of so many of his victims?. Early on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, a mere four hours after he’d arrived on a transfer to the U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, Bulger was found dead in his cell, his body wrapped in blankets in his bed as if he was sleeping. The 89-year-old’s face was so badly bloodied and mashed that he was barely recognizable. Officials disclosed that they believed Bulger was beaten with a padlock wrapped in a sock—both of which could be purchased in the prison store.

There is nothing in the profile of K.H. Lee to suggest he would emerge from this week’s crimson-splashed leaderboard at the AT&T Byron Nelson with a victory over the likes of Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Thomas—all major champions. Nothing in the strokes-gained categories or his scoring average this season, or even his recent performances. Nope. Nothing, really.

For a man who will stare down history next week, the past two days in Texas have served as an auspicious showing for Jordan Spieth. Spieth, who would become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete the career Grand Slam with a win at the PGA Championship, turned in a 66 on Friday at TPC Craig Ranch, his two-round total of 132 near the top of the birdie-fest that has broken out at the AT&T Byron Nelson.

The second major of the season is upon us with million-dollar prizes up for grabs for DFS players on DraftKings and big money on FanDuel. Southern Hills hosts the PGA Championship, and it’s the first time we’ve seen this venue since the 2007 PGA, won by Tiger Woods.

Sungjae Im has withdrawn from the 2022 PGA Championship. Late last week Im, 24, tested positive for COVID-19 and had to pull out of the Woori Financial Group Championship, held in South Korea. It was supposed to be the first time since 2019 that Im had played in his native country. Due to South Korea health and safety protocols, Im is unable to travel to the United States in time to compete for the Wanamaker, held this year at Southern Hills.

Steve Stricker wasn’t sure if he had the strength to play three consecutive weeks of tournament golf. Not only did he complete the task, at the end of the stretch he became emotional after capturing one of the most coveted titles on the PGA Tour Champions. Stricker shot 65-68-66-68...

As the PGA Tour makes its annual return to the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, in June, there’s plenty of excitement around changes to the structure of the iconic event. The tournament, which has remained one of the premier events on the PGA Tour...

Paul Casey pulled out of the PGA Championship Sunday morning. The news isn’t necessarily a surprise. Casey, 44, has been battling back issues for much of 2022, issues that caused him to miss the Masters and the Valspar Championship (where he is a two-time champ) and forced him out after two holes at the WGC-Dell Match Play. Prior to the back problems Casey had been playing well, highlighted by a third-place finish at the Players Championship.

If you’ve attended a PGA Tour practice round recently, there’s a decent chance you found yourself wondering: Who are all these people inside the ropes, and what do they do?. Whereas golf has historically been known as a game of rugged individualism, the modern game is more of...