By The Associated Press AUGUSTA, GA (AP) – World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler claimed his first major championship with a win at the 86th Masters. It’s his fourth victory in his last six starts on the PGA TOUR. Birdies on 14 and 15 pushed the lead to five before a double-bogey at the last dropped…
By The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — J.J. Spaun won his first PGA TOUR event — and his first trip to the Masters — by firing a final-round 69 at the Valero Texas Open on Sunday. In his 147th PGA TOUR start, Spaun survived a double-bogey start to his round by recording five birdies…
By Yahoo News AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the hottest player in golf and now has the ranking to prove it. Six weeks after his first PGA Tour victory, Scheffler won the Dell Technologies Match Play for his third title in his last five starts, this one enough to move him to No.…
By The Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Sam Burns is a winner again in the Valspar Championship, this time with a lot more stress and plenty of more emotion. Burns holed a birdie putt from just over 30 feet on the 16th hole to beat Davis Riley on the second playoff hole, giving…
By The Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Cameron Smith made the longest week at The Players Championship worth the wait. In a dynamic conclusion to five days of bad weather and high drama, Smith one-putted eight of his last nine holes with his pure stroke and delivered one of the gutsiest shots…
By The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler played the kind of golf that wins a traditional U.S. Open, and that’s what the Arnold Palmer Invitational felt like Sunday at Bay Hill. In another final round that featured some of the toughest scoring conditions in four decades, Scheffler made key putts to save…
By The Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Sepp Straka is going back to Georgia in a few weeks. He’s headed to the Masters, after pulling off a huge comeback to win the Honda Classic. Straka, now 14th in the FedExCup standings, trailed by five shots entering the final round and tapped in for…
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joaquinn Niemann survived a few nervous moments at Riviera and polished off a big week Sunday when he closed with an even-par 71 to become the first wire-to-wire winner of the Genesis Invitational in 53 years. Staked to a three-shot lead, Niemann’s margin was down to one…
By The Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler outlasted Ryder Cup teammate Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a playoff Sunday in the WM Phoenix Open, making a 25-foot birdie putt that had just enough momentum to tumble in. Cantlay missed an 11-foot birdie try after Scheffler holed his putt. Scheffler birdied four…
By The Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Jordan Spieth knew what to expect long before he ever saw Tom Hoge play golf. Hoge had shown him how to play craps in 2015 during the John Deere Classic, and what Spieth took away from that evening was Hoge was not the kind of player…
