LIV Golf didn’t generate this much suspense at tournaments when the music was blaring, the Saudi cash was flowing freely and players from the Cleeks and Majestics headed off in carts for the shotgun start.
\nEvery day, there’s more speculation. Who’s leaving? Who’s staying? Weren’t these the same questions four years ago?
\nIt was May 31, 2022, when a group of golf writers out to dinner in Ohio received emails announcing the field for the inaugural LIV Golf event \u2014 Dustin Johnson and 12 other PGA Tour members \u2014 and had to leave before the creme brulee arrived.
\nAnd now another waiting game, not for the launch but whether LIV survives.
\nLIV Golf is working through Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a pledge of $300 million from BC Partners Credit, a far cry from the $5 billion the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia dropped in four years before abruptly pulling the plug.
\nKey to the \u201cLIV 2.0\u201d version \u2014 at least 10 tournaments, player equity and prize money half of what it used to be \u2014 is getting a \u201ccritical mass\u201d of players to buy into the plan. How many players comprise a critical mass is unclear. And while LIV officials don’t plan to announce each decision piecemeal, players are doing that for them.
\nJon Rahm and Sergio Garcia have court-approved separations from LIV and are free to go. Louis Oosthuizen, Ian Poulter, Tom McKibbin and Adrian Meronk have said they are leaving. Graeme McDowell added his name to the list Monday with a succinct message on social media.
\nAdding a wrinkle to the immediate future of LIV was a report by The Athletic that Johnson was among more than 10 players seeking severance deals from PIF worth more than $100 million in contract payments. Johnson’s attorney suggested a deal was tied to players sticking with LIV 2.0.
\n\u201cThe decision to release potential claims against the PIF and join LIV 2.0 will be influenced largely by how the PIF manages the windup of LIV 1.0,” David Cornwell told The Athletic.
\nAn amended restructuring agreement approved by the New Jersey bankruptcy court indicates LIV no longer has a hard deadline for players to decide. The hope was to have a decision by the end of the month. LIV remains bullish about a 2027 season.
\nThat won’t be the end of the drama, however, and it would seem the golf landscape is still a long way off from being stitched back together, if it ever can be.
\nThe PGA Tour has yet to say whether defectors \u2014 currently banned for one year from the date of their last LIV appearance \u2014 have a place. It’s not a high priority as the tour seeks to fill out its lucrative \u201cChampionship Series\u201d schedule in 2028 and find sponsors for the second tier.
\nThe European tour, meanwhile, delivered a strong ultimatum when CEO Guy Kinnings said anyone staying with LIV need not apply for membership for the commercially known DP World Tour.
\nThat made it an easy choice for Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton \u2014 particularly with Ryder Cup strings attached \u2014 and for youngsters Tom McKibbin and David Puig. They have status based on performance. That doesn’t mean it sits well with those who stayed.
\n\u201cFour years ago, they didn’t give a (crap) about the DP World Tour,\u201d Joost Luiten told Today’s Golfer. \u201cThey made a decision to go after the money. And now all of a sudden, the money is gone and they want to come back and act like nothing happened. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right.\u201d
\nThere’s also the matter of sponsor exemptions for those who don’t have status, or even those who never gave much thought to the European tour because they didn’t need it. Now they do.
\nEuropean tour officials are not in position to turn their back on a chance to strengthen fields.
\n\u201cGiven the high volume of inbound interest and enquiries we have received in recent weeks, we are exploring the terms on which we are willing to accommodate players provided they are free from third party contractual restrictions and are willing to abide by our membership regulations,\u201d a European tour spokesman said.
\nIt’s possible such players are allowed only a set number of exemptions. And because the exemptions are for stock events \u2014 think Magical Kenya Open and the Soudal Open in Belgium \u2014 it might not be a case of squeezing out a more worthy player.
\nBut then it’s a matter of whether loyalty means more than name recognition.
\nEddie Pepperell, among the most thoughtful players, missed the cut last week in South Korea and wound up one spot out of a full European tour card for 2027. He wrote in his \u201cThe Chipping Forecast\u201d post that outside of players whom people pay to watch, send everyone else to Q-school.
\n\nBut potentially losing a spot in the field to a player no longer interested in LIV because it no longer offers $20 million purses with no cuts?
\n\u201cAs someone who has gone through the wringer this game provides (mostly due to my own shortcomings of course) in recent years, and who has gone back to Q School and had two immensely divergent experiences, betrayal feels like the right word,\u201d Pepperell wrote. \u201cAnd unfortunately when one feels that way inevitably what follows is a loss of respect, and what tends to fill the void left behind is resentment and contempt.\u201d
\nNo matter what happens to LIV, one suspects it won’t make the healing process any easier.
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This is turning into a golden era for the Land of the Rising Sun on the LPGA Tour.
\nYuri Yoshida hit a pitching wedge from 48 yards to a back pin on an elevated green to 4 feet, a sublime shot that effectively secured her first LPGA Tour title at the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea.
\nYoshida became the fifth first-time winner on the LPGA this season, and the third from Japan. Her victory came a month after Yuna Nishimura won in Arkansas. And in August, Shiho Kuwaki captured her first major at the Women’s British Open.
\nBut it goes back further than this year. Japanese players have won five of the last 15 majors over the last three years, two more than players from South Korea and one player (Nelly Korda) from the United States \u2014 Yuka Saso (U.S. Women’s Open), Mao Saigo (Chevron), Miyu Yamashita and Kuwaki (Women’s British Open), and Ayaka Furue (Evian).
\nThe last two years on the LPGA have seen nine different players from Japan winning official events.
\nSouth Korea, which has dominated the LPGA the last three decades, still has the depth with 14 players among the top 50 in the women’s world ranking. Japan is next with 10 players.
\nMost of them get plenty of preparation on the Japan LPGA. Saigo and Yamashita each won five times in 2022. Yamashita won five more times on the JLPGA in 2023 and now is No. 4 in the world, the highest ranking among Japanese players. Kuwaki won three times on the JLPGA in 2024 and two years later became a major champion.
\nAlong with her Women’s British Open title at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, Kuwaki won Sunday for her fourth JLPGA title of the year, the most of any player. Next is Shuri Sakuma with three wins. Sakuma won four times last year, and might be a name worth remembering.
\nThe words of Eddie Pepperell, always thoughtful and often funny in his blog posts, were dripping with appreciation and class after Sean Crocker\u2019s amazing back nine in the Genesis Championship that wound up costing Pepperell a full European tour card by one spot.
\nCrocker was 3 over on the front nine when he ran off six birdies, closing with four in a row, for a 29 that moved him into a tie for 34th. He finished 100th on the Race to Dubai for full status.
\nCrocker, who has 4-month old son at home, was playing his 13th consecutive week in his ninth country. He was emotional thinking about his family and the grind.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not easy being a tour player, being away from your family, especially when you are on the bubble and obviously I\u2019m not the only person, but the last thing you want to do is start a little family and get demoted or lose some of your playing rights,\u201d he said.
\nPepperell, the odd man out, was duly impressed.
\n\u201cSometimes I wish I could stand on a tee with such pressure at my feet, we should all wish for that at least once in our lives,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFor it is in those moments when a person can truly experience what it is like to confront their fate. …
\n\u201cSo for Sean I sincerely hope this is a moment which he can revel in for a little while, and he should because he just resembled an archetype we can all associate with, dream of, but for so many never genuinely realize \u2014 his antics in Korea were quite heroic.\u201d
\nCrocker, the 30-year-old American born in Zimbabwe to a test cricketer, has one European tour victory in the 2022 Hero Open in Scotland. He finished one shot ahead of Pepperell.
\nLaura Frick is staying in Minnesota for another three years and making a little history along the way. She is the first female member of the PGA of America to be appointed the championship director for the Ryder Cup. The matches go to Hazeltine in 2029.
\nFrick, a Michigan native who graduated from the PGA Golf Management program at Ferris State in 2015, had been championship director for the KPMG Women’s PGA at Hazeltine this year. Hazeltine is the first course in the United States to host the Ryder Cup twice.
\n\u201cLaura\u2019s experience at Hazeltine, event-management expertise and passion for the Ryder Cup will be instrumental as we work to deliver an exceptional Ryder Cup experience,\u201d said David Charles, senior director of championships.
\nShe is not the first woman to be Ryder Cup director, but the first who is a PGA of America member. Tara Guenther was the tournament director at Valhalla in 2008, and the late Kathy Boles Beard was Ryder Cup director at Kiawah Island in 1991.
\nLIV Golf is pressing on with its next version without Saudi money, hiring former TaylorMade CEO Mark King as a senior adviser.
\nKing\u2019s main role is providing expertise as LIV tries to complete a deal with BC Partners Credit for LIV 2.0. He is expected to recruit, build and serve as chairman of LIV Golf\u2019s advisory board.
\n\u201cHaving spent much of my career in golf, I believe there is a tremendous opportunity for LIV Golf to establish itself as a competitive and enduring force in the game,\u201d King said. \u201cCompetition drives innovation, creates opportunities, and ultimately makes the entire ecosystem stronger.\u201d
\nRyder Cup captain Jim Furyk will be spending most of his time in the broadcast booth for Golf Channel next year. He believes he can call it as he sees it, even at the risk of offending players who might be on his team at Adare Manor next year.
\nThat led to a discussion on Johnny Miller and his use of the word \u201cchoke,\u201d and before long the question was posed to Furyk if he ever choked.
\n\u201cI can remember one shot that comes to mind \u2014 a match at the Ryder Cup,\u201d he said.
\nIt was a Friday afternoon foursomes match with Tiger Woods as his partner. They were 1 down to Luke Donald and Sergio Garcia, needing to win the par-5 18th at The K Club for a halve.
\n\u201cIt was a right-to-left wind. I was trying to hit a shot at the right-center of the green and hold it with a hybrid,\u201d Furyk said. \u201cI got it on the toe, turned it over, got into the water. At that moment, it\u2019s a shot you can\u2019t hit.\u201d
\nWas it a choke or simply poor execution? Furyk didn\u2019t take long to answer.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I hit that shot on Tuesday. How\u2019s that?\u201d he said.
\n\nAustin Smotherman (Utah and Bermuda) is the third player in the last 30 years to get his first two PGA Tour victories in consecutive starts. Camilo Villegas in 2008 won the BMW Championship and Tour Championship, and David Duval in 1997 won at Kingsmill and Disney. … Eliot Baker of England, part of GB&I’s winning Walker Cup team, has turned pro after leading the European tour’s Global Amateur Pathway Ranking to earn a tour card for 2027. … Steven Alker earned a $200,000 bonus for the \u201cSprint to St. Louis.\u201d He was the top finisher at the Stifel Classic among three players who earned the most Schwab Cup points over the last five regular-season events.
\nAustin Smotherman is the first player to go from two wins on the Korn Ferry Tour to two wins on the PGA Tour in back-to-back years.
\n\u201cSo I play golf not smiling. But off the course, I\u2019m always smiling. So if you can follow my Instagram, I\u2019m really so happy.\u201d \u2014 Yuri Yoshida of Japan after winning her first LPGA Tour title at the BMW Ladies Championship.
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SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP) \u2014 Austin Smotherman captured his second straight FedEx Cup Fall event Monday morning when he outlasted Seamus Power of Ireland with a par on the third playoff hole to win the rain-shortened Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
\nSmotherman also won the Bank of Utah Championship three weeks ago. The two victories in tournaments offering full FedEx Cup points gets him in the U.S. Open next year at Pebble Beach.
\nSmotherman and Power were tied at 16-under 197. The final round was canceled because of wind so strong at Port Royal that conditions were deemed unplayable. They returned for a playoff held on the par-3 16th hole with a strong wind gusting off the ocean left of the green.
\nBoth made par when the pin was all the way back at 178 yards \u2014 Power missed a 20-foot birdie putt for the win on the first extra hole and made an 8-foot par putt for a bunker save the next time. The hole was moved to the front of the green for the third extra hole.
\nSmotherman, who twice hit 8-iron to the front section when the pin was in the back, stayed with an 8-iron and left himself a birdie chance just inside 15 feet. Power again didn’t get enough help from the wind and his shot buried in deep rough left of the green. He chopped it out to just outside 15 feet and missed the par putt.
\nSmotherman won the Bank of Utah Championship three weeks ago for his first PGA Tour title in his 100th career start. Now he has two in a row and moves to No. 51 in the FedEx Cup, assuring him a spot at the $20 million signature events at Pebble Beach and Riviera next year.
\nThe consolation for Power, who was trying to become the first multiple winner of the Bermuda Championship, was locking up his card for 2027. He was at No. 103 \u2014 the top 100 at the end of the fall keep full status \u2014 and the runner-up finish moves him to No. 68.
\nIt was the second time this year a playoff began on a Monday morning because of weather. Viktor Hovland defeated Scottie Scheffler on the par-4 18th to win the Travelers Championship in June.
\nSmotherman becomes the first 54-hole winner on the PGA Tour because of weather since Wyndham Clark won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2024.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Rory Sabbatini made up a four-shot deficit on the back nine by closing with an eagle and three straight birdies for a 9-under 62 to win the Stifel Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title.
\nSabbatini played his final six holes in 6-under par, which included his 25-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the par-5 15th hole. His final birdie was from 40 feet up the hill on the 18th at Norwood Hills Country Club, and he wound up winning by one shot over Darren Clarke (65).
\nSabbatini, the South African-born Slovakian who turned 50 in April. moved to No. 7 in the Charles Schwab Cup as the leading 54 players on the points list advanced to next week in Arkansas.
\nClarke and Henrik Stenson appeared to be in a two-man race, with Mario Tiziani lurking, until none could keep with Sabbatini and his explosive final round. It was similar to when he won the silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 with a 61 on the final day.
\n\u201cJust one of those days when you’re trying to stay out of your own way,\u201d he said.
\nStenson, who turned 50 in April and couldn’t join the PGA Tour Champions until he was one year removed from LIV Golf, shot a bogey-free 68 on a day when he needed more than three birdies. He twice missed birdie chances inside 5 feet on the back nine and closed with 12 straight pars.
\nHe still managed to advance to the second week of the Schwab Cup playoffs despite playing in only eight tournaments. Stenson tied for third with Steven Alker (66) and Tiziani (68).
\nStenson and Tim Petrovic moved into the top 54 to advance to next week, knocking out J.J. Henry and Chad Campbell, who bogeyed three of his last five holes to miss out the 54th spot by $402.
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CHEONAN, South Korea (AP) \u2014 Japanese golfer Yuto Katsuragawa delivered under pressure for a two-shot victory at the Genesis Championship in South Korea on Sunday to secure his second European tour title, a first prize of around $670,000 and his card for the 2027 season.
\nA day after a bogey-free 8-under 63 in the third round to tie the course record at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club, Katsuragawa shot a more circumspect even-par 71 \u2014 featuring 16 pars \u2014 in the final round as he maintained his advantage on the final holes, despite a tap-in bogey at the last.
\nThe 28-year-old Katsuragawa had a four-round total of 13-under 271, two shots ahead of French players Frederic Lacroix (68) and Martin Couvra (69), for his first victory since the ISPS HANDA Championship in April 2024.
\nKatsuragawa entered the week placed No. 106 on the Race to Dubai rankings and in danger of losing his card for being outside the top 100. The win shot him up to No. 28, guaranteeing his spot in the final two events of the season \u2014 in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
\n\u201cAfter the first win, I had such a hard time but having the second win, this is definitely the greatest moment of my life,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cYes, I was nervous, not just for the victory but also about (his status on) the DP World Tour so it was double nervous for me, but I think I got through.\u201d
\nThe season-long Race to Dubai title will be determined over those two weeks and South African golfer Casey Jarvis missed a chance to get close to the top three in the standings \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra, Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy \u2014 by falling back to a tie for fourth place in South Korea with a closing 72. He was alongside British Open champion Ryan Fox (70) at 10 under.
\nJarvis led after the first round, shared the lead after the second, and was in second place going into Sunday’s championship round as he sought a third win of the 2026 season, after the Kenya Open and South African Open in February,
\nReed and McIlroy did not compete this week. Chacarra, who is No. 1 in the standings after winning in India last week, finished seven shots back \u2014 at 6 under \u2014 and tied for 22nd.
\n\nAmerican golfer Sean Crocker reached the back nine at 3-over par for his final round and was on the brink of losing his playing privileges on the European tour.
\nHe responded by making six birdies in his back-nine 29, including four straight to finish, to post 68 and keep his card.
\n\u201cThat was probably one of the better back nines I\u2019ve ever played with circumstances and everything going on there,\u201d Crocker said.
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HAENAM, South Korea (AP) \u2014 Yuri Yoshida won the LPGA South Korea tournament holding off Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi in a close finish at Pine Beach Golf Links on Sunday.
\nIt was Yoshida’s first LPGA Tour victory and came in dramatic finale as both overnight leader Haeran Ryu and Yoshida bogeyed the final hole leaving the Japanese player ahead by one stoke and a four-round total of 17-under 271.
\nYoshida was four shots off the pace going into Sunday\u2019s final round but lit up the front nine with an eagle at the par-5 second, followed by three consecutive birdies to be 5-under 31 at the turn. Bogey\u2019s at the 15th and 18th was offset by a crucial birdie at the 17th which gave the 26-year-old the buffer she needed.
\nRyu led the tournament by four strokes going into the final round, but couldn\u2019t find the same rhythm on Sunday as she shot a 73 to finish at 16-under 272.
\nThe South Korean player made 15 consecutive pars before dropping a crucial shot at the par-4 16th which handed back Yoshida\u2019s one-shot advantage.
\nBoth player’s made birdies at the 17th, but a costly miss for Ryu at the 18th allowed Yoshida to clinch it, despite the Japanese golfer also making bogey.
\nHye-Jin Choi, who was in a tie for second coming in the final round, stayed in contention throughout Sunday and mixed four birdies with a lone bogey to finish at 16-under 272, and a shot behind Yoshida in a tie for second with Ryu.
\nChoi is still looking for her first victory in 125 career LPGA Tour starts as a member. She has held or shared a 54-hole lead five times in her LPGA career without converting it into a win.
\nLast week in Shanghai, Choi was runner-up by one stroke to China\u2019s Ruoning Yin after the South Korean golfer led after each of the first three rounds.
\nDefending champion Sei Young Kim, who ended a five-year victory drought in 2025 with a win last year in South Korea, shot 70 Sunday and finished at 2-under 286 and a tie for 55th.
\nIn its late-season Asian swing, the LPGA Tour moves to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week for the Maybank Championship, the third of four events.
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SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP) \u2014 Chandler Blanchet made a pair of eagles, one from 50 feet and the other from 5 feet, to post his best score of the year \u2014 a 9-under 62 \u2014 and hold a one-shot lead after the first round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
\nBlanchet, whose best finish this season was on another island in the Puerto Rico Open, added six birdies to his round. His only dropped shot came on the par-4 fourth, his 13th hole of the round, when he missed the green well to the left at Port Royal.
\nHe led by one shot over Ben Kohles, Corey Conners, Danny Walker and Ben Silverman of Canada on a day when the wind was all over the place, from gusty to calm with a few passing showers.
\nBlanchet is at No. 114 in the FedEx Cup Fall, and points are all that matter this time of the year for so many players. Bermuda is one of five tournaments left in the season, and the top 100 keep full status for 2027.
\nAn example of the wind not hurting as much as it often does at Port Royal came on the par-5 seventh hole as Blanchet was finishing his round.
\n\u201cThe wind was kind of calming down, so it was pretty favorable,\u201d he said. \u201cHit a smooth 5-iron there to like 5 feet. That was sweet.\u201d
\nHis other eagle came on the 17th, the shortest par 5 but with water lurking to the left.
\n“Yeah. No. 17, I guess that was my last eagle. I hit a great drive,” Blanchet said. He only had about 180 yards in, but left it out far too the right, only to hole the putt from just outside 50 feet.
\n\u201cJust dripped in on the last revolution,\u201d he said.
\nKohles had a chance to sew up his PGA Tour card at No. 19 going into the Korn Ferry Tour Championship (the top 20 earn cards). But he was playing well enough that he went to the Baycurrent Classic in Japan and tied for 17th. Now he’s at No. 80, virtually a lock for a card, and now can think about finishing in the top 60 to get into two $20 million signature events.
\nKohles made a career-best six straight birdies, all of them in the 6-foot range until the last one, which was about 12 feet.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty nice I think to feel a lot more comfortable,\u201d Kohles said. “Going into the fall it was funny. I obviously decided to play the fall out here and skip the last three Korn Ferrys, and as good as I played on both tours I wasn\u2019t really locked on either one. So, it was really nice to have those three good finishes to start the fall and pretty much secure my top 100 for next year.
\n\n\u201cJust feel like I\u2019m just kind of freewheeling and trying to play my best and see where it puts me.\u201d
\nMackenzie Hughes and Emiliano Grillo were in the large group of players who shot 64 to wind up two shots back after the first round. Without the consistently blustery wind, the course played to an average score of 68.5.
\n\u201cThe conditions were amazing,\u201d said Conners, who at No. 61, is the highest-ranked player in the field. \u201cThe wind blows pretty hard here and it was fairly mild today. The golf course is playing great, it\u2019s in wonderful shape and was really a nice day. A little bit wet early, but for the most part we got really lucky with some pretty pleasant conditions to play in.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-22T22:45:33+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-22T22:45:33+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ChandlerBlanchetPGA26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "6 days", "excerpt": "SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP) \u2014 Chandler Blanchet made a pair of eagles, one from 50 feet and the other from 5 feet, to post his best score of the year \u2014 a 9-under 62 \u2014 and hold ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/casey-jarvis-leads-in-south-korea-and-still-has-sights-set-on-race-to-dubai-title/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/casey-jarvis-leads-in-south-korea-and-still-has-sights-set-on-race-to-dubai-title/", "title": "Casey Jarvis Leads In South Korea And Still Has Sights Set On Race To Dubai Title", "content_html": "\n
CHEONAN, South Korea (AP) \u2014 Casey Jarvis could yet ensure the fight for the Race to Dubai title on the European tour is between four golfers.
\nThe South African shot 6-under 65 and led the Genesis Championship in South Korea by one stroke after the first round on Thursday.
\nSanghun Shin, one of four South Koreans in the top 19, was in second place.
\nJarvis, a two-time winner this season, is in fourth place in the year-long Race to Dubai standings. Yet a good week will set him up for a shot at the title \u2014 against Eugenio Chacarra, Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy \u2014 heading into the final two events of the season, in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
\nChacarra, the Spaniard who won in India last week, is the only player among the top three to be competing this week and he shot 72 on Thursday to be tied for 53rd.
\nJarvis has already won two tournaments this season, the Kenya Open and South African Open Championship back to back in late February. He was second at the Joburg Open the following week.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-22T20:17:12+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-22T20:17:12+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CaseyJarvis3M26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "6 days", "excerpt": "CHEONAN, South Korea (AP) \u2014 Casey Jarvis could yet ensure the fight for the Race to Dubai title on the European tour is between four golfers. The South African shot 6-under 65 and led the Genesis ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/davidson-yoshida-tied-for-the-1st-round-lead-at-the-lpgas-south-korea-tournament/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/davidson-yoshida-tied-for-the-1st-round-lead-at-the-lpgas-south-korea-tournament/", "title": "Davidson, Yoshida Tied For The 1st-Round Lead At The LPGA\u2019s South Korea Tournament", "content_html": "\n
GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) \u2014 Karis Davidson had six birdies in eight holes but bogeyed her ninth Thursday for a 6-under 66 and was tied for the first-round lead at the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championship.
\nDavidson, who started on the 10th hole Thursday, was level with Yuri Yoshida on the Pine Beach Golf Links southwest of Gwangju. Davidson and Yoshida are both seeking their first wins on the LPGA Tour.
\nNo. 3-ranked Haeran Ryu shot 67 and was tied for third. Her round included a chip-in birdie from off the 5th green. Also tied for third were Americans Lucy Li and Lauren Coughlin and European Solheim Cup player Julia Lopez Ramirez.
\n\u201cAll I did was hit a lot of fairways, keep the approaches in a safe place and try to hole the putts,\u201d Lopez Ramirez told the LPGA Tour website.
\nIn an effort to stay loose during her round, Lopez Ramirez said she competed at Sudoku between shots to keep her mind off golf \u2014 and she finished the puzzle. That relaxed mindset is the plan for the weekend.
\n\u201cThe most important thing right now is just to keep having my fun and try to keep my mind in a really good place,\u201d she said.
\nNo. 7-ranked Lottie Woad, who was on the victorious European team in the Solheim Cup, shot 69. Defending champion Sei Young Kim, who ended a five-year victory drought in 2025 with a win on the Pine Beach links, had an opening 72.
\nRuoning Yin, who is not in the 83-player, no-cut field this week, won last week’s tournament in Shanghai. She became the third player this season to surpass $3 million in official prize money, joining Nelly Korda ($6.2 million) and Ryu ($4.5 million).
\nThe Maybank Championship is scheduled for next week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the third of four events on the tour’s late-season Asian swing. It will be followed by a tournament in Japan before the LPGA returns to Florida to wrap up the season.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ross Steelman worked in a golf repair shop during the winter in Missouri when he was in high school. He didn’t own a new club until he was 14, instead rummaging through 50-gallon bins for used clubs and making them work.
\nThat was the case even this year when he won the Korn Ferry Tour points list.
\nDuring a month break in the schedule in late spring, Steelman was so frustrated with his driving that he went on eBay and bought a driver shaft, a 3-wood shaft and a hybrid head. He also bought a putter, an old TaylorMade Rossa Daytona, that he used the rest of the season.
\nAnd he wasn’t done.
\n\u201cTwo weeks later, I bought off True Temper’s website a steel fiber graphite iron shaft and put it in an 8-iron and messed around with it on the range at home,\u201d Steelman said. \u201cI took it out on tour and showed the guys this is what I want. They said: \u2018This is terrible. It\u2019s too light, it’s no good, you’re going to hate it.’ The swing weight was five weights too light. I said: \u2018Perfect. Can you build a set?\u2019\u201d
\nHe said his approach statistics improved two shots the rest of the year. He figures it worked in part because \u201cI did it myself so I trust it even more.\u201d But it was how he found it that showed that Steelman isn’t afraid to try anything.
\nHe loved the driver shaft he bought on eBay so much that he went on ChatGPT and wrote, \u201cIs there an iron shaft that has a similar feel?\u201d
\n\u201cIt was perfect,\u201d Steelman said. \u201cI cut it, glued it, put it in and it felt great. I trust it because it came from me. I swing fast, I hit it a long way, I hit it high. No rep in his right mind would say, \u2018I think you should use this graphite shaft in your irons.\u2019\u201d
\nHe is the ultimate gear head, developed from his high school days when he worked in a club repair shop in the winter and learned how to build, grind and bend clubs. He got away from it while at Missouri and Georgia Tech, but it never really left him \u2014 especially this year.
\n\u201cThat’s the romantic part of golf, finding something you’re really excited about and knowing you have a special connection to it because it’s something you found,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gets lost as a professional because we can text somebody and it (a club) will show up in two days. That’s never been my path in golf.\u201d
\nThe youth are starting to emerge in the fun part \u2014 formally \u201csilly season\u201d \u2014 in golf, whether it’s the Skins Game or the TGL indoor league or even the mixed-team Grant Thornton Invitational.
\nJackson Koivun, who went from Auburn to the Presidents Cup in a little under four months, already is part of all three \u2014 the Skins Game with Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and Wyndham Clark; the Motor City team on TGL; and the Grant Thornton with LPGA newcomer Kiara Romero of Oregon.
\nRomero and Koivun were No. 1 in the amateur ranking before turning pro.
\nTGL, meanwhile, is expanding its teams to five players to allow for strategy and time off (mostly the latter), and with the new Motor City team, the indoor league has 35 players.
\nBen James, who turned pro out of Virginia as No. 1 in the PGA Tour University ranking, is playing for Los Angeles; 19-year-old Blades Brown, who got his PGA Tour card through the Korn Ferry Tour, has joined The Bay Golf Club; Michael Brennan, who went from the PGA Tour Americas to three PGA Tour titles in the span of a year, is playing with Atlanta Drive.
\nOther newcomers include Alex Fitzpatrick joining brother Matt for New York, and Michael Thorbjornsen going from alternate to part of the roster for Boston Common.
\nScottie Scheffler returns to the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in December, the holiday event hosted by Tiger Woods where Scheffler has won twice and never finished more than two shots behind in his other three appearances.
\nThe 20-man field has nine of the top 12 in the world ranking, missing Masters champion Rory McIlroy, U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark and Tommy Fleetwood.
\nAlso missing \u2014 for now \u2014 is Woods.
\nThe field has reserved three spots for exemptions for players from the top 50 in the world ranking published after the Tour Championship, with an exception made for the tournament host.
\nEugenio Chacarra has gone from a tie for third in France, a runner-up finish in Spain and a victory in India to take over the lead on the Race to Dubai on the European tour. He is the only player from the top three in the points race who is playing in South Korea this week.
\nNow it\u2019s about far more than just securing a PGA Tour card for 2027, which he already has locked up. Chacarra is up to No. 39 in the world, strengthening his bid to finish the year among the top 50 to earn an invitation to the Masters.
\nIf he were to win the Race to Dubai, Chacarra would be exempt into the two early $20 million signature events next year on the PGA Tour at Pebble Beach and Riviera.
\nIt\u2019s quite the turnaround for the Oklahoma State alum, who was No. 2 in the world amateur ranking when he started his pro career with LIV Golf for three years until his contract wasn\u2019t renewed. He has four European tour wins in the last two years.
\n\u201cI know what I\u2019m capable of,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cI was one of the best amateurs in the world and I wanted to be one of the best professional players in the world.\u201d
\nGolf author Tom Coyne\u2019s bestseller \u201cA Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee” is the inspiration for a six-part documentary that premiers Sunday on Paramount+ with a leading character familiar to golf: Bill Murray.
\nMurray and Coyne play their way across some of Ireland\u2019s renowned golf courses, a trip that veers into a portrait of Ireland, its people and of Murray.
\nEach 30-minute episode follows Murray and friends across courses in Ireland and Northern Ireland. They are joined by Murray\u2019s family and celebrity friends such as Irish comedian Chris O\u2019Dowd and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. The series captures candid, unscripted moments woven with the wit and warmth of Irish golf.
\n\nBritish Open champion Ryan Fox will give the Australian Open at least two major champions at Kingston Heath in December. Masters champion Rory McIlroy already has committed. … The Biltmore Championship Asheville, which made its debut last month, has secured a 2027 date ending the first weekend in October. … Along with joining the indoor TGL with a new Motor City team, Brooks Koepka makes his debut in December at the PNC Championship. The five-time major champion will be playing with his father, Bob. … In addition to getting exemptions to The Players Championship and U.S. Open for leading the Korn Ferry Tour points list, Ross Steelman is headed Down Under for the Australian PGA and Australian Open.
\nThe leading 30 players in the European tour’s Race to Dubai come from 13 countries.
\n\u201cI think no matter what happens … the rest of the year, I\u2019ll sit down at Christmas and have the Irish Open trophy on the table and I\u2019ll be happy with what I have.\u201d \u2014 Shane Lowry.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-21T19:18:58+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-21T19:18:58+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RossSteelman23.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "7 days", "excerpt": "PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ross Steelman worked in a golf repair shop during the winter in Missouri when he was in high school. He didn’t own a new club until he was 14, instead ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/a-cancer-survivor-and-a-man-with-an-arm-full-of-tattoos-among-the-korn-ferry-graduates-to-pga-tour/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/a-cancer-survivor-and-a-man-with-an-arm-full-of-tattoos-among-the-korn-ferry-graduates-to-pga-tour/", "title": "A Cancer Survivor And A Man With An Arm Full Of Tattoos Among The Korn Ferry Graduates To PGA Tour", "content_html": "\n
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The leading 20 players on the Korn Ferry Tour secured their ticket to the big leagues and then had three days to celebrate before it was back to work.
\nThe first stop was PGA Tour headquarters \u2014 previously known as the \u201cGlobal Home\u201d until wiser heads realized the building was in Florida and no one actually lived there \u2014 for two days of orientation, media training and an agenda that made them feel like college freshmen.
\nBlades Brown wouldn’t know about that. He turned pro when he was a junior in high school and now at 19 is the youngest Korn Ferry Tour graduate in history.
\nWith optimism running high, orientation was a chance to get a tiny glimpse of who some of them are.
\nHunter Eichhorn grew up in Carney, located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, population 182 in the last U.S. Census. So what\u2019s it like growing up in a one-stoplight town?
\n\u201cWe have one caution light, actually,\u201d Eichhorn said.
\nHe cut his teeth at Wild Pines, a nine-hole public course where the longest hole is 392 yards. The cost is $15 to walk, cash only in an honor box. Key to his development was playing with his grandfather, Steve Pipkorn, always in a scramble format.
\n\u201cWe did it so we could move along and didn\u2019t have to worry about bad shots,\u201d Eichhorn said. \u201cIt was just, \u2018How low can we shoot today?\u2019 That was our thing.\u201d
\nHe developed his game on Wisconsin\u2019s junior circuit, and all those low scores got the attention of Marquette, where he won six times, broke numerous school scoring records and was All-Big East four of his five years. In his first year on the Korn Ferry, he had nine top-10 finishes to secure his PGA Tour card.
\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to compete against the best in the world,\u201d Eichhorn said. \u201cThe goal would be winning. The goal would be making the Tour Championship. If I\u2019m going to pick something, it would be along those lines.\u201d
\nIt makes sense. He’s been dreaming big his whole life.
\nAlvaro Ortiz made it to the Masters before his brother, Carlos, by winning the Latin American Amateur in 2019. It just took the 30-year-old from Mexico longer to reach the PGA Tour.
\n\u201cI’ve always known I was going to make it,\u201d he said. \u201cThrough the years, you’re starting to doubt. When is it going to happen? Is it going to happen? We’re in such a result-oriented business, you need to take a step back and see the year is not going so bad.\u201d
\nHe won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour this year, locking up his card in Tennessee. It was a test of patience. Ortiz stopped making changes based on results and trusted the game he had.
\n\u201cIf you assemble a car and you have a straight line, the only thing you have to do is put the seatbelt on, turn on the car, put it in drive, keep it between the lines and floor it,” Ortiz said. “I’ve enjoyed that ride. I’ve done the job.\u201d
\nAnd now it’s his turn to wait on his brother. Carlos Ortiz left for LIV Golf in 2022, and his path back is unclear at the moment.
\nRoss Steelman, who finished No. 1 in points this year, is sure to stand out because of the full sleeve of tattoos down his left arm. It took some 25 hours to complete \u2014 a dragon on the shoulder, the main administration building at Missouri on the outside of the bicep, tiger eyes on the inside, then a blend of desert, mountains and pine trees.
\nBut it’s the nail polish that get equal attention \u2014 pastel purple on the pinkie and index fingers.
\n\u201cMy girlfriend got a new color of nail polish. I did it on one finger so she could see what it looked like on a person before doing it on her own,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I finished second that week. I’ve got to keep going now. And I won in Colorado.\u201d
\nA week after his win, she noticed her nail chipping more on the index finger. Steelman was dubious so he did what he called \u201cfield testing\u201d and painted that nail. He finished third in Chicago and a month later won again.
\n\u201cSo it’s going to stay until I stop playing well,\u201d he said.
\nTommy Morrison was 6-foot-4 in the sixth grade and now at 6-foot-9 is among the tallest players in golf. More than height, the Texas Longhorn prefers to play above his weight. He was playing some of the top amateur events while still in high school, learning as he went.
\nThe experience worked. He went 2-1 in a Walker Cup victory at Cypress Point last year, was No. 6 in the PGA Tour University ranking and won in his fourth start as a pro on the Korn Ferry Tour.
\nHe looks forward to the toughest courses on the PGA Tour after having gone through a summer schedule of either making birdies or going home.
\n\u201cIt’s a birdie-fest, not that you don’t have to go low on tour,\u201d he said. \u201cIn Kansas City this year, I shot 7 under early Thursday. By the time I teed off Friday afternoon, I was on the cut line.\u201d
\nFinding a turning point in a young career is not difficult for Ian Gilligan. He was a freshman in high school, sitting in the living room with his parents when his father told him Ian had cancer.
\nGilligan was 15 when he was diagnosed with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, which is rare for teenagers but with a higher recovery rate.
\n\u201cYou hear about other people having it and it seems like such a foreign thing until it happens to you,\u201d Gilligan said. \u201cAnd then it was like, \u2018Whoa, this doesn\u2019t seem real.’ But fortunately, I took it day by day. It helped that a lot of information was withheld from me. My parents were told about survival rates and all the scary things that could happen. I was just going through my day and doing it.\u201d
\nSome seven months of chemotherapy worked wonders. Fourteen months after the diagnosis, Gilligan played his first Korn Ferry Tour event that he qualified for in a junior event.
\nHe spent two years at Long Beach State, transferred to Florida and left the Gators as No. 4 on the PGA Tour University ranking. His mantra through the ordeal was \u201cbe kind, be present and keep moving forward.\u201d Having a PGA Tour card takes on special meaning.
\n\nSandy Scott of Scotland locked up his first PGA Tour card with an astonishing stretch toward the end of the season \u2014 a tie for fourth, runner-up, two straight wins. He ran out of gas at the end and lost the No. 1 ranking to Steelman in the final week.
\n\u201cI think I was running on fumes there at the end,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI did not anticipate how much winning would take out of you, mentally more than physically.\u201d
\nHis offseason starts with a honeymoon in three weeks. He met Amy Taylor of England at Texas Tech and they married last December. Both keep busy because both play golf. Taylor is on the Ladies European Tour and won the Ladies Italian Open in 2024. Talking shop at home is more than empathy.
\n\u201cIt’s funny how in times of struggle, we dream about 9-to-5 jobs,\u201d Scott said with a laugh.
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CARY, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Vijay Singh became the second-oldest player to win on the PGA Tour Champions on Sunday when the 63-year-old Fijian closed with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot victory in the SAS Championship.
\nSingh made four birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn to get in front of a crowded leaderboard and then left the mistakes to everyone else while closing with six straight pars to win by two over Ernie Els.
\nBernhard Langer is the only other player older than Singh to win on the 50-and-older circuit. Langer won at age 67, and the German has five other Champions Tour titles at 64 or older.
\n\u201cThis was a big one,\u201d Singh said after tapping in for one final par. \u201cIt’s been a tough year, all year, and then I didn’t know how I was going to play this morning. My back doesn’t do very well in cold. I didn’t hit my irons as good as I wanted to, but I got the job done.\u201d
\nA 34-time winner on the PGA Tour, it was only his sixth PGA Tour Champions title and first in just over three years. Singh did not have a top 10 finish all year until winning Sunday.
\nEls closed with a 69 and was runner-up. The last challenge came from Tim O’Neal, one shot behind until he tried to hit out of a fairway bunker on the par-5 17th hole. The ball hit the top of the lip and tumbled into a creek, leading to a double bogey-bogey finish for O’Neal.
\nMatthew Goggin was the only player to move into the top 72 who qualify for the Charles Schwab Cup postseason that starts next week in St. Louis.
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When the wind is against you, a ballooning iron is your worst enemy. Mark Blackburn teaches the ball-back, saw-off finish technique to flight your irons lower and hold the line in any conditions.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-19T15:03:21+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-19T15:03:43+00:00", "author": { "name": "Mark Blackburn" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Keep-Your-Iron-Shots-Low-in-Wind.jpg", "category": { "name": "Instruction", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/instruction" }, "time_ago": "1 week", "excerpt": "When the wind is against you, a ballooning iron is your worst enemy. Mark Blackburn teaches the ball-back, saw-off finish technique to flight your irons lower and hold the line in any conditions." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/trump-says-he-will-close-historic-dc-golf-course-for-15-months-of-renovations/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/trump-says-he-will-close-historic-dc-golf-course-for-15-months-of-renovations/", "title": "Trump Says He Will Close Historic DC Golf Course For 15 Months Of Renovations", "content_html": "\n
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite an ongoing court challenge to his long-sought renovation.
\nTrump posted on social media about his intent to shutter the East Potomac Golf Course, not far from the White House, starting Nov. 15 to make it \u201cone of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World.\u201d
\nA judge last week, however, ordered a halt to his redevelopment plans until at least Oct. 26 after scolding the government for starting a large-scale tree removal at the course over a holiday weekend while providing little notice to the court or the plaintiffs trying to stop the makeover.
\nTrump did not acknowledge the legal fight in his post, which included an artist’s rendering for the course redesign.
\n\u201cWhen completed, it will be open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments such as the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup,\u201d Trump wrote.
\nDemocracy Forward, which is representing the plaintiffs challenging his renovation plans, responded by saying that the course is part of a national park and recreation facility that is meant for everyone to enjoy.
\n\u201cOur litigation is intended to protect this community jewel for the people and communities it serves and we will continue to work with our plaintiffs to defend it from unlawful and harmful intrusion,\u201d Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of the group, said in a statement Sunday.
\nTrump, a golf aficionado who plays often, had already announced plans to makeover the links as part of his broader push to renovate and refurbish places around Washington, including the White House and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Many of his projects, including plans for a huge ballroom at the White House, the installation of his own name on the Kennedy Center and construction of a massive arch, have been challenged in courts.
\nThe 106-year-old park and course has been the subject of many emergency hearings as the president has sought to renovate it. While it has been open to Washingtonians of all income levels, opponents of Trump’s plans to turn it into a high-end course have argued it will alter the character of the space and make it less affordable to people.
\nTrump in his post echoed arguments he has made to justify his plans to remake the Kennedy Center, arguing it is in such dangerous condition that it needs to close.
\n\u201cThe current Course is old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect. It is in very poor condition, with falling, dangerous, and disease infested trees and, importantly, a collapsing and hazardous seawall,\u201d Trump wrote.
\nDebris from the demolition of the White House East Wing to make way for his ballroom project has also been dumped on the grounds. The National Park Service has said the debris tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals.
\nTrump also sought to justify the National Park Service’s removal of hundreds of trees that the judge paused, writing in his announcement that when the gold course was originally built, \u201cit was famous for no trees, with views of Washington, D.C., for all to see, but now, it is completely overgrown, dysfunctional, and unsafe.\u201d
\nTrump\u2019s post outlining a clear plan for construction complicates a federal court hearing scheduled for Monday in a lawsuit filed by the DC Preservation League and two golfers opposing the construction.
\n\nU.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has ordered key members of the Republican administration to testify on the recent tree-cutting and whether those actions are tied to the president\u2019s plans for the historical public links.
\nThe administration on Friday asked for Reyes to be replaced on the case, questioning her impartiality and citing what it called \u201cegregious\u201d behavior from the bench in response to an emergency hearing Oct. 12. Her frustration boiled over in a three-hour hearing when she lambasted the government\u2019s attorney for the lack of notification she and the plaintiffs received before the trees were chopped down.
\nAt the upcoming hearing, the judge is expected to address the request that she step aside. Meanwhile, over the weekend the plaintiffs asked that she grant them a more long-standing preliminary injunction in the case and/or a stay.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-18T18:41:35+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:42:40+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/TreesEastPotomic26_.jpg", "category": { "name": "Lifestyle", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/lifestyle" }, "time_ago": "1 week", "excerpt": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite an ongoing court challenge to ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chacarra-wins-in-india-to-leapfrog-reed-to-no-1-in-race-to-dubai-as-mcilroy-struggles/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chacarra-wins-in-india-to-leapfrog-reed-to-no-1-in-race-to-dubai-as-mcilroy-struggles/", "title": "Chacarra Wins In India To Leapfrog Reed To No. 1 In Race To Dubai As McIlroy Struggles", "content_html": "\n
NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra won the DP World India Championship by two strokes on Sunday to maintain a late-season surge that has lifted the Spanish golfer atop the Race to Dubai standings on the European tour.
\nAfter a third place at the French Open and then a second place at last week’s Spanish Open, Chacarra got his third win of the 2026 season by completing a 9-under 63 early Sunday and then shooting 70 to finish on 21-under par for the week at Delhi Golf Club.
\nChacarra jumped ahead of Patrick Reed into first place in the season-long Race to Dubai that will culminate next month and crown the European tour’s top player of the year. Chacarra is in better form than both the American and Rory McIlroy, the other realistic contender for the title.
\nReed (69) was tied for 23rd on 8-under par and McIlroy shot 74 to be four shots further back, in a tie for 42nd.
\n\u201cTwo of the best players in the world are coming for me now,\u201d Chacarra said, \u201cand I know they are not going to make it easy.\u201d
\nIt was another big victory in these parts for Chacarra, who won the Hero Indian Open \u2014 where he was playing on an invitation \u2014 in May 2025 for his first European tour title, earning his full status.
\nHe had previously played on the LIV Golf circuit, which he joined upon turning pro in 2022 after being No. 2 in the amateur rankings while at Oklahoma State.
\nThis year, Chacarra won twice in June \u2014 at the KLM Open and the Italian Open.
\n\u201cI know what I’m capable of,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cI was one of best amateurs in the world and I wanted to be one of the best professional players in the world.\u201d
\nThe 26-year-old from Madrid was greeted at the back of the 18th green by European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, who said during their embrace: “Well done, another win. Top of the list. Keep doing it.\u201d
\nAnd Chacarra now looks to be a shoo-in for Europe’s team for the matches at Adare Manor in Ireland next year.
\n\u201cI’ve told Luke I want to be on that team by not just a pick \u2014 I wanted to be one of the six (automatic) spots,\u201d Chacarra said.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s one of the goals and I\u2019m working really hard for it. We\u2019re still a year away but I know what I\u2019m capable of. I know I\u2019m a good player, I have a lot of charisma and I want to keep getting better and keep winning.\u201d
\nDaniel Hillier of New Zealand was the only player to finish within five strokes of Chacarra after shooting 64 and 67 over the weekend.
\nAdrian Meronk (68) and Angel Hidalgo (69) were tied for third on 15 under after a long Sunday that started with most of the players near the top of the leaderboard having to finish their third rounds. The tournament was impacted by weather delays.
\n\n\u201cThe last round was tough \u2014 it was really tiring waking up three days in a row at 4 a.m.,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cMy body wasn\u2019t there, I didn\u2019t feel good. It\u2019s hard to go in on a big lead \u2014 you don\u2019t want to push but there are guys making birdies.\u201d
\nMcIlroy, the big draw in New Delhi this week, could only shoot 2 over for his final 36 holes at the end of a week when he didn’t use his driver.
\nWell adrift in third place in the Race to Dubai, McIlroy will skip the Genesis Championship in South Korea next week \u2014 Chacarra will be playing there \u2014 but will be in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for the final two events of the season, where big points are on offer.
\n\u201cDidn\u2019t feel I was at my sharpest,” said McIlroy, who is seeking a record-tying eighth Race to Dubai title, \u201cso looking forward to getting home and practicing and feeling like I turn up at those last two events ready to play and ready to go.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-18T17:55:29+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-26T17:25:19+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/EugenioChacarraBMW26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "1 week", "excerpt": "NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra won the DP World India Championship by two strokes on Sunday to maintain a late-season surge that has lifted the Spanish golfer atop the Race to Dubai standings on the ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chinas-ruoning-yin-overtakes-choi-to-win-the-lpgas-shanghai-tournament/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chinas-ruoning-yin-overtakes-choi-to-win-the-lpgas-shanghai-tournament/", "title": "China\u2019s Ruoning Yin Overtakes Choi To Win The LPGA\u2019s Shanghai Tournament", "content_html": "\n
SHANGHAI (AP) \u2014 Ruoning Yin made a four-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to break out of a back-nine tie with third-round leader Hye-Jin Choi and win the LPGA Shanghai tournament by one stroke on Sunday.
\nChoi and Yin tied for the lead after 10 holes and remained level through the 15th hole at Sheshan Golf Club. Yin missed a 10-foot birdie putt on 15 but made no mistake a hole later to move to 10-under, a stroke ahead of Choi with two holes to go.
\nIt was the seventh LPGA tournament win for China’s Yin, who won the Shanghai event in 2024 and a major at the Women’s PGA Championship in 2023.
\nYin finished with a 72-hole total of 11-under 277. while Choi had a 71 Sunday. Amy Yang finished in third after a 68, three strokes behind Yin.
\nChoi was looking for her first win on the LPGA Tour since joining in 2022 and after more than 100 starts. She led by three strokes after the first round,two after the second and one after 54 holes.
\nDefending champion Jeeno Thitikul, who won in a five-hole playoff over Minami Katsu here in 2025, shot 69 Sunday and was at 3-under. Thitikul won the LOTTE Championship in Hawaii earlier this month for her fourth LPGA victory of the season and 11th overall.
\nThe late-season Asian Swing on the LPGA Tour continues in South Korea, where the BMW Ladies Championship will be played at Pine Beach Golf Links in Haenam-gun beginning Thursday. Later tournaments are scheduled in Malaysia and Japan.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-18T17:50:18+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:42:58+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RuoningYinFM26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "1 week", "excerpt": "SHANGHAI (AP) \u2014 Ruoning Yin made a four-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to break out of a back-nine tie with third-round leader Hye-Jin Choi and win the LPGA Shanghai tournament by one stroke on ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/jon-rahm-will-be-free-to-leave-liv-and-pursue-other-opportunities-under-separation-agreement/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/jon-rahm-will-be-free-to-leave-liv-and-pursue-other-opportunities-under-separation-agreement/", "title": "Jon Rahm Will Be Free To Leave LIV And Pursue Other Opportunities Under Separation Agreement", "content_html": "\n
Jon Rahm will be able to leave LIV Golf and pursue other opportunities under a separation agreement filed in a New Jersey bankruptcy court.
\nA week after Rahm’s attorney told the court his client would not play on the beleaguered tour in 2027, the agreement was filed Wednesday and is scheduled for a judge’s approval Nov. 5.
\nThe agreement says Rahm owes no further service or performance obligations under any contract, is not bound by league regulations or team rules and policies and may join or contract with any tour, league, or sponsor without notice to or consent from LIV. The Spaniard also was granted his name, image and likeness rights under the agreement.
\nRahm is scheduled to play his first event following his LIV departure Nov. 5-8 at the Abu Dhabi Championship in the United Arab Emirates.
\nWhen LIV filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, court files showed Rahm was owed $7.5 million. Rahm had said in May he had several years left on his contract. His signing bonus, never confirmed, was reported to be in the $300 million range. The separation agreement did not mention monetary compensation.
\nRahm, a Masters and U.S. Open champion and the last player to be No. 1 in the world before Scottie Scheffler, was among the biggest and most stunning acquisitions by LIV Golf at the end of 2023 when he was the reigning Masters champion.
\nThe PGA Tour has said it would not hold conversations with any LIV player still legally under contract. PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp brought back five-time major champion Brooks Koepka with heavy financial stipulations at the start of this year, after Koepka negotiated an end to his LIV contract. Rolapp offered the deal to three other major champions, including Rahm, giving them a two-week deadline to decide. None took the offer.
\nTwo months later, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia said it would no longer bankroll the rival league after the 2026 season.
\nRahm was the individual points champion each of the last three years, when the prize money was $20 million for individual competition and bonuses were awarded for the points race. His total earnings from LIV over the last three years topped $100 million.
\nThe PGA Tour typically bans players for one year after their last LIV event, though it made an exception for Koepka. Bryson DeChambeau, among those who filed an antitrust lawsuit against the tour when LIV began, has not indicated any desire to return.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-15T23:23:45+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-27T09:03:52+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/JonRahmLIVBedminster26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "Jon Rahm will be able to leave LIV Golf and pursue other opportunities under a separation agreement filed in a New Jersey bankruptcy court. A week after Rahm’s attorney told the court his client would not ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/norgaard-leads-and-mcilroy-two-under-as-lightning-hits-opening-day-of-dp-world-india-championship/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/norgaard-leads-and-mcilroy-two-under-as-lightning-hits-opening-day-of-dp-world-india-championship/", "title": "N\u00f8rgaard Leads And McIlroy Two-Under As Lightning Hits Opening Day Of DP World India Championship", "content_html": "\n
NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra boosted his Race to Dubai prospects with a five-under-par effort and Rory McIlroy was three shots behind him at the DP World India Championship on Thursday as a five-hour delay for lightning meant the first round could not be completed.
\nNiklas N\u00f8rgaard, who bagged an eagle at the first hole, held the clubhouse lead on six-under, though only about half of the field had completed the round and 12 players hadn’t even started.
\nChacarra was among three players tied for second on five-under, along with Thomas Detry and Tom McKibbin.
\nAdrian Meronk had a notable, although brief, day with four birdies in five holes. The Polish player is one of six players tied on four-under.
\nPatrick Reed, who was two-over through four holes, leads the Race to Dubai rankings with Chacarra second and McIlroy third. Four events remain including the DP World India Championship.
\nJustin Rose posted a video of himself chipping balls onto the bed in his hotel room during a long delay which sets the tournament up for a busy day Friday to catch up on scheduled play. He later returned to complete his round on even-par.
\nSubash Tamang became the first player from the Himalayan nation of Nepal to compete on the DP World Tour, making his country the 120th nation represented in tour history. He finished his round eight-over.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-15T23:20:33+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-15T23:20:33+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RoryWentworth26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra boosted his Race to Dubai prospects with a five-under-par effort and Rory McIlroy was three shots behind him at the DP World India Championship on Thursday as a five-hour delay ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/choi-takes-1st-round-lead-at-the-shanghai-lpga-event/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/choi-takes-1st-round-lead-at-the-shanghai-lpga-event/", "title": "Choi Takes 1st-Round Lead At The Shanghai LPGA Event", "content_html": "\n
SHANGHAI (AP) \u2014 Hye-Jin Choi, seeking her first win on the LPGA Tour to add to her 12 victories in her native South Korea, shot an 8-under 64 Thursday to take a three-stroke lead after the first round of the Shanghai event.
\nChoi had four consecutive birdies on her final nine. Carlota Ciganda was in second place after a 67.
\nDefending champion Jeeno Thitikul, who won in a five-hole playoff over Minami Katsu here in 2025, shot 69 and was in a tie for seventh.
\nThitikul won the LOTTE Championship in Hawaii earlier this month for her fourth LPGA victory of the season and 11th overall.
\nIt is the sixth Buick LPGA Shanghai and the first at Sheshan Golf Club, which hosted the HSBC Champions tournament 11 times when it was a World Golf Championship event.
\nShanghai is the first of four tournaments on the late-season Asian Swing on the LPGA Tour, with other events in South Korea, Malaysia and Japan over the next three weeks.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-15T23:17:27+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-15T23:17:27+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Hye-JinChoiLPGA26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "SHANGHAI (AP) \u2014 Hye-Jin Choi, seeking her first win on the LPGA Tour to add to her 12 victories in her native South Korea, shot an 8-under 64 Thursday to take a three-stroke lead after the ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/miami-freshman-golfer-kai-trump-president-trumps-granddaughter-says-she-had-wrist-surgery/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/miami-freshman-golfer-kai-trump-president-trumps-granddaughter-says-she-had-wrist-surgery/", "title": "Miami Freshman Golfer Kai Trump, President Trump\u2019s Granddaughter, Says She Had Wrist Surgery", "content_html": "\n
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Kai Trump’s freshman season on Miami’s golf team has hit a snag.
\nThe granddaughter of President Donald Trump revealed on social media Wednesday that she recently had surgery to repair a left wrist injury. She did not reveal the severity and said the injury happened during her first tournament of the season.
\n\u201cWhile I had hoped to avoid surgery, after talks with my family, coaches, and athletic training staff I know I made the best decision for my long-term health and my future in the game I love,\u201d she wrote on social media. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not how I envisioned the next few months, but sometimes the journey takes an unexpected turn, and I\u2019m choosing to embrace this one with patience, and a whole lot of determination.\u201d
\nKai Trump is one of nine players on Miami’s roster. The Hurricanes, as a team, have two tournament wins and one runner-up finish in three events this season \u2014 currently holding the No. 7 spot in the national rankings.
\n\u201cFor now, it\u2019s all about healing, and trusting the process,\u201d she wrote in her post. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to be back with my team, doing what I love.”
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-15T23:14:25+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-15T23:14:25+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/KaiTrumpAnnika25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Lifestyle", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/lifestyle" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Kai Trump’s freshman season on Miami’s golf team has hit a snag. The granddaughter of President Donald Trump revealed on social media Wednesday that she recently had surgery to repair a ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/rory-mcilroy-arrives-in-india-with-a-new-fashion-style-and-renewed-hope-in-race-to-dubai-finale/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/rory-mcilroy-arrives-in-india-with-a-new-fashion-style-and-renewed-hope-in-race-to-dubai-finale/", "title": "Rory McIlroy Arrives In India With A New Fashion Style And Renewed Hope In Race To Dubai Finale", "content_html": "\n
NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Since completing the career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy has been constantly looking for new ways to inject some freshness and spark into his golf.
\nTurns out two of his longtime Ryder Cup teammates are providing some inspiration.
\nFor this week\u2019s DP World India Championship, McIlroy has brought along a new look \u2014 baggy golf pants.
\nAfter all, Tommy Fleetwood has been wearing them for a while.
\n\u201cI have watched and I have admired Tommy Fleetwood over the past year,\u201d McIlroy said, with a smile, on Wednesday’s DP World Locker Room show about his style that has generated plenty of chatter in New Delhi this week.
\n\u201cAnd in my everyday life, when I don\u2019t have to wear what is my golf uniform, I wear a lot of wide-legged pants. It is the in-thing, the fashionable thing.\u201d
\nBut how, McIlroy was asked, do they feel to play golf in?
\n\u201cThese hit a little low, maybe a little short \u2026 I understand they are maybe not as well-fitting as they need to be,\u201d he said, \u201cbut they are a work in progress.\u201d
\nAlso in the works for the Northern Irishman is a replica of what he calls his \u201cperformance trailer\u201d that he uses in the United States to aid his fitness and recovery during and between PGA Tour events, in an effort to gain an edge over rivals.
\nNow, he wants one for when he plays on the European tour, too.
\nMcIlroy said that idea came from tennis great Novak Djokovic but also fellow golfer Justin Rose.
\n\u201cI decided to pull the trigger on it when Justin won in Memphis last year,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cHe\u2019s 45 years old, playing great, contending in major championships, and at that time I was 36. I was like, I want to play really well for the next 10 years \u2014 I feel like I need to do something like this.\u201d
\nMcIlroy hopes to have that up and running by the summer of 2027 \u2014 by which time, who knows, he might have a record-tying eighth Order of Merit title that crowns the year\u2019s No. 1 player on the European tour.
\nThere are four events remaining in this season\u2019s Race to Dubai and McIlroy will play in three of them, starting in India.
\nHe is third in the standings, behind Patrick Reed and Eugenio Chacarra, but there’s little between the three players and plenty of points on offer in the season-ending events in India, South Korea, Abu Dhabi and finally Dubai.
\nWhile Reed has stumbled of late thanks to an injury-prompted withdrawal at the BMW PGA Championship and a missed cut at the Spanish Open, Chacarra is finishing fast by climbing above McIlroy thanks to a tie for third at the French Open and a tie for second in Spain.
\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s still anyone\u2019s game,\u201d Reed said Wednesday.
\nThe American said he was swinging freely after the shoulder injury he sustained at Wentworth. He didn’t play in France or at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and returned to shoot 73-71 in Spain, failing to make the weekend.
\n\u201cFor me, I was itching about getting back and getting out and playing,\u201d Reed said. \u201cDid I come back too early? Who knows. At the end of the day the good thing is I can\u2019t hurt it worse, and because of that, I have the confidence and the comfort level to come out here and execute and perform at the highest level.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-15T23:13:12+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-15T23:13:12+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RoryUSOpen26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Since completing the career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy has been constantly looking for new ways to inject some freshness and spark into his golf. Turns out two of his longtime Ryder Cup ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-halt-work-on-historic-dc-golf-course-until-oct-26/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-halt-work-on-historic-dc-golf-course-until-oct-26/", "title": "Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Halt Work On Historic DC Golf Course Until Oct. 26", "content_html": "\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course until Oct. 26, putting a further pause on work at the historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to remake the city.
\nReyes issued the order one day after a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.
\nAt the Monday hearing, Reyes ordered a 24-hour pause that could be extended to 14 days if necessary. It was limited to one day while the government tried to find a key Trump administration official to discuss why a massive tree-cutting at the park needed to occur over the holiday weekend, with little notification to plaintiffs in a lawsuit trying to halt renovation plans or the judge.
\nThe judge also ordered during that period the government \u201cmust provide the court and plaintiffs three business days\u2019 written advance notice prior to making any irreparable modification to any permanent form or feature of the East Potomac Golf Course.\u201d
\nThe DC Preservation League and two local golfers are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
\nThe co-counsel in the case, Democracy Forward, thanked Reyes for stepping in and halting what the group called the \u201cmad rush\u201d to turn the public recreation space course into a high-end golf course. \u201cWe are pleased that the court intervened and will prevent additional work while we seek more lasting relief,\u201d the group said in a statement.
\nThe Monday hearing and Tuesday order were prompted by the National Park Service ordering the cutting of hundreds of trees at the golf course after filing the court notification only minutes before the close of business on Oct. 9 on a holiday weekend, giving the plaintiffs little time to respond. At least 400 trees were cutdown over the weekend with plans for several hundred more.
\nThe historic park, especially the golf course, caught the eye of Trump, who wants to turn it into a world-class golf venue. It\u2019s part of his grand vision for Washington, D.C., where he has multiple projects underway, including a $400 million White House ballroom and the soon-to-begin construction of his triumphal arch. He began talking about the city’s public courses in late 2025.
\n\n\u201cWhen completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events,\u201d Trump posted on social media in June.
\nThe course has been the subject of multiple emergency hearings, including one in May in which Reyes was out of the country, because of concerns from the plaintiffs that the administration would move ahead with work despite the pending lawsuit. In each instance Reyes declined issuing temporary stop orders out of trust for the government’s attorney in the case.
\n\u201cEvery single time I have given the government the benefit of the doubt and every single time I made absolutely clear that I want notice,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cWhat has happened has cost the government all credibility with me.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-13T20:53:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-13T20:53:12+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/TreesEastPotomic26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Lifestyle", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/lifestyle" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course until Oct. 26, putting a further pause on work at the historic D.C. course that ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/ben-kohles-bets-on-himself-by-going-to-japan-and-closes-in-on-a-pga-tour-card/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/ben-kohles-bets-on-himself-by-going-to-japan-and-closes-in-on-a-pga-tour-card/", "title": "Ben Kohles Bets On Himself By Going To Japan And Closes In On A PGA Tour Card", "content_html": "\n
PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ben Kohles had one objective, and that was to lock up a PGA Tour card for 2027. He had two options and chose to follow his hunch.
\nKohles, who won the BMW Charity Pro-Am the first week in June, was No. 19 on the Korn Ferry Tour points list heading into the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, where the top 20 earn PGA Tour cards for next year.
\nSo he got on a plane to Japan.
\n\u201cThere was no real way of knowing what it was going to take points-wise,\u201d Kohles said before going to the airport for the long flight home. \u201cI was just betting on myself.\u201d
\nIt appears to have paid off. Kohles closed with a 3-under 68 in the Baycurrent Classic and tied for 17th, and those 48 points moved him to No. 80 in the FedEx Cup. He’s not a mathematical lock to finish in the top 100, but with only five events left in the FedEx Fall \u2014 he’s going to play four of them \u2014 he should be all set.
\nKohles was 17th on the Korn Ferry Tour points when he chose not to play the last three events, instead going to the PGA Tour stop in Asheville, North Carolina, (tie for 15th) and Utah (tie for 13th), going from 96th to 84th in the FedEx Cup.
\nIt was quite the juggling act.
\n\u201cI looked it at like, I could play the last three Korn Ferry events and miss the first three in the fall and lock up my card. At the same time, I’ve been doing this long enough,” he said, pausing to chuckle. \u201cThe money is one thing \u2014 it’s a little more on the PGA Tour \u2014 but knowing how I was playing, I thought I could move up in the fall standings.\u201d
\nKohles was coming off a poor year and had only conditional status. He started with nine Korn Ferry Tour events in his first 11 starts.
\nHe got in the John Deere Classic and had a chance to win until he hit his approach into the water on the 18th, missed a long par putt to force a playoff and then went to tap in his meaningless bogey when that missed, too. That cost him 100 points and $318,200.
\n\u201cI take the positives from that,\u201d he said. \u201cEver since then, my game has been in the best spot it’s ever been. Everything is where I want it to be.\u201d
\nVaughn Taylor won his first PGA Tour Champions title, and to get a sense if winning still matters at age 50 or older was to see him start to choke up after his playoff victory over Alex Cejka in the Constellation Furyk & Friends.
\nIt had been 10 years \u2014 3,892 days to be exact \u2014 since Taylor beat Phil Mickelson in the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. More worrisome was hip surgery from which Taylor never fully recovered. His last tournament was the RSM Classic to end 2022.
\nAnd then he turned 50 in March.
\n\u201cI wanted to play some Korn Ferry before I came out here but didn’t think I could physically do it,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cI had to understand what was actually going on with my hip. This year I\u2019ve had a lot of help in understanding what was going on, so just that in itself kind of made me believe I can physically do this. Just need to work on my mental game.\u201d
\nIt took nine starts before he cracked the top 10, and Taylor began contemplating career options.
\n\u201cI wanted to give back to the game and thought teaching might be something that would do that,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cBeen thinking about how could I get certified as a teacher. This changes that.”
\nTaylor made five straight birdies to start the back nine at Hammock Beach, felt the nerves over a three-putt bogey on the 17th hole and won on the second playoff hole.
\n\u201cThis is huge for me,\u201d Taylor said.
\nJackson Koivun always had the belief, along with the No. 1 ranking in PGA Tour University and among amateurs worldwide. But it’s been a lot to take in the last four months.
\nNot only did he win in his third start at the 3M Open, qualify for the PGA Tour postseason and get picked for the Presidents Cup at age 21 ( he went 2-0-1 in a U.S. victory ), Koivun joins Brooks Koepka on the new Motor City Golf Club team for the indoor TGL.
\nAnd now he’s been selected to take part in the Skins Games on Black Friday, along with Koepka, Justin Thomas and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark.
\nKoivun went to the SoFi Center for a photo shoot with Golf Digest and called it \u201ctruly a masterpiece of technology.\u201d
\nStill to come is meeting Koepka, who doesn’t live too far away from the Auburn alum’s new home in the West Palm Beach area of Florida. But they’ll see each other at the Skins Game.
\nThat will be Nov. 27 at Atlantic Fields Club in Hobe Sound, Florida, at 9 a.m. on Prime Video (no subscription need), part of a long day on Prime that includes an NFL game and an NBA doubleheader.
\nIn the meantime, Koivun will keep busy. He plans to play three times in the FedEx Cup Fall, along with the mixed-team Grant Thornton Invitational two weeks after the Skins Game.
\nLuke Donald is playing his sixth European tour event this week in India, giving Europe’s captain a close look at potential Ryder Cup players for Ireland next year.
\nJim Furyk isn’t playing at all, but he feels closer than ever to his potential American players.
\nFuryk had a hip replacement and now has lower back problems that have kept him from playing since the PGA Tour Champions opener. But he is staying busy as ever with his role as a booth analyst for the Golf Channel. His workload increases next year, and that’s just fine with Furyk.
\n\u201cI’ll be a much better Ryder Cup captain being out on tour, going to dinner with these guys, seeing them in practice rounds,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it’ll make me a better analyst on TV, knowing the players that much better.\u201d
\nMiyu Yamashita\u2019s victory in the Aramco Korea Championship last week gave her titles on three tours this year \u2014 LPGA Tour, Japan LPGA and Ladies European Tour. … Salem Country Club is getting three USGA championships over the next 15 years \u2014 the 2032 U.S. Mid-Amateur, the 2036 U.S. Senior Women’s Open and the 2041 U.S. Senior Open, where Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed and J.J. Spaun will all be eligible. … Jon Rahm will play the Abu Dhabi Championship for the first time, the penultimate event on the European tour. … Hockey great Mario Lemieux’s son, Austin, shot his dad’s jersey number (66) to qualify for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
\n\nMichael Brennan’s victory in Japan made him the third player in the last 30 years to have three PGA Tour victories in fewer than 35 starts. The others were Collin Morikawa and Tiger Woods.
\n\u201cI’m too inconsistent to be bad all the time, so you’re bound to have something good happen.\u201d \u2014 Paul Goydos.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-13T20:49:17+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-13T20:49:17+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/BenKohles3M26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Ben Kohles had one objective, and that was to lock up a PGA Tour card for 2027. He had two options and chose to follow his hunch. Kohles, who won the ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/liv-golf-players-face-another-deadline-with-their-future-in-golf-at-stake/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/liv-golf-players-face-another-deadline-with-their-future-in-golf-at-stake/", "title": "LIV Golf Players Face Another Deadline With Their Future In Golf At Stake", "content_html": "\nFor the second time in nine months, players who took the Saudi riches of LIV Golf are facing a tight deadline on their future. The first was a lot easier to ignore.
\nBrooks Koepka in January became the first LIV player to return to the PGA Tour under financial penalties that included no access to equity grants for five years. CEO Brian Rolapp then offered the same deal to Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith.
\nThey had three weeks to decide and none took it. Why should they? The United States was not at war with Iran. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was still pumping cash \u2014 more than $5 billion and counting \u2014 into the LIV Golf League. They were rich and getting richer.
\nThe deadline set by the European tour this week is far more daunting.
\nAs LIV is trying to emerge from bankruptcy without Saudi funding, European tour CEO Guy Kinnings delivered a \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d ultimatum to anyone seeking a home on his circuit \u2014 take up membership, but only if they leave the new version of LIV Golf.
\n\u201cPlayers need to make a choice,\u201d Kinnings said. “We have rules and regulations which are there to protect our tour and which our members must all abide by. Players who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our tour.\u201d
\nThey have three weeks to decide.
\nEuropean tour membership is the best alternative because the PGA Tour bans players for one year dating to their last LIV event. Those who want European membership have to disclose where they plan to play in 2027, and if that includes LIV 2.0, there’s no need to apply.
\nFor European-born players \u2014 Tyrrell Hatton of England, Thomas Detry of Belgium and Spaniards David Puig and Josele Ballester come to mind \u2014 no membership means no chance at playing in the Ryder Cup.
\nJon Rahm already has made clear he is leaving LIV after reviewing the proposed terms of LIV 2.0. The prize funds are no longer $20 million. The schedule is 10 tournaments, leaving plenty of weeks to play elsewhere, except that the PGA Tour and now the European tour are not options. Maybe they still have their MENA Tour cards.
\nScott O’Neil, the CEO at LIV Golf, has been preaching \u201ccomplete, not compete,\u201d as a way of saying tours around the world should all work together. This is a different message his predecessor, Greg Norman, had in 2022 when LIV Golf launched by spending more than $1 billion to lure away stars who couldn’t ignore the money.
\n\u201cThis is an opportunity to start a movement that will change the course of history by bringing new and open competition to the sport we all love,” Norman said.
\nSaudi-backed LIV was a threat that thrived on disruption. Bankruptcy LIV wants cooperation.
\nBC Partners Credit has pledged $300 million for LIV 2.0 to move forward. The amended restructuring support agreement has moved the deadline to Oct. 25 to secure a \u201ccritical mass of players sufficient to operate a bona fide professional golf league.\u201d
\nThat’s up to BC Partners to decide how many players \u2014 and who they are \u2014 can satisfy the requirement. And it can extend the deadline so it can move on with restructuring.
\nBut it’s a bleak future, certainly not as appealing as it was when LIV was burning through Saudi cash to tempt players to leave. Now the carrot is equity ownership in a league coming out of bankruptcy amid concerns everyone might jump ship.
\nAnd then where do they swim? The European tour made its position clear. Rolapp, meanwhile, said in January there was no guarantee the program that brought Koepka back would be available again. He is guided by what’s best for the PGA Tour. He also answers to a membership that stayed put when so many others were chasing generational wealth.
\n\u201cThere are 225 guys with tour cards,\u201d Xander Schauffele said last week in Japan. \u201cAnd if you sat down and interviewed all of them, you\u2019re going to get probably three or four boxes of how guys feel. Some guys don\u2019t care, some guys are really ticked off, some guys want them to have a huge fine, some guys would let them back tomorrow.\u201d
\nRolapp said in August the tour is built on players earning their place, it’s a membership organization that has rules and rules only matter if they’re enforced.
\nThe PGA Tour, trying to sort out final details of the new competition model for 2028 (where and when to play and who’s going to pay for it), also has to consider a path back for the stars it lost who undoubtedly would make the tour better.
\n\nO’Neil and Ted Goldthorpe, partner and head of BC Partners Credit, remain bullish on their path out of bankruptcy and into a future that appears as clear as haar on the East Lothian coast of Scotland.
\nGoldthorpe was at the Sportico Invest London conference last week when he spoke to the financial sustainability of LIV 2.0.
\n\u201cA lot of the money that was spent created the ecosystem and infrastructure that exists today,\u201d he said. \u201cWe think we can run this in a financially sustainable way because much of that spending went to getting the players, and the players are here.\u201d
\nBut are they staying? The clock is ticking.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-13T20:46:45+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-13T20:46:45+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JoaquinNiemannLIVBedminster26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "For the second time in nine months, players who took the Saudi riches of LIV Golf are facing a tight deadline on their future. The first was a lot easier to ignore. Brooks Koepka in January ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/european-tour-says-anyone-signing-with-liv-golf-need-not-apply-to-play-both-circuits/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/european-tour-says-anyone-signing-with-liv-golf-need-not-apply-to-play-both-circuits/", "title": "European Tour Says Anyone Signing With LIV Golf Need Not Apply To Play Both Circuits", "content_html": "\n
The European tour has delivered an ultimatum to players contemplating the new version of LIV Golf, saying anyone who joins will not be allowed to be European tour members.
\n\u201cPlayers need to make a choice,\u201d Guy Kinnings, CEO of the European tour, said in a statement Monday first reported by the BBC.
\nThe DP World Tour, as it is commercially known, previously let LIV players to keep their European membership as long as they paid fines for playing LIV events that conflicted with the tour.
\nIt extended an olive branch earlier this year to nine players, allowing them to play LIV events without sanctions provided they settled all previous fines and agreed to add European tour events to their 2026 schedules.
\nKinnings delivered a far stronger message \u2014 us or them \u2014 as LIV is trying to emerge from bankruptcy stemming from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund cutting off the financial support. LIV has spent more than $5 billion since its launch in 2022.
\nLIV has the backing of up to $300 million from BC Partners as it leans into a 10-tournament season with a focus on team competition and players owning equity in LIV 2.0. Players have until Oct. 25 to decide whether to stick with LIV, which could determine whether the beleaguered circuit can move forward out of bankruptcy.
\nThe European tour, however, is requiring anyone seeking to join to disclose where they intend to play in 2027. The tour said it would terminate membership if the disclosures prove false.
\n\u201cAs we have said for many years, we have rules and regulations which are there to protect our tour and which our members must all abide by,\u201d Kinnings said. “Players who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our tour.\u201d
\nPlayers must be European tour members to compete in the Ryder Cup next September, adding pressure to the likes of Tyrrell Hatton of England, Tom McKibbin of Northern Ireland, Adrian Meronk of Poland and Thomas Detry of Belgium.
\nAn attorney for Jon Rahm said last week in a bankruptcy hearing for LIV that the former No. 1 wanted to terminate his LIV contract. The question for Rahm, a two-time major champion, is how he works his way back to the PGA Tour.
\nSergio Garcia also asked to end his LIV contract, and David Puig of Spain has indicated he is ready to take on a European tour schedule.
\nThe European tour is negotiating a renewed alliance with the PGA Tour, which involves commercial opportunities and a path for the leading 10 players on the Race to Dubai to get PGA Tour cards.
\nPatrick Reed and Eugenio Chacarra, who both previously played for LIV Golf, are a lock to earn PGA Tour cards this year off the European tour points list. Bernd Wiesberger of Austria, another player who signed early with LIV, also has a chance at a tour card.
\n\nThe plan of LIV 2.0 is to have such a streamlined schedule to allow players to compete elsewhere. But the PGA Tour bans LIV players for at least one year dating to their last LIV appearance, and now the European tour is demanding them to pick a tour.
\nScott O’Neil, who took over as LIV CEO when Greg Norman left, has been preaching the phrase, \u201cComplete, not compete,\u201d as he sees the new version of his league \u2014 without Saudi funding to offer as much as nine-figure signing bonuses \u2014 to be complementary to other golf tours.
\n\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t live in a world where one group of golfers is uniquely restricted from playing elsewhere,\u201d O’Neil said in August when laying the groundwork for LIV Golf 2.0. \u201cOur goal isn\u2019t to replace or restrict any tour. Our mission is to bring something distinctive to the ecosystem that elevates it and makes the whole game better.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-12T17:08:30+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T17:08:30+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/JonRahmLIVMexico26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "The European tour has delivered an ultimatum to players contemplating the new version of LIV Golf, saying anyone who joins will not be allowed to be European tour members. \u201cPlayers need to make a choice,\u201d Guy ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/vaughn-taylor-wins-on-pga-tour-champions-for-first-win-in-more-than-10-years/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/vaughn-taylor-wins-on-pga-tour-champions-for-first-win-in-more-than-10-years/", "title": "Vaughn Taylor Wins On PGA Tour Champions For First Win In More Than 10 Years", "content_html": "\n
PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Vaughn Taylor closed with a 4-under 68 and made a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to defeat Alex Cejka in the Constellation Furyk & Friends, his first PGA Tour Champions title and his first victory anywhere in more than 10 years.
\nTaylor was losing ground at Hammock Beach until he began the back nine with five straight birdies and was tied for the lead with Michael Wright. But as nerves kicked in, Taylor three-putted the 17th and thought his chances were dwindling.
\nWright, in the group ahead, pulled his approach from a fairway bunker into the seaside vegetation down the left of the 18th, eventually making a double bogey. Cejka already had holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a 65 and was the first to post at 17-under 271.
\nCejka figured that might get him second place \u2014 two players were ahead of them and playing the final few holes \u2014 and he already had showered and changed clothes when it was time to rush off to the range to warm up again.
\nTaylor joined him with a two-putt par on the 18th. Taylor and Cejka both missed birdie chances on the 18th in the playoff, and the second time around the 50-year-old Taylor hit 7-iron to 10 feet, made the putt and clinched his fist.
\nThe last of his three PGA Tour titles came in 2016, a one-shot victory over Phil Mickelson in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
\nTaylor had limited status this year and, still struggling to recover from an ailing hip that limited him in his final few years on the PGA Tour, started to wonder how much longer he could play. The victory changes his outlook. Taylor now is exempt through the 2027 season.
\nWright shot 69 with the double bogey and finished alone in third. Angel Cabrera closed with a 67 and was among five players who finished another shot behind.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-11T20:35:33+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-27T11:07:42+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/VaughnTaylor22.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Vaughn Taylor closed with a 4-under 68 and made a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to defeat Alex Cejka in the Constellation Furyk & Friends, his first ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/grant-forrest-birdies-final-hole-to-win-spanish-open-and-earn-trip-to-the-masters/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/grant-forrest-birdies-final-hole-to-win-spanish-open-and-earn-trip-to-the-masters/", "title": "Grant Forrest Birdies Final Hole To Win Spanish Open And Earn Trip To The Masters", "content_html": "\n
MADRID (AP) \u2014 Grant Forrest got up-and-down for birdie on the reachable par-4 18th for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory in the Spanish Open on Sunday, earning the 33-year-old from Scotland his first trip to Augusta National for the Masters.
\nForrest was tied with late-charging Victor Perez of France going to the 322-yard closing hole. Both drove into rough just beyond the green, their golf balls separated by the length of their shoes. Perez chipped to 10 feet and missed. Forest’s chip ran out to just over 3 feet for the winning putt.
\nThe victory also gets Forrest into the British Open, which he has played twice previously. The closest he came to the Masters was in 2015 when he was runner-up in the British Amateur.
\n\u201cIt’s fairy-tale stuff,\u201d Forrest said. \u201cI’ve played two Opens. To be going to Augusta, I can’t get my head around it. I was close in the Amateur Championship 11 years ago. You can have a great career in this game and never get to Augusta.\u201d
\nThe Spanish Open was among the national opens the Masters identified to invite the winners.
\nForrest, who finished on 14-under 270, capped off a tense finish that featured five players with a chance in the final hour.
\nOne of those was Eugenio Chacarra, playing before a hometown gallery in Madrid. He charged from five shots behind with four birdies and an eagle on the front nine before his efforts stalled. Tied for the lead, he made bogey from a bunker on the par-3 17th and a birdie at the last for a 66 was not enough.
\nChacarra tied for second with Perez (70), moving the Spaniard ahead of Rory McIlroy to No. 2 in the Race to Dubai.
\nDenmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen (71) also was tied for the lead until his bogey on the 17th. He failed to birdie the 18th and finished fourth.
\n\nForrest won for the third time on the European tour, the other two coming in his native Scotland \u2014 the most recent a year ago in the Nexo Championship. But he came to Madrid having failed to make the cut in eight of his last nine tournaments.
\nHe shared the 54-hole lead with Perez, only to fall back with a pair of bogeys toward the end of the front nine. Forrest closed with three birdies over his last six holes.
\n\u201cI’m in shock, pure shock,\u201d Forrest said. \u201cIt’s been such a tough year. I’ve not played well at all. To walk away with a win is unbelievable.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-11T19:53:26+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-27T11:08:00+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GrantForest24.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "MADRID (AP) \u2014 Grant Forrest got up-and-down for birdie on the reachable par-4 18th for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory in the Spanish Open on Sunday, earning the 33-year-old from Scotland his first trip ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/michael-brennan-wins-the-baycurrent-classic-in-japan-for-his-2nd-pga-tour-victory-of-season/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/michael-brennan-wins-the-baycurrent-classic-in-japan-for-his-2nd-pga-tour-victory-of-season/", "title": "Michael Brennan Wins The Baycurrent Classic In Japan For His 2nd PGA Tour Victory Of Season", "content_html": "\n
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) \u2014 Michael Brennan won the Baycurrent Classic on Sunday for his second victory of the season and third on the PGA Tour, parring the final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-stroke margin over Jacob Bridgeman and Keith Mitchell.
\n\u201cUnbelievable. It was an unbelievable week,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cJapan was spectacular. The fans were amazing this week. It was so awesome to have my brother fly out here and be here for the weekend.\u201d
\nTied for the third-round lead with Bridgeman and Zach Bauchou in the FedEx Cup Fall event, Brennan rebounded from a bogey on the 10th with birdies on Nos. 11 and 12 before the winning par run at hilly Yokohama Country Club.
\n\u201cI was frustrated after 10, probably could have handled it a little bit better,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cDefinitely should have hit a better chip, but making a really nice roll on 11 and 12 was huge.\u201d
\nHis best par save came on the par-3 16th when he hit a long shot from a greenside bunker to a foot. He finished at 16-under 268.
\nBrennan has won the three titles in 33 starts. The 24-year-old former Wake Forest player took the Wyndham Championship in August and finished the season 46th in the FedExCup standings. He won the Bank of Utah Championship last year.
\n\u201cI just think you can get more comfortable in those situations,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cI was very nervous today, especially coming down the stretch. Jacob and I had a great battle. He played really great coming down and that was really fun. We played a lot of golf in college together.\u201d
\nBridgeman missed a chance to pull even on the par-4 17th when his 5-foot birdie putt slid by to the right. On the par-4 18th, he had a 55-foot birdie putt over a large ridge that he left 4 feet wide. He shot a 69.
\n\u201cI was in defensive mode a lot,\u201d Bridgeman said. \u201cI feel like I just kind of grinded my way to the end there. Was able to make some putts at important times that I needed. That one on 17’s going to sting a little bit.\u201d
\nMitchell was two strokes ahead after playing a five-hole stretch in 5 under with three birdies and an eagle. He then played the final 10 in 2 over for a 68.
\n\u201cThe back nine plays a lot harder than the front,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cGave myself some good looks on the final three holes and just, unfortunately, didn\u2019t convert them.\u201d
\n\nDefending champion Xander Schauffele went to the 18th a stroke back, then drove left in into trees and closed with a double bogey. He settled for a 67 to tie for fourth at 13 under.
\n\u201cI hit a lot of really good shots,\u201d Schauffele said. \u201cI definitely played good enough golf to win this tournament.\u201d
\nBrian Harman (67) also was 13 under with Stephan Jaeger (70), Ryan Gerard (68) and Jordan Smith (70).
\nJordan Spieth, making his first start of the FedEx Cup Fall, tied for 13th at 11 under after a 67. Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 winner, tied for 21st at 9 under after a 67.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-11T19:48:56+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:43:12+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/MichaelBrennanBMW26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) \u2014 Michael Brennan won the Baycurrent Classic on Sunday for his second victory of the season and third on the PGA Tour, parring the final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/park-service-could-remove-more-than-500-trees-at-historic-golf-course-trump-wants-to-redesign/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/lifestyle/park-service-could-remove-more-than-500-trees-at-historic-golf-course-trump-wants-to-redesign/", "title": "Park Service Could Remove More Than 500 Trees At Historic Golf Course Trump Wants To Redesign", "content_html": "\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The National Park Service has begun a new round of tree-cutting at a historic golf course near the National Mall as the Trump administration proceeds with a plan to renovate the East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course.
\nMore than 500 trees \u201cthat do not contribute to the historic landscape will be removed\u201d as part of the rehabilitation project, the National Park Service said in a court filing Friday. \u201cNo healthy trees that are contributing features of the historical golf course\u201d \u2014 including historic cherry trees \u2014 will be removed as part of the project, the park service said.
\nA total of 169 trees will be removed starting Saturday, with another 90 trees slated for removal later, the agency said.
\nThe tree removals come as President Donald Trump has moved to turn the course into a world-class golf venue \u2014 part of his grand vision for Washington, D.C., where he has torn down storied structures, remade or renamed others and deployed the National Guard for more than a year.
\nSome residents fear the planned changes to the golf course \u2014 where Trump has visited with a cabinet member, a well-known golf course architect and blueprints \u2014 risk altering the character of a place that has served Washingtonians of all income levels for more than a century. Turning the park into an upscale golf course will mean costlier fees and a likely loss of public space.
\n“The National Park Service is finally implementing a 7-year-old plan to address tree overgrowth at East Potomac Golf Course,” the Interior Department said in a statement Saturday. The department oversees the park service and other agencies that manage federal lands.
\nThe renovation work will include selective tree and vegetation work to restore the course, the Interior Department said, adding that the work is intended to \u201chelp restore the course\u2019s historic character and reopen views toward landmarks, including the Washington Monument, National War College, Potomac River and Washington Channel.”
\nThe park service \u201crecognizes the importance of trees to the park and its visitors. This carefully planned work is part of our required stewardship of the park,\u201d the statement said.
\nThe golf course will remain open to the public throughout the renovation effort, although individual holes may temporarily close while work is underway, the agency said.
\nThe 106-year-old public course has been embroiled in a lawsuit since February. Plaintiffs including the DC Preservation League say the Trump administration\u2019s reconstruction would violate the congressional act that created the park in 1897. The group sought an emergency stop-work order this spring because of concerns that work was expected to begin immediately on the course.
\nCharles Birnbaum, president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit that is suing the Trump administration over renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, said the tree removal at the golf course should be subject to review under the National Historic Preservation Act.
\n\n\u201cThe work is not routine maintenance, and therefore, for a designated property, they need to undertake Section 106,\u201d Birnbaum said Saturday, referring to the section of the preservation law that requires federal agencies to consider a project’s effects on historic and cultural properties.
\nTrump, an avid golfer, has posted about the course on social media: \u201cWhen completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events,\u201d he wrote in late June.
\nIt\u2019s unclear when the course could host any major tournaments, as locations are chosen several years ahead of the events.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-11T19:44:49+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-11T19:44:49+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/EastPotomacGolfLinks26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Lifestyle", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/lifestyle" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The National Park Service has begun a new round of tree-cutting at a historic golf course near the National Mall as the Trump administration proceeds with a plan to renovate the East Potomac ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/new-zealander-daniel-hillier-wins-bmw-with-hole-in-one-despite-mishit-at-spanish-open/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/new-zealander-daniel-hillier-wins-bmw-with-hole-in-one-despite-mishit-at-spanish-open/", "title": "New Zealander Daniel Hillier Wins BMW With Hole-In-One Despite Mishit At Spanish Open", "content_html": "\n
MADRID (AP) \u2014 Daniel Hillier wasn’t happy with how he hit his 8-iron on the 17th hole of the Spanish Open on Thursday. He liked the result, though: a hole-in-one that secured him an all-electric BMW.
\nHillier aced the 187-yard par-3 despite the mishit and won a BMW iX5 SUV valued at 140,338 euros (about $157,000), according to the European tour.
\nThe hole-in-one helped Hillier shoot a 4-under 67 that left him tied for fourth place after Thursday’s first round.
\n\u201cIt was pretty crazy,” the 28-year-old New Zealander said. \u201cTo be honest, I toed it quite a bit. Wasn\u2019t too happy with the strike. I was telling it to go the whole way, but it kind of hung in the air for a little bit longer than I thought. And then, yeah, heard some cheers.\u201d
\nHillier said he didn\u2019t immediately know he had made the ace as his ball pitched pin high and took one hop to the left before rolling in.
\n\u201cObviously, you can\u2019t see the bottom of the hole from the tee, so yeah, saw everyone jump up at the back of the grandstand there,\u201d he said. “A little bit of disbelief for a while, but it\u2019s nice to see it go in.\u201d
\nHillier, who won his national open in March just days after getting married, said he thinks it was his fifth career hole-in-one.
\n“(The year) just keeps getting better,” he said. “Hopefully I can continue that for another couple of months.\u201d
\nThe BMW was available only to the first player who made a hole-in-one on the hole this week.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t realize a car was on offer,\u201d Hillier said. \u201cI\u2019ve locked it up pretty early, but absolutely stoked and very grateful. It\u2019s going to be a long drive though (to New Zealand), I know that much.\u201d
\nGrant Forrest, Connor Syme and Eugenio Chacarra shared the lead at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid after opening rounds of 5-under 66. Sergio Garcia was among those one shot back.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-10-08T21:37:08+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-08T21:37:08+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DanielHillierdubai25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "3 weeks", "excerpt": "MADRID (AP) \u2014 Daniel Hillier wasn’t happy with how he hit his 8-iron on the 17th hole of the Spanish Open on Thursday. He liked the result, though: a hole-in-one that secured him an all-electric BMW. ..." } ] }