BLAINE, Minn. — Ten-year pro Kurt Kitayama needed all 65 shots Sunday to win the 3M Open in Blaine by a single shot, but it might have been one over all the others that won him his second PGA Tour title and enabled his mother to watch the TV again.

He chipped in from the thick greenside rough on the third hole to give his day a birdie-birdie-...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Michael La Sasso started his college golf career at his hometown school, North Carolina State. He played for the Wolfpack as a freshman and then decided to leave the familiar confines of Raleigh and transferred to Mississippi for the 2023-24 season.

And from what La Sasso had to say about the options available for a Rebels ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — More than four hours after Kurt Kitayama posted a record-tying 60, two-time PGA Tour winner Akshay Bhatia and Friday’s leader Thorbjørn Olesen together moved one shot ahead of him entering Sunday’s final round of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine.

Kitayama finished more than four hours ahead of Friday’s leader, ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Denmark’s Thorbjørn Olesen overtook the lead early Friday morning in the 3M Open’s second round and kept it all day long.

Olesen followed Thursday’s tournament-record-tying 62 with a Friday 66 that kept Californian Jake Knapp one shot away. Third-generation Texas pro Pierceson Coody and Thursday 62 shooter Sam Stevens ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — Amid a lousy season, Canadian Adam Svensson putted nearly perfectly Thursday, when his 11-under-par 60 set a 3M Open tournament record and gave him a two-shot lead after one round.

The 31-year-old had missed the cut in 11 of 21 tournaments he started this season and had won $272,128 before he arrived at the TPC Twin Cities in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — British Open bettors have cashed six long-shot winners with odds of 125-1 or higher since 2003.

Tom McKibbin is worth a shot at 150-1 to win the year’s final golf major this week at Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland, according to Westgate SuperBook oddsmaker Jeff Sherman and handicapper Wes Reynolds, co-host of VSiN�...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — His swing is as smooth as ever, the one that was good enough to get him on the golf team at Furman and chase a professional career after college. At age 55, Garrett Smyth can still pop it out there 280 yards off the tee when pressed, and 260 regularly.

He has, however, had to adopt a new swing thought, the last thing that goes...Read more

DETROIT — Say what you will about this city — and people have said plenty over the years — but we keep showing up.

That alone should be reason enough for the PGA Tour to keep doing the same.

But it’ll take more than that if they’re going to continue to make this work here in Detroit, where Sunday’s entertaining — and exhausting �...Read more

DETROIT — The kid's all right, that's for sure.

Aldrich Potgieter, all of 20 years old, made a putt of more than 17 feet for birdie on the fifth sudden-death playoff hole to win the Rocket Classic on another wild and crazy Sunday at Detroit Golf Club.

Potgieter beat Max Greyserman, 30, on the fifth extra hole in a playoff featuring one ...Read more

DETROIT — Making the cut on the PGA Tour means more to some than others.

It meant the world to Will Gordon, who at the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club this week was on the last start before his medical exemption was set to run out. He needed a made cut to keep some status on the PGA Tour this season.

Gordon finished his first two rounds ...Read more

Detroit ― Collin Morikawa's been right here before.

Making his second appearance at the Rocket Classic, the field's highest-ranked player, at No. 5 in the world, will once again enter Sunday's final round four shots off the lead.

The last time he did that, in 2023, he shot a final-round 68 and made a playoff, losing to Rickie Fowler. This ...Read more

DETROIT — OK, Detroit Golf Club is not hard. We get it. The players go low here.

But the annual outcry on social media about how the home of the PGA Tour's Rocket Classic is embarrassingly easy is, well, simply not supported by facts.

The Rocket Classic, since debuting in 2019, never has had the lowest winning score on the PGA Tour during ...Read more

DETROIT — After a sluggish first round, it looked like a wrap for Jake Knapp at the Rocket Classic.

But at Detroit Golf Club, when the scoring conditions have been pristine so far this week, anything's possible, and Knapp on Friday did what's never been done before. Knapp shot a course-record 61, 11-under par, to move into contention halfway ...Read more

DETROIT — The man they call "The Chef" got cooking early on Day 1 of the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club, tying the course record with a blistering 9-under 63.

Min Woo Lee's place in DGC lore didn't last more than a few hours, as, later Thursday afternoon, a pair of little-known golfers — 20-year-old Aldrich Potgieter and Kevin Roy — ...Read more

DETROIT — Collin Morikawa's got a 1,000-watt smile, but there's some bite in there, too.

Morikawa, the No. 5-ranked player in the world, has had a couple of public dustups with the media this season, including once when he was criticized for not talking to the press after finishing runner-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and then this ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn.— Keegan Bradley wanted to play for Team USA in the Ryder Cup. So when he got the call from the PGA of America and was offered captaincy last summer, after Tiger Woods turned it down, he was caught off guard.

The U.S. hasn’t had a playing captain at the Ryder Cup in more than 60 years.

“When I get the call I’m thinking, ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Tommy Fleetwood left the door open for just too long in the final round at the Travelers Championship on Sunday.

Walking down the 18th fairway, staring into tens of thousands of spectators who lined the perimeter ready to watch what would’ve been his first-ever PGA Tour win, the Englishman came up short of the green with ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Sooner or later, the sun begins to set, the crowd gathers, but falls silent and the storylines fade to irrelevance. And then all that remains are those few precious feet and inches of real estate between the ball and the 18th hole.

The Travelers Championship has long been known for moments like these, just after 6 p.m. ET ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – There were some thoughts, in the back of some minds, that Scottie Scheffler just might be able to pull off a miraculous comeback as the world No. 1 and reigning Travelers champion fought to make up for his disastrous Saturday – which happened to be his 29th birthday.

Scheffler was tied with Tommy Fleetwood for the 36-hole ...Read more