Rory McIlroy has voiced his support for the PGA Tour and the FedEx Cup format as the St Jude Championship gets underway. The playoff event in Memphis is one of three that will crown the FedEx Cup champion, with three-time winner McIlroy looking to add to his record tally.   The FedEx Cup is based…

CHASKA, Minn. — Jose Luis Ballester, a rising senior at Arizona State, became the first player from Spain to win the U.S. Amateur, fending off Iowa sophomore Noah Kent and finishing 2 up Sunday at Hazeltine in the 36-hole match on his 21st birthday.   Ballester, who was the only player in the top 10…

  Koepka, 34, shot a seven-under-par 63 in his final round to tie level with Rahm, who shot 65, on 19-under at the Old White course in West Virginia.   In the play-off on the 18th, Rahm’s tee shot left him in a bunker at the back edge and his second shot got him to…

Tom Kim stood on the 16th tee six under for the week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, but more importantly, 46th in the FedEx Cup standings.   Kim was far off winning this week’s event — that eventually went to Hideki Matsuyama — but with a reachable par-5 ahead of him, a chance to…

The way Joe sees it … the infamous slap made Chris “like the Rock of old,” as far as his stand-up material is concerned, and Adam says it made CR’s subsequent live Netflix special “Selective Outrage” — where he addressed Will directly — feel like the Super Bowl.   Adam says the whole Oscars slap…

The golfer won the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday, carding a 17-under par to defeat Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler.Matsuyama led by five strokes with seven holes to go, but quickly lost that lead over a four-hole stretch. He managed to regroup heading down the stretch, carding a pair of birdies on…

Hideki Matsuyama nearly blew a five-shot lead after a late stumble on Sunday afternoon at TPC Southwind.   But thanks to back-to-back birdies to end his day, Matsuyama is walking out of Memphis with a win.   Matsuyama held on late to claim a two-shot win over the field at the FedEx St. Jude Championship…

Rory McIlroy finished last-but-one in the first of the PGA Tour’s end-of-season play-offs on Sunday, damaging his hopes of “turning a pretty good year into a very good year”.   The World No 3 struggled in a tie for 68th in the 70-man field of the FedEx St Jude Championship with a final-round 74 leaving…

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. — Jon Rahm finished eagle-birdie-birdie for an 8-under 62 on Saturday, giving the Spaniard a two-shot lead over Brooks Koepka and three others in LIV Golf Greenbrier.   The Old White course at the West Virginia resort was as vulnerable as ever — only six players in the 54-man field…

Scottie Scheffler might be the current world number one but he knows a top talent when he sees one as well.   Few have got near Scheffler’s level this season and his storming 2024 has only really been surpassed by Xander Schauffele winning two of the four majors.The debate on who has done better out…