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Ballesteros again is a big inspiration for Europe in the Ryder Cup. Lowry already is in tears

Sep. 26, 2023 13:32 PM EDT

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — European captain Luke Donald has made sure his Ryder Cup team does not lack for inspiration. It even reduced Shane Lowry to tears. Team Europe posted a video of Donald giving a tour of the team room at Marco Simone, decked out in blue and gold with...

RYDER CUP '23: USA looks to end 30 years of losing on European soil

Sep. 21, 2023 14:25 PM EDT

The Americans never felt more confident. The Europeans rarely felt so annoyed. A two-year wait can feel even longer when it comes to the pride and passion only the Ryder Cup can deliver in golf. Both sides were eager for the next Ryder Cup outside Rome, for different reasons. ...

Picking Koepka from LIV Golf was easy for US Ryder Cup captain Johnson. Because everyone wanted him

Sep. 08, 2023 17:36 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — When U.S. captain Zach Johnson got his Ryder Cup team together for the first time for a training camp at the Marco Simone course outside Rome on Friday, there was no need for a pep talk about team unity with Brooks Koepka coming in from the renegade LIV Golf tour. ...

Column: So much money in golf makes it hard to ignore

Aug. 29, 2023 12:33 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods was the richest guy in golf and played like he didn't have two nickels to rub together. That's one of many traits that made him so incomparable. Just don't get the idea he wasn't in it for the money. Woods won the first of his 82 titles on...

Viktor Hovland wins FedEx Cup with the best 2 weeks of his career

Aug. 27, 2023 20:50 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Viktor Hovland knew he was playing the best golf of his life. Staked to a six-shot lead Sunday in the Tour Championship, he figured a steady diet of fairways and greens and plenty of pars would be the safest route to winning the FedEx Cup. Xander Schauffele made him...

Viktor Hovland shoots 66 for 6-shot lead at Tour Championship to close in on FedEx Cup title

Aug. 26, 2023 21:10 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Viktor Hovland can't remember playing this well with every aspect of his game, and he can't think of a better time for it to all come together. One more round of that and he'll have $18 million to show for it, along with his name on the FedEx Cup trophy. ...

Column: The Ryder Cup is more about popularity than performance with its six captain's picks

Aug. 22, 2023 11:13 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Zach Johnson has a week to measure personalities, potential pairings and how statistics mesh with Marco Simone. He will talk it over with five vice captains and the six Americans who already qualified for the Ryder Cup team in Rome. And then he will announce Aug. 29...

Schauffele earns final spot and bumps Koepka from an automatic Ryder Cup berth

Aug. 20, 2023 20:26 PM EDT

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — PGA champion Brooks Koepka went from a remarkable feat of getting among the six automatic spots on the Ryder Cup to now needing a phone call from U.S. captain Zach Johnson. Xander Schauffele did enough right Sunday in the BMW Championship that a bogey on...

Hovland sets Olympia Fields record with 61 to win BMW Championship

Aug. 20, 2023 19:46 PM EDT

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — Viktor Hovland kept hitting every shot just the way he wanted on the back nine at Olympia Fields. Rory McIlroy was keeping his card and kept writing “3” in just about every box. Hovland delivered the best round of his career at just the right time...

Lexi Thompson is in a slump that could cost her LPGA Tour status, but not a Solheim Cup spot

Aug. 15, 2023 17:48 PM EDT

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — Rickie Fowler missed the PGA Tour postseason two years ago. Justin Thomas narrowly missed this year. It’s an example of slumps that can happen to anyone. And it’s nothing compared with Lexi Thompson. It’s one thing that Thompson hasn’t won on the...