Latest Arnold Palmer News

It's getting harder to stay on the PGA Tour. Here's why

Nov. 21, 2024 18:41 PM EST

The PGA Tour is making the most sweeping changes to its eligibility in more than 40 years by eliminating 25 tour cards, along with shrinking the size of its fields. The all-exempt tour had been in place since 1983, meaning the top 125 players from the official money list — now the...

Billy Horschel has game and will travel. He is playing his fifth European tour event

Nov. 12, 2024 15:00 PM EST

Billy Horschel hasn't played in a month and wasn't planning to travel across eight time zones until he won the European tour's flagship event at Wentworth for the second time and zoomed up the Race to Dubai ranking. Now he's in Dubai for the season finale, ranked No. 4 in the Race to...

Bernhard Langer and his 18 straight years of winning is among golf's untouchable records: Analysis

Nov. 12, 2024 11:19 AM EST

Winning doesn't get old. Neither, apparently, does Bernhard Langer. In a year when Scottie Scheffler delivered a level of dominance not seen since Tiger Woods and Xander Schauffele won two majors, when Nelly Korda tied an LPGA record by winning five straight times and Lydia Ko got...

Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy's pillars

Nov. 06, 2024 19:18 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — American presidential elections are a moment when the nation holds up a mirror to look at itself. They are a reflection of values and dreams, of grievances and scores to be settled. The results say much about a country’s character, future and core beliefs. On...

Harris to give her campaign's closing argument at the Ellipse, where Trump helped spark Capitol riot

Oct. 23, 2024 22:20 PM EDT

ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lay out her campaign's closing argument by returning to the site near the White House where Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 — hoping it will crystalize for voters the fight between defending...

Arnold Palmer's daughter reacts to Donald Trump's references to her father

Oct. 21, 2024 07:32 AM EDT

One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer's daughters calls Donald Trump's references to her father's genitalia “a poor choice of approaches" to honoring his memory, adding that she wasn't upset by the remarks. “There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” Peg Palmer...

Trump kicks off a Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer's genitalia

Oct. 20, 2024 07:12 AM EDT

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away. But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, at one point even praising the late, legendary...

Billie Jean King named grand marshal for the 136th Rose Parade on Jan. 1

Oct. 07, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Tennis great Billie Jean King will preside over the 136th Rose Parade as grand marshal next year. King, who turns 81 next month, was introduced Monday in a shower of confetti on the lawn of Tournament House as “Philadelphia Freedom,” the hit song Elton...

Billie Jean King nets another legacy honor: the Congressional Gold Medal

Sep. 27, 2024 17:51 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billie Jean King is now the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation Thursday to recognize King for “a remarkable life devoted to championing equal rights for all, in sports...

Billie Jean King set to earn another honor with the Congressional Gold Medal

Sep. 17, 2024 21:09 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced Tuesday that their bipartisan legislation had passed the House of...