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Riviera Country Club still stands after Palisades fire. Will it host Genesis Invitational next month?

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LOS ANGELES — The PGA Tour has informed its membership that it has not made a decision on the status of the Genesis Invitational, an annual signature event scheduled to take place Feb. 13-16 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, near where a deadly wildfire has scorched numerous homes and forced thousands to flee.

Riviera was ...Read more

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Dave Hyde: Indoors and loud -- it's golf like you've never seen, cheered or experienced

Sports / Golf /

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — As a rule, golf isn’t played inside, at night, off large divots of grass as “Boogie Oogie Oogie” blares over loudspeakers and fans are urged by a microphone-wielding emcee to “go crazy!”

But there’s never been anything like the indoor golf league that launched Tuesday night with some of the game’s ...Read more

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Las Vegas PGA Tour memories: Where Tiger began to roar

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LAS VEGAS — With the PGA Tour pulling out of Las Vegas after 41 years, area golf fans are left with four decades of memories from the tournament that went by many names and was played on a dozen area courses over the years.

Here are five highlights from the tournaments:

1. Tiger’s breakthrough

Tiger Woods has won 82 times on the PGA Tour,...Read more

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New LPGA and USGA policy to ban many transgender women from competing in elite tournaments

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LOS ANGELES — Hailey Davidson is a transgender women’s golfer who recently competed in the LPGA‘s qualifying series and earned a partial spot on the 2025 Epson Tour. She also came a stroke away from qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open.

She won’t be eligible for any of those events next year.

New policies announced Wednesday by the ...Read more

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LPGA changes policy to ban Hailey Davidson, other transgender golfers

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NEW YORK — The LPGA and USGA announced a change to its gender policy Wednesday that will effectively ban transgender golfer Hailey Davidson and others like her from competition.

Starting in 2025, only players assigned female at birth or who transitioned before going through male puberty will be eligible to compete in LPGA tournaments or USGA ...Read more

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Will Trump's win clear way for PGA-LIV merger? Rory McIlroy says it could with Elon Musk's help.

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LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy has never been a supporter of the Saudi Public Investment Fund and LIV Golf. In fact, at times he's been the most vocal critic among PGA Tour players, saying last year that: "If LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on Earth, I would retire."

His stance has softened with time, however, and the four-time major ...Read more