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Gerry Dulac: Rocco Mediate gave US Open some of its most memorable moments

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PITTSBURGH — Rocco Mediate will not be in the field of 156 players when the U.S. Open returns to Oakmont, about 30 miles from his hometown of Greensburg.

He stopped playing in the U.S. Open in 2010, shortly after he joined the PGA Tour Champions. His missed cut at Pebble Beach was his final appearance in the national championship.

But ...Read more

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Matthias Schmid, Ben Griffin share four-stroke lead after third round of Charles Schwab Challenge

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FORT WORTH, Texas — After starting Saturday sharing the lead, Ben Griffin and Matthias Schmid continued their control of the leaderboard at the Charles Schwab Challenge with the pair nursing a four-stroke lead headed into Sunday’s final round.

Schmid, a German native and PGA Tour rookie, started his day with three straight birdies, ...Read more

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Jordan Spieth talks Children's Flight of Hope at Charles Schwab Challenge

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Zeke Newberry and his family were flown out to the Charles Schwab Challenge at the Colonial for a special VIP experience by the nonprofit Children’s Flight of Hope.

The organization has been helping fly families to critical life-altering and changing treatments since founded by Al Wethington in 1990.

As part of the VIP ...Read more

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Ben Griffin, Matti Schmid take lead during Charles Schwab Challenge

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FORT WORTH, Texas — John Pak surged to the Schwab Challenge lead on Thursday and on Friday added a 2-under par performance, but he lost his hold atop the leaderboard at Colonial Country Club.

Ben Griffin and Matti Schmid are tied at 11-under par for the lead midway through the four-day tournament.

Griffin is having one of the best seasons of...Read more

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How the Knicks' late collapse fueled John Pak's first round at Colonial

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The first round of the Charles Schwab Classic is in the books, and John Pak leads the field with a score of seven under par.

Pak, 26, was born in Scotch Plains, N.J., and is looking for his first win on the PGA Tour and has one top-25 finish this season, a tie for 17th at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld.

Pak talked about ...Read more

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Scott Fowler: 'It's kind of stupid:' World's top golfers sling some mud at PGA Championship

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — OK, I’ve got one for you. The three best golfers in the world all walk into the tee box at the 16th hole at Quail Hollow ... and walk off the green a few minutes later with matching double bogeys and frustrated glares.

Don’t think that’s funny? Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele didn’t either, as ...Read more

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Scott Fowler: 'It's kind of stupid:' World's top golfers sling some mud at PGA Championship

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — OK, I’ve got one for you. The three best golfers in the world all walk into the tee box at the 16th hole at Quail Hollow ... and walk off the green a few minutes later with matching double bogeys and frustrated glares.

Don’t think that’s funny? Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele didn’t either, as ...Read more

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Who is Ryan Gerard? He's giving PGA Championship leaderboard a heavy dose of NC.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2018, back when he was a mere freshman golfer at UNC, Ryan Gerard and five of his Tar Heel teammates were plopped on the 18th tee of Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte and asked to do something immensely difficult.

Something pros still struggle to do — as many did Thursday.

Get a par.

“We came out here as preparation ...Read more

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Quail Hollow's Johnny Harris on PGA, handling critics and what's next (a Ryder Cup?)

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quail Hollow Club president Johnny Harris was busy hosting the largest party in Charlotte on Thursday — the first day of the 2025 PGA Championship.

Wearing a coat and tie in 80-degree weather, Harris bustled about supervising all the small problems that crop up when you get 40,000-plus people together in the Queen City. ...Read more

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He hasn't contended at a major in a decade, but Luke Donald in the hunt at PGA

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Luke Donald is turning the Queen City into Redeem City.

Heading into the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow this week, even considering the 47-year-old Englishman a long shot to contend might have been generous. Once part of a back-and-forth battle with Rory McIlroy for the world No. 1 ranking, Donald has been absent from ...Read more

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Marcus Hayes: Philadelphia fans and Cricket Club shine as Sepp Straka wins the Truist Championship

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PHILADELPHIA — Ol’ Tillie would’ve been proud.

Proud of his golf course. Proud of the players. Proud of his people.

The PGA Tour stopped in Philadelphia for the first time in seven years and the first time ever at Philadelphia Cricket Club, an undersized masterpiece of agronomy and agriculture built 103 years ago among horse farms and ...Read more

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Sepp Straka outlasts Shane Lowry to win Truist Championship

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PHILADELPHIA — If it wasn’t going to be Rory McIlroy, another Irishman would suffice. In the final pairing Sunday, Shane Lowry was the no-doubt crowd favorite. Irish flags and soccer kits dotted some of the galleries. Every time he and Sepp Straka moved between holes, it was a Lowry love fest in the final round of the Truist Championship in ...Read more

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Sepp Straka and Shane Lowry are three shots clear of the Truist Championship field after late birdies

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PHILADELPHIA — Winning a golf tournament is stressful, and so Sepp Straka’s Sunday will come with pressure and queasiness. The Austrian built like a linebacker is tied for the lead with Shane Lowry at the Truist Championship after a 4-under 66 Saturday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Sunday will be about managing all that comes with ...Read more

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Truist Championship golfers love Philadelphia Cricket Club's short -- but 'diabolical'-- par-3 No. 14 hole

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PHILADELPHIA — They don’t make short par-3s like they used to. In fact, they pretty much don’t make them at all anymore, at least on the courses designed for current professional golfers.

But that doesn’t mean the best in the game don’t appreciate the charm of a 100-125-yard hole, like the miniature, but vexing, No. 14 at Philadelphia...Read more

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Tiger Woods' son, Charlie, fails again to qualify for U.S. Open

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The 16-year-old son of golfing great Tiger Woods failed for the second time to qualify for the U.S. Open.

Charlie Woods came up seven shots off the mark to make the cut at Florida’s Wellington National Golf Club on Thursday.

It marked the second consecutive year he came up short of playing in the prestigious tournament his dad has won three ...Read more

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Longtime agent Jeff Sperbeck's fatal fall from golf cart driven by John Elway ruled an accident

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DENVER — A California coroner’s office has officially ruled that the death of Jeff Sperbeck, the sports agent who died after falling from a golf cart driven by longtime friend and business partner John Elway, was an accident.

On Friday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department — which launched an investigation into Sperbeck’s death ...Read more

Rain helps Philadelphia Cricket Club bite back in Round 2 of Truist

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PHILADELPHIA — The technological advancements of the driver and the refinement of the golf ball to make it fly farther have made an antique like the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course about 500 or 600 yards too short, Rory McIlroy guesstimated Friday afternoon.

“If the golf ball just went a little shorter, this course would be...Read more

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A 'fueled' Rickie Fowler fires a front-nine 29 to put himself in contention at the Truist Championship

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PHILADELPHIA — Rickie Fowler reached back 10 years deep in the memory bank when asked Thursday afternoon about the mixed reaction to his invitation to next week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C.

This isn’t the Fowler of 2015. And this surely isn’t the Fowler of 2011, when he walked around the grounds at Aronimink as ...Read more

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Marcus Hayes: Xander Schauffele and most players will be flying blind at Philadelphia Cricket Club, an A.W. Tillinghast masterpiece

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PHILADELPHIA — The newest member of golf’s Grand Slam club, recent Masters champion Rory McIlroy, will play in the Truist Championship and defend his title. Xander Schauffele, who holds two major titles — the PGA Championship and the British Open — will be there, too. So will Justin Thomas, who won the PGA Tour’s last “Signature ...Read more

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We Golf Now wants to change the face -- and color -- of golf. Here's how it hopes to do it.

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PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen-year-old Elyse Turner’s introduction to golf was as an eighth grader at Masterman High School. After growing fond of the game, she decided to join We Golf Now, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that aims to inspire more Black and brown youth to get involved in golf and the business side of the sport.

“Golf is changing,...Read more