Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka are the co-favorites at the Palmetto Championship, which will serve as the final tuneup for next week’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
Golf
When Alejandro Cabrera Quintana was a freshman at Bonanza High School, about the only thing he knew about golf was how to spell it.
Rahm was leading the Memorial Tournament by six strokes after the third round when he was notified that he tested positive for COVID-19 and was withdrawn from the event.
Angela Stanford and Stacy Lewis have seen a lot in their combined 33 years on the LPGA Tour, but the veterans were overwhelmed in Las Vegas at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.
Jason Kokrak delivered a 62-1 winner for handicapper Wes Reynolds in the Review-Journal last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Ally Ewing defeated Sophia Popov on Sunday in the final of the inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek. The win came on her first wedding anniversary.
The two American stars combined for seven birdies on the back nine. But it was Ally Ewing’s final birdie on the 18th hole that ousted home course favorite Danielle Kang.
Sophia Popov dismantled former world No. 1 Sung Hyun Park to win her pod and advance to the knockout rounds this weekend at Shadow Creek.
On Friday, Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas will step onto the first tee at Shadow Creek trying to eliminate the other from the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.
It was a good day for the American women, especially the trio of Danielle Kang, Jennifer Kupcho and Lizette Salas, who dominated their first-day matches at difficult Shadow Creek.
Las Vegas resident Inbee Park is the 10-1 co-favorite at the Westgate to win the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play tournament. Another Las Vegas resident, Danielle Kang, is 16-1.
The 64 players in the field are prepared for anything at the Bank of Hope tournament, a five-day event on a difficult course in North Las Vegas.
Las Vegas resident Collin Morikawa missed a 6-foot birdie putt for the win in regulation last year at Colonial Country Club, then lost on the first playoff hole.
Eight years removed from his last major victory and more than two years after his last PGA Tour win, Phil Mickelson was as high as a 300-1 long shot before the PGA Championship.
Phil Mickelson became the oldest golfer to win a major championship when he claimed the 2021 PGA title Sunday in South Carolina.
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