Colt Knost, who has more than $4.2 million in lifetime earnings on the PGA Tour, finished in second place Tuesday in the Major Series of Putting All-Pro Championship Match Play event.
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Bubba Watson was so frustrated with his game that he shut down his schedule in August and wasn’t planning to rejoin the PGA Tour until early February. But the Oct. 1 shootings in Las Vegas inspired him in a sense to cut short his hiatus.
Four players from the HSBC Champions in Shanghai have entered Las Vegas — Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau and the tour’s two Chinese members, Marty Dou and Zhang Xinjun.
Former UNLV golfer A.J. McInerney received a sponsor’s exemption into this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after the tournament learned he had survived the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
The PGA Tour announced the Shriners Open pairings for Thursday and Friday at the TPC Summerlin.
John Cook won 11 times on the PGA Tour, including the PGA Tour’s 1992 Las Vegas Invitational at TPC Summerlin, but he may have never seen anything like the Major Series of Putting.
Scott Piercy enters his 10 th PGA Tour season with an impressive professional resume that includes three PGA Tour victories and more than $15 million in earnings.
It was another languid Monday at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin, and another Charley Hoffman Foundation Pro-Am. But this one was different.
Several golf carts were stolen Sunday night from a Summerlin course where some of the world’s top golfers will compete this week in the PGA Tour’s Shriners Open.
Former Rebels golfers Taylor Montgomery and Redford Bobbitt learned of the event and quickly signed up to try to earn prize money.
Sweden’s Gunnar Bengtsson and Canada’s Garney Vezina represent the international appeal of both the first-year tournament at a pop-up stadium behind Planet Hollywood Resort and Las Vegas.
The past two Shriners Hospitals for Children Open again proved that anything can happen across 72 holes at TPC Summerlin.
Major Series of Putting president Guillaume Beland was inspired to create a putting tournament after playing at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania. The MSOP kicked off Friday and is scheduled to last 10 days.
Tiger Woods pleaded guilty Friday to reckless driving in a deal that will keep him out of jail as long as he stays out of trouble, resolving charges from an arrest last spring.
Organizers of a golf putting contest have put $2.2 million into a 20,000-square-foot temporary course by the Strip.