Defending champ Paul Casey holed a 30-foot eagle putt on the 599-yard fifth hole and made short birdie putts on the other three par 5s on his way to a 5-under 66, giving him a share of the lead with Austin Cook in the Valspar Championship. Click here to read the full article…
PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Brandt Snedeker has a fair amount of names between him and the top of the leaderboard at the Valspar Championship – 14, if you are counting – but he’s lurking. Traditionally at the demanding Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort, that’s a good position in which to be heading to the weekend. After opening with
PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Paul Casey drove into Innisbrook and saw his picture on posters and programs, just what he needed to forget the cut he missed last week. He played Friday as though he wants those photos to stay here. Casey holed a 30-foot eagle putt on the 599-yard fifth hole and made short
PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Elton John is on a farewell tour in 2019. So is rocker Bob Seger. And don’t forget golfer Kenny Perry. He may not be selling t-shirts to tournament attendees, but he is the midst of one last go-around, too. Perry, 58, firmly established as a force on the Champions Tour (where he
PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Suffice to say, there was only one player at the Valspar Championship this week whose driver sported a Junior Ryder Cup head cover. That would belong to 17-year-old amateur Akshay Bhatia, a spindly left-hander from Wake Forest, N.C., who was making his first PGA TOUR start at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course. He
Rory McIlroy, fresh off victory at THE PLAYERS Championship, seeks to extend his hot streak with a second Match Play crown while Dustin Johnson goes after back-to-back World Golf Championships titles as golf’s bracketology week hits Austin. Tiger Woods, a three-time Match Play champ, returns for the first time since 2013 when the event still
Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk — all three strokes back of first-round co-leaders Joel Dahmen and Sepp Straka — among the early starters on Friday. Click here to read the full article…
A battle of the sexes between Mickey Wright and Arnold Palmer goes down to the wire in this mythical event. Plus, Ben Hogan faces Byron Nelson. Click here to read the full article…
2019 Valspar Championship, Round 1. Overall scoring average: +1.14 strokes per round Morning wave: +0.49 Afternoon wave: +1.79 Current cutline: 79 players at 1 over par or better (T65th position) Top 3 most likely projected cutlines: 2 over par: 28.7% 1 over par: 22.9% 3 over par: 22.2% Top 10 win probabilities: Dustin Johnson (T11,
Joel Dahmen fired a 5-under 66 on Thursday and shared the lead with Sepp Straka after the first round of the Valspar Championship. Click here to read the full article…
Joel Dahmen shot a 5-under 66 to grab the Day 1 lead alongside Sepp Straka at Innisbrook. Dustin Johnson is three strokes back. Click here to read the full article…
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Joel Dahmen, who took advantage of gentle, morning conditions Thursday on a tough Copperhead course, shot a for a 5-under 66 and a share of the lead with Austrian-born Sepp Straka in the Valspar Championship. Dahmen is playing a course he had never seen for the third straight week. But