Chisato Iwai wins Mexico Riviera Maya Open by 6 shots for first LPGA title
Iwai led from the opening hole at El Camaleon when she made birdie and Jenny Bae made bogey, and the 22-year-old from Japan was on her way.
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Washington Post
19 minutes ago
- Washington Post
As U.S. Ryder Cup captain, Keegan Bradley needs to take himself out of it
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — One way to look at the impending Ryder Cup fiasco is that Keegan Bradley, PGA Tour pro, has played unexpectedly good golf for most of this season. He has made the job of Keegan Bradley, U.S. Ryder Cup captain, quite difficult. Earn his way onto his own team for next month's competition? It remains possible. Another way to look at it: Regardless of how he plays in the remaining two PGA Tour events before he must choose his team, Bradley should stand down. Step aside. Being the team captain is enough. Playing would be too much. For reference, let's take the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland. Rory McIlroy is from Northern Ireland. Wouldn't he be a perfect fit for captain of the European team? Why not take on that challenge of playing and captaining? 'The idea of me being a playing captain sometime soon … has come up,' McIlroy revealed Wednesday. 'And I've shot it down straightaway.' Why? 'Because I don't think you can do it.' That's a reasonable take. But Bradley doesn't have to listen to a star on the rival team. He should, however, listen to reason. 'He might be right,' Bradley said. 'We don't know. No one knows.' Let's not find out. Here we are, less than two weeks from Bradley naming his team, and the captain clearly still is mulling his standing for his own squad. He is 10th in the U.S. standings. The top six make the team automatically. The next six are captain's picks. Perform well at this week's BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club, where he spoke Wednesday, and he will move up in the standings. Perform well at next week's Tour Championship, and Bradley the player will put more pressure on Bradley the captain. 'I certainly have a lot of concerns, as well as everybody else,' Bradley said. '… I can truly sit here right now and say I don't know what's going to happen. I have to look at myself just like any other player trying to make the team.' Except he's not any other player trying to make the team. He's the captain charged with leading it. Bradley said Wednesday that the enormity of his impending task is beginning to weigh on him in ways that it hadn't before now. The matches are Sept. 26-28 at Bethpage Black on Long Island. That's six weeks away. There's much to do. 'The Ryder Cup has always been so far away, and now it's right there,' Bradley said. '… I'm thinking a lot more about it now. I'm laying in bed thinking about golf balls that the guys play, thinking about pairings. Certainly amped up.' As is most of the sport. The Ryder Cup has morphed from a biennial exhibition between Europe and the United States into something of a golf behemoth. The challenge for Bradley's American charges is gargantuan. The crowds at Bethpage should be somewhere between boisterous and unreasonable and could bring a brand of partisanship that borders on embarrassing. The American captain should be in charge of quieting that noise for his team, not playing through it. He isn't just responsible for announcing his six captain's picks Aug. 27. He has a say in course setup. He will choose who plays with whom and when. He must organize. He must inspire. It's a lot. Why complicate it, then? If you're already thinking about which brand of golf ball one of your players uses and what the impact might be on a partner who plays a different brand, and that keeps you up at night — why introduce your own swing into the mix? Maybe because he has significant support. 'I think if it's something that Keegan wants to be part of the team and wants to play, I think he's a guy we'd all love to have on the team,' said none other than Scottie Scheffler, the best golfer on the planet. 'The intensity that he's brought as a captain — I mean, he has definitely exceeded my expectations as a captain.' That's a strong endorsement from perhaps the most important voice. And it is added to a chorus of American players who have backed Bradley's candidacy to play. Back to McIlroy. Maybe he's merely trying to mess with his opponents' minds, but his answers about why he already has shot down the idea of being a playing captain one day seemed genuine. 'You think about the extra media that a captain has to do,' he said. 'You think about the extra meetings that the captains have to do with the vice captains, with the PGA of America, in Keegan's case, preparing your speech for the opening ceremony. There's a lot of things that people don't see that the captain does the week of the Ryder Cup — especially now that the Ryder Cup has become so big.' This dilemma is only partly Bradley's fault, and all he did to get here was play pretty good golf. He won the Travelers Championship in June to rise to seventh in the world rankings. He has four other top-10 finishes this calendar year. Even as his past four events have yielded a missed cut and no finish higher than a tie for 30th — dropping him to 12th in the rankings — he certainly would be under consideration by any other American captain. 'I definitely think he's one of the best 12 American players right now,' McIlroy said. 'That's why everyone is so interested and it's such a compelling case.' It could have been compelling to watch Bradley the player try to earn his way on. The PGA of America — the organization that stages the Ryder Cup and that is wholly separate and different from the PGA Tour — made it a potential debacle by naming Bradley captain for a Ryder Cup in which he was going to be just 39 years old. The interview process essentially went like this: Seth Waugh, former CEO of the PGA of America: 'Keegan, this is Seth. Would you like to be Ryder Cup captain?' Bradley, dumbfounded: 'Uh, sure?' Maybe wait for him to be a vice captain a time or two before offering him the big chair? Maybe wait for him to be in his mid- to late 40s, when he would have less of a chance to put himself in the position he's in? But here we are. Not that anyone should make choices based on how they could be second-guessed, but think of it this way: Should Europe win, what are the odds that the main American lament is 'What if Keegan had just played himself?' A much more likely frustration would seem to be 'Why in the world did Keegan include himself?' The Ryder Cup is a month and a half away. Keegan Bradley is still wrestling with a decision. He should stop. Play the next two weeks, then put the clubs away. The captain's enormous responsibility is to put his players in the best position to excel. He can't do that if he's at the range working on his own game, too.
Yahoo
29 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Paige Spiranac's Rival Accused Of Wearing 'Inappropriate' Outfit
Paige Spiranac's Rival Accused Of Wearing 'Inappropriate' Outfit originally appeared on The Spun. Paige Spiranac is the best in the game at the golf content creation world, but she has rivals. The former University of Arizona and San Diego State University golfer has built up a massive following on social media. She has millions of followers across X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Spiranac, who grew up in Colorado, has often faced criticism for wearing "inappropriate" outfits on the course. Spiranac has clapped back at those haters. 'I just try to embrace who I am when I talk about that,' the athlete and influencer told PEOPLE at the "Happy Gilmore 2" premiere. 'My main message is always do what you want to do, wear what you want to wear,' she declared. 'And for me, that's wearing things that are a little bit more sexy, more form-fitting, but also just finding your own individual style.' Spiranac's rivals are no different. Claire Hogle, one of Spiranac's "rivals" on social media, has developed a big following, too. However, like Spiranac, she has also faced criticism for wearing "inappropriate" outfits on the course. "Instagram golf girl ; wear short skirt, pull up skirt, look cute. Winner," one fan said in response to her outfits. However, Hogle is clapping back, suggesting that the golf course can be a fashion show, if you want it to be. Hogle can certainly choose to wear whatever she wants out on the golf course, as long as the course's rules are OK with it, anyway. Whatever she is doing is working, too. Hogle has amassed more than one million followers on Instagram. She still trails Spiranac by a couple of million, but it's a highly impressive number, to say the least. What do you make of her golf course outfits? Sound off in the comments below. Paige Spiranac's Rival Accused Of Wearing 'Inappropriate' Outfit first appeared on The Spun on Aug 13, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Washington Post
4 hours ago
- Washington Post
Tour Championship now offers official money and richest prize in golf with a $40 million purse
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Tour Championship now has the richest individual prize fund in golf with the PGA Tour making the FedEx Cup payoff count as official money for the first time. The total purse is $40 million, with $10 million to the winner. Since the FedEx Cup began in 2007, the bonus pool at the end of the Tour Championship was unofficial money, with part of it deferred.
