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NBC Sports
18-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Scottie Scheffler's career PGA Tour wins: A list of every event Scheffler has won on Tour
Scottie Scheffler earned his 14th career PGA Tour win in May's CJ Cup Byron Nelson. It was Scheffler's first victory of the season, which continues an incredible run of success over the last four years. From his first victory in 2022 at TPC Scottsdale to his most recent one at TPC Craig Ranch, here's a look at Scheffler's career PGA Tour victories (majors in bold).
The Star
12-05-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Ashley puts in better show to improve ranking
Ashley Lau competing at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Classic. Credit - Epson Tour PETALING JAYA: Pro golfer Ashley Lau (pic) did well to improve her score over four rounds to finish in the top 10 at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Classic on Sunday. The 25-year-old carded rounds of 71, 72, 68, and 67 to finish six-under 278 at the tournament for a joint 10th position with Minori Nagano of Japan, Lindsey Peek and Cristie Kerr of the United States at the TPC Scottsdale's Champions Course.
USA Today
12-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Major champion Sophia Popov wins for the first time as a mom on Epson Tour
Major champion Sophia Popov wins for the first time as a mom on Epson Tour It proved an especially sweet Mother's Day for Sophia Popov, who won the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic close to her Arizona home. The last time Popov competed in an Epson Tour event was 2020, the same year she went on to win a major championship. The 32-year-old German began the final round with a four-stroke lead at TPC Scottsdale's Champions Course and won by two over China's Michelle Zhang, finishing at 14-under 270 for the 72-hole event. Popov wasn't the only major champion in the field. Another local mom, Cristie Kerr, competed in the event and took a share of 10th. It's been a strange year for Popov, who was stripped of her results from her first three starts of the LPGA season after an administrative error placed her in the wrong spot on the original 2025 Priority List. To correct the error, her CME points, earnings and Aon Risk Reward Challenge points were removed from official standings. Popov went from getting into limited-field events early season to not even qualifying for the Ford Championship, the full-field event near home. She did, however, have a spot in the Chevron Championship by virtue of her 2020 victory at the AIG Women's British Open. She took full advantage of that with a T-30 showing in Texas. After a recent reshuffle, she's now 371st on the priority list. In June 2023, Popov gave birth to her daughter, Maya Mae Mehles. Her original medical leave turned into a maternity leave, and she returned to the tour in 2024, competing in 17 events. She finished 136th on the CME points list and went to the final stage of LPGA Q-School last December finishing T-58th, which means she failed to improve her status. A player is entitled to the equivalent of one full season of events upon returning from maternity leave. Popov, who was incorrectly placed in the highest category on the LPGA Priority List at No. 57, told Golfweek that she reached out to the LPGA in January to clarify her status. She received confirmation from the tour that her priority number of 57th was correct and she was good to go. The tour notified her of the error in March. Earlier this year at the JM Eagle in Los Angeles, where the former USC player competed on a sponsor exemption, Popov said that while she's disappointed in what transpired, she's trying to leave it in the past. "Because I think in the end," she added, "good golf takes care of everything. I think that's just my mindset now." Three weeks later, she's a winner once again and, for the first time, as a mom.
USA Today
01-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Can this top amateur 'stay in the zone' at Cognizant Classic to earn his PGA Tour card?
AI-assisted summary Florida State junior and top-ranked amateur golfer Luke Clanton is aiming to secure his PGA Tour card at the Cognizant Classic. Clanton needs to make the cut at the tournament to earn enough points for his PGA Tour card through the PGA Tour University Accelerated program. He narrowly missed the cut at the Phoenix Open after getting ahead of himself but learned to stay present and focused on his game plan. Clanton is familiar with the course at PGA National, having played it numerous times in his junior golf career and even sneaking onto the course in his younger years. PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Luke Clanton learned his lesson at the Phoenix Open. Do not get ahead of yourself. Stay in the moment. Do not obsess over one point. Clanton, a Florida State junior and No. 1 amateur in the world, needed one point at TPC Scottsdale to earn his PGA Tour card through the PGA Tour University Accelerated program. That would have happened if he made the cut. But after playing into the weekend in eight of his first 10 PGA Tour events, Clanton missed the cut at the Phoenix Open by one shot after opening with a 74 and following with a 67. "I kind of got a little ahead of myself the first day and had to do something pretty amazing the last eight holes," Clanton said Wednesday. "I'm going to stay in the zone and stay with my game plan." And he almost pulled it off. Clanton, 21, birdied four of the final eight holes. But on the final hole, he could not get an 18-footer to drop that would have put him on the cut line. This week, he gets another chance at the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, and he is in the same position. Sort of. Clanton's second attempt to make the cut to secure that elusive 20th point and earn his PGA Tour card comes on a course he estimates he's played 40 times. And perhaps it was meant to be this way. If it happens, it will come in the closest PGA Tour event to his home in Hialeah and in front of several family members and friends. So many that he told his mom she was in charge. "I told my mom … 'I don't want to know who's coming. I'll see them on the first tee,' " he said. Luke Clanton tees off at 7:07 a.m. on PGA National's 10th tee Which actually will be the 10th tee, where Clanton tees off at Thursday at 7:07 a.m. in a group that includes Jupiter's Daniel Berger and Palm Beach Gardens' Max Greyserman. Berger, a follow Seminole, recently met Clanton through Jeff Leishman, Clanton's coach who worked with Berger for several years. He's looking forward to getting an up close look at his game. "He's winning college golf tournaments and he's competing and contending in PGA Tour events," said Berger, who is 10 years older than Clanton. "He's got game. So it's going to be fun to watch." Clanton returned to Florida State this year to pursue a national championship. That will not change even if he earns his card this spring. But whenever he makes his first start as a professional he'll have plenty of experience. Cognizant will be Clanton's 12th start in a PGA Tour event. He has four top 10s, including a pair of runners-up at last year's RSM Classic and John Deere Classic. But none has been on a course with which he is so familiar. Clanton played junior and high school golf on the Champion Course at PGA National. He has played 36 holes in one day a couple of times on the course and even played in the pro-am for this event 10 years ago with Kevin Kisner. Oh, and he said he used to sneak onto the course around No. 3 to play a few holes, after saying "I don't know if I should say this." But his scouting report sounds familiar but more like the way a college kid would sum it up. "If you just don't hit it in the fairway, you're kind of screwed," he said. Clanton appears ready to clear his mind and take on the challenge. What he's concentrating on now after his test run at the Phoenix Open is just playing well. If that happens, he will be around on Saturday and the tour card will be secured. "My time will come," he said. "We don't know if it's this week or next week or whenever it will be. I would love for it to be this week with all the friends and family coming up, but I'm just going to focus on one shot at a time." Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at tdangelo@
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Tough week on the wrist': Jordan Spieth ready for some rest after Genesis missed cut
SAN DIEGO — Jordan Spieth returned to competition on the PGA Tour the last three weeks to mixed results following surgery on his left wrist in August. In his first start back at last month's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he finished tied for 69th in the 80-player, no-cut event but he followed that with a tie for fourth at last week's WM Phoenix Open, his best finish on Tour in over year. That optimism, however, was short lived, in large part because of brutally cold and wet conditions combined with thick rough at Torrey Pines, which led to a short week at the Genesis Invitational and a reminder of the patience needed to come back from injury. 'It's been a tough week on the wrist. I wasn't sure if I'd hit one more shot like my shot on 16 yesterday, I wasn't going to finish the first round. I was OK to go today, but this cold, wet weather and third week in a row, it was not good for it,' Spieth said following a second-round 74 and a missed cut at Torrey Pines. Spieth said he tried to pace himself this week and limit his practice but the conditions took a toll and he was looking forward to week of rest and rehabilitation. 'It beat it up pretty good, but I'm hoping this next week, laying off of it for five or six days and working on it with therapy — it's just inflammation so hopefully it will just go away and this will end up being a good thing that I kind of pushed it,' he said. Following last year's surgery, which repaired a tendon in his wrist that had popped out of its sheath, Spieth said he feels occasional pain during flop shots and shots from bunkers but at Torrey Pines he said the pain returned after he 'saved a 4-iron' during Round 1 at the par-3 16th hole. 'It's always an iron or a wedge, it's never really a wood,' he said. Who missed the cut at the $20-million signature Genesis Invitational? The Genesis Invitational is one of only three signature events with a halfway but. Golf Channel Staff , Golf Channel Staff , Following his solid play last week at TPC Scottsdale, Spieth said he's focused on being patient and that he knows it will take time before he's back to 100% healthy. 'Right this second, it's hard [to stay patient] but once I get back home and have a week off, it was a good start over the three weeks,' Spieth said. 'I've made a lot of improvement from when I left to go to Pebble Beach to right now and so if I just continue to improve right now, long term, it will be good.'
