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Thanks to an uncharacteristic heatwave in the United Kingdom, the forecast features dry, sunny skies and highs climbing into the 80s

McIlroy will tee off at 3.15pm BST on Thursday as part of a strong group with Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele — though the trio will enjoy an earlier start on Friday

It's been almost a decade since Jordan Spieth won his third major championship at Royal Birkdale

Starting with the 2028 season those will be a thing of the past as the PGA Tour moves forward with its new way of life

Jeff Hartman is a Maryland resident who covers the PGA Tour

Rory McIlroy labelled his opening round of the PGA Championship as s*** after he finished with four successive bogeys

The six-time major champion managed to make it through just three holes during his Tuesday practice round at Aronimink Golf Club due to a painful blister that has recently developed on his right foot

A stacked field will vie for victory at an intriguing PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Philadelphia in the second men’s major of 2026

Scheffler placed second in three straight starts to end April before taking a week off to prepare for this week's PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia

A formidable 7,394-yard, par-70 course awaits in the year’s second major tournament with 174 bunkers scattered across the layout, which features undulating greens at lightning-fast speeds

Since then, Knapp won the 2024 Mexico Open for his first PGA Tour title, fired a historic 59 at the 2025 Cognizant Classic, and entered 2026 looking like a player ready to break into golf’s elite tier permanently

Jordan Spieth's upcoming appearance at the 2026 PGA Championship marks his 10th attempt to complete the coveted career Grand Slam

Bradley was left bruised after Bethpage Black but hopes to earn inclusion for the United States at Adare Manor next year

Scottie Scheffler enters this week's PGA Championship as a hot favorite to become the event's first repeat winner since Brooks Koepka in 2019, while a confident Rory McIlroy eyes more major glory after successfully defending his Masters title

The Irishman had a mixed round with three birdies and three bogey until it was truly derailed on the 15th hole when he made a triple-bogey six

LIV is losing its backing because two autarchs have fallen out of love

The spotlight this week at the Cadillac Championship could be on a rising group of Indian-origin golfers, with Sahith Theegala, Akshay Bhatia and Sudarshan Yellamaraju all teeing it up at the iconic Trump National Doral Golf Club

Keegan Bradley captained last year's team at Bethpage Black, which had an embarrassing first two days but gave a valiant effort at an unprecedented comeback in Sunday singles

Rory McIlroy has won back-to-back Masters titles at Augusta, holding his nerve at the 18th to finish one shot clear of Scottie Scheffler and claim a second consecutive Green Jacket — with the Express revealing how the golfing legend stands to pocket

Rory McIlroy has revealed the secret behind his dominant form at the 2026 Masters

Magical Rory McIlroy sets Masters record with six-shot lead at halfway

Former Green Jacket winner Jordan Spieth hit a surprising shot during his second round of The Masters, with a patron inadvertently becoming involved in the play

Scottie Scheffler arrived at Augusta National Golf Club this week as the clear betting favorite to claim a third Masters title, but defending champion Rory McIlroy stole the early spotlight by sharing the first-round lead at 5-under par Thursday in the 90th edition of the season's first major

Defending champion McIlroy, a 36-year-old five-time major winner from Northern Ireland, will join 18-year-old Howell from nearby Thomasville and his compatriot Cameron Young on the first tee at 10:31 am local time on Thursday

There’s a reason the Masters is revered as one of sport’s finest events

Jeffrey Epstein’s web of influence stretched from European palaces to Ivy League universities and Wall Street banks, but there was apparently at least one little corner of the establishment that seems to have been beyond his reach: Augusta National

Evening is closing in on the Monday after Easter and golf’s silver-haired, self-styled Lazarus is starting to stiffen up

ESPN will take over at 3 p.m. on the weekday rounds through 7:30 p.m. On the weekend, Paramount+ will get started at noon, and CBS will carry live tournament coverage from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m

However, one rather uncomfortable moment unfolded at golf's most exclusive dinner on Tuesday, when six-time champion Jack Nicklaus left 2008 winner Trevor Immelman nursing a sore foot

Unless he successfully defends his title, McIlroy will return next Sunday to take part in one of golf's most closely observed rituals: helping slip the jacket onto the shoulders of the new champion

Only one other player in Masters history lost two playoffs, and that was Ben Hogan, who had the consolation of winning it twice outright, in 1951 and 1953, in between finishing second in 1942, 1946, 1954 and 1955

Part of what makes Major golf such a compelling spectacle is the stalking prospect of calamity

Scheffler, who has won two of the last three Masters (2022 and 2024), has posted consistent contention at the event despite a fourth-place finish in 2025

Rico Hoey battled through a roller-coaster opening round at the Valspar Championship, carding an even-par 71 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club to sit tied for 47th, seven shots off the lead

As the golfers make their final preparations for a tournament, a few will be making last-minute adjustments after getting into the field just two days before tee off

Gotterup also has yet to play in the next two signature events on the schedule at Harbour Town and Quail Hollow

Ryo Hisatsune fired a career-best 10-under par 62 on Thursday to take a one-stroke first-round lead in the PGA Tour Pebble Beach Pro-Am as defending champion Rory McIlroy and top-ranked Scottie Scheffler left themselves work to do

The PGA Tour's 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tees off on Thursday, bringing together a field of professionals and amateurs on the iconic Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill courses

The 35-year-old was one of a number of defectors who joined LIV Golf in 2022, spending three years with the controversial breakaway league and winning five events under the banner and holding captaincy of the Smash GC team

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Kevin Na, who had captained Iron Heads since LIV's launch four years ago but managed just one top-10 finish in 48 LIV appearances, has been replaced by Byeong-hun An, who has left the PGA Tour, according to multiple reports