Golf

    World number one Scottie Scheffler parred the first playoff hole to beat Tom Kim at the protest-hit Travelers Championship title on Sunday, claiming his sixth US PGA Tour title of the year. Scheffler is the first player since Arnold Palmer in 1962 to pile up six wins before July 1 on the PGA Tour, a haul that included his second Masters crown in April. "It's pretty special," Scheffler […]

    Rory McIlroy and his wife Erica have called off their divorce and are looking forward to "a new beginning", the golfer told The Guardian newspaper on Tuesday. McIlroy filed divorce papers to end the seven-year marriage last month, on the eve of the PGA Championship. But ahead of this week's US Open, the third major of the season, the Northern Irishman said there had been a change of […]

    Irish golfer Padraig Harrington, a three-time major champion, was among the inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday. Also entering the new Hall, which opens this week at Pinehurst after a move from Florida, were Sandra Palmer, the late Tom Weiskopf, Johnny Farrell and Beverly Hanson plus the 13 LPGA Founders. Harrington, a 52-year-old from Dublin, won the 2007 and 2008 British Opens and the […]

    World number one Scottie Scheffler held his nerve down the stretch to clinch a one-shot victory at the PGA Tour's Memorial tournament in Ohio on Sunday after a tense final round duel with Collin Morikawa. Scheffler fired a closing two-over-par 74 at Muirfield Village to finish on eight under, sealing a morale-boosting win as he prepares for an assault on next week's US Open at Pinehurst in North […]