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Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed produced big first-round finishes at the Dubai Desert Classic in what could lead to an intriguing showdown as the competition heads to a Monday conclusion.

LIV Golfer Ian Poulter appeared to take issue with the Ryder Cup Europe Twitter account over the lack of a happy birthday shoutout for him and Sergio Garcia.

Cole Hammer think it's cool to see his name atop the leaderboard.

The back-and-forth between Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy continued Wednesday, with the rhetoric tuned down considerably from some past verbal jousting involving PGA Tour players and those who left for Saudi-funded LIV Golf.

Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more-illustrious opponents to shoot 7-under 65s and take the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok.

Phil Mickelson and three other LIV Golf players have asked a federal judge to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.

For Rory McIlroy, it’s a flat-out “no_” U_S_ Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick is open to having LIV Golf players on Europe’s team at next year’s Ryder Cup because he says “I just want to make sure that we win.”.

Don't expect Rory McIlroy to spend much time reminiscing with his former Ryder Cup teammates at Wentworth this week.

It sure doesn't sound like Wentworth will be a place for PGA Tour players and LIV Golf players to visit over tea.

Luke Donald is Europe's new captain for the Ryder Cup in Italy next year.

Former President Donald Trump says the Saudi-funded LIV Golf circuit has created a “gold rush” for players.

Golf’s breakaway bunch have turned into a band of brothers.

Tiger Woods considers the British Open at St. Andrews to be a historic occasion.

Ian Poulter and two other players who signed up for the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series are allowed in the Scottish Open this week.

Rory McIlroy says he was wrong about his prediction in February that the Saudi-backed rival golf league was “dead in the water.”.

Phil Mickelson has returned to golf after four months out of public view and is facing severe scrutiny because of where he’s playing and who is paying him.

Dustin Johnson is joining the Saudi-funded golf league.

The PGA Tour is denying releases to golfers who want to play in the first Saudi-funded tournament next month in England.

Maverick McNealy was the last man to get into the Dell Technologies Match Play.

Thomas Pieters hit a chip that ran through the 13th green and landed in a sprinkler hole.

No other tournament in golf is more fickle than Match Play.

The Players Championship delivered only four hours of golf Friday before rain saturated the TPC Sawgrass, assuring the PGA Tour's premier event will not end until Monday. “The golf course has just reached a point of saturation, and unfortunately the weather conditions are not providing us any relief,” said Gary Young, the chief referee of The Players. It will be the eighth Monday finish since The Players Championship began in 1974, and the first since 2005.

Tommy Fleetwood and Tom Hoge share the lead after a long and wet start to The Players Championship.

Jason Day withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational and rushed home to Ohio, arriving in time to be at his mother’s side when she died of cancer. Dening Day was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017, which Day tearfully revealed at the Dell Match Play in Austin. Day said on an Instagram post that she died peacefully Wednesday night.

Thorbjørn Olesen, the Ryder Cup winning Danish golfer, sexually assaulted a woman on a British Airways flight after drinking champagne and vodka and taking sleeping pills, a court has heard.

The PGA Tour is moving the Farmers Insurance Open off a big NFL Sunday.

In the post-defeat dissection that’s sure to come for Europe's Ryder Cup team, certainly the disappearing act by Rory McIlroy will be one of the top talking points.

The Ryder Cup is going back to the Americans.

The United States wrapped up the Ryder Cup in record-setting fashion.

Not even the rest afforded by a career-first Ryder Cup benching in the morning could turn things around for Rory McIlroy.

All the drama Saturday at the Ryder Cup was to see if Europe could make a game of it.

Europe trails the Ryder Cup 6-2 after an opening day that saw Rory McIlroy lose twice and the entire team post only one victory.

Capsules from the opening day at Whistling Straits in the Ryder Cup.

The first point of the Ryder Cup went to Europe and its new Spanish Armada.

The United States took a 6-2 lead for its largest opening-day advantage at the Ryder Cup since 1975.

No team in sports embraces the underdog label like Europe's Ryder Cup squads.

No team in sports embraces the underdog label like Europe's Ryder Cup squads.

The Americans are running out of excuses at the Ryder Cup.

Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas almost surely will be paired together in both foursomes and fourballs beginning Friday at the Ryder Cup.

The Americans always seem to bring the better players to the Ryder Cup.

American and European players have arrived at Whistling Straits for the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia is still the youngest Ryder Cup player in history.

Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Shane Lowry have been picked by European captain Padraig Harrington to fill out the team for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.

Billy Horschel became the second American after Arnold Palmer to win the BMW PGA Championship following a dramatic final round.

Bryson DeChambeau let his clubs do most of the talking Saturday at TPC Southwind.

Harris English shot a 5-under 65 on Friday at TPC Southwind to hold onto the lead in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

Harris English shot an 8-under 62 on Thursday to match his lowest PGA Tour score and take the first-round lead in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

The hardest part of Sergio Garcia's day was before he even got to Royal St. George's.

Phil Mickelson spoke of having some self-doubt in the two years leading up to his PGA Championship victory. Xander Schauffele might have contributed to that, particularly during some money games a year ago in San Diego. Golf resumed, and Schauffele missed a playoff at Colonial by one shot in the first event back.

Jason Kokrak has another win on the PGA Tour.

Jordan Spieth is still leading after 54 holes at Colonial.

Phil Mickelson is looking like the Mickelson of old at the PGA Championship.

Branden Grace was the only player ahead of Phil Mickelson at the PGA Championship when he finished double bogey-bogey to end two shots out of the lead through 36 holes.

Don't expect a repeat of Dustin Johnson's record-shattering 20-under win as the Masters tees off.

AUSTIN, Texas – Billy Horschel didn’t find much to admire about his golf Sunday except that he was the last man standing in the Dell Technologies Match Play. His only birdie was a chip-in from 40 feet below the fifth green, yet Horschel didn’t lose another hole. His only birdie in the final match was a 35-footer that Horschel conceded after driving into the ravine on the second hole. So many times this week, Scheffler was able to make all the big putts at all the right moments. “I think I did that pretty much every time this week until the last match,” Scheffler said.

PGA chief fired over alleged sexist comments The President of the PGA of America has been fired over alleged sexist remarks he made to a pro golfer on social media. Ted Bishop was commenting on a new book, in which British golfer Ian Poulter criticized European golfer Nick Faldo. Vladimir Duthiers reports.