The only number Matt Kuchar was thinking about on Sunday at the Mayakoba Golf Classic was eight, as in grabbing his eighth PGA Tour title. OK, maybe four, as well, as in ending a four-year victory drought. But with a closing 69 at El Camaleon Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, Kuchar has a couple […]

Matt Kuchar had to work for his eighth PGA Tour victory at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. When he needed to put the tournament away on the final hole after seeing a four-stroke lead shrink to one, he did the thing that he had done well all week—put the ball in the fairway off the tee […]

Take a four-stroke or higher lead into the final round of a PGA Tour event since 2013, and you've got a better than 82 percent chance of winning the event. That sounds all well and good unless you're part of the 18 percent who blew it, a list that Matt Kuchar was surely trying to […]

Normally, we wait until Monday to round up all the worst bad beats of the weekend in both college football and the NFL. But as we learned with Todd Gurley's "knee" two weeks ago, some are so soul-crushing that they stand on their own. This was in the case for anyone who had LSU -13 […]

They became brothers in arms, an Internet sensation sharing joint custody of the delicious label “Moliwood” as they led the European Team to a September Ryder Cup victory in France. But with one tournament remaining in the 2017-’18 Euro Tour season, next week’s DP World Tour Championship, Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood will become rivals […]

LATROBE, Pa. — Doc Giffin, who for 50 years served as assistant to the late Arnold Palmer, enjoys pointing out one of the great coincidences that tied together the two men long before they ever met. “It was all probably meant to be,” Giffin was saying Friday night at Latrobe Country Club, the place where […]

There was no getting away from the turn-back-the-clock feel to Lee Westwood’s performance at the Nedbank Golf Challenge. Facts are facts, and the Englishman with the dry-wit and the gray stubble had not been victorious on the European Tour since April 2014, or anywhere for that matter since April 2015. The former World No. 1 […]

Late in the second period of the Toronto Maple Leafs' home game against the New Jersey Devils on Friday night, things were getting ugly. Toronto forward Andreas Johnsson had just scored his first goal of the season to give his team a 4-1 lead, and before the Devils could potentially make it a game, the […]

One last chance to earn a spot in the Tournament of Champions. That’s what an optimistic Jordan Spieth was gunning for at this week’s Mayakoba Golf Classic. But in his final PGA Tour event before saying “I do” to fiancée Annie Verret later this month, Spieth frustratingly posted a MC rather than a W. Spieth […]

For the first time since Lorena Ochoa, Mexico has a LPGA champion: Gaby Lopez. And she did it in gutsy fashion. Lopez held off the top two players in the world to win the Blue Bay LPGA Championship in China on Saturday. Paired in the final round with Ariya Jutanugarn, who has already wrapped up […]