Rickie Fowler has eight top-five finishes in majors, and at some point, he is going to have his major breakthrough.
Golf
Tiger Woods topped Phil Mickelson in each of the first two rounds of The Players Championship, where they played in the same group together in May, and has an 18-15-4 edge over Lefty when playing in the same group.
Tiger Woods is a minus 130 favorite over Phil Mickelson (+110) in a tournament matchup at the British Open.
At Legacy Golf Club, Hayes Dupree, from Mojave, Arizona, shot 8-under 136, and Joey Vrzich, a rising sophomore at UNR, 7-under 137, to earn the two available qualifying spots for the 2018 U.S. Amateur.
Kevin Na moved from 36th to 13th in the team USA Ryder Cup standings after his win at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier on July 8. The top eight automatically qualify, then captain Davis Love III makes four captains picks.
Thidapa Suwannapura’s main focus going into the Marathon Classic was trying to put together four solid rounds that would help her keep her LPGA Tour card.
Michael Kim didn’t just win his first PGA Tour event on Sunday. He dominated in a fashion never seen at TPC Deere Run.
Brandon Stone sank to his haunches, clasped his face and dropped his putter in despair after coming within inches of being the first player to shoot a round of 59 on the European Tour.
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo rallied from four points back to win his first American Century Championship at Lake Tahoe on Sunday.
Alex Jordan shot a final-round 69 and won the Nevada State Amateur at TPC Summerlin on Wednesday by three shots over rising Arbor View senior and Oklahoma State commit Hazen Newman, who also shot 69.
Edward Fryatt had a sense the second round of the Nevada State Amateur at TPC Summerlin was going to go well because Tuesday was his daughter’s birthday. Fryatt shot 5-under 67 and leads by two shots.
There are about two dozen tour pros with ties to Las Vegas playing on the four major United States professional tours. Here’s a look at rankings for those players.
Nathan Maas, a TPC Summerlin member, used home course knowledge to shoot 1-under 71 and shared the lead at the Nevada State Amateur after one round with 1992 champion Edward Fryatt, Alex Jordan and Wes Taylor.
Sei Young Kim became the first player in LPGA Tour history to go lower than 30 under in a performance so dominant in the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic that she now has the tour scoring records all to herself.
Kevin Na of Summerlin rode a hot putter to halt a winless streak of nearly seven years on the PGA Tour.
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