SHANE LOWRY

Jordan Spieth hit a 56-foot shot from a greenside bunker to 7 inches and beat Patrick Cantlay with the tap-in par putt on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the RBC Heritage.

Harold Varner III shot an 8-under 63 to take a one-shot lead in the RBC Heritage on Saturday in pursuit of his first PGA Tour victory.

Masters champions get to go to the Masters Club dinner, and Scottie Scheffler has a permanent seat at that table now.

Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 player in the world and has a Masters green jacket to show for it.

Cameron Smith's hopes of winning his first major vanished on the 12th hole during the final round of the Masters.

Scottie Scheffler has never been here before.

Scottie Scheffler is one round away from winning his first major at the Masters.

Tiger Woods has made it to the weekend at the Masters in his first official start in 508 days.

This Masters is all about Tiger Woods to start the week.

Sixteen players have made it to the weekend in the Dell Technologies Match Play.

Harold Varner finished 8-under on Monday at the final round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

Cameron Smith made the longest week at The Players Championship worth the wait.

Sepp Straka is going back to Georgia in a few weeks.

Daniel Berger wasn’t flawless.

Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are finally getting their day in the sun.

The Ryder Cup is going back to the Americans.

Bryson DeChambeau flexed his muscles for the crowd on the first tee box at the Ryder Cup, then took out his driver and drove the green on the 370-yard par 4.

Three holes.

Dustin Johnson has become the fifth player to close out a 5-0 Ryder Cup with a 1-up win over Paul Casey.

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

Europe closed out two matches in rapid succession, then the U.S. closed out another to give the Americans a 10-5 lead with one match left on the course Saturday.

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.

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

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.

Jon Rahm and Cameron Smith are tied for the lead at The Northern Trust.

Xander Schauffele is 18 holes away from a gold medal and the podium still feels a long way off.

Xander Schauffele is trying to treat the Olympics as just another golf tournament.

Louis Oosthuizen is leading the British Open and that's not all that surprising.

Louis Oosthuizen and Jordan Spieth are leading the way at the British Open.

Brandt Snedeker had a 68 for his lowest start to a British Open since 2012.

Jon Rahm is a newly crowned major champion with the chance to join an elite group of players to win golf’s two oldest championships in the same year.

Anyone hopeful of a Bryson DeChambeau-Brooks Koepka pairing at the U.S. Open will have to wait.

Collin Morikawa has the early lead at the Memorial on a day only half the field finished.

The British Open could have big crowds at Royal St. George's.

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

Louis Oosthuizen bogeyed the 18th hole Friday to drop into a tie for the lead with Phil Mickelson through two rounds at the PGA Championship.

Bryson DeChambeau thought he had missed the cut in the Wells Fargo Championship.

Justin Rose still has the lead at the midway point of the Masters, but his perch looks a lot more precarious.

Justin Rose shot 65 on a day when only a dozen players managed to break par at the Masters.

Justin Rose picked one of the toughest days at Augusta National for his lowest score in the Masters.

“It was a tough match,” Johnson said. “Obviously, I was dying to win that match,” MacIntyre said. The Spaniard, whose American home is in Austin, won his second match and thus eliminated Hatton, the No. He missed the birdie putt and Rahm, who would have had a putt from the same range, smile a sigh of relief. Johnson was 10 feet away for eagle, and MacIntyre still had him putt it (Johnson made it).

(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AUSTIN, Texas – For a sport known for its glacial pace, fortunes can change quickly in golf. That was the cutoff for the top 64 players to get in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Rozner won all four of his matches at Formby Golf Club on the Lancashire coast of England. Rozner said he spoke to Dubuisson last week to find out why he did so well in the Match Play in 2014. I'm trying to take it match after match, step after step.”He makes it sound like a slow process.

Wise shot his second straight 6-under 64 on Friday to take a three-stroke lead into the weekend at the Honda Classic. The 128 total is the lowest 36-hole score at PGA National since the tournament moved there 15 years ago — and marks the first 36-hole lead of Wise’s PGA Tour career. Wise birdied the last to finish off the 64, the eighth round of 64 or lower surrendered by PGA National this week. He opened with a 69, then shot 62 — the fourth score that low in Honda history at PGA National — Friday. Jones (61), Wise (64) and Russell Henley (64) had the 64s or better Thursday; Hagy, Ryder, Wise, Brice Garnett (64) and Stewart Cink (64) had them Friday.

The PGA Tour has selected Love to be U.S. captain for the Presidents Cup in 2022 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was captain when Europe rallied from a 10-6 deficit to beat the Americans in the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah, and he was Ryder Cup captain for a rare U.S. victory four years later at Hazeltine. He also was an assistant captain in the Ryder Cup under Corey Pavin in 2010 and Jim Furyk in 2018 and is on the staff of Steve Stricker this year. The Presidents Cup was supposed to be played this year until the COVID-19 pandemic led to the Ryder Cup being postponed one year to this September. ... Tony Finau has 35 finishes in the top 10 since the start of the 2016-17 season on the PGA Tour without winning.

After 19 months as the Masters champ, Woods will apparently be putting the green jacket on another player Sunday. He then went over to watch Cabrera Bello, whose second shot missed the green to the left. Kuchar missed the Masters cut for only the second time. Mickelson drove into a batch of pine trees, then actually went backward when his second shot ricocheted off one of the trees. Mickelson also shot 79 in the second round of the 2016 and 2018 tournaments.

It's November, and I think everybody just has to embrace that we're here and we're playing and that's a great thing." In some respects, this Masters is a celebration of what golf has done and a sendoff the sport has never had. For many, it signaled the start of golf season, whether that meant playing or watching. “All the Masters I've watched over the years in Ireland, the golfing season started normally the weekend of the Masters,” British Open champion Shane Lowry said. “I think when The Open Championship was canceled, I had serious doubts we'd play a Masters this year in 2020,” McIlroy said.

Golf fans have waited seven months for this: The 2020 Masters. Postponed from April, it’s finally time to return to Augusta National, where Tiger Woods made history in 2019 and has been able to hold onto that green jacket for a little extra time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Woods is paired with Shane Lowry and Andy Ogletree and will begin his Masters at 7:55 a.m. Friday on No. That stream will show them everyone of their shots as they happen, as well as tournament highlights. Poston, Christiaan Bezuidenhout12:00 p.m. -- Fred Couples, Max Homa, Dylan Frittelli12:11 p.m. -- Jose Maria Olazabal, Andrew Putnam, James Sugrue

He led DeChambeau by two strokes entering the final round. Wolff shot 75 to finish second, six strokes back. Overnight leader Matthew Wolff was 2 over, picking up his second bogey on No. It was an ugly start to the final round for Rory McIlroy and Harris English. Leader Matthew Wolff is at 5 under and started his round with a drive that hit the fairway.

Known for his friendship with President Donald Trump, Herman overcame a four-stroke deficit in the final round at Sedgefield Country Club. He had a final chance to tie on the 72nd hole, but his 8-foot birdie putt slid left of the cup. Herman got into the playoffs, jumping from 192nd to 54th in the race for the 125 spots. Herman had two birdies and an eagle from 59 feet on his first five holes to catch up to Kim. It was quite a week for Herman, who had three birdies over his final four holes Friday simply to make the cut.

Tom Hoge watches his drive on the ninth hole during the second round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Hoge, tied for the first-round lead with Harold Varner III and Roger Sloan, kept in front with a steady 2-under 68 to get to 10-under par. Hoge, whose best-ever tour finish was a second at The Greenbrier this season, was asked what it would take for his first PGA Tour win. Like Kim, Gooch shot 65 to get into the foursome on top. He had six birdies, including two of his final three holes, to move up. Kokrak was in a group of seven one shot further back along with past Wyndham champ Webb Simpson, who shot his second straight 66.

In March 2017, the funeral for Martin McGuinness took place in Northern Ireland. British Prime Ministers Teresa May, and predecessor Tony Blair, who was instrumental in achieving Northern Ireland peace, did not attend. A common commercial market linking Britain and Northern Ireland with the rest of Ireland has been important in maintaining peace. The Northern Ireland summit reconfirmed commitment to economic and wider cooperation. The Northern Ireland summit additionally agreed on new transatlantic trade negotiations between Europe and North America.

The Open returned to Royal Portrush after a 68-year absence and made up for lost time with an unusual amount of theater Thursday. He was the betting favorite who as a 16-year-old stunned Irish golf with a 61 to set the course record at Royal Portrush in the North of Ireland Amateur. The throaty cheers went silent when his tee shot went left and out of bounds. Clarke turned and applauded the grandstand that filled up before his opening tee shot at 6:35 a.m., and he treated everyone else to three birdies through five holes. That belonged to Royal Portrush and the people who filled the links to see championship golf.