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Rory McIlroy returns to Quail Hollow for the Truist Championship on May 7-10, 2026 with four wins at the course and fresh Masters momentum. That is bad timing for the rest of the field.
Jordan Spieth's move into a Titleist GTS2 driver, GTS2 3-wood, and Pro V1x Left Dash is not just a gear note. It feels like the kind of midseason correction players make when they know the window still matters.
Cameron Young already has the Players, a Masters T3, and now a six-shot 54-hole lead at Doral. The big shift is that his season finally looks real enough to stop speaking about him in future tense.
After winning the Chevron Championship on April 26, 2026, Nelly Korda moved to within five points of the LPGA Hall of Fame. Her bogey-free Friday in Mexico made the chase feel even more real.
At the April 28 halfway point, Rory McIlroy has the Masters, Matt Fitzpatrick has three wins, and Scottie Scheffler still leads the total stats. That messier power map is making the PGA Tour season better.
The new $10 million purse and 34-hour TV plan for the 2026 AIG Women's Open is not charity or symbolism. It is what a serious major championship is supposed to look like.
Rory McIlroy sitting out the 2026 Cadillac Championship says less about Rory and more about how much the PGA Tour still overestimates its Signature Event model.
Nelly Korda's five-shot Chevron Championship win on April 26, 2026 was not boring. It was the exact kind of dominant major performance that gives a season some shape.
The new Chrome Tour Triple Diamond is not interesting just because it's new. It's interesting because premium golf-ball fitting is finally admitting that faster players do not all need the same thing.
The Singapore Open is offering two places in The 154th Open on April 23-26, 2026, and that merit-based pressure already feels more compelling than a lot of pro golf's branding-heavy noise.
The PGA Tour confirmed on April 20 that it plans to end its Maui event and is exploring a PGA Tour Champions future for the Sony Open in Hawaii. That is more than a schedule tweak. It is a bad sign for one of the Tour's few January identities.
LIV's April 21, 2026 OKGC rebrand will not magically fix team golf, but tying a roster to Oklahoma and Talor Gooch is the first team concept the league has rolled out that makes obvious sports sense.
The 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans arrives with 80 teams, a loaded field, and the same reminder as always: the PGA Tour gets more interesting when players have to rely on somebody else.
LIV Golf Mexico City brought 73 club changes into an altitude-heavy week at Chapultepec, and honestly, that gear chaos is more fun than the league's usual corporate theater.
Reports this week said LIV Golf's 2026 season remains funded, while Jon Rahm heads into Sunday in Mexico City with the lead. Those facts can both be true and still point to the same conclusion: pro golf still has no real settlement.
The USGA and R&A's April 8, 2026 clarifications around broken clubs and mistaken cart rides are narrow on purpose. That's why they actually help.
The RBC Heritage remains one of the best tests on the PGA Tour, but its expanded 82-man, no-cut Signature Event format still feels like a polished compromise the Tour has not fully justified.
The RBC Heritage lands after the Masters every year, but Harbour Town keeps proving something modern golf still needs to hear: not every elite test has to be huge, loud, and built for launch monitors.
Rory McIlroy is out for the 2026 RBC Heritage after winning the Masters. That's not a crisis. It's a reminder that even Signature Events can't demand robots.
For the first time in 30 years, the Masters will be played without Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. It's either the end of an era or the start of a better one.
There are incredible stories happening in golf right now — Woodland's comeback, the Valero's last Masters invite, the ANWA, 11 LIV players at Augusta — and nobody can talk about anything but Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods stepping away means Augusta won't have its biggest draw. But maybe that's exactly what lets the 2026 Masters become about golf again instead of one man's tragedy.
A DUI arrest. A brain surgery comeback. A defending champion who can't buy a top-10. A Champions Dinner hosted by the guy who finally won after years of heartbreak. The 2026 Masters is going to be absolutely insane.
Tiger's DUI arrest two weeks before the Masters changes everything. The question isn't whether he can play — it's whether he should.
Fowler missed the cut at the Houston Open, essentially ending his shot at a Masters invite. The OWGR system failed him, and golf is worse for it.
Gary Woodland's Houston Open Round 1 was brilliant golf. But his decision to talk openly about PTSD after brain surgery is the bravest thing anyone in professional golf has done this year.
Four top-20s, six cuts made, trending up everywhere — and he's still 11 spots outside the OWGR cutoff. The cruelty of the ranking system, explained.
Three consecutive eagles. A Tiger comeback. A 9-2 blowout in the Finals. If you're still calling TGL a gimmick, you're not paying attention.
The world No. 1 hasn't posted a top-10 in three starts and suddenly everyone's worried. Relax. Here's why the Scheffler panic is completely ridiculous.
From heartbreak at The Players to a clutch birdie to win the Valspar — Fitzpatrick's two-week arc is the best story in golf right now.
A nine-time PGA Tour winner and current Presidents Cup captain is in the final pairing at the Valspar. This is the feel-good story golf needs right now.
Spieth eagled his first hole at the Valspar. At 32, with the Masters three weeks away, the clock is ticking on one of golf's great redemption stories.
Brooks Koepka is quietly playing his way back into relevance on the PGA Tour. Why his 2026 comeback deserves way more attention.
Everyone's calling Aberg's Players Championship collapse a 'choke.' That's lazy. The real issue is way more fixable — and way more interesting.
You don't need a new driver. You need to stop swinging out of your shoes and learn to hit the center of the face. A rant from a 2-handicap who's seen it all.
Hot take: buying a new driver every year isn't helping your game. A 2-handicap explains why your money is better spent almost anywhere else in your bag.
Golf lessons are supposed to be the answer to everything. But sometimes they make you worse. Here's when lessons are worth it — and when they're not.
You're carrying 14 clubs because the rules say you can, not because you need them. Here's why less might be more.