Rory McIlroy says he wasn't going to let a cold or post-Masters fatigue stop him from joining friend Shane Lowry to defend their title at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Justin Thomas found just the right tonic for his post-Masters week.

Justin Rose has been down this road before.

Rory McIlroy is the latest golfer to achieve the coveted career Grand Slam and he's been invited to sprinkle some of his stardust at Old Trafford.

Rory McIlroy finally has a Masters green jacket after a roller-coaster day at Augusta National.

Bryson DeChambeau believed his game was in good enough shape to win the Masters.

Justin Rose played one of the best rounds of his career, and it wasn't quite enough to deny Rory McIlroy his long-sought title at the Masters.

Patrick Reed and Ludvig Aberg made late Saturday moves at the Masters, while Justin Rose went in the opposite direction.

Rory McIlroy is one round away from the green jacket and career Grand Slam.

Zach Johnson shot a third-round 66 on Saturday for the 2007 Masters champion's best round ever in the tournament.

Scottie Scheffler's Masters title defense took some unusual detours into the flora surrounding Augusta National's ryegrass fairways and bentgrass greens Friday.

Rory McIlroy is in the mix at the Masters after a second-round 66 at Augusta National.

Justin Rose is still in the lead at the Masters.

Justin Rose showed there's more than two players capable of winning a Masters green jacket.

Augusta National looks as pristine as ever on the eve of the Masters.

Rory McIlroy got off to a fast start and finished with a 6-under 66 on Saturday, putting him at 12 under heading into the final round of the Masters.

Rory McIlroy brought some life to a sleepy start to the PGA Tour season.

Sepp Straka has a one-shot lead over Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry going into the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Scottie Scheffler looked every bit like the No. 1 player in the world even if he didn't make a hole-in-one during the exciting start to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Tiger Woods isn’t sure what’s going to happen with next month’s Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour event that he hosts in the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Tiger Woods was the sixth and final player to emerge from the tunnel and onto the field of play for his TGL debut.

Commissioner Jay Monahan wasn’t kidding when he told the PGA Tour staff in his year-end message that everything was on the table.

The Masters field is bigger that it was at this time a year ago.

Billy Horschel, who tied for second at last week’s British Open after holding the 54-hole lead, withdrew from the 3M Open on Thursday morning due to illness.

Justin Rose needed a long putt for par on the 12th hole at Royal Troon to keep pace with Xander Schauffele.

Billy Horschel leads a British Open that featured some of the hardest conditions players can remember.

Shane Lowry has the British Open lead at Royal Troon after a 69 on a wild day at Royal Troon.

The final men's major of the year is the oldest championship in golf.

Rory McIlroy doesn't see the British Open as a chance at redemption.

Collin Morikawa went to sleep with a share of the lead at the PGA Championship.

Scottie Scheffler arrived at the golf course in plenty of time.

The Masters already has the smallest field of the majors.

European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at Marco Simone when his celebrating players standing beside him started a chant that quickly swept through the grandstands.

Max Homa already had his hat off and was walking toward playing partner Brian Harman for a celebratory hug before his chip for eagle rolled in on the reachable par-4 16th.

The Ryder Cup is no exhibition.

Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of their defections to join LIV Golf.

Ludvig Aberg’s rapid rise in just three months as a pro has been capped by getting selected as one of the European team's captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup against the United States outside Rome this month.

Keegan Bradley and Denny McCarthy shared the Travelers Championship lead Friday at a tournament-record 15-under 125.

Max Homa didn’t make the cut in his home U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club.

The toughest test in golf takes on several meanings for this U.S. Open.

The PGA Tour's “Block Party” is still going with Michael Block playing at Colonial after tying for 15th at last week's PGA Championship.

Michael Block is not the little-known club pro from Southern California anymore.

Brooks Koepka has returned to the top at the PGA Championship.

PGA club professional Michael Block's storybook run at the PGA Championship will finish with Rory McIlroy and a potentially big payday.

Viktor Hovland shot a 7-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the rain-delayed RBC Heritage.

The final Match Play could be the last chance for some players to get into the Masters.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are closer to seeing their high-tech golf league become reality.

Tiger Woods feels healthy enough to tee it up at Riviera this week.

Justin Rose is a winner again after four years.

On a day of wild weather at Pebble Beach, Justin Rose was a steady presence.

The U.S. Open began with Phil Mickelson speaking without saying hardly anything.

The 2022 U.S. Open most certainly has not been supersized.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is blasting the Saudi-based LIV Golf league as a series of exhibitions that spends billions to recruit players without getting a return on the investment.

Scottie Scheffler can play in the Masters forever now.

As tradition dictates, there is now very bad news to report about Canadian golfers Mike Weir and Mackenzie Hughes.

The opening day of the Dell Technologies Match Play has had its share of pillow fights.

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

The PGA Tour is set for beautiful weather at Pebble Beach, with one eye on Saudi Arabia.

Luke List earned his first PGA Tour victory with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Torrey Pines.

Jon Rahm is back in the California desert for The American Express after a two-year break.

Players were expecting low scores at The Summit Club and Robert Streb led the way.

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

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.

Kevin Kisner made birdie on the second extra hole to win a record-tying six-man playoff at the Wyndham Championship.

Russell Henley shot a 1-under 69 to take a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Wyndham Championship on Saturday and move a step closer to his first PGA Tour in four years.

Russell Henley shot a 6-under 64 on Friday to open a four-stroke lead halfway through the Wyndham Championship.

Russell Henley shot an 8-under 62, his lowest round in more than two years, to take the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Wyndham Championship.

Pennsylvania golf courses already have hosted 88 USGA championships and more are on the way.

Two editions in its return to the Olympic program, golf is building momentum.

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

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

Andy Sullivan was among the last to make the field at the British Open and part of the first group out when play began.

Louis Oosthuizen and Sergio Garcia are among Olympic qualifiers who aren't going to Tokyo next month.

Fans clamoring for a showdown between heavyweights Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau will have to wait.

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

Phil Mickelson has made history at the PGA Championship as the oldest, at 50, winner in major championship history.

Rory McIlroy is back at Quail Hollow, the course where he won his first PGA Tour event.

The PGA Tour is awarding a $40 million bonus pool to the top 10 players who move the needle in golf, regardless of how they perform inside the ropes.

Hideki Matsuyama almost turned down his first chance to play the Masters.

Hideki Matsuyama has made history as the first male golfer from Japan to win a major championship.

Hideki Matsuyama delivered a masterpiece at the Masters.

The third round of the Masters is over, and Hideki Matsuyama has a four-shot lead over Xander Schauffele, Marc Leishman, Justin Rose and Will Zalatoris.

Justin Rose was down, then up, and finally level at the end of Day 2.

Justin Rose didn't get the memo that Augusta National was playing a little easier Friday at the Masters.

Dustin Johnson is scheduled to be in Butler Cabin on Sunday evening, draping the green jacket over the shoulders of the Masters champion.

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.

Rory McIlroy hit his approach on the seventh hole Thursday at the Masters right where he was aiming.

Only a dozen players managed to break par in the opening round of the Masters.

(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.

Then, Brian Harman shot 69 to tie for third at The Players Championship and went from No. Most curious is the case of Gary Woodland, the former U.S. Open champion and a Match Play finalist in 2015. Under the PGA Tour guidelines, he has to self-isolate for 10 days. THE BOUNCEIt didn’t take Collin Morikawa long to learn how to win on the PGA Tour. A year later, he won a playoff over Justin Thomas at Muirfield Village and a major at the PGA Championship.

He might not be able to contemplate driving a par 5 — that sideshow Saturday at Bay Hill belonged to Bryson DeChambeau. You've got to be top 50 in the world,” Westwood said. He grabbed the lead by holing a 30-foot eagle putt on the 16th hole (DeChambeau made birdie) and a 30-foot birdie putt on the closing hole (DeChambeau made par) to reach 11-under 205. Conners, who started the third round with a one-shot lead, could only manage a 71 on a cool, breezy day at Bay Hill with only a few drops of rain. Sunday was shaping up as another thriller at Bay Hill.

Conners surged into the lead with a 25-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th hole — his second eagle on that hole in two days — for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot advantage over former Bay Hill winner Martin Laird (67). He was two shots behind, along with Viktor Hovland and Lanto Griffin, who each had a 68. The forecast featured plenty of rain Saturday, which figures to make Bay Hill play longer and tougher, while also keeping the greens from getting as crusty as they were last year when Tyrrell Hatton won with a closing 74. He won at Bay Hill in 2011 on a final round so tough a 75 was enough to get the job done. He played in the morning, had a pair of birdies and came to the 16th, the easiest at Bay Hill.

And no one is more concerned than Ryder Cup officials. THE RYDER CUPNo other golf tournament relies so much on noise than the Ryder Cup, which is why it was postponed from last September. Phil Mickelson has played in every Ryder Cup since 1995 — Morikawa wasn't even born then. Since the last Ryder Cup, Lefty has finished a combined 84 shots behind in the five majors he made the cut. McIlroy, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas all have had moments of brilliance.

55 after closing with a 77 in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai to drop to a tie for 23rd. That he accumulated the most world ranking points (463.54) was no surprise. Johnson received credit for the victory with the staggered start based on the FedEx Cup (he tied for third in world ranking points). DIVOTSDustin Johnson earned an average of 25.75 world ranking points in his 18 starts worldwide in 2020. That's more than the total ranking points Tiger Woods earned (19.08) in the nine tournaments he played.

Thomas sailed his second shot over the 15th green and into the water, making bogey on a par 5 where he was hoping to make up ground. He finished off a 71 in the second round, had a 72 in the third round and was 11 shots behind. “If you have long days like this, I'm going to get a little bit sore, which I definitely am.”U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau was more dizzy than sore. I'm going to have play aggressive when I can and play smart when I can't." Johnson had two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the back nine, and he hasn't made a bogey since the sixth hole of his second round.

The opening round was delayed nearly three hours at the start by heavy rain, and with limited daylight in November, there was no way to complete the round. Greg Norman still holds the record for lowest opening round, a 63 in 1996, the year he lost a six-shot lead to Nick Faldo in the final round. There were 53 rounds under par in the 92-man field and 24 rounds in the 60s, both Masters records for any round. The previous mark was 47 rounds under par in the second round of 1992 (83-man field). This is his fifth Masters, and not only his lowest score, but the first time he has shot par or better in the opening round.

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2019, file photo, Tiger Woods celebrates after winning the Zozo Championship golf tournament at the Accordia Golf Narashino country club in Inzai, east of Tokyo, Japan. The Zozo Championship is the second Asia-based event to move to the United States this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. PGA champion Collin Morikawa was at Sherwood back then, as a young spectator looking for an autograph (he didn't get it). The happiest memories belong to Woods, who won his tournament five times at Sherwood and was runner-up on five other occasions. The Zozo Championship made its debut last year in Japan, and it was a big success despite rain that wiped out one day and led to a Monday finish.