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If you’re playing golf on Labor Day, you might think of race-car legend Carroll Shelby when you shank a ball into a water hazard. Shelby — who was a dedicated member of LA’s exclusive Bel Air Country Club — invented other gizmos besides hot rods, and apparently spent much of his time on the links …

Tiger Woods will have plenty of time to prepare for the U.S. Open. After finishing 11 over par in the BMW Championship — with Sunday’s final round a 1-over 70 clinching the first tournament since 2010 during which he shot over par in all four rounds — Woods finished in a tie for 53rd place …

The PGA Tour is two-plus months into fanless tournaments and two of the game’s best players are still trying to adjust to it. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have been to the pinnacle of the sport, winning major championships in front of massive crowds that set the tone for what’s at stake. Those memories serve …

Tiger Woods had better watch his back — Charlie Woods may be coming for his old man on the golf course. Tiger’s 11-year-old son, Charlie, won a US Kids Golf-sanctioned event in Florida last week, shooting a 3-under 33 with three birdies and no bogeys to win by five strokes in the nine-hole tournament. “He’s …

SAN FRANCISCO — There was an unfamiliar and disconcerting look of satisfaction on Tiger Woods’ face and in the tone of his voice as he readied to exit Harding Park from the 2020 PGA Championship shortly after lunchtime Sunday. Note the “shortly after lunchtime’’ portion of that last sentence. That meant Woods was miles from …

SAN FRANCISCO — All week, the talk at this PGA Championship was about the big hitters and how much of an advantage they’d have at TPC Harding Park, which players were calling “a big-boy golf course.’’ All week, 23-year-old Collin Morikawa, slight of build when compared to the brutes like Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin …

SAN FRANCISCO — The last question posed to Tiger Woods in his pre-tournament press conference Tuesday at Harding Park in advance of this week’s PGA Championship came from a reporter who asked him, “Can you win this week?’’ “Of course,’’ Woods said with a broad smile. And just like that, Woods’ question-and-answer session was over …

Twenty-plus pounds of muscle couldn’t help Bryson DeChambeau win his battle with ants. During the first round of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Thursday, DeChambeau complained to rules officials that red fire ants were in his stance on the 7th hole and that he deserved a drop. “It looks like an ant hole, or …

Christina Kim is taking extra precaution while traveling to Toledo, Ohio for the first event of the LGPA restart. After waking up at 4 a.m. for her connecting flight to Charlotte, the three-time LGPA winner took several preventative measures to protect herself from potentially contracting the coronavirus. She dressed herself in a full-body suit, equipped …

Former Yankees ace CC Sabathia seemed to be enjoying his retirement as his former club opened the season on Thursday. On Friday, a slimmed-down Sabathia was spotted hitting the links at New Jersey’s Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club with a group that included p.r. guru Ron Berkowitz and veteran Def Jam and Roc Nation Sports exec …