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Rogers, Arkansas – Japanese rookie Yuna Nishimura achieved her best LPGA result Sunday at the NW Arkansas Championship, finishing four strokes behind winner Ryu…

ROME — Zach Johnson wanted to deliver a message. In a clear effort to curry favor with the away crowd, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, in his opening-ceremony speech, waxed poetic on the eve of the matches…

ROME — There was barely a European fingerprint on the Ryder Cup the Europeans won Sunday, defeating the U.S. 16 ½ to 11 ½ at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, before Rory McIlroy, one of their best, most…

ROME — Europe was forced to sweat it out for a few hours Sunday, but in the end the huge lead it built through the first two days of the 44th Ryder Cup was too much the for the U.S. to overcome in the Sunday…

ROME — Despite a report that surfaced on Sunday, there seems to be some question about whether Joe LaCava and Rory McIlroy cleared the air over the tension that occurred on the 18th hole of the final four-balls…

ROME — The U.S. Ryder Cup team took umbrage to suggestions they aren’t a tight-knit group. When a report came out on Saturday claiming U.S. player Patrick Cantlay wasn’t wearing a team cap in protest that…

ROME — Ben Crenshaw is here in Italy this week, as are many of the past U.S. Ryder Cup captains, to support this year’s team. Whether current U.S. captain Zach Johnson planned to have Crenshaw the 1999…

ROME — Things are getting heated in Rome at the 44th Ryder Cup. Rory McIlroy, after losing 1-up with Matt Fitzpatrick to Patrick Cantlay and Wyndham Clark, went after Justin Thomas’ caddie, Jim “Bones’’…

Italy — Europe has control of the Ryder Cup, backed by the most lopsided match in history that brought Scottie Scheffler to tears. The Americans can only cling to hope, and they have Patrick Cantlay to thank for that.…

The Ryder Cup crowd wasn’t happy with Patrick Cantlay on Saturday.  A number of people in attendance on Day Two of the tournament mocked Cantlay for not wearing the U.S. team’s customary hat.  The group of…