But Payton Pritchard may have taken the lead after attempting to tee off despite record-breaking South Carolina rain. There’s been historic rainfall in Charleston, where the Boston Celtics training camp is located—and yet, that didn’t stop Pritchard from trying to get teammate Mike Conley onto the course. “He’s texting me in the middle of a flood warning, saying, ‘Hey, we can still get out there. It’s just sprinkling,’” Conley told CelticsBlog. ”I’m like, ‘Bro, it’s not happening today.’”

Because he always has an unorthodox quote, coach Joe Mazzulla chimed in. “If you don’t play in the rain, you don’t physically love it,” he said. “And I’m about to see how many guys on this team truly love what they do.”

On Monday, the LPGA Tour announced the Lotte Championship, won by Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday, will be moving from Hoakalei Country Club, where it has been held since 2022, to Kapalua’s Plantation Course. The date of the event is also moving from October to March to coincide with the Nanea Cup, a new LPGA tournament coming to the Big Island that will feature LPGA and college players. This will allow for a two-week Hawaiian stretch that will follow the LPGA's early year Asian swing.

From 1999 to 2025, Kapalua played host to the PGA Tour’s season-opening Tournament of Champions event, but tour officials postponed the event in 2026 due to water issues with the course. Then, in April, the tour announced it was ending the Maui tournament altogether with the coming change to its two-tiered series format. In 2008, the LPGA held a tournament at the Bay Course at Kapalua.

That's right, we're going straight to the GHIN! The USGA unveiled on Monday the next iteration of the app, which has been redesigned and enhanced with more features. Posting scores to maintain a Handicap Index is still the backbone of the product, but there's now a new stats section as well. “Leveraging both modern design principles and direct golfer feedback, this redesign marks a foundational step that paves the way for an exciting future," said Tom Padula, managing editor, GHIN. "We can’t wait for GHIN users to update their app and be delighted with the new visual experience and expanded feature set."

You can learn more about the app redesign, which is being rolled out gradually to users over the next few weeks, here. And you can also learn more about how to play a match using the World Handicap System and what it actually means to be a scratch golfer.

The issue is relevant now because President Donald Trump is pushing the Sunshine Protection Act that would make daylight saving permanent, something PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp also supports since it would allow certain PGA Tour broadcasts to run later. So great, who doesn’t want more daylight? Well, it doesn’t quite work that way. The bill has opponents within Trump’s own party who argue kids would be going to school in the dark, and as we detailed a few years ago, though good for golf, there are mixed opinions about how it also affects energy use and even our sleep patterns.

The 21-year-old, who turned in a 2-0-1 performance at the Presidents Cup last month and captured the 3M Open in just his third professional start this summer, was announced as the latest player to join the simulator league on Monday. Koivun will be part of a new team, Motor City G.C., which also features Brooks Koepka. The third season of the tech-infused circuit will start at the end of December, with ESPN and ABC again picking up the broadcast rights.

However, several players didn't wait for the invitation. Neal Shipley switched at the Biltmore Championship Asheville, the PGA Tour's fall opener, then shot a career-best 62 on his way to a T3, also his best Tour finish. Doug Ghim added the new Pro V1x at the Bank of Utah Championship and played his first 54 holes in 22 under. Robert MacIntyre put the new Pro V1 in play for the first time at the Alfred Dunhill Links and finished T6.

While this is the first week pros will get their "official" look at the balls, the groundwork began in early March at Bay Hill, where Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth, Ryan Gerard and Harris English tested final candidates in Tuesday practice rounds. Fordie Pitts, Titleist's director of tour research and validation, said the surest sign came when players began asking how soon they could use the ball.

As far as what's changed, Titleist hasn't detailed the specifics yet. Expect those to surface as the rollout moves across tours over the coming months.

For now, the 15th-generation Pro V1 and 13th-generation Pro V1x are doing something familiar—showing up in staff bags before the official retail launch.

with the Baycurrent Classic in Japan and ending with the RSM Classic just before Thanksgiving. That still leaves players time to jockey for position in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, where anyone inside the top 100 will earn exempt status on tour next year. Those finishing Nos. 51-60 will earn a spot into the first two signature events of the year.

Only one player moved inside the top 100 after the Bank of Utah Championship, where Austin Smotherman won to collect his first tour title. That was Billy Horschel, the eight-time PGA Tour winner who tied for 13th place to move from No. 101 to No. 94. He opened Sunday in Utah with four birdies in the first six holes, then played the next 10 in even par. But birdies on the last two holes had him sign for a 65 and he's now several spots inside the magic number. He had been one of the biggest American supporters of the BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour the past few years and skipped the flagship event this year, saying he was “devastated” but needed to remain in the U.S. to improve his status.

Now sitting right on the bubble is Seamus Power, who moved from 104th to 101st after making birdie on the last in Utah to tie for 21st place.

but again, he fell short in his bid for a victory. It came at the hands of Steven Alker, who win the Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic for his third senior title in his last four starts. Block, the Southern California club pro, entered the final round at Lehigh Country Club in Allentown, Pa., with a one-shot advantage, but he played his first 10 holes in one over par and never had any momentum. He birdied 16 and 17 to give himself a chance but bogeyed the last to end two shots behind Alker, who made six birdies to shoot 66. Block now has four top-10 finishes in seven senior starts this season and is eligible to play in the tour's three-event playoff series.

“A little bit surprised,” Alker said. “I just crushed it the last six weeks, the scoring got better, my putting got better, driving it better, doing everything better. So I didn't have my A-game today, but just good to get it done. Made some big putts there at the end.”

Becoming exempt from mandatory military service by winning a gold medal was plenty for 24-year-old South Korean. But what didn’t hurt Kim in overcoming the fears of losing his final round lead in Japan was something more: inspiration. And that appears to have come in the form of a text message from none other than Tiger Woods. Kim has become friends with the 15-time major winner as a teammate on the Jupiter Links Golf Club in the TGL. After Kim won the Genesis Scottish Open in July for his first victory since October 2023, Woods sent a congratulatory text. And Kim revealed that the night before the final round of the Asian Games, Woods again shot him a message: “Just be you. Nothing more, nothing less.” Kim came through with a final-round 66 to claim the gold by three shots. Kim seemed to play off the importance of the win at first, but his relief has become evident in the aftermath. “I feel like I have been unloading things off my shoulders all season, like taking water buckets out of my bag,” Kim said. “I think I can finally get a good night’s sleep now.” And he can partially thank Tiger.

Japan’s Yuta Suguira played tremendously well in the third round of the Korn Ferry Tour's Compliance Solutions Championship in Owasso, Okla., making 11 birdies and an eagle to shoot 12-under 58 at The Patriot Golf Club. It was the fourth sub-59 score in KFT history, and a bogey kept Suguira from tying the all-time mark of 57 set by Cristobal del Solar’in the 2024 Astara Golf Championship.

We give Suguira an enthusiastic golf clap instead of a throwing our fists in the air for several reasons. The KFT offers pushover courses at times, including the Patriot, which surrendered a 59 last year to Davis Chatfield while Adrien Dumont de Chassart opened with two 61s en route to a record-breaking total of 33 under. As with last year, it doesn’t help the course’s defense that the golfers are playing preferred lies. The scoring average for the round was a KFT-record 66.57, and there were two 60s, including William Sides lipping out a birdie putt on 18 for 59. Is this really the “test” you want in the first of two KFT Finals events?

For his work, Suguira—the 2025 Japan Tour rookie of the year—moved into a tie for eighth heading into Sunday. The leader at 21 under is Trent Phillips, who shot 61 on Saturday.