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The U.S. Open, one of golf's most fearsome tests, is headed into its final round at Los Angeles Country Club.Although the course has sometimes seemed more forgiving than past Open venues, any championship round has the potential to become excruciating especially when the final round starts with a tie atop the leaderboard.

The U.S. Open will be played in Los Angeles this week for the first time in 75 years, and there is a predominant California theme to the event.Many of the top contenders at the tournament grew up nearby.More than a dozen in the field were raised in California or call it home.All of which makes it seem almost wrong, or cruel, that the best California golfer in history will not be competing.

The Southern Section has produced some pretty good professional golfers, such as Tiger Woods and Collin Morikawa, but even they would be impressed with what junior Matthew Robles of Warren accomplished Thursday at the Southern Section individual final.Robles shot a 10-under 62, setting a course record at Riva Ridge Golf Course, to win the championship.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.About six weeks ago that is, a missed Masters Tournament cut, a self-imposed hiatus and a tie for 47th at the Wells Fargo Championship ago Rory McIlroy talked about pies.Back then, he appeared ready to win big again and exuded as much as confidence as you did before your Thanksgiving dessert became a fire hazard.

Tiger Woods will return to competition on Thursday for the first time since July in another test for a body that has repeatedly been rebuilt but is, at least in Woods's judgment, still hard-wired to contend.Woods, 47, will enter the Genesis Invitational, at the Riviera Country Club west of downtown Los Angeles, not having played a traditional golf event since the British Open last summer at St. Andrews in Scotland, where he missed the cut.

Dow Finsterwald, who captured the 1958 P.G.A. Championship and twice narrowly missed out on winning the Masters while becoming one of golf's most consistent money winners, died Nov. 4 at his home in Colorado Springs.He was 93.His death was confirmed by his son Dow Jr., The Associated Press reported.

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More than usual, Los Angeles Country Club is covered in trees.Four current members of the Stanford men's golf team have qualified for the U.S. Open - that's believed to be a record for the major championship - and, as any fan of the Cardinal knows, the unofficial mascot of Stanford is the tree.

More than four years ago, I became a grandfather.Later this year, I'll become a grandfather again.The question is, what have I learned from my first stint in this role that I should apply to my second go-round?For starters, avoid asking your future grandson if he likes grandma better than he does you.

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Former President Trump predicted this day would come.Last July, while taking part in a pro-am during an LIV Golf event at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Trump heaped praise on the newly formed, Saudi-backed tour while criticizing the PGA Tour and the golfers that remained loyal to it.

AUSTIN, Texas It was not all that long ago Tom Kim, after all, is only 20 years old but before Kim emerged as one of the PGA Tour's wunderkinds-in-progress, he would watch the World Golf Championships.For sure, 100 percent, Kim cheerfully reminisced as he clacked along this week at Austin Country Club, the site of the championships' match play event.

Follow our live updates of the Super Bowl between Philadelphia and Kansas City.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.The wind was whipping like a blender working overtime on a margarita Thursday morning, and the more than 17,000 people bellied up to the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open acted as if it were last call.If you want cemetery-like quiet, kneel politely before the golf gods at the Masters' Amen Corner.

Riv not LIV is the mantra this week at the Genesis Invitational.LIV Golf is the upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and financially supported by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.Its first tournament of 2023 will be at the El Camaleón Golf Course in Mayakoba, Mexico, next week and its golfers include last year's Genesis winner, Joaquin Niemann.

Kathy Whitworth, who joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour in the late 1950s when it was a blip on the national sports scene and who went on to win 88 tournaments, a record for both women and men on the United States tours, died on Saturday.She was 83.Whitworth was at a neighborhood Christmas party in Flower Mound, Texas, where she lived, when she collapsed and died soon after, Christina Lance, an LPGA spokeswoman, said.

Just because Chicago has had no sunshine for more than a week, the teams in season are rebuilding or unintentionally awful, and the Cubs and White Sox are competing to see who can tick off their fans the most doesn't mean it's all bad.Here are four things to cheer you up on a gloomy Chicago day.1. Dusty Baker's toothpicks are off to Cooperstown.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Kim Kardashian made a surprise appearance at a football match in London, to watch Arsenal take on Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League.The world-famous reality star and influencer was in attendance at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday, as filming takes place on her new documentary.

It is a measure of the way Pep Guardiola's mind works that the Manchester City boss can start a post-match news conference talking about his star striker scoring five goals, take aim at the social media critics of his selections and end by lamenting a trip to Old Trafford more than six years ago by his "idol" Julia Roberts.

Manchester City hammered RB Leipzig 7-0 on Tuesday night in a one-sided Champions League last-16 second-leg clash in which superstar striker Erling Haaland scored five times in total to seal an 8-1 aggregate victory and easily book a place in Friday's quarter-final draw.Such a devastating display both collectively as a team and individually from Haaland will greatly raise belief that City can finally end their long wait for glory in Europe's elite club competition - the one major trophy that has continued to elude them despite their unprecedented period of domestic success during a seven-year stint under Guardiola that has included four Premier League titles, the FA Cup and four League Cups.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A unique mosaic portrait of Sir Michael Caine in one of his most famous film roles has been created to mark his 90th birthday.The image of British secret agent Harry Palmer consists of thousands of coins, sourced from a bank in the southern Spanish town of Coin.

A day that started with butterflies ended with birdies - three in a row - as Tiger Woods navigated Riviera Country Club on Thursday with a round as crisp as the cool afternoon.Woods, playing his first competitive round in a non-major in 844 days, shot a two-under-par 69 to the delight of the robust gallery capturing his every move with raised cellphone cameras.

Tiger Woods ducked into the clubhouse for a bathroom break after finishing nine holes Friday.While his sizable gallery waited for him to return to the next tee, spectators couldn't resist attempting humor.Someone would yell out a one-liner and everyone else would either chuckle or cringe.A day earlier Woods was caught on video trying to hand playing partner Justin Thomas a tampon after Woods outdrove him on the ninth hole.

It can't be fond memories of the place, because they are few.Tiger Woods will play the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club this week, injecting an already star-stacked field with that incomparable Tiger factor.The gallery will swell.The television audience will skyrocket.Tiger could stumble.

The grouping was grand, the spectacle stunning.Three unwavering golfers, not a bogey among them through 14 holes, bunched atop the leaderboard of the Genesis Invitational on Saturday.Would one separate from the others ahead of Sunday's final round?One would, and it was Jon Rahm, who riveted Riviera with a six-under-par 65 that included a 24-foot birdie putt on No. 18 punctuated by raising his putter to the sky.

With the gallery wildly cheering a golfer struggling to stay one measly shot under par, Jon Rahm enhanced his status as the best player on the PGA Tour by holding off pesky Max Homa to win the Genesis Invitational on Sunday by two strokes.The focus of many spectators at Riviera Country Club was Tiger Woods, who played his first meaningful golf since last year's British Open before shifting into tournament host mode to present the championship trophy to Rahm, whose win was his third this year, fifth in his last nine worldwide starts and 10th on the PGA Tour.

When the popular EA Sports golf franchise returns this spring, it will immediately find itself wrestling with a new conundrum that was nowhere on the horizon when the series, formerly and familiarly known as the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise, went dormant in 2015: What to do with PGA golfers leaving for the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour?