#rory-mcilroy

#rory-mcilroy

Elite golfers, who in recent decades have increasingly used head-turning distances on their drives to conquer courses, should be forced to start using new balls within three years, the sport's top regulators said Tuesday.The U.S. Golf Association and the R&A, which together write golf's rule book, estimated that their technical proposal could trim top golfers' tee shots by an average of about 15 yards.

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.

New York (CNN)Watching Super Bowl LVII in person will be cheaper than last year's game, but it will still cost you thousands of dollars.StubHub said that the average price customers are paying for a ticket Thursday was $6,800.The cheapest seats to Sunday's match up between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are selling at about $3,200 apiece.

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.

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.

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.