Golf

Anthony Delisanti of Niagara Wheatfield, the youngest champion in the history of the Buffalo District Golf Association, will be among those in the field of 63 who will compete for the Section VI boys championship at Bartlett Country Club in Olean on Monday.At age 17 last summer, Delisanti won the …

Thompson was battling history’s headwinds, too. A U.S.-born woman hadn’t won a major since Angela Stanford at the 2018 Evian Championship, and in the five men’s Opens held at the Olympic Club, none of the 54-hole leaders held on to win.And then there was Thompson’s personal travails in the majors. …

DUBLIN, Ohio — The leaderboards positioned at critical junctures of a professional golf tournament are more than scoreboards. They are omnipresent yardsticks measuring the rhythm of the contest with hole-by-hole counts for the top golfers, collectively meant to tell the whole story of the event.But on Sunday, in the final …

Stephen Ames edged fellow Canadian Mike Weir by one stroke to win the Champions Tour’s Principal Charity Classic. Ames, from Calgary, shot a final round of 5-under 67 to move up eight spots into first at 12 under. Weir, from Bright’s Grove, Ont., shot a third round of 3-under 69 …

One of the biggest snoozers of the year suddenly became one of the most dramatic tournaments in recent memory at the Memorial Tournament when 54-hole leader Jon Rahm — who was six clear of everyone in the field — had to withdraw from the tournament because of a positive COVID-19 …

DUBLIN, OHIO — Jon Rahm, a popular player on the PGA Tour and the world’s third-ranked male golfer, had just charged to a six-stroke lead on Saturday in the third round of the Memorial Tournament, an event he won a year ago. Walking from the 18th hole, where a crowd …