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Oct 19, 2025, 06:19 PM ET
RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed patient with his putting on a windy Sunday and watched it pay big dividends with a birdie-par-eagle finished for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.
Leonard won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into top 10 after the first playoff event for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The top 54 advance to the second postseason event next week in Arkansas.
Els was in control on the back nine of the James River course at the Country Club of Virginia and appeared to steady himself with birdies on reachable par-4 15th and the par-5 16th.
But he bogeyed the 17th as Leonard made his move. After a birdie on the 16th, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 feet and holed the downhill eagle putt to post at 12-under 204.
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Els failed to make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing hole that would have forced a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has won every year on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was within two shots of the lead until a long three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and finished three back in his bid for a first Champions win this year.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for 21st, moving up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Bank Championship next week. David Bransdon fell out.
The top 36 after next week reach the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed patient with his putting on a windy Sunday and watched it pay big dividends with a birdie-par-eagle finished for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.
Leonard won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into top 10 after the first playoff event for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The top 54 advance to the second postseason event next week in Arkansas.
Els was in control on the back nine of the James River course at the Country Club of Virginia and appeared to steady himself with birdies on reachable par-4 15th and the par-5 16th.
But he bogeyed the 17th as Leonard made his move. After a birdie on the 16th, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 feet and holed the downhill eagle putt to post at 12-under 204.
Els failed to make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing hole that would have forced a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has won every year on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was within two shots of the lead until a long three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and finished three back in his bid for a first Champions win this year.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for 21st, moving up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Bank Championship next week. David Bransdon fell out.
The top 36 after next week reach the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
NEW DELHI — Tommy Fleetwood’s best season got even better Sunday when he ran off four straight birdies around the turn and closed with a 7-under 65 for a two-shot victory over Keita Nakajima in the DP World India Championship.
Fleetwood had cause to celebrate for the third time in the last three months — the FedExCup title with his first win on U.S. soil, the leading points-earner in a road win for Team Europe in the Ryder Cup and now his first European tour win of the year.
Nakajima had a two-shot lead to start the final round at Delhi Golf Club and played bogey-free. He just couldn’t keep pace with Fleetwood, who made four straight birdies starting at the par-3 seventh to turn a two-shot deficit into a two-shot lead.
“I feel like for all the good that’s happened this year, a couple of things have disappointed me,†said Fleetwood, who had not won this season on the DP World Tour. “Another win, it feels great.â€
Even after another Ryder Cup highlight, the 34-year-old from England felt he had more to achieve this year and winning on the European circuit — his eighth career tour win — was high on his list. Fleetwood, for all his success on the PGA Tour this year, was still not eligible for the closing two events on the European schedule.
Now he is. The victory moves him from No. 94 to No. 25 in the Race to Dubai, making him eligible for the Abu Dhabi Championship and season-ending Tour Championship in Dubai.
Most pleasing to Fleetwood was watching his 8-year-old son, Frankie, run onto the 18th green after he tapped in for par to finish on 22-under 266.
They were playing golf recently when Fleetwood said his son told him he had never won a tournament where the boy could run out to green to greet him.
“All day today, I had in my mind, ‘Could I put myself in position to make that happen?’†Fleetwood said. “It’s just one of those little things it means a lot to me. It means so much to me. That was really cool. That’s what I wanted to do all day.â€
Nakajima struggled with accuracy off the tee when he needed to make up ground late in the final round, though he holed enough putts to stay close. He shot 69 and moved into the top 10 on the list of European tour players who would be eligible for PGA Tour cards next year.
Shane Lowry (68), Thriston Lawrence (65) and Alex Fitzpatrick (67) tied for third at 270.
Rory McIlroy, playing in India for the first time in his career, birdied his final hole for a 71 to finish in a tie for 26th, 11 shots behind Fleetwood.
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WWE announced dates for its 2025 holiday tour, including seven dates for “WWE Raw” and “WWE SmackDown,” as well as 10 live events, but the company will not be holding one of its yearly traditional shows. WWE announced the holiday tour dates on its website, but a December 26 show at Madison Square Garden in New York City was not listed.
It was reported back in September that WWE was likely breaking the post-Christmas MSG event tradition. Dave Meltzer reported in the “Wrestling Observer Newsletter” at the time that the traditional house show would not take place due to WWE holding “Raw” at the venue on November 17, which will also be John Cena’s final appearance in the city on his retirement tour. The post-Christmas house show will take place at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland this year.
The holiday tour kicks off with a live episode of “SmackDown” from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas on December 5, and will conclude with an episode of “Raw” from the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York on January 5. In addition to Baltimore, live events will also take place in Tampa, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Rochester, Ft. Myers, Detroit, Syracuse, Bridgeport and Worcester, Massachusetts.
Tickets for each live event of the holiday tour will go on sale next Friday, October 24, at 10 am local time on Ticketmaster. Fans can purchase tickets via presale on the website starting on Wednesday, October 22 at 10am using the code “WWETIX” through Thursday, October 23 at midnight.
At Monday and Tuesday practice rounds on the PGA Tour, it’s almost odd at this point to see a player withoutsome sort of launch monitor device being carried around to measure every shot.
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, Trackman’s Harry Shih explained what numbers pros and their caddies are actually focusing on when they are on the course using a launch monitor.
Shih said he walks every Tuesday practice round with Xander Schuaffele to help record data from all of his shots.
“It’s really carry and then spin rate are the two things that we’re looking at,” Shih said. “Especially for a guy like Xander, who’s pretty low maintenance when it comes to change.”
That’s not only useful to Schauffele but perhaps more useful to his caddie, Austin Kaiser.
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“For Kaiser, he wants to be able to refine his judgment of wind, what he tells Xander in the practice round, ‘Hey, I think it’s a 180 ball,’ and if it actually goes 175, then he knows maybe if his 5-yard calculation was right,” Shih said. “But then also just seeing just maybe some different things out on the golf course, spin rates, how it’s coming out of a first cut lie versus a fairway lie, ball speed differences, spin rate differences.”
Schauffele isn’t one to change equipment much, but when he does, that’s where Shih will let Kellen Watson and the rest of the Callaway team take over.
That work is also primarily done on the driving range and they are looking at things like peak height and gapping. When they are out on the golf course, the work is more about hitting shots and being able to trust numbers.
“Is it performing the same way on the golf course as it was on the range?” Shih said. “Can we take a little bit off of it? Can we hit it a little bit higher? Things like that. But it’s really, hey, is spin rate and carry where we need it for maybe that week.”
For more from Shih and Fully Equipped co-hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped here, or watch it below.
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When Jeffrey Kang was in college at the University of Southern California, he’d sometimes earn some extra cash by helping head coach Chris Zambri with his junior golf clinics. For Zambri, it was simple: He’d point at Kang, one of the most decorated recruits in program history, and say to the kids, “This is what it takes.â€
If only Kang knew then just how much it would take.
Kang’s long and winding road to the PGA Tour culminated last Sunday in French Lick, Indiana, where the 34-year-old prodigy turned journeyman ended the Korn Ferry Tour Championship ranked 14th in points and grabbed one of 20 available cards for 2026.
“It took a lot of patience, a lot of self-talk, just believing in myself and trusting that it was all going to work out in the end. It’s been tough, but this is why we do it,†said Kang, who in the aftermath of the card ceremony was, like most everybody else, not only soaking up the moment but also in champagne and Michelob Ultra.
“I’m just really happy I stuck it out.â€
What has proven an arduous journey began in Fullerton, California, just outside of Los Angeles, where it all once came easy and where Kang developed into a standout not only at Sunny Hills High but nationally. Student-athletes of Kang’s ilk – talented, smart and from the West Coast – usually matriculated to Stanford. But when Kang verbally committed to the Trojans, Zambri was so content with his Class of 2010 haul, which also included another AJGA All-American in Ramsey Sahyoun, that he didn’t care that it meant a kid by the name of Patrick Cantlay heading to crosstown-rival UCLA. Cantlay would win the Haskins Award, given to the best player in the nation, as a freshman. But Kang had done alright, too, an all-Pac-10 selection his first year and All-American honorable mention the following season, which included a playoff victory over Jordan Spieth in Hawaii. Midway through college, however, Kang’s prospects veered quickly.
“It was the lowest I’ve still ever been,†Kang said of the driver yips that debilitated him for large swaths of his final two years in school and beyond.
There were two misses: a ball that started 7 degrees right and ended up off the planet, and then the massive overcorrection. It didn’t really matter the club, either.
“And over time, it made his swing hub very unstable,†said instructor Dana Dahlquist, who worked about seven years with Kang after graduation. “I described it as a motorcycle not able to go through the turns.â€
Kang never missed a round for the Trojans as a junior or senior, though that was more indicative of the state of those USC rosters. The situation got so dire for Kang that Zambri, known for meticulously testing his players during his career (he’s now the head coach of the U.S. National Development Program), exempted Kang from such practice mandates, hoping that Kang, still one of the hardest workers to come through USC, could solve things on his own. Kang nearly won in Hawaii his senior spring before Oklahoma State’s Jordan Niebrugge sped past him late, but that was a rare bright spot in an otherwise frustrating semester. The Trojans placed dead last by eight shots at the 2014 NCAA Championship at Prairie Dunes, and Kang, in his last college event, tied for 150th, beating just five players.
“A lot of guys have stepped away from the game because of this,†Kang said. “But I always knew I was going to get over the hump, and I never doubted my ability.â€
With Dahlquist’s help, Kang changed his wrist conditions and how he releases the club, and eventually he went from a guy too afraid to commit to a line because he didn’t know what would “come out of the gun†to someone who had begun to not only manage his driving anxiety but reprogram his path to PGA Tour-level golf.
It took Kang a couple years to earn any status, and then he missed seven cuts and posted just one top-50 showing on PGA Tour Canada in 2016. He headed to Asia that next year, finding a home on PGA Tour China, where he won in his debut. But the pandemic shuttered that tour and left Kang again with nowhere to play. He didn’t log a world-ranked start for nearly 20 months.
“COVID derailed everything,†Kang said. “I was on the up and then I’m sidelined. I couldn’t get anywhere. Just surviving was an achievement. So, I had to restart a little bit, but looking back that’s probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It was a forced break mentally to refresh me and allow me to start from the bottom, stick to a game plan and get to where I need to be. It was a blessing in disguise.â€
During that sabbatical, Kang reconnected with a high-school friend, Josh Park, an up-and-coming coach, during some mini-tour events in Arizona. They’d spend hours on end talking about golf, and eventually Park joined Kang’s stable. Along with Dahlquist and Dr. Scott Lynn, Park got Kang using the ground more effectively, specifically pushing off earlier to get the club to release earlier. His tee ball continued to improve.
“He, along with all of us, knew that if kept that driver on the hole he was supposed to play, then he would one day end up on the PGA Tour,†said Park, who started working full-time with Kang about two years ago.
Kang played mostly on PGA Tour Canada, and the temporary Forme Tour, from 2021 to 2023, notching 10 top-10s, including three runners-up. While sprinkling in a few PGA Tour starts via Monday qualifying, he medaled at the second stage of PGA Tour Q-School in 2023 and earned his KFT card for the first time last year. But 14 missed cuts in 24 starts left him No. 81 in points, and he’d begin this season with conditional status before rattling off three missed cuts in his first four events.
Then, finally, the breakthrough: A T-3 finish at the Visit Knoxville Open jumpstarted Kang’s season, and he added a pair of solo seconds late, at the NV5 Invitational and Albertsons Boise Open, to enter the KFT Finals inside the top 20. When he tied for fourth in Columbus, Ohio, he’d essentially locked up his card with two events left. Sure, he finished this season ranked No. 133 in total driving, but as the tour’s third-best putter and one of the best wedge players Park has ever seen, that was enough to get him to the PGA Tour.
Park says that Kang, armed with his USC degree, could’ve been successful in anything outside of golf, but “he never quit when most of us would have.†The sun setting on a dream day in southern Indiana, and Post Malone’s “Congratulations†blaring in the background, Kang credited people like Park and his girlfriend, Ji, for keeping him going.
Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation.
They ain’t never had the dedication.
People hatin’, say we changed and look, we made it.
Yeah, we made it.
“He persevered through some really hard times, and I just have so much respect for that,†said Zambri, who traveled to watch Kang compete in Raleigh, North Carolina, this year. “Not everyone gets to keep pursuing until they’re in their 30s. He was fortunate, but he made the most of it. And I hope it continues to work out for him. It’s not easy to go from where he was to get back in the middle of it all.
“I’m hoping he has like a Tom Lehman type of career.â€
Lehman played a few seasons on the PGA Tour right out of college but with little success. It then took him nearly a decade to regain his card. What followed was an almost two-decade second stint on the PGA Tour, where he won five times, including the Open Championship and Tour Championship in 1996, and made three Ryder Cup teams.
Kang will take that.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma of India (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) AB de Villiers has shared how special it is to still see Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma playing for India. The former South African captain, who has been Kohliâ€s long-time IPL teammate and close friend, spoke at the Launch of Test Twenty, a proposed fourth format of the game. He compared watching Kohli now to seeing Tiger Woods during his comeback years. Despite the uncertainty around their international careers, de Villiers said he is simply happy to watch them in action.“Iâ€m one of those guys who take what I can get,†de Villiers said at the event. “If Tiger Woods comes back and makes a few shots, Iâ€m just happy heâ€s playing. Same with these two. They know what they still want to achieve; the 2027 World Cup is probably their main target. I just wish them all the success and a fantastic end to their careers, whenever that may finish.â€
Massive crowd for Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma at Delhi airport as Team India leave for Australia
For former Australian opener Matthew Hayden, also speaking at the Launch of Test Twenty, seeing Kohli and Rohit on the field is reassuring. He understands that their time at the top cannot last forever, but he appreciates the value they bring both as players and mentors.“Having Rohit in the house, having Virat in the house, that is gold. They are not just players, they are mentors in the dugout,†Hayden said. “I hope it is not their last tour, but you cannot play forever. This is more than likely their last trip to Australia, but they will be focused on the 2027 World Cup and that is exactly where their attention should be. I was a little surprised that Rohit was relieved as captain after the Champions Trophy, but it makes sense. Shubman Gill is being groomed and it takes time to build a leader.â€Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma continue to impress with their fitness, skill, and determination. Still, there is a quiet understanding among fans, peers, and pundits that their time at the top may be coming to an end. If this turns out to be their last Australian summer, both are likely to make it memorable, putting runs on the board and adding one more chapter to their remarkable careers.
Zach Bauchou was prepared to receive the news.
He and his wife Victoria had spent eight months preparing for the arrival of their first child in the summer and fall of 2023. Now, well into the third trimester, they knew their new arrival could come on any day at any time.
Bauchou just wasn’t prepared to receive the news when he did: On the 12th hole of PGA Tour final qualifying, with his PGA Tour dream firmly hanging in the balance.
It was two years ago that Bauchou made his career’s most agonizing decision, leaving behind a chance at his lifelong dream in order to be at his wife’s bedside as she delivered their first child. Of course, Bauchou never flinched when he was approached by the rules official with the news that his wife was due to go into labor five weeks early. The official told him he could choose to continue competing or withdraw.
Bauchou calmly informed the official of the plan he and Victoria had chosen weeks earlier: He would withdraw from the event, and hop on the first flight home. The next day, Bauchou was in the hospital as his first son, James, entered the world — and though he was overjoyed, his emotions around leaving the golf tournament were understandably mixed.
Then 27 years old, Bauchou had spent most of his working life pushing toward an opportunity like PGA Tour final qualifying — where a handful of the Korn Ferry Tour’s best players would earn a Tour card for the following year based on their performance that weekend. After a successful career at Oklahoma State, he’d battled just to earn a spot onto one of golf’s feedertours, then battled again to get his game in the place where he might considerqualifying for the big show. Now, his WD had raised the possibility that he might lose his Korn Ferry status, too, given the breakdown of the points for the year’s final event.
Thankfully, Bauchou kept his Korn Ferry Tour status and began the 2024 season with a fresh goal to make it to PGA Tour. But that goal continued to prove elusive. He fell short of qualifying for a Tour card in 2024 by just three spots.
Bauchou turned for 2025 with a second baby on the way and a renewed sense of clarity: It was time to make one final push for the PGA Tour in his age 29 season, getting on Tour in time to celebrate his 30th birthday.
With two boys watching from home, Bauchou pieced together the best golf of his life in ’25, winning for the first time at the Simmons Bank Open and qualifying for the U.S. Open after a dramatic (and emotional) final qualifying run, his first major start as a pro.
By the time last weekend’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship came around, Bauchou’s fate was sealed. By virtue of a 9th-place points finish in 2025, he earned PGA Tour status for 2026.
With his family by his side, Bauchou celebrated in Florida as he received his official PGA Tour card. He will be a PGA Tour rookie in the new year, chasing down his childhood dream at the highest level. And he’ll do so with a family of three cheering on from up close.
Sure, he’d traded in a dream for his family in 2023. But the opportunity to have both? He wouldn’t trade it for anything.
John Cenaâ€s legendary WWE run is getting a digital sendoff thatâ€s as grand as his career.
Today, 2K and Visual Concepts officially dropped the WWE 2K25 Farewell Tour Edition and Farewell Tour Edition Pack, available on PlayStation 5 and 4, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, PC via Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2. This special launch is a tribute to the 17-time World Champion as his in-ring career winds down this December.
The Farewell Tour Edition Pack delivers four new playable Superstars, including two different takes on Cena himself. Fans can suit up as the WrestleMania 41 version of Cena or go old-school with his iconic Dr. of Thuganomics gimmick. Also joining the roster is an updated version of Brock Lesnar—complete with his cowboy hat and longer hairstyle—marking his return to the franchise.
The biggest surprise? R-Truth debuts as “Ron Cena,†a tribute gimmick he pulled off on WWEâ€s Saturday Nightâ€s Main Event while impersonating his childhood idol. The character rocks Cenaâ€s classic red t-shirt and cap, along with a similar moveset.
“Ron Cena†steps into the game like he stepped onto WWE TV—pure entertainment wrapped in nostalgia.
“Childhood hero tribute? Absolutely. Iâ€m rocking that red tee and doing Cena justice—Ron Cena-style,†R-Truth joked in a recent segment.
The Farewell Tour Pack also comes with five John Cena Farewell Tour tee cosmetic items, giving players even more options to deck out their experience.
WWE 2K25â€s Farewell Tour content is dropping in three flavors. Hereâ€s how it breaks down:
• WWE 2K25 Farewell Tour Edition ($149.99): Includes the Farewell Tour Edition Pack and the WWE 2K25 Bloodline Edition. This bundle gives players access to the WrestleMania 41 Pack featuring Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Aleister Black as playable characters, plus the Island cosmetic content like hoodies, shirts, and accessories. It also packs in the Rock Nation of Domination Pack, the Deadman Edition Pack with Undertaker personas and a usable Urn object, and the Wyatt Sicks Pack with Uncle Howdy, Nikki Cross, Joe Gacy, Dexter Lumis, and Erick Rowan. Throw in the Ringside Pass and 187,500 VC (or 215,000 on Steam), and itâ€s the total Cena sendoff.
• WWE 2K25 Farewell Tour Bundle ($89.99): Includes the Farewell Tour Edition Pack, WWE 2K25 Standard Edition, and 32,500 VC (or 82,500 on Steam).
• WWE 2K25 Farewell Tour Edition Pack ($14.99): The base pack with Brock Lesnar, Ron Cena, two versions of John Cena, five tee cosmetic items, and 15,000 VC.
For anyone wondering where the franchise stands, the latest release is now “the highest-rated game in franchise history on Xbox,†according to Metacritic scores dated October 15, 2025.
With Cenaâ€s final match approaching at Saturday Nightâ€s Main Event in December, this digital tribute lets fans relive his most iconic moments—or create new ones.
Are you picking up the John Cena Farewell Tour Edition? Please share your thoughts and feedback in the comment section below.
October 16, 2025 10:27 am
New IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita plans to be in Japan whenever it’s necessary to fulfill his duties.
Takeshita — the 2025 G1 Climax winner — dethroned Zack Sabre Jr. for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at King of Pro Wrestling earlier this week. Holding NJPW’s top prize might add some responsibilities to his plate, but Takeshita isn’t worried about handling them.
“I’m triple contracted, but not exclusive,” Takeshita said in his first press conference as champion. “We can move things around and I can be on any tour I’m called for.”
AEW, NJPW, and DDT Pro Wrestling are the three promotions that Takeshita has contracts with. His priority has been AEW since signing with the company three years ago. Representing NJPW as champion worldwide is something that Takeshita plans on doing during his reign.
“There are people worldwide, not just Japan, that want to see the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion,” Takeshita said.
At AEW WrestleDream this Saturday, Takeshita & Kazuchika Okada will challenge Bandido & Brody King for the AEW Tag Team titles. Takeshita looks to be in the middle of a storyline where he’s splitting away from the Don Callis Family.
The first IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defense for Takeshita will be against Hirooki Goto at an NJPW event on November 2.
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