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Oct 24, 2025, 09:21 PM ET

IVINS, Utah — Michael Brennan earned a Korn Ferry Tour spot with a dominant late-summer burst on the PGA Tour Americas. In two days at Black Desert in the Bank of Utah Championship, he charged to the top of a PGA Tour leaderboard.

Brennan shot a 6-under 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the darkness-suspended second round. Playing on a sponsor exemption, Brennan made a 40-foot eagle putt on the par-5 ninth.

“It’s very exciting to be in a tour event,” said Brennan, 23. “I wasn’t sure I was going to play any this fall, so to have the opportunity to play in one is awesome. I’m just very grateful to be here. It’s been a really fun week so far. Hopefully, it stays that way.”

The former Wake Forest player won three times in a four-event stretch on the PGA Tour Americas in August and September, and topped the season points list to take the first of 10 Korn Ferry Tour spots available on the tour.

“It’s given me so much great experience playing on the Americas Tour this year and having some success,” Brennan said. “I feel like I’ll definitely be more prepared for this weekend after having those experiences. I know it’s not the same level, but I am going to try to treat them the exact same and see what happens.”

Brennan had a 10-under 132 total.

Pierceson Coody (64), Jackson Suber (67) and Justin Lower (67) were 9 under. In the FedEx Cup standings, Suber is 127th, Lower 129th and Coody 133rd.

After this week, only three tournaments remain in the season for players to finish among the top 100 in the FedEx Cup to keep full cards for the 2026 season. The top 100 has been reduced from 125 players keeping their cards a year ago.

Defending champion Matt McCarty played his opening nine — the back nine on the course — in 7-under 28, then was 1 over the rest of the way for a 65. He was 8 under and entered the week 84th in the FedEx Cup.

David Ford was 8 under with six holes left. Play was suspended because of darkness for the second straight day.

First-round leader Thorbjorn Olesen was 7 under after a 70. He’s 116th in the FedEx Cup.

Max Homa was 6 under after a painful-looking 66. The former world No. 5 was seen limping around the course Friday, then later told reporters he has been dealing with a bone spur in his right foot.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

One of golf’s top influencer brands is sponsoring the PGA Tour’s return to Austin, Texas.

Good Good Golf, which boasts nearly 2 million subscribers on YouTube, will serve as the title sponsor for the Good Good Championship, which will take place Nov. 12-15 at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa’s Fazio Canyons Course.

“The PGA Tour is proud to return to the great City of Austin for the first time since 2023 for the Good Good Championship, an exciting new event as part of the FedExCup Fall,†said Tyler Dennis, the PGA Tour’s chief competitions officer. “We are pleased to partner with Good Good Golf and Omni Hotels & Resorts on this unique event as the PGA Tour further connects and engages with our game’s younger fans.â€

Added Matt Kendrick, founder and CEO of Good Good. “This tournament is designed to amalgamate our social and live communities together, across all demographics that are passionate about golf. We couldn’t ask for better partners in the PGA Tour and Omni Hotels & Resorts, who not only appreciate our ethos but embrace it.â€

The tournament is expected to be one of two additions to the 2026 fall schedule along with the Mexico Open, which would move from its usual spring slot, per the Sports Business Journal.

The PGA Tour held the Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club from 2016 to 2023.

One of golf’s most popular franchises is officially back. The PGA Tour announced Tuesday the lineup and venue for its reboot of “The Skins Game,” which will take place Nov. 28 (Black Friday) and air exclusively on Prime Video.

Pro Shop, PGA Tour Studios and Propagate Content are behind the relaunch of one of golf’s most beloved and well-received showdowns, which dates back to 1983 when it was an unofficial money event on the PGA Tour. It was last played in 2008.

The return of “The Skins Game” was first announced back in December, although this latest bit of news announced more of the logistics, including the players involved.

The courses, star players, timing and intimacy of “The Skins Game” made it a star decades ago, and this year’s event will be headlined by three major-winners and one of the game’s most popular international players. Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Tommy Fleetwood will face off at Panther National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., a course that opened in 2023 and which Thomas helped design alongside Jack Nicklaus.

Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner, is coming off a Ryder Cup captaincy, while Thomas and Schauffele have both won two major titles in their career. Fleetwood, a seven-time DP World Tour winner, won his first PGA Tour event in August when he claimed the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. More recently, Fleetwood earned a team-high four points in last month’s Ryder Cup, helping the Europeans beat the Americans on U.S. soil.

The match begins at 9 a.m. ET on Black Friday and is the first of a parade of live sports events Prime Video has planned for the day, which includes an NFL game (Chicago at Philadelphia) followed by an NBA doubleheader (Milwaukee at New York; Dallas at Los Angeles Lakers).

In “The Skins Game” format, each hole is worth a predetermined dollar value and tied holes carry the cash over to the next hole. Although this year’s reboot will add a twist, a “reverse purse” in which each player begins with $1 million and can add to or lose money from those totals. You can read more about “The Skins Game,” its history and relaunch here.

JACKSON, Miss. — Sam Ryder played bogey-free and Danny Walker finished with a pair of birdies, each posting a 7-under 65 to join a four-way tie at the top Thursday at the Sanderson Farms Championship.

Eric Cole managed 10 birdies, which helped offset a double bogey from the trees late in the round, and Garrick Higgo continued to show strides since a torn labrum slowed his progress after a win earlier this year. They were also at 65.

Ryder is at No. 110 in the FedEx Cup standings, while Walker is at No. 104. The Sanderson Farms Championship is part of the Fall Series where players who did not reach the PGA Tour’s postseason have to finish in the top 100 to keep their full cards.

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“I’m very aware where I’m at. You know it all year,” Ryder said. “You get a text every single week that tells you exactly where you are on FedEx. You can’t hide from it. But it doesn’t dictate my schedule. If I was in a better position, I would still like to think that I would be working hard on my game and trying to win and check other boxes.

“Right now, I’m trying to play for my status but still trying to play for bigger goals, too.”

Walker tied for sixth in the Players Championship, but he showed up at the Country Club of Jackson having missed eight straight cuts to fall out of the top 100.

He bounced back from a soft bogey on the 15th to finish with two straight birdies. Much like Ryder, he’s trying not to get wrapped up in scores and position.

“It’s really hard when you’ve missed a bunch of cuts to not go into a week and all you’re thinking about is hoping you make the cut, and that’s kind of where it got to,” Walker said. “When all you’re thinking about is results … it really got in my head, and I felt like going into this week I finally got in a place where I just wasn’t really worried about that.”

He had two weeks off because of the Ryder Cup and worked hard at learning to trust his game and see where it takes him.

NCAA champion Michael La Sasso was chasing the leaders until he was assessed a two-shot penalty after his par on the sixth hole. The PGA Tour said he violated Rule 8.1a for improving conditions of the shot he was playing.

It was not clear what he did. A tour official said La Sasso, who is playing on a sponsor exemption, declined to speak to the media.

Mac Meissner (No. 86 in the standings) and defending champion Kevin Yu were at 66. Yu won last year to earn a spot in the Masters. Winners of Fall Series events no longer get an automatic invitation to Augusta National.

Rasmus Hojgaard was at 69, coming straight from New York and Ryder Cup victory in his debut for Team Europe. He is at No 87 and now turns his attention toward keeping his card.

“Still a bit low on energy, so I’m going to manage myself the next couple days and hopefully restore some of it,” Hojgaard said.

HONOLULU — Akie Iwai shot an 8-under 64 in calm morning conditions Wednesday at Hoakalei Country Club to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s Lotte Championship.

She played alongside twin sister Chisato.

“It was fun,” Akie said. “I’m looking forward to tomorrow, too.”

The 23-year-old Japanese sisters have each won this year as tour rookies. Chisato broke through at Mayakoba in Mexico in May, and Akie won the Portland Classic in August.

On Wednesday, Akie birdied three of the first four holes. Then, after making six birdies in a nine-hole span, she closed with a bogey on the par-3 ninth. Chisati opened with a 70.

Fellow Japanese player Nasa Hataoka was a stroke at back at 65 with Gabriela Ruffels of Australia and Peiyun Chien of Taiwan.

“We played at 7:30 this morning and the wind wasn’t up,” Ruffels said. “I feel like the defense of this golf course is the wind, so having an afternoon tee time tomorrow, I feel like it’s going to be a bit trickier and it might be tougher to shoot a lower number.”

Defending champion A Lim Kim of South Korea had the best round of the afternoon session, making four straight birdies on the back nine in a 66. Thai players Patty Tavatanakit and Pornanong Phatlum shot 66 in the morning.

Nelly Korda opened with a 69 in the afternoon, birdieing the first three holes, then offsetting two bogeys with two birdies the rest of the way.

“A little bit of an up-and-down round, but overall, happy to get it in at 3-under par,” Korda said. “Definitely have a long way to go to get in contention.”

Coming off a seven-victory season, she hasn’t won this year and has lost her No. 1 ranking to Jeeno Thitikul. The tour has had a different winner in all 24 of its official tournaments this year.

Charley Hull matched playing partner Korda with a 69. Hull won the Kroger Queen City Championship three weeks ago in Ohio after Thitikul four-putted the final hole.

Brooke Henderson, the 2018 and 2019 winner at Ko Olina, shot 70 in the afternoon.

After the event, the LPGA heads to Asia for tournaments five straight weeks in Shanghai, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan.

PARIS — Michael Kim holed a 15-foot par putt at the last hole to seal a one-shot victory at the French Open on Sunday for his first worldwide title in seven years, while former No. 1 Brooks Koepka faded to a fourth-place finish.

Kim left his bunker shot short on the par-3 No. 18 but rolled in for par to complete a 6-under 65 and end the week on 16 under.

“I kind of blacked out when that putt went in,†said the 64th-ranked Kim, whose last win came in 2018 — by eight shots — at the John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour.

This victory didn’t come so easy, with Elvis Smylie of Australia and Jeong-weon Ko of France both shooting 65s to be tied for second place.

Koepka, who started the final round in a tie for the lead, could only make eight pars and a bogey on the back nine to fall out of contention. The five-time major winner shot 68 and was alone in fourth place.

Koepka last won in August 2024 on the breakaway LIV Golf circuit at the Greenbrier in West Virginia and was playing a third straight week on the European Tour. He missed the cut in the Irish Open and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

Kim, who has established himself as an unlikely social media star in recent years, became the first American to win the French Open in 53 years, since Barry Jaeckel in 1972. Walter Hagen and Byron Nelson were other U.S. players to win the title.

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