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Tiger Woods tied Sam Snead on the all-time PGA Tour wins list by capturing his 82nd title at the Zozo Championship. Here’s a breakdown of Woods’ winning record on Tour, courtesy the Golf Channel Research Unit. Notes: Woods has won 22.8% of his total PGA Tour starts (82 of 359). Seven PGA Tour events have accounted …

With his stunning wire-to-wire victory Saturday at the Zozo Championship in Japan, it’s official: No golfer has ever won more PGA Tour events than Tiger Woods. After getting within one of Sam Snead’s career record of 82 PGA Tour victories at the Masters back in April, Woods (-19) tied the mark on Sunday with a …

Tiger Woods is seven holes away from immortalizing himself yet again in the PGA Tour records books. He holds a 3-stroke lead through three-and-a-half rounds at the Zozo Championship, the first official PGA Tour event ever hosted in Japan. Torrential rain forced event organizers to postpone the second round on Friday, resulting in Woods playing a …

Within the next few weeks, a rescued tiger that was severely injured in a poacher’s trap will be given new life as the first big cat ever to be fitted with a prosthetic limb. Sahebrao, a 7-9 year-old male tiger in India, underwent a 40-minute operation earlier this month in preparation for the historic fitting. …

Justin Thomas told the field that the 2019 BMW Championship — and possibly the FedEx Cup Playoffs — are his for the taking after firing an astounding 61 to vault six shots clear of the rest of the leaderboard at Medinah Country Club on Saturday. Will he close out the penultimate event of the 2018-19 …

Hideki Matsuyama began the second round of the 2019 BMW Championship four strokes off leaders Justin Thomas and Jason Kokrak, and he ended it with a one-stroke lead over the field. Matsuyama shot a 9-under 63 at Medinah Country Club, setting a new course record and giving him an edge over Patrick Cantlay and Tony …

Image copyright AFP Image caption India is now estimated to be home to 70% of the world’s tigers India is now home to nearly 3,000 tigers, a third more than it had four years ago, according to the latest tiger census. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who presented the findings on Monday, said the tiger population …

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — For longtime Tiger Woods observers, the troubling signs were apparent almost immediately, from the time he set foot on the grounds at Royal Portrush after arriving from Florida. There was a slow, steady cadence to his speech, a halting walk and word from Tiger himself that he had not even opened …

The Open Championship made its return to Royal Portrush after a 68-year absence on Thursday … and boy was it mean. Only about one-quarter of the field finished the first round under par, and some of the biggest stars in the world are not simply flirting with the cut line but actually at the bottom …

As usual, all eyes were on three-time British Open champ Tiger Woods as he teed off from the first hole. However, Woods was seen grimacing immediately after he teed off, and people immediately began to speculate that he was dealing with an injury. Was it his notoriously bad back, which has plagued the 43-year-old in …