If you stop thinking of Dustin Johnson as a very talented golfer and admit he's one of the sports world's great zen masters, things make more sense. The post How Dustin Johnson, zen master, just spent 11 days in one room appeared first on Golf.

Harry Higgs withdrew from the Houston Open on Tuesday night after testing positive for COVID-19, both he and the PGA Tour announced.

Golf fans' eyes might be wandering to next week's Masters at Augusta National, but this week's event in Texas isn't one to look over. World (...)

"I've realised over the last couple of weeks ... that this is without question a new PGA Tour season," Morikawa wrote in a PGA Tour blog. Morikawa, whose father is of Japanese descent, tied for 50th at last month's Zozo Championship, an event he has fond memories of having travelled to Japan last year to be part of the tournament's unveiling.

There’s nothing wrong with your circadian rhythm. It’s November and we’re no longer saving daylight, yet the Vivint Houston Open and the Masters are lined up over the next fortnight. So, what gives? It’s a familiar pairing. Beginning with the first year of the FedExCup (2007) and extending through 2018 (with an exception in 2013), the consecutive contests were cornerstones of early spring. Houston shifted to the fall in 2019 and the 2020 Masters was bumped to autumn due to the pandemic. So, like a force that reunites old neighbors, and with a change of seasons – literally and figuratively – the two connect once more. What has been planned all along is the move to Memorial Park Golf Course within five miles west of downtown Houston. Scroll past the projected contenders for details on the return to this exciting host course, the construct of the field and more. RELATED: The First Look | Inside the Field | Five things to know: Memorial Park POWER RANKINGS: VIVINT HOUSTON OPEN Brooks Koepka, Jason Day, Adam Scott and Francesco Molinari will be reviewed in Tuesday’s Fantasy Insider with other notables. Memorial Park hosted this tournament in 1947 and from 1951-1963, so it’s not new to the PGA TOUR. However, how it presents this week is entirely different to when Bob Charles was the last to prevail on the property. This marks the TOUR debut of a Tom Doak redesign (2019) and it doesn’t disappoint. There are five par 3s and five par 5s on the par 72. If that sounds familiar, Sherwood Country Club, the recent host of the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD, stages the same array. Unlike tony, 7,073-yard Sherwood, Memorial Park is a municipal track and it can stretch to 7,432 yards. The longest hole is the 625-yard, par-5 eighth. The longest par 3 is the 237-yard 11th, but the hardest hole might prove to be the par-4 finisher that tips at 503 yards. Doak employed the advice of Brooks Koepka, who encouraged the architect to pare down to fewer than two dozen sand bunkers. As a result, MiniVerde bermudagrass greens are protected by Doak’s imaginative undulations, grassy collection areas and a Stimpmeter measurement upwards of 12 feet. With unfamiliar greens, finding the shortest grass off the tee will matter. Primary rough in excess of two inches walls the fairways, while greens averaging 7,000 square feet will require precision on approach due to the humps, hills and sections of potential hole locations. Ball-strikers with length have an advantage but, and as always, unpredictable hot putters never should be ruled out. Due to the shift from mid-October to early November, the field is down 12 to 132. As of Monday afternoon, 36 are scheduled to compete in next week’s Masters as well. Unlike when the Golf Club of Houston was prepped to imitate components of the challenge at Augusta National, comparisons to Memorial Park will be unintentional due to the coincidental timing of the tournaments. Fabulous conditions are expected throughout the Vivint Houston Open with high temperatures in the upper 70s every day. Breezes out of an easterly direction will be moderate at worst. Rain is not forecast. ROB BOLTON’S SCHEDULE PGATOUR.COM’s Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton recaps and previews every tournament from numerous angles. Look for his following contributions as scheduled. MONDAY: Qualifiers, Reshuffle, Medical Extensions, Rookie Watch, Power Rankings TUESDAY*: Sleepers, Fantasy Insider * - Rob is a member of the panel for PGATOUR.COM’s Expert Picks for PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, which also publishes on Tuesday.

Darren Clarke won the TimberTech Champions on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, two-putting for birdie on the par-5 18th for a one-stroke victory over Jim Furyk and Bernhard Langer.

The 2020 TimberTech Championship final leaderboard is headed by winner Darren Clarke, who picked up his first PGA Tour Champions win with a one-shot victory at The Old Course at Broken Sound in Boca Raton, Fla. Clarke made a birdie on the final hole to beat out Bernhard Langer and Jim Furyk on 17-under 199. […]

In the final round of the 2020 Bermuda Championship, Brian Gay carded a 7-under 64, getting him to 15-under for the tournament and a tie for the lead with Wyndham Clark, who he would beat in a one-hole playoff for his fifth win of his PGA TOUR career.

The PGA of America elected Jim Richerson president during a virtual annual meeting. Richerson is the senior vice president of operations for Arizona-based Troon Golf.