The LPGA Tour is adding two tournaments in California next year as part of a 34-tournament schedule that offers a record $68.75 million in prize money.

Coming off a year in which a record 17 players earned at least $1 million, the LPGA Tour put together a 2018 schedule that it hopes to build momentum. While it lost two events – Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico and the Manulife LPGA Classic in Canada – the LPGA replaced them with three new tournaments.

Two of them are in the United States, bringing the number of domestic events to 19.

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The new California events will be held in the Los Angeles area on April 19-22, and at Lake Merced in San Francisco a week later.

The other addition is a tournament in Shanghai. That will be played Oct. 18-21 as part of a seven-tournament swing through Asia.

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The LPGA Tour is adding two tournaments in California next year as part of a 34-tournament schedule that offers a record $68.75 million in prize money.

Coming off a year in which 17 players earned at least $1 million, the LPGA Tour put together a 2018 schedule that it hopes to build momentum. While it lost two events – Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico and the Manulife LPGA Classic in Canada – the LPGA replaced them with three new tournaments.

Two of them are in the United States, bringing the number of domestic events to 19.

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”Perhaps the most important aspect of our schedule is the consistency – continuing to deliver strong playing opportunities both in North America and around the world, while growing overall purse levels every year,” LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said Tuesday in a news release.

The new California events will be held in the Los Angeles area and at Lake Merced in San Francisco. The Los Angeles event is the Hugel-JTBC Championship on ..

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Some of the defining shots on the PGA Tour this year were hit from the tee and fairway, from the bunkers and behind trees, and even from the driving range.

Two of them effectively clinched a first major. One of them introduced another young star.

One way to look back on 2017 is through every club in the bag. The shots weren’t necessarily the best, but they helped shape the year.

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DRIVER: Moments after Dustin Johnson made a birdie putt to force a sudden-death playoff at the Northern Trust, he effectively ended it with one swing . CBS analyst Nick Faldo pointed to a bunker beyond the right side of the lake on the 18th hole at Glen Oaks as a target for Johnson’s powerful fade. Instead, he took it over the entire lake, a 341-yard blast. That left him a lob wedge to 4 feet for birdie to beat Jordan Spieth.

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Ryan Young/Getty ImagesTiger Woods watches his ball on the 16th tee during the final round of the Hero World Challenge.How much would you pay for a golf lesson with Tiger Woods? On Tuesday we learned what someone was willing to fork over for a private session with the 14-time major champ — and let's just say you'd have to open your wallet pretty wide.
Tour pros Chris Stroud and Bobby Gates hosted a Hurricane Harvey Relief Pro-Am at the Woods-designed Bluejack National that raised over $1 million. According to our Tim Rosaforte, the lesson with Woods was a pretty large chunk of that.
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Two HUNDRED and ten thousand dollars. That's nearly a quarter of a million dollars for a golf lesson!
But it is Tiger Woods. . . And it was for charity. . . . And apparently, it's a lesson for two. . . Sounds like a good deal to us.
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Rory McIlroy took off the final three months of the year to heal his body and clear his mind, and he appears eager to get back to work.

With a series of announcements over the last week, McIlroy revealed what likely will be his most ambitious schedule ahead of Augusta National in the 10 years he has been eligible for the Masters.

The most McIlroy has ever played before the Masters was seven tournaments – in 2009, the first year he was eligible for all four majors, and in 2016. Next year he is planning to play eight.

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McIlroy, coming off his first winless year since 2008, will start the new season with two tournaments in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) before he embarks on a busy PGA Tour schedule. He is playing the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for the first time, followed by the Genesis Open at Riviera and a third straight week at the Honda Classic, not far from where he lives.

Most peculiar about McIlroy’s schedule is that he is skipping the World..

The golf world got a good look at John Daly II last December during the PNC Father/Son Challenge. “Little John” showed off some solid pop, a great touch, and most importantly, some serious swagger.
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A year later, nothing has changed.
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On Sunday, Little John, now 14, won his latest International Junior Golf Tournament in dramatic fashion. Daly got into a five-way playoff thanks to a strong final round at Harbour Town and won on the first extra hole with a birdie. Check it out:
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Nice putt. Nicer fist pump.
Golf fans will get to see more of Little John, who also made his first hole-in-one this summer, this week when he teams up with his dad again at the PNC Father/Son Challenge at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando. Here's a look at the field of 20 two-men teams:
Angel Cabrera / Angel Cabrera Jr.
Stewart..