The biggest names win golf tournaments at Harding Park

A capsule look at golf tournaments held at the TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, site of the 102nd PGA Championship that will be played Aug. 6-9:

2015 WGC-CADILLAC MATCH PLAY

Rory McIlroy became the first player to win seven matches in five days to capture his second World Golf Championship, which used a new round-robin format. He had to beat three players on the final day, including a quarterfinal match against Paul Casey that went 22 holes and ended Sunday morning. He beat Gary Woodland in the championship match, 4 and 2, to become the first No. 1 seed since Tiger Woods in 2008 to win the Match Play. About the only thing that went wrong for McIlroy that week were the matches going until dark on Saturday. He had to scrap plans to fly to Las Vegas for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, instead watching it on pay-per-view in the media center.

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2005, file photo, John Daly and Tiger Woods assess their ball positions at No. 18, the first hole of a sudden death playoff, during the final round of the American Express World Golf Championships at Harding Park in San Francisco. On the second playoff hole, Daly had a 15-foot birdie putt to win. He missed, and then he missed the 3-foot par putt. Woods won his 10th World Golf Championship and widened his gap at No. 1 in the world. (AP PhotoJeff Chiu)

CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

Before finding a home in Arizona, the PGA Tour Champions season finale was held at Harding Park for three years. John Cook won in 2010, followed by Jay Don Blake in 2011 and Tom Lehman in 2012. In some respects, Lehman won twice at Harding Park. He won the $1 million annuity for the season-long points race in 2011.

2009 PRESIDENTS CUP

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2009, file photo, United States Presidents Cup team player Tiger Woods reacts to his birdie putt to win the ninth hole of his singles match at the Presidents Cup at Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco. Woods would go on to win the match 6 and 5 and clinch the Presidents Cup for the United States. (AP PhotoJeff Chiu, File)

Tiger Woods earned a small measure of revenge over Y.E. Yang, who had rallied to beat him in the PGA Championship at Hazeltine a month earlier. Woods beat him in singles to cap a 5-0 week as the Americans rolled to a 19½-14½ victory in the Presidents Cup. Fred Couples won in his debut as U.S. captain. One of the more bizarre moments was when Robert Allenby accused Anthony Kim of leaving the team hotel to party until the wee hours of the morning. And this was after Kim had beaten him, 5 and 3.

2005 WGC-AMERICAN EXPRESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Woods and John Daly made Harding Park feel more like a rock concert than a World Golf Championship. But it ended with the thud. On the second playoff hole, Daly had a 15-foot birdie putt to win. He missed, and then he missed the 3-foot par putt. Woods won his 10th World Golf Championship and widened his gap at No. 1 in the world. In his book, “My Life In and Out of Rough,” Daly said he made $750,000 from finishing second at the American Express Championship. He went straight to Las Vegas and dropped $1.65 million playing slot machines.

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1944, file photo, Byron Nelson holds the trophy he won after the Victory Open Golf Tournament in San Francisco, Calif. Nelson held off Jim Ferrier to win by one shot. (AP PhotoEd Widdis, File)

LUCKY INTERNATIONAL

The PGA Tour made an annual stop at Harding Park in the 1960s, and it produced a pretty stout roll call of champions. Six of the seven winners are in the World Golf Hall of Fame — Gary Player, Gene Littler, Jack Burke Jr., Chi Chi Rodriguez, Ken Venturi and Billy Casper. The other was George Archer, a former Masters champion. The most popular winner was Venturi, who grew up in San Francisco playing the municipal course.

SAN FRANCISCO OPEN

FILE - In this May 3, 2015, file photo, Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, looks over his shot on the 13th hole of the Match Play Championship golf tournament at Harding Park in San Francisco. McIlroy won the tournament. (AP PhotoBen Margot, File)

The San Francisco Open felt like a major based on where it was played — Olympic Club, Lake Merced, Presidio, San Francisco Golf Club, California Club. It finally made it over to Harding Park — twice in one year. And both were won by Byron Nelson in 1944. Nelson beat Jug McSpaden by six shots in January of 1944. It was held again in December later that year, and Nelson held off Jim Ferrier by one shot. Nelson made it three in a row in 1946. But that was across the street at Olympic Club.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Get ready for the 2026 Australian Open with a guide that tells you everything you need to know about how to watch the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season on TV, who the defending champions are, what the schedule is and more:

Singles play begins next Sunday at 11 a.m. local time (7 p.m. Saturday EST) around the grounds, with the first match in Rod Laver Arena scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. Saturday EST).

— In the U.S.: ESPN and Tennis Channel

— Other countries are listed here

Madison Keys of the United States and Jannick Sinner of Italy won the 2025 singles trophies. Keys beat the No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 for her first Grand Slam trophy. Sinner beat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to successfully defend his title at Melbourne Park.

Sabalenka will be the top-seeded woman and Carlos Alcaraz the top-seeded man. They currently are ranked No. 1, and the tournament seedings usually follow the WTA and ATP rankings.

The Australian Open is played outdoors on hard courts at Melbourne Park, located along the Yarra River near downtown Melbourne. There are retractable roofs at Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and John Cain Arena. Women play best-of-three-set matches with a first-to-10 tiebreaker at 6-all in the third; men play best-of-five with a tiebreaker at 6-all in the fifth. Like at the U.S. Open and French Open, there are night sessions. The tournament is staged each year around the last two weeks of January, during the school summer holidays Down Under.

The Australian Open is introducing “opening week” where the Melbourne Park precinct will be open to the public from the start of the qualifying tournament, and live music will be staged every night at Grand Slam Oval. Fans can watch open practice sesions in Rod Laver Arena to see some of the sport's biggest names preparing for the first major of the year. Organizers are also expanding the so-called 1 Point Slam in opening week, where 22 professional players and 10 amateurs get the chance to play for 1 million Australian dollars in prize money.

First round of qualifying for the men's and women's singles.

— Jan. 18-19-20: First Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 21-22: Second Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 23-24: Third Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 25-26: Fourth Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 27-28: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)

— Jan. 29: Women’s Semifinals

— Jan. 30: Men’s Semifinals

— Jan. 31: Women’s Final

— Feb. 1: Men’s Final

— Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka describes the season schedule as “insane.”

— Coco Gauff adds some context on the “worst” fans

— Novak Djokovic is cutting ties with the Professional Tennis Players Association

— Venus Williams gets a wildcard entry for the Australian Open, at age 45

— Carlos Alcaraz ends his 7-year partnership with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero

— The ATP is adding a heat rule like the one the women have had for 30 years

— Nick Kyrgios will do doubles time, but won't play singles at the Australian Open

Australian Open prize money has increased by 16% on last year to a record total in local currency of 111.5 million Australian dollars (US$75 million). That was up from 96.5 million Australian dollars in 2025. The women’s and men’s singles champions will win 4.15 million Australian dollars ($2.8 million), a 19% increase on last year.

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Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus waves to the crowd after winning the women's final match against Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-4, 6-3, at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)