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.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Weathers was steamed when he found out he was joining the New York Yankees.

“I had had just finished up my bullpen and I get back to the house — I have like a little travel sauna,” he recalled Thursday. “I literally probably had sat on my couch for about two seconds and I got a phone call from Peter Bendix that I had been traded.”

Bendix, Miami's president of baseball operations, sent the 26-year-old left-hander to New York for four prospects on Tuesday: outfielders Brendan Jones and Dillon Lewis, and infielders Dylan Jasso and Juan Matheus.

Weathers is the son of David Weathers, a pitcher who helped the Yankees win the 1996 World Series after he was acquired from the Marlins at the trade deadline.

“We’ve kind of had a weird, similar paths as to how we got to New York,” Ryan Weathers said.

When Ryan makes his Yankees debut, they will become the fifth father-son duo for the pinstripes, joining Yogi and Dale Berra, Clay and Cody Bellinger, Mark Leiter and Mark Leiter Jr., and Ron Davis and Ike Davis.

Ryan said he was in shock when he spoke with Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone.

“I just couldn’t believe that the New York Yankees were a team that I could ever have a chance to play for," he said.

New York’s rotation at the season's start projects to also include Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren and Luis Gil while Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón rehab from injuries.

Weathers, 26, was 2-2 with a 3.99 ERA in eight starts last year in his second straight injury-shortened season. He missed time with a strained left flexor, made his season debut on May 14, then didn’t pitch for Miami between June 7 and Sept. 11 because of a left lat strain.

He was 5-6 with a 3.63 ERA over 16 starts in 2024, when he was sidelined by a strained left index finger.

“This is the best I’ve probably felt in a year-and-a-half,” Weathers said. “I really did a dive and worked with company on figuring out how to lengthen my lat out, lengthen my back out. We really adjusted a lot of my lifting patterns. We really adjusted my mobility and my prep work, and I think my arm is reaping the benefits right now.”

Ryan grew up in big league clubhouses and remembered the Cincinnati Reds' room with Ken Griffey Jr. and Joey Votto. He played pickle with Dusty Baker, Ramón Hernández, Eric Milton and Juan Castro.

“There’s been a lot of hours put in the Cincinnati Reds' batting cages,” Weathers said. “I just remember Pops taking me to the field every day. I know when his arm was hurting, he’d still throw me BP.”

Ryan was the seventh overall pick by San Diego in the 2008 amateur draft. His dad's knowledge helped him during tough times.

“When I first started going through it and getting adversity and getting traded, he really helped me along those lines of figuring out: This is what you do with your new team. This was what you do in your day-to-day,” Ryan said. “So I’ve been doing mechanics since I was age 10.”

He has remained close with pitcher Aaron Harang, a teammate of his father who last played in 2015.

“He still texts me all the time,” Weathers said. “When I was younger, I didn’t really care about pitching. I just wanted to hit bombs in the outfield, so I didn’t really think about it.”

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FILE - Miami Marlins starting pitcher Ryan Weathers throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sept. 24, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson, File)