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In 2024, Scottie Scheffler won seven PGA Tour events, including the Masters, and took home the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Dec 11, 2024
Scheffler voted PGA Tour Player of the Year for third straight time
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are the only players beside Scheffler to win the award three or more times.
Tiger Woods on the 18th green during the second round of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, on April 8.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Dec 5, 2023
Tiger Woods vaults 430 spots, drawing scrutiny to world rankings
Woods, who was making his first start since withdrawing from the Masters in April, had fallen to a career-low 1,328th in the OWGR by last week.
Japan Times
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Mar 13, 2023
Scheffler romps to Players Championship win and reclaims top ranking
A winning total of a 17-under 271 brought Scheffler his sixth career title and second in his last four starts.
Japan Times
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Jan 26, 2023
Barely still No. 1, McIlroy looks for the magic he conjured last year
The player is expected to play a competitive round for the first time in 2023 and give his sport a glimpse at whether he has the form seen last year.
Japan Times
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Jun 30, 2022
LIV golfers holding out hope for Ryder Cup selection
'As long as you fulfill the criteria to be a European Tour member, then you should still have the opportunity to try and qualify for the Ryder Cup team.'
Japan Times
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Jun 22, 2021
Jon Rahm takes over No. 1 world golf ranking
Rahm briefly held the spot twice in 2020, after winning the Memorial and after tying for 13th at the PGA Championship.
Japan Times
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Aug 15, 2017
Golf great Matsuyama reveals he's been married since January, a father since July
Hideki Matsuyama announced on Monday that he has been married since January and is now a father, news that caught Japanese media and fans by surprise.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2015
PGA match joins exodus, dumps Trump links over slur on immigrants
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump suffered a fresh blow on Tuesday with the announcement that a professional golfing event scheduled for October at a Trump course in Los Angeles will be moved, the latest fallout from his vitriol against undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
Japan and U.S. reach tariff deal with ‘reciprocal’ rate at 15%
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday, saying the agreement would create "hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Ishiba denies reports he will resign next month, leaving his fate unclear
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks on after meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan chief tariff negotiator, in Tokyo
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Rice grain-sized earphone may have been used to cheat on TOEIC English test
A pendant-shaped relay device suspected to have been used to cheat on the TOEIC English proficiency test, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
Induction of Ichiro has Cooperstown fretfully preparing
Ichiro Suzuki will soon become the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.

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In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
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