Chinese players withdraw after being told to skip LPGA event in Taiwan, according to report

Justin Rose took advantage of a record-tying collapse by Dustin Johnson and rallied from eight shots behind to win the HSBC Champions in Shanghai. Johnson, the world’s No. 1 player going for his third World Golf Championships title of the year, lost a six-shot lead Sunday. That matched the PGA Tour record for largest blown lead in the final round, most recently by Sergio Garcia at Quail Hollow in 2005, and most famously by Greg Norman in the 1996 Masters. A one-man show turned into a four-man race, and Rose seized on the surprising opportunity in a wild, wind-blown final round. He shot 31 on the back nine, getting into the game with birdies on the 13th and 14th, saving par with a 10-foot putt

”When I stop hitting bombs I’ll play the Champions Tour, but I’m hitting some crazy bombs right now,” Mickelson said Wednesday, a day before he opens the year at The American Express. Competing for the first time since early November, he showed up at PGA West a little better