Month: October 2023

Associated Press Oct 12, 2023, 10:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — Lexi Thompson kept a rough round from getting worse and wound up holding her own Thursday in the Shriners Children’s Open until darkness kept her from finishing. Beau Hossler set the pace by matching his career low on the PGA Tour

Associated Press Oct 12, 2023, 03:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADRID — Jon Rahm got off to a solid start in his attempt to surpass Seve Ballesteros by winning a fourth Spanish Open title, shooting 4-under 67 to sit four shots off the lead after Thursday’s first round. Matthieu Pavon was at the top

Associated Press Oct 12, 2023, 06:22 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SHANGHAI — Maja Stark and Wichanee Meechai each shot 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a 2-stroke first-round lead at the LPGA Shanghai event in the tour’s return to China since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stark, one of three rookies on the European team that

Oct 11, 2023, 05:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TGL added three more players this week in advance of its January debut as Sahith Theegala, Cam Young and Keegan Bradley all are on board, TMRW Sports announced Wednesday. Those additions come a week after Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrrell Hatton were named to the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterOct 11, 2023, 02:36 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions If golfers can’t earn Official World Golf Ranking points for their finishes in LIV Golf League events, Bryson DeChambeau wants the four major championships

Associated Press Oct 10, 2023, 01:20 PM ET MADRID — With his “batteries charged” again after an exhausting Ryder Cup week, Jon Rahm is back home to try to surpass idol Seve Ballesteros with a fourth Spanish Open title. Rahm matched Ballesteros’ three titles by winning in Madrid last year, and he arrives as the

Oct 10, 2023, 05:50 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Lexi Thompson didn’t hesitate when informed that she had been invited to play in this week’s Shriners Children’s Open, where she will become only the seventh woman to compete on the PGA Tour. She had other plans for this weekend after a busy schedule that had

Associated Press Oct 10, 2023, 01:35 PM ET LIV Golf is playing only for cash, not world ranking points, after the Official World Golf Ranking board determined it could not fairly measure the 48-man league with the other 24 tours around the world. The OWGR rejected the application from Saudi-backed LIV Golf, first submitted in

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 04:49 PM ET NEWBURGH, Ind. — Paul Barjon had a big weekend at the right time, closing with a 4-under 68 on Sunday for a 3-shot victory in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to move him into the top 30 of players who earned PGA Tour cards for 2024. Barjon

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 06:35 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea started with a five-shot lead and didn’t give anyone much of a chance Sunday, closing with a 2-under 69 to win The Ascendant LPGA by four shots. It was the second straight week for a wire-to-wire winner

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 08:25 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Luke List won when he least expected it, getting into a five-way playoff Sunday in the Sanderson Farms Championship and ending it quickly with a birdie putt from just inside 45 feet for his second career PGA Tour victory. The playoff would not have

Associated Press Oct 9, 2023, 11:35 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Matt Fitzpatrick captured his first European tour title in two years by winning the weather-affected Dunhill Links Championship by 3 strokes Monday. The 2022 U.S. Open champion shot 6-under 66 on the Old Course at St. Andrews to finish on 19-under-par overall for

45 Panelists From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten: A decade after golf architect Tripp Davis created one of the finest replica courses in the country, The Tribute Golf Club on the shoreline of Lake Lewisville north of Dallas, he returned and built another 18 adjacent to it called Old American Golf Club. The

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 05:48 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Brett Quigley had to work a lot harder than he imagined Sunday to win again on the PGA Tour Champions. He recovered from a shocking double bogey with four closing pars for a 1-under 71 and a one-shot victory in the Constellation Furyk &

Ben Griffin takes a three-shot lead over Carl Yuan into the final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship, providing the 27-year-old the chance to claim his first career PGA Tour win and put the perfect bow on his unusual professional golf journey. Griffin’s story has been fairly well-chronicled. Upon graduating from North Carolina in 2018

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 09:37 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Heavy rain in Scotland caused play at the Dunhill Links Championship to be abandoned for the day again on Sunday. It was the second straight day that no play was possible at the European tour event held across three of Scotland’s great courses:

Cameron Champ largely has gone missing in recent months and even spilling over to years, yet all it seemed to take for his talent to resurface was a return to the Sanderson Farms Championship, a tournament he won in 2018. “I love the course,” he said of the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss.,

Associated Press Oct 7, 2023, 07:44 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Ben Griffin moved into position for his first PGA Tour victory with another bogey-free round Saturday for a 6-under 66, giving him a three-shot lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Griffin got up-and-down for par on his final three holes, the last one from

Now that the Ryder Cup is over and done, many a pundit and golfer are coming out of the woodwork to express how they would do things differently if given a chance. Billy Horschel, when asked about what went wrong for the U.S. by the U.K. publication Bunkered while playing at this week’s Dunhill Links

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 01:45 PM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Peter Uihlein, Sebastian Söderberg and Adri Arnaus shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead at the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday as three of Europe’s Ryder Cup-winning team returned to action with solid starts at the European tour event. The tournament is

A new video shows Lowry making his way over to Donald before the festivities started to thank him for putting the Irishman on the team. Donald had used one of his captain’s picks on a struggling Lowry, a move that many questioned heading into the event. But Lowry contributed 1.5 points to Europe’s cause in

Associated Press Oct 6, 2023, 07:59 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim shot a 3-under 68 on Friday in The Ascendant LPGA to take a two-stroke lead over Sofia Garcia into the weekend, with resurgent Lexi Thompson tied for third. Kim had four birdies and a bogey in her morning round at

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Don’t get too excited. Halfway through the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Nicolas Colsaerts isn’t leading the tournament. Then again, no one really is. With three courses — the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns — in the rotation, who is actually atop the leaderboard will not become completely clear

Associated Press Oct 6, 2023, 08:07 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Ben Griffin joined a crowded pack of contenders in the Sanderson Farms Championship and then moved past them Friday afternoon with a 30 on the back nine, sending him to a 9-under 63 and a 2-shot lead going into the weekend. Griffin’s score was

The powerlines near the tee on No. 9 at the Country Club of Jackson struck again. They got Sam Burns last year, but on Friday at the Sanderson Farms, they didn’t lay a glove on Australia’s Harrison Endycott. At last year’s event, Burns hit the powerlines with an otherwise perfect drive that found the fairway

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 08:48 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Chesson Hadley played bogey-free Thursday in the Sanderson Farms Championship and posted an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in his latest bid to secure his PGA Tour card. This is the third straight year Hadley has been on the bubble to finish among

The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., has hosted 17 USGA events since its founding in 1882. On Thursday, the club and the governing body announced four more will come to the historic venue, including a fourth U.S. Open and a first U.S. Women’s Open. The quartet of future championships include the 2030 U.S. Girls’ Junior,

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:16 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sarah Gallagher won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, beating Brenda Corrie Kuehn 1-up on Thursday at Troon Country Club. The 50-year-old Gallagher, a sixth-grade social studies teacher from Canton, Georgia, won with a 5-foot bogey putt for a halve on the final hole. “I

Sarah Gallagher took an early 4-up lead, then withstood a late rally by Brenda Corrie Kuehn to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, 1 up, on Thursday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Gallagher, a financial planner from Canton, Ga., won the second through fifth holes with birdies Her lead was cut to

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:19 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim took the first-round lead Thursday in The Ascendant LPGA, breaking away at Old American with a back-nine birdie run in a 7-under 64. Kim, the 28-year-old South Korean player ranked No. 7 in the world, had a two-stroke lead over