Month: August 2024

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 20, 2024, 05:15 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The final major championship in women’s professional golf this season, the AIG Women’s Open, will be played at the Old Course at St. Andrews

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 11:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVINE, Scotland — Lauren Coughlin pulled away with superb putting and closed with a 3-under 69 to win the Women’s Scottish Open on Sunday, her second LPGA title this summer, to secure a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team. Coughlin, who won the

ESPN News Services Aug 18, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Jose Luis Ballester, a rising senior at Arizona State, became the first player from Spain to win the U.S. Amateur, fending off Iowa sophomore Noah Kent and finishing 2 up Sunday at Hazeltine in the 36-hole match on his 21st

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama could feel the tournament getting away from him, an odd sensation considering he had gone 27 holes without a bogey and had a five-shot lead just an hour earlier. Even more improbable was how it ended Sunday. On the

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 07:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Brooks Koepka picked up his second LIV Golf League victory of the year Sunday when he shot 7-under 63 at The Greenbrier and beat Jon Rahm with a par on the first playoff hole. Rahm, who lost a four-shot

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 07:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CALGARY, Alberta — Ken Tanigawa won the Rogers Charity Classic on Sunday for his third career PGA Tour Champions victory, closing with a 6-under 64 to beat Richard Green by two shots. Two strokes behind Green after matching the Canyon Meadows record with a

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 01:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth ended his season Sunday after one FedEx Cup playoff event and already was planning for surgery on his left wrist, which has troubled him the past 16 months. “I’ve got to have it operated on ASAP, and then I’ll

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Noah Kent loves the high stakes of match play, and it has taken the Iowa sophomore all the way to the championship match of the U.S. Amateur. Kent was on the verge of his semifinal match going all square when Jackson

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama felt his lower back starting to act up. On a whim, he decided to put a new putter in his bag for the start of the PGA Tour postseason. And now the Japanese star has a five-shot lead going

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 04:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Jon Rahm finished eagle-birdie-birdie for an 8-under 62 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead over Brooks Koepka and three others in LIV Golf Greenbrier. The Old White course at the West Virginia resort was as vulnerable as ever—

Associated Press Aug 16, 2024, 08:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Talor Gooch holed out from the fairway for eagle on the par-4 fifth hole and played bogey-free for a 7-under 63 that gave him a three-way share of the lead with Sebastián Muñoz and Jason Kokrak after one round

Associated Press Aug 16, 2024, 09:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Illinois senior Jackson Buchanan finally got a breather Friday in the U.S. Amateur, needing only 15 holes and never trailing for a 4-and-3 victory over Jacob Modleski to reach the semifinals at Hazeltine National. The semifinals feature a pair of Americans

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 06:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVINE, Scotland — Two-time major champion Minjee Lee of Australia managed a strong wind and caught a break with rare sunshine in a wet Scottish summer with a 5-under 67 on Thursday for a one-shot lead in the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open before

ESPN News Services Aug 15, 2024, 07:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama lost his wallet, his caddie and his coach for the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs when thieves in London snatched their bag containing passports, but none of that seemed to bother the Japanese star Thursday at the

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 09:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — One day after Ethan Fang had to survive a playoff, he won two matches Thursday at Hazeltine National to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur that now only has one player left from the top 10 amateurs in the world

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2024, 01:34 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Hideki Matsuyama won’t have his regular caddie and swing coach at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship after the Japanese golfer and his team were robbed during

Field Level Media Aug 14, 2024, 02:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The PGA Tour released the 2025 FedEx Cup regular season and playoffs schedule on Wednesday. The 36-event regular season begins with the first of eight signature events, The Sentry in Hawaii from Jan. 2-5. The regular season concludes with the Wyndham Championship in

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2024, 02:55 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrived at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, this week with a newly won Olympic gold medal around his

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2024, 12:18 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The final three-week stretch of the FedEx Cup season is here. Many of the best golfers in the world will not only have to

Keith Jenkins Aug 13, 2024, 06:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions In sports, postseason events offer top prizes. For golfers on the PGA Tour, the postseason starts with the FedEx Cup playoffs, a three-week march toward the FedEx Cup championship trophy. As golf’s biggest names look to capture the PGA Tour’s biggest prize, here’s what

Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 06:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TULSA, Okla. — Rianne Malixi beat Asterisk Talley 3 and 2 to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Sunday at Southern Hills, three weeks after routing Talley in the U.S. Girls’ Junior final. Last month in the U.S. Girls’ Junior, the 17-year-old Malixi —

ESPN News Services Aug 12, 2024, 11:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tiger Woods once said that “golf is a lonely sport.” Matt Kuchar knows the feeling after a bizarre ending Monday to the Wyndham Championship. Kuchar was the only player who opted not to finish Sunday’s final round at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro,

Field Level Media Aug 12, 2024, 10:53 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Scottie Scheffler earned an $8 million bonus by finishing No. 1 on the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 for the 2024 PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup regular season. It’s the second No. 1 finish in three years for the 28-year-old World No. 1, who

Aug 12, 2024, 11:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Brandt Snedeker will serve as one of Keegan Bradley’s vice captains on the U.S. Ryder Cup team which will try to reclaim the trophy from Europe next year at Bethpage Black in New York, the PGA of America said on Monday. Snedeker, a nine-time winner on

Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 08:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Stephen Ames successfully defended his Boeing Classic title Sunday, birdieing the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 and one-stroke victory over Ernie Els, Steven Alker and Robert Karlsson The 60-year-old Ames, a naturalized Canadian from Trinidad and Tobago, won has third

Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 09:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GREENSBORO, N.C. — Aaron Rai took advantage of Max Greyserman‘s late meltdown to win the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title. Rai closed with a 6-under 64, with the 29-year-old Englishman making a 6½-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 11, 2024, 02:14 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The LIV Golf League has suspended Graeme McDowell for one tournament and fined him $125,000 for using a nasal decongestant that contained a banned

Associated Press Aug 10, 2024, 07:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TULSA, Okla. — Asterisk Talley led Rianne Malixi 1 up halfway through the U.S. Women’s Amateur championship match Saturday, three weeks after Malixi routed Talley in the U.S. Girls’ Junior final. “I’m feeling a lot better than last time I played Rianne,” said Talley,

Associated Press Aug 10, 2024, 09:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GREENSBORO, N.C. — Needing a victory to keep his FedEx Cup playoffs streak alive, Matt Kuchar shot his second straight 6-under 64 on Saturday to take the second-round lead in the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship. Kuchar is the only player to reach every postseason in

Associated Press Aug 10, 2024, 12:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection Saturday with the most valuable of of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old New Zealander into the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at