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6:14 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — One of the best former amateur golfers in the world is leading after two rounds of the LIV Golf tournament in Thailand. Ex-Oklahoma State player Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra turned professional to play on the LIV series. The two-time first-team All-American was No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf

The Internationals can’t seem to stop playing well two weeks after the Presidents Cup. Four of captain Trevor Immelman’s men—Mito Pereira, Tom Kim, Si Woo Kim, and Cameron Davis—are all high on the leaderboard after two rounds at the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. It’s shaping up to be good weekend

10:30 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff started out Friday as hot as she finished the day before at the LPGA Mediheal Championship. She finally hit a few bumps, but not before expanding her lead with a 3-under 69. Ewart Shadoff opened with a 64 at The Saticoy Club by making

We’ve all been there. You just don’t expect a touring professional to become one of us. At least, not like this. Ashun Wu, a 37-year-old from China, made eight birdies Thursday during an opening-round 63 at the Spanish Open at Club de Campo Villa in Madrid. But Friday was a completely different story. Wu started

5:08 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm’s four-footer for birdie on the final hole just missed the cup, capping a frustrating day for the home-crowd favorite at the Spanish Open and dropping him two shots off the lead on Friday. Paul Waring and Stephen Gallacher shared a one-shot lead at the halfway mark. Rahm, seeking

The plan was both creative and audacious at the same time. By partnering with the developmental MENA Tour, already approved by the Official World Golf Ranking, LIV Golf seemed to have identified a credible path to have its Invitational Series events finally receive the World Ranking status the upstart Saudi-backed circuit so longingly craved. And

6:04 AM ET Associated Press BANGKOK — Richard Bland, Branden Grace and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra upstaged their more illustrious opponents Friday to shoot 7-under 65s and share the lead after the first round of the LIV Golf Invitational-Bangkok. Marc Leishman and Ian Poulter were a stroke behind and Sihwan Kim, Brooks Koepka and Jediah Morgan were

When does a tour pro ever play golf in tennis shoes? In the case of Tano Goya, it was when he found out he was due on the first tee in two minutes. Goya, a 34-year-old from Argentina, was an alternate at the Shriners Children’s Open and prepared all week like he was going to

10:01 PM ET Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. — Jodi Ewart Shadoff went on a run of four straight birdies late in her round Thursday for an 8-under 64, taking a 2-shot lead in the LPGA Mediheal Championship. Ewart Shadoff has played 245 times on the LPGA Tour without winning, but she got off to a

With 45 events of a 47-tournament schedule still to be completed, there’s a LOT of golf left in the 2022-23 PGA Tour season. But when it comes to recovery shots, it’s going to be tough to top the one Sungjae Im had on Thursday. The South Korean found himself playing his second shot on the

5:30 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm overcame early jitters from playing at home and shot a 7-under 64 in the opening round of the Spanish Open on Thursday to sit one stroke behind leaders Ashun Wu, Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Darius van Driel. Rahm is trying to win for the third time at home and

There will be no World Ranking points awarded for this weekend’s LIV Golf Series event in Bangkok, according to a statement from the Official World Golf Ranking released on Thursday. In a move that appeared to be an attempt to circumvent the review process for eligibility, LIV Golf on Wednesday announced a partnership with the

9:18 AM ET The Official World Golf Ranking governing board is reviewing LIV Golf’s new alliance with the MENA Tour but said in a statement Thursday that it won’t make a ruling before the start of LIV Golf’s next two events in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. LIV Golf officials hoped its newly formed partnership with

Coming off a strong showing at the Presidents Cup and looking to defend his Shriners Children’s Open title, Sungjae Im will be one of many Quail Hollow participants teeing off in Las Vegas this week. Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa, Tom Kim, Cam Davis, Si Woo Kim, K.H. Lee, Mito Pereira, Taylor Pendrith and Christiaan Bezuidenhout

4:49 PM ET William E. Ricks When it comes to putting, golfer Spencer Levin‘s putting form is a little more unorthodox than most. It even parallels one of Adam Sandler’s iconic movie characters. 1 Related While practicing at the Shriner Children’s Open on Wednesday, Levin showed off a putting grip that looked similar to Happy

Professional golfers quite literally bet on themselves every time they tee it up, so they’re no strangers to a little bit of action. But playing 1-on-1 for a coveted PGA Tour start as a struggling Korn Ferry Tour pro? Well, that’s just the most diabolical thing we’ve ever heard. That’s exactly what went down a

11:21 AM ET LIV Golf is forming a strategic alliance with the little-known MENA Tour in hopes of securing Official World Golf Ranking points for its players. The MENA Tour, a feeder circuit that has staged tournaments in the Middle East and North Africa, had been shuttered for more than two years during the COVID-19

The R&A is moving. But traditionalists needn’t worry. Golf’s governing body everywhere outside the United States and Mexico isn’t leaving St. Andrews, but rather consolidating its offices into a new building. Instead of the current situation where staff works in as many as five buildings in and around the iconic Royal & Ancient clubhouse, as

5:29 PM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods has another loaded field for his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods on Tuesday announced 17 players for the 20-man field, and all but four are from the top 21 in the world ranking. Still to be announced is whether the player at No. 1,195 in the

It only took two questions before 2023 U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson was asked if Tiger Woods will play a part of his squad next year when the matches head to Rome. The question was expected, and the answer was simple. “I can’t put this mildly—he loves the Ryder Cup,” Johnson said Tuesday as

5:36 PM ET Associated Press The path for 30 players to reach the PGA Tour starts in the Bahamas next year as part of a Korn Ferry Tour schedule that has the same number of tournaments, nearly $8 million more in prize money and a revamped end of the year. The Korn Ferry Tour released

If Patrick Welch held the golf club normally—right hand low, left hand high—you wouldn’t even notice he was in the field this week at the Shriners Children’s Open. But Welch does not hold the golf club normally, and the abnormal always sparks interest from the masses in this sport (see: Wolff, Matthew). Welch, a redshirt

1:23 PM ET ESPN News Services ROME — Whether Tiger Woods makes it to Italy or not for next year’s Ryder Cup, he’ll be an integral member of the U.S. team, captain Zach Johnson said Tuesday at the year-to-go ceremonies. “Given who he is and what he’s all about, I can tell you right now,

Maja Stark had some work to do if she was going to make the cut at last week’s Ascendant LPGA event after shooting an opening-round four-over 75 at Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas. Unfortunately for her, she never got the chance. The 22-year-old Swede, who earned membership on the LPGA Tour in

I was with my colleague Michael Bamberger last month, lucky to have one-on-one time with the gifted writer and storyteller. “You never know where a story will take you,” he told me. I was working on a piece that I thought was going to be primarily about how Andrew Strother had sold his insurance agency

When you think of unbreakable records in golf, there are the usual suspects: Byron Nelson’s 11 straight PGA Tour wins; Tiger Woods’ 142 consecutive made cuts; Kathy Whitworth’s 88 career LPGA titles. But there might be a new, somewhat more obscure one to add to the list: Keita Nakajima’s 87 total weeks as the No.

Much was expected of Charley Hull when she got through LPGA Q School as an 18-year-old in 2014. More at least than just one victory in her first seven-plus years on tour. At the time, the Englishwoman was coming off winning the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit and had become the youngest golfer to

5:35 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Charley Hull put a little extra time into putting practice, and it paid off for her in a big way Sunday when she ran off four birdies on the back nine for a 7-under 64 to win The Ascendant LPGA. Hull won for the first time

So, to sum up, have a great short game, boys and girls. Oh, yeah, of course, you need the back story here. Two weeks into the final split-calendar season on the PGA Tour and the takeaway so far is that winning doesn’t really have to look neat and tidy so long as you know how

8:05 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Whether it was sheer confidence or remarkable resilience, Mackenzie Hughes never doubted he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship. He just never imagined how it would unfold Sunday evening. Hughes had to make six key putts on the final seven holes — four of them for par