ATLANTA — Phil was right. Of course, Monsieur Mickelson went about things in entirely the wrong way, which is typical of a complex, contradictory character who so often has been his own worst enemy. Now that his former place of business, the PGA Tour, has undergone a sweeping transformation in an effort to thwart the
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ATLANTA — Two days after Cameron Smith won the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, he fielded a call from Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman, who finished third behind Smith at St. Andrews, had watched him being quizzed by a reporter in his victorious press conference about whether the Australian would join LIV Golf at
6:04 PM ET ATLANTA — Former world No. 1 Lee Westwood said he only could laugh at the sweeping changes the PGA Tour announced Wednesday in response to the growing threat of LIV Golf. Westwood, who was among the first PGA Tour members to defect to the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series, said his
ATLANTA — Sahith Theegala knows the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year award competition is all but over. Cameron Young, the only other rookie to have made the Tour Championship at East Lake, has one hand firmly on the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Award. Posting five runner-up finishes in your debut season, including at the
8:21 PM ET Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Paula Reto shot a course-record 9-under 62 on Thursday at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club to take a 2-stroke lead in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. “It’s not something I’m familiar with,” Reto said about the low score. Winless on the LPGA Tour, the 32-year-old South African
Tiger Woods hasn’t hit a competitive golf shot since the second round of the Open Championship last month at the Old Course in St. Andrews. But his name appeared in headlines on Thursday for the second consecutive day for launching new initiatives. PopStroke was founded in 2018 and each location features two 18-hole putting courses
The field is set for the 2022 Tour Championship, as the original 125-player FedEx Cup playoff roster now sits at just 29 contenders. An $18 million purse awaits the winner of the season-ending event at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Main feed: Primary tournament coverage featuring the best action from around the course. Featured
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The atmosphere on the practice range at Ohio State University Golf Club late Wednesday morning was more lively than usual, the air filled with the sound of excited chatter and laughter mixed with the sound of clubs connecting with golf balls. Korn Ferry Tour players who already feel like they have hit
11:59 AM ET ATLANTA — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are launching a tech-infused golf league in partnership with the PGA Tour that will have players competing on six three-man teams in 15 regular-season matches and a playoff starting in January 2024. The new league, TGL, will feature two-hour, 18-hole matches on a virtual course.
ATLANTA — Trevor Immelman has been working the phones for months trying to learn the latest happenings with LIV Golf. It’s not that the captain of the International Presidents Cup team cares about the success or failure of the Saudi-backed circuit, but rather what any defections mean for his roster as he prepares for next
ATLANTA — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced another series of sweeping and lucrative changes Wednesday ahead of the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. In its ongoing battle with LIV Golf for the best players in the world, the PGA Tour committed another $146 million to its players in an attempt to
ATLANTA — In the face of LIV Golf potentially luring away more golfers, the PGA Tour is implementing several new measures to guarantee its top players will stay and compete together on a regular basis in 2023. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, speaking on Wednesday at the Tour Championship, revealed a series of significant changes
8:00 AM ET ATLANTA — The winner of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship, which starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club, will take home an $18 million bonus. The top 29 players in the FedEx Cup Playoffs points standings will compete for the top prize, after Will Zalatoris, who was third in the standings, had
Almost from its inception in 1994, the Presidents Cup has strained to find relevance. Modeled as a familiar multi-day, United States-versus-World team match-play event, it could not compete with the historic importance or intensity of the Ryder Cup, particularly because a series of European wins in the mid-1980s altered the complexion of a clash that
5:34 PM ET Associated Press Cameron Young and Sahith Theegala are among eight players who can make plans for Kapalua even if they don’t win this year. Kapalua has been the winners-only start to the year on the PGA Tour since 1999, and Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance has made sure it will stay that way for
ATLANTA — It’s not quite there yet. That’s the consensus from the players at East Lake who are taking part in the fourth year of the Tour Championship’s staggered start format. In 2019, the PGA Tour introduced a handicapping system to structure the leaderboard for the 30 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup finale
7:36 PM ET Attorneys representing the PGA Tour have asked a federal judge to unseal certain details of contracts that were signed by its former players who defected to the rival LIV Golf circuit earlier this year. In a court filing submitted Tuesday to federal judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California,
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy announced on Tuesday that they have formed a technology-focused company that will venture into “progressive approaches to sports, media and entertainment.” Their company is called TMRW Sports (pronounced as “tomorrow”) and former NBC Sports president Mike McCarley is a co-founder and will be the CEO. The announcement, via press release,
7:30 AM ET ATLANTA — A memorable PGA Tour season filled with Tiger Woods’ return and the emergence of rival LIV Golf Invitational Series comes to an end this week, when the Tour Championship starts Thursday at East Lake Golf Club. There is plenty at stake for the 30 players who advanced to the season-ending
For all the banter this summer about rapidly rising prize money payouts in professional golf, it remains hard to wrap your head around about what’s on the line this week at the Tour Championship. The winner on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club will earn $18 million for his victory. Let’s repeat this: $18 million.
Aug 21, 2022 Associated Press ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on Sunday for his second PGA Tour Champions victory of the year. Harrington closed with a 5-under 67 at En-Joie Golf Club for a 3-stroke victory over Mike Weir and Thongchai Jaidee. “Unusual for me, no drama, no real
WILMINGTON, Del. — I wasn’t planning on attending FedEx II, even though it was a home game. From my house in Philadelphia to the front gate of the Wilmington Country Club is an hour in the usual traffic. (Insert electronic voice: You are still on the fastest route.) But we had been away on a
3:56 PM ET Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are among the star athletes who will be featured in the upcoming release of the PGA Tour 2K23 video game on Oct. 14. 2K announced on Monday that the iconic game is back, featuring Woods on the cover and in the game. Fans will be able to
6:32 PM ET Associated Press PARAMUS, N.J. — A tough road led to the sweetest finish for Sam Bennett in the U.S. Amateur. Even with so many top stars who either didn’t qualify or got knocked out in the opening round, Bennett had to face the rest of the best, match after match, to get
The story that’s told this week on our Local Knowledge podcast is among golf’s most tragic. Yet, chances are, you’ve never even heard of it. In the 1930s and 1940s, Marion Miley was a notable young female golfer. This was a time when the women’s amateur game had a sizeable national following, people looking for
6:49 PM ET Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — One good break. One great shot. That’s what it took Sunday for Patrick Cantlay to win the BMW Championship for the second straight time with a finish that was nothing like last year’s except for his clutch moments. One other difference: The victory didn’t give him the
WILMINGTON, Del. — The man who is forever expressionless licked his lips, breaking his stone-cold stare because stoicism wouldn’t suffice for what he just did. Patrick Cantlay’s tee shot that was supposed to stay safe did not, leaving him with a mean, uphill approach from a bunker with the ball above his feet and edging
PARAMUS, N.J. — From the moment he arrived in New Jersey, Sam Bennett seemed a little miffed. He was wondering why nobody was talking about him in the lead-up to the 122nd U.S. Amateur, which, let’s be honest, may have been a subjective opinion. Perceived slights are much different than actual ones. But, after Bennett
7:30 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The FedEx Cup playoffs started with 125 players. After the first event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the field was cut to 70 players. After this week’s BMW Championship, won by the event’s defending champion, Patrick Cantlay, only 30 players advance to the season-ending
Tom Weiskopf, winner of the 1973 Open Championship, whose talents translated from a star-crossed playing career to critical success as a golf course designer, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Friday, according to multiple sources close to the family. Weiskopf was 79 and had been battling pancreatic cancer since being diagnosed with the disease in late