12:33 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rory McIlroy was paying attention to court proceedings Tuesday, when a federal judge in California denied a temporary restraining order to three suspended PGA Tour members who signed with LIV Golf and then wanted to play in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford won’t
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8:45 AM ET After some drama about who would and who would not be in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, the field is set. Now, the three-week sprint to the finish begins, starting with the FedEx St. Jude Championship. The top 125 players in the standings are in the field. After this week, the
Jon Rahm has some extra inspiration for Thursday’s start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, even if he might be a little sleep deprived. On the eve of the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Rahm announced on Instagram that he and wife Kelley welcomed their second son with the birth of
7:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Analysts The FedEx Cup Playoffs begin this week with the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship from TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. The playoff field is loaded with some of the best golfers in the world all battling for a shot at the $18 million prize Rory McIlroy enters the event
We’ll try to take a break from the LIV Golf drama in order to dive into the FedEx Cup Playoffs starting this week at TPC Southwind. The FedEx St. Jude Championship kicks things off with 121 of the 125 eligible players competing in Memphis. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, defending champ Tony Finau and Open
A judge in U.S. District Court denied a motion Tuesday afternoon to three LIV Golf members seeking to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, giving the PGA Tour the first victory in the legal battle between the tour and the Saudi-backed circuit. As part of the lawsuit filed by Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and nine
7:04 AM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Much of professional men’s golf’s attention was on a California courtroom on Tuesday, where a federal judge ruled that it was OK for the PGA Tour to ban three players who left for the rival LIV Golf series from competing in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Starting on Thursday, eyes
A lawyer for LIV Golf during Tuesday’s temporary restraining order hearing in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., made a statement that called into question the matter of prize money on the Saudi-backed circuit. In June, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee reported that the prize money presumably awarded at LIV Golf events was taken
6:46 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A federal judge on Tuesday denied a temporary restraining order to three golfers who were seeking to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs after leaving the PGA Tour for the upstart LIV Golf Invitational Series. The players, Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford, were seeking relief to participate
A day after Tom Kim became the first golfer born in the 2000s to win on the PGA Tour, a girl significantly younger turned heads in another big golf tournament on the other side of the country. Introducing Alice Ziyi Zhao, who opened the 122nd U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship by shooting a six-under 67 at
12:37 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A federal judge in California might decide on Tuesday whether to grant a temporary restraining order that would allow three golfers who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, starting this week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Scottie Scheffler, the No.
4:46 PM ET Associated Press MUIRFIELD, Scotland — Ashleigh Buhai surged into a five-shot lead at the Women’s Open after shooting a 7-under 64 in the third round on Saturday. Now she just has to find a way to finish off for her first major victory. The South African also led this tournament in 2019
One of the most influential players in golf is someone you might not have even heard of: Ann Gregory. Famously referred to as the “Queen of Negro Golf,” Gregory was a trailblazer for women of color in athletics as the first black woman to play in a USGA championship. Earlier this year, a feature film,
7:29 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Jerry Kelly missed a chance to win in regulation and then made short work in the playoff Sunday with a 4-foot birdie putt to win the Shaw Charity Classic for his third title of the season on the PGA Tour Champions. Kelly closed with a 3-under 67
This is the 16th year of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, long enough that a generation of tour pros have no memory of a PGA Tour season that didn’t end with this postseason dash. Traditions take time to develop, but the playoffs are starting to accumulate that time. And they’re also accumulating a lot of interesting
Memorabilia belonging to Gary Player has been put up for auction without his permission for the second time in three years. And the nine-time major champion isn’t too happy about it. The 86-year-old World Golf Hall of Famer from South Africa took to Twitter and Instagram on Monday to issue a statement that his son,
9:42 AM ET The PGA Tour has asked a federal judge to deny a temporary restraining order to three of its suspended members who left to compete on the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series and are seeking to participate in the FedEx Cup playoffs, arguing the players can’t “have their cake and eat it too.”
7:18 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — The last five weeks feels like three months to 20-year-old Joohyung “Tom” Kim, and for good reason. The South Korean kid who named himself after a cartoon train is on the fast track. He got a rare PGA Tour start in the Scottish Open because of his
There was a symmetry to Nick Faldo making the Wyndham Championship his final broadcast as an analyst for CBS Sports. It was the same tournament 43 years earlier that the six-time major winner made his tour debut as a player, the event then known as the Greater Greensboro Open. “I blew it,” the Englishman said
4:29 PM ET Associated Press MUIRFIELD, Scotland — After seeing a 5-shot lead slip away in the final round, Ashleigh Buhai still managed to secure a first major title at the Women’s Open. Buhai kept her composure to beat In Gee Chun — and the setting sun — in a playoff at Muirfield on Sunday
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joohyung Kim’s nickname, “Tom,” is a reference to Thomas the Tank Engine, the character from the famous British children’s book who doesn’t possess the strength or pedigree of the mightier locomotives but finds himself overachieving in the railyard. This, we’re afraid to report, is a wholly inapt and unacceptable metaphor for Tom
After a season that involved 44 tour stops, including 11 first-time winners, eight players winning multiple times and three first-time major champions, we’ve arrived at the finish—the FedEx Cup Playoffs. And with that, it’s time to determine a season-long champion and hand out quite a bit of dough as well. Masters champion, World No. 1
2:54 PM ET Associated Press Callum Shinkwin claimed his second European tour title with a four-shot victory in the Cazoo Open on Sunday. The Englishman shot 1-under 70 in the final round and finished on 12-under 272 overall at Celtic Manor, where he has now finished first, fourth and eighth in his last three visits.
8:26 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — The largest cut since the PGA Tour went to top 65 and ties, followed by two delays for storms in the area, kept the Wyndham Championship from finishing the third round Saturday and set up a long final day of the regular season. Brandon Wu holed out
Some player-caddie relationships are better than others, and when the partnership inevitably ends, it’s either a great relief for one or both or it can be as upsetting as a true divorce. Count Will Zalatoris’ parting with looper Ryan Goble as closer to the latter. Zalatoris and Goble decided on the most unusual of partings
When play came to a halftime on Saturday at the Wyndham Championship, it was unclear what was thicker: the humid air, which had just given way to the thunderstorms that loomed for most of the afternoon, or the congestion at the top of the leaderboard. Or is it, as always, the drama? At the final
9:41 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Kirk Triplett shot a steady 2-under 68 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Shaw Charity Classic. Playing in the final group with Paul Goydos and first-round leader Padraig Harrington, the 60-year-old Triplett moved into the lead with back-to-back birdies on
GULLANE, Scotland — Bob Dylan was nowhere in sight, but at Muirfield times are definitely a’changing. Mark it in your diaries. We’re talking historically significant here. In the place where “men only” was loudly screamed for more than a quarter of a millennium, on Saturday, a female member of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
3:31 PM ET Associated Press MUIRFIELD, Scotland — In Gee Chun is making another strong run at a major. The South Korean golfer took the halfway lead at the Women’s Open after a 5-under 66 in the second round on Friday, putting her in position to challenge for a second major title of the year,
GULLANE, Scotland — She’s lurking, not leading at halfway. But no matter. Those around Inbee Park at the sharp end of the AIG Women’s British Open at Muirfield will be well aware of her presence. Seven major championship victories gives a player a particular aura, as well as the knowledge that, even when the vagaries