There is no such thing as perfect golf. But what Dylan Menante did this past week in one of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in the country, amounts to a level of play that’s hard to describe. The 21-year-old from Carlsbad, Calif., won the 60th anniversary of Northeast Amateur with a 19-under 257 at Wannamoisett
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5:45 PM ET Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. — In Gee Chun shot a 3-over 75 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Women’s PGA Championship. On a day when Congressional Country Club gave the leaders plenty of trouble, Chun was holding her own until she made a double bogey
BETHESDA, Md. — It was drink-a-water-every-hole hot on moving day at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Players were dripping sweat before they even teed off, and the massive tree removal that occurred during Congressional’s recent renovation left little shade out on the course. As the sun beat down, dominant leader In Gee Chun showed signs
8:02 PM ET Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Padraig Harrington finally knows what it’s like to overpower a golf course, and it has the Irishman on the verge of a U.S. Senior Open title. Harrington reached both par 5s in two, hitting 5-wood to 7 feet on the 608-yard 12th hole at Saucon Valley, and
At a tournament named after an insurance company that provides some certainty and a sense of steadiness for people, Patrick Cantlay is about as steady as they come. And he proved that again during Saturday’s third round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, where a seven-under-par 63 on Satruday has him within one
7:13 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Xander Schauffele shot a 3-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over good friend and playing partner Patrick Cantlay into the final round of the Travelers Championship. Schauffele had a 17-under 193 total at TPC River Highlands. Cantlay shot 63. Rookie Sahith Theegala was third
When KPMG came on as title sponsor of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in 2015, they entered the deal with three promises: to play the event at sites that have hosted men’s majors, to air the major on network television and to increase the purse. In 2022, all three promises have been fulfilled: the event
8:16 PM ET Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. — In Gee Chun shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to six strokes halfway through the Women’s PGA Championship. Chun led by five after the first round, equaling the biggest 18-hole advantage in the history of women’s major championships. The Congressional Country Club course
Even Bernhard Langer can have a bad week. The 64-year-old German was 63-for-63 in making the cut in major championships on the PGA Tour Champions, but the streak came to an end on Friday when Langer shot four-over-par 75 in the second round of the U.S. Senior Open, and combined with his 74 on Thursday,
8:29 PM ET Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker are going at it again on a big stage, and this time they have more say over the outcome at the U.S. Senior Open. The two Ryder Cup captains at Whistling Straits last September will be in the final group going into
For now, the threat of the upstart LIV Golf series seems to center around a seemingly endless supply of money that it can throw at prospective players. But there is one thing the Saudi-backed tour currently does not have, and likely needs, to disrupt professional golf further: Official World Golf Ranking points. LIV Golf CEO
7:21 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Xander Schauffele shot his second straight 7-under 63 on Friday to take a five-stroke lead in the Travelers Championship. The Olympic champion shot a 31 on the front nine at TPC River Highlands with four birdies, then had a 32 on the back, making birdies on 11,
Golf can be a challenging sport for young children to connect to. Typical tournament rounds are usually quiet, long and boring. Enter Nickelodeon. The children’s cable network has recruited four of golf’s top pros to participate in an hour-long TV special to get kids excited about the game. And it promises to be anything but
8:24 PM ET Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Jay Haas has been shooting his age or better for the last three years, just never on a stage quite like Thursday in the U.S. Senior Open. Haas steadied himself from an up-and-down start at soggy Saucon Valley and played much younger than his 68 years down
If Emma Talley had to do it over again, maybe it would have been better if she had really unloaded, a hard bang of her left shoe rather than a soft tap of the toe. At least then the unusual rules situation that transpired during the first round of the Women’s KPMG PGA Championship would
7:42 PM ET The DP World Tour will announce on Friday that golfers participating in the LIV Golf Invitational Series won’t be allowed to play at the Scottish Open, according to The Telegraph. The $8 million event will be held July 7-10 at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, one week before the 150th
You’ve probably heard the saying before: You can’t win a major during the first round, but you can lose it. A variation thrown around in sports with multi-lap races: The only award you get for leading after the first lap is the stupid award. You get the idea: Leading early doesn’t mean anything. But, maybe
5:23 PM ET Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. — In Gee Chun breezed to an 8-under 64 on Thursday to jump out to a big early lead in the first round of the Women’s PGA Championship. While most of the field slogged through the day on the wet Blue Course at Congressional, Chun birdied seven of
Comissioner Jay Monahan announced wholesale changes to the PGA Tour’s structure, schedule and FedEx Cup in a press conference at the Travelers Championship on Wednesday. Monahan outlined what had been communicated to players in a letter obtained by Golf Digest: that the PGA Tour would return to a calendar-year schedule beginning 2024, that the FedEx
The PGA Tour is in Cromwell, Connecticut this weekend for the Travelers Championship. The course is one of the shorter ones on the tour but carries an $8.3 million purse. Some of golf’s best talent will look to get a win at TPC River Highlands this weekend. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 2
CROMWELL, Conn.—It wasn’t so long ago that the PGA Tour featured 60 exempt haves and an ocean of have-nots—hundreds of striving rabbits who went week to week trying to Monday qualify their way into a career. The dollars are different now, but the vision described by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at the Travelers Championship
12:49 PM ET Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy offered some of the harshest criticism yet of PGA Tour players who have defected to the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, saying Wednesday that some are “duplicitous” for backing out of their commitments to the tour. McIlroy, speaking to reporters at a news conference ahead of this
Elite junior golfers seem often to be bred in warm weather places. California, Texas, Arizona, the Carolinas—those are the states you expect to see when you look at the makeup of the national junior golf rankings. But right now, the player who sits atop the Rolex AJGA and Junior Golf Scoreboard Rankings breaks the mold:
2:55 PM ET If there was any doubt about the venom brewing between the PGA Tour and the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, the latest salvo was delivered by the breakaway circuit on Wednesday. Just as PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was unveiling increased purses, a revamped schedule and dramatic changes to the FedEx Cup
Four weeks ahead of the staging of The 150th Open Championship, the R&A announced that it will not restrict any players who have previously earned spots from competing at St. Andrews. The decision allows golfers who participated in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event last month outside London or those who play in next week’s
5:23 AM ET Players involved in the LIV Golf Series will be allowed to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews next month, organizers the R&A announced on Wednesday. The USGA allowed players who have joined the LIV Golf Series, which is financially backed by Saudi Arabia’s government-backed PIF Fund, to play at
Brooks Koepka took one more step in leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf on Tuesday when he withdrew from this week’s Travelers Championship. The tour announced his withdrawal and said he would be replaced by Mark Hubbard. The move was a surprise to no one in the golf world, considering there were reports earlier
10:34 PM ET Brooks Koepka has withdrawn from this week’s Travelers Championship, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday night. The four-time major champion is joining the LIV Golf Invitational Series, sources confirmed to ESPN earlier Tuesday. Koepka, 32, is one of the highest-profile players to join the breakaway circuit, which is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s
The 2022 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship announced on Tuesday that the purse for this week’s LPGA major at Congressional Country Club has been doubled to $9 million. While this changes the payouts throughout the field, notably, the winner will receive $1.35 million. That’s double what Nelly Korda earned when she won the tournament in 2021.
4:18 PM ET Associated Press The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is doubling the size of its purse to $9 million, another boost to the women’s game that brings prize money for the five majors to nearly triple the amount from a decade ago. The increase in prize money for the LPGA Tour’s second-oldest major is