7:26 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Australian Minjee Lee won the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club on Sunday by five strokes after shooting an even-par 71 in the final round to finish 13-under on the tournament and secure the second major victory of her career. Lee’s
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Minjee Lee began the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles with a three-shot lead. After starting the final round birdie-birdie, she widened her gap on the field even farther. The 26-year-old from Australia left no doubt, winning the U.S. Women’s Open by four over Mina Harigae. Here are some of the
8:24 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Jerry Kelly birdied the first hole of a playoff with Kirk Triplett on Sunday to win the PGA Tour Champions’ Principal Charity Classic. Kelly hit his approach to 4 feet on the par-4 18th to set up the winning putt. The 55-year-old from Wisconsin has nine
DUBLIN, Ohio — Chris Gotterup of Oklahoma on Sunday was named the winner of the Jack Nicklaus Award as Division I Collegiate Player of the Year to lead a group of five recipients who were honored at Muirfield Village Golf Club. The Jack Nicklaus Award, created in 1988, recognizes the top men’s players in Division
7:21 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Minjee Lee appears to be on mission. The 26-year-old Australian shot a 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a 3-stroke lead over American Mina Harigae into the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open. “My approach [Sunday] is going to be the same as the last
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Through eight holes, Minjee Lee’s Saturday was merely average. On a relatively pleasant, slightly windy day at Pine Needles, she had made one bogey and one birdie, and stood a shot behind leader Mina Harigae, who had fought her way to 10 under. Four holes and an hour later, she had
9:06 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Steven Alker topped yet another PGA Tour Champions leaderboard Saturday, shooting an 8-under 64 for a share of the second-round lead in the Principal Charity Classic. Coming off a victory last week in Michigan in the major Senior PGA Championship, Alker played the four par-5 holes
DUBLIN, Ohio — Billy Horschel now has held the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour five times in his career, but never by a greater margin that the five-shot cushion he enjoys heading into the final round of the Memorial Tournament. “I’ve had it in my head plenty of times,” the convivial Florida native said.
4:20 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Danielle Kang is not a morning person. The 2017 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner really doesn’t like having to wake up early. Lately, though, she has been left with no other choice. Just over a month ago, Kang was diagnosed with a tumor on her spine,
Kevin Na announced on Saturday that he has resigned from the PGA Tour. Na, who is listed in next week’s LIV Golf Invitational field, took to social media to announce his association with the Saudi-backed series had led him to quit the tour. “For 19 years, I’ve played on the PGA Tour and I have
11:54 AM ET Kevin Na, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, announced on Saturday that he has resigned from the tour, doing so rather than face potential discipline and/or legal action for playing in the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series. Na, who is ranked 33rd in the world, announced his resignation on social media.
The young guns are here to play. We’ve been trending this way for some time. See: Scottie Scheffler’s ascension, 11 of the top 15 in the World Ranking are younger than 30 years old, ditto for seven of the last nine major winners at the time of their wins. In any given week, the top
9:11 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Jin Young Ko never seems to stress. Nor does she let up. The world’s No. 1 player vaulted into contention for a third major championship Friday, playing the final five holes in 3 under to pull within 3 shots of second-round leaders Minjee Lee and Mina
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — The list of women who have won a career Grand Slam is just seven players long, and that number dwindles all the way to one—Annika Sorenstam—when you consider the modern, five-major era. Last August, another Swedish star, Anna Nordqvist, would not have been anywhere near the Grand Slam conversation. Sure, she
4:15 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina — Michelle Wie West woke up on Friday morning and decided to solve a puzzle. On the day that would eventually feature her final LPGA round of the year, Wie West grabbed her phone and gave Wordle a shot for the very first time. With her
When it comes to hole-in-one stories, there’s almost nothing that could shock us these days. Players making multiple in the same round, husbands and wives going back-to-back on the same hole, someone acing the same hole for three(!) consecutive days, Tom Brady making one while a drone was filming him. OK, so the last one
6:19 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Annika Sorenstam stood on the third tee at the U.S. Women’s Open, signaling to 12-year-old daughter Ava and 11-year-old son Will behind the ropes to drink some water and stay hydrated. A few holes later, she reminded them to reapply sunscreen. Those aren’t responsibilities Sorenstam had
DUBLIN, Ohio — Davis Riley owns a welcoming disposition, an infectious smile and one of the most elegant swings on the PGA Tour. That swing is going to win him a lot of money and more than a few tournaments, but last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge it betrayed him at the most inopportune
7:10 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Just being at the Memorial was a reminder of how far Cameron Young has come in the last year. Being part of a six-way tie for the lead Thursday was another reminder of how well he is playing. In his first start since challenging at the PGA
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — To birdie half of the holes on a U.S. Open course is no mean feat, and Mina Harigae, who posted a seven-under 64 at Pine Needles to finish as the first round leader, might owe her spectacular Thursday to a slight putting adjustment made just 24 hours before the start of
5:37 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina — Lexi Thompson can’t open up a Band-Aid. On the 18th tee box in the middle of a humid, 95-degree day during the first round at the U.S. Women’s Open, the sixth-ranked player in the world is going through a relatable problem: the back of her
LPGA Tour players have logos on their apparel and bag from a variety of companies. From finance to technology, you’ll see a range of big companies supporting female golfers with their corporate signatures prominently featured on shirts and hats. But at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles, Lydia Ko has a new logo on
10:08 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PINE NEEDLES, North Carolina — The U.S. Women’s Open is back at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines for a record fourth time with a purse of $10 million — more than double last year’s purse of $4.8 million — and plenty of storylines. Between Michelle
It probably should be no surprise that the NCAA Men’s Team Championship final between two heavyweight programs on Wednesday was won on the strength of twin branches from a family tree that has a green jacket. Texas seniors Parker and Pierceson Coody, twin grandsons of former Masters champion Charles Coody, delivered the first two points
6:37 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — The day of reckoning arrived for the PGA Tour and more than a dozen of its players on Tuesday, as 13 tour members were included in the field for the first LIV Golf Invitational Series in London next week. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has warned players that they
LIV Golf announced the field for its inaugural event in London, and while most of the competitors were players that have been linked to the Saudi-backed circuit for months, one name popped from the rest: two-time major winner and former World No. 1 Dustin Johnson. Though the 37-year-old had previously been rumored as a LIV
6:06 PM ET In another edition of The Match, football fans will merge with golf fans Wednesday in Las Vegas to see NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers put aside their personal competition with each other to team up against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. The 12-hole exhibition (6:30 p.m. ET on TNT) will
DUBLIN, Ohio — Ambivalence doesn’t much suit Rory McIlroy, the former World No. 1 who seldom has hesitated to offer thoughtful insights on the issues of the day in the sport in which he excels. “I’d say indifferent is probably the way I would describe it,” the four-time major winner said regarding his reaction to
11:56 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan met with several agents of tour players at Muirfield Village Golf Club on Wednesday, and his message to them was once again clear, according to sources. Choose the PGA Tour or the LIV Golf Series Invitational, but players won’t be allowed to play on
In the wake of Dustin Johnson’s surprising turn to LIV Golf it appears one of his primary endorsers has cut ties with the former World No. 1. “RBC is a proud partner of the PGA Tour. Our partnership is anchored with two world-class golf tournaments—the RBC Heritage and the RBC Canadian Open. The PGA Tour