9:39 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than a dozen PGA Tour players, including two-time major champion Dustin Johnson, are included in the field for the first LIV Golf Invitational Series event, which will be played next month outside of London. The list of 42 players was released by LIV Golf on Tuesday night. It
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The Memorial is a tournament, and Muirfield Village a course, that typically brings with it a solid field. And that’s the case again this week as seven of the top 10 players in the world will tee it in Dublin, Ohio, including defending champ Patrick Cantlay. A year ago, Cantlay won in dramatic fashion, sinking
4:29 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jack Nicklaus said he met with the organizers of a Saudi Arabian-financed golf league but has no interest in being the face of a rival circuit to the PGA Tour. “I did it out of courtesy to them because we’re doing a golf course for them,” Nicklaus said Tuesday
World No. 1 amateur Rose Zhang became not only the first college golfer, but the first student athlete to sign an NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deal with Adidas. The announcement came Tuesday, just in time for the 19-year-old’s fourth U.S. Women’s Open appearance. Last week the Stanford freshman also added an NCAA individual and
10:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Michelle Wie West will lead a new women’s partnership initiative with golf equipment company LA Golf, aiming for equitable and fair support on and off the golf course for LPGA players. Pledging to treat women golfers in the same respect as their male counterparts, LA Golf will provide its LPGA
It was more dramatic than artistic, at least until the first extra hole on Monday, when Vanderbilt’s star freshman Gordon Sargent with pinpoint accuracy won the NCAA Men’s Individual Championship in a four-man playoff. Sargent holed a five-foot birdie putt on the 18th green at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., his first birdie of
10:02 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent curled in a short birdie putt on the first hole of a four-man playoff on Monday to become the ninth freshman to win the NCAA individual title. Sargent didn’t have a birdie during a 4-over 74 at Grayhawk Golf Club, but made the playoff
Nelly Korda, who has been sidelined since mid-March with a blood clot in her arm, will make her return to golf in the U.S. Women’s Open on Thursday when the World No. 2 tees off in the afternoon at Pine Needles. The USGA announced on Monday the groupings for the first two rounds, and the
7:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Sam Burns made a 38-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole at Colonial, which came just more than two hours after he had finished his round, to beat top-ranked Scottie Scheffler on Sunday. After finishing his 5-under 65 to get to 9 under, Burns was
If Jon Rahm had his way, the Tour Championship wouldn’t be the only tournament on this year’s PGA Tour schedule in which a player begins with a multiple-stroke advantage. When he returns to the Memorial Tournament this week in Dublin, Ohio, the World No. 2 wouldn’t mind a similar staggered-start format—with his name out front.
8:40 AM ET Team Europe captain Henrik Stenson named Italy’s Edoardo Molinari as his second vice-captain on Monday for the 2023 Ryder Cup that will be played at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome. Molinari and his brother Francesco both played in the 2010 edition when Europe regained the trophy in Wales.
If you’re lucky enough to win a U.S. Women’s Open, as Eun-Hee Ji was in 2009 at Saucon Valley, you lay claim to the trophy, the paycheck and the fulfillment of a dream. You also get one notable perk: a 10-year exemption into the major. At the time, 10 years probably seems like an eternity.
9:41 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Eun-Hee Ji won the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play on Sunday for a spot next week in the U.S. Women’s Open, beating Ayaka Furue 3 and 2 in cooler conditions at Shadow Creek. Ji, the 2009 U.S. Women’s Open winner at Saucon Valley, took the last spot
The magical mystery tour continued for Steven Alker on Sunday, when the man who came from nowhere added a major championship to his inexplicably remarkable PGA Tour Champions run. Alker, 50, came from four shots down at the start of the final round, shot an eight-under 63 at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich., and
4:44 PM ET Associated Press Victor Perez of France birdied the fourth hole of a dramatic playoff with Ryan Fox to win the Dutch Open on Sunday for the second European tour title of his career. They switched to the 17th hole at Bernardus Golf having matched each other stroke for stroke on three trips
Adrian Meronk’s first victory on the DP World Tour will have to wait, his closing 68 at the Dutch Open still leaving him one shot short of playoff between Ryan Fox and Victor Perez. But it’s not due to a lack of trying at the Netherlands’ Bernardus Golf on Sunday The first player from Poland
8:31 PM ET Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Stephen Ames shot a 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead over fellow Canadian Mike Weir and 64-year-old Bernhard Langer into the final round of the Senior PGA Championship. Ames had a 12-under 202 total at Harbor Shores Resort. “I enjoyed the way I
We’ve got to put some of it on Scottie Scheffler’s utter nonchalance at anything he does. Take, for example, his post-round press interview on Saturday after he birdied the 18th hole, shot 68 and forged a two-shot lead over Scott Stallings and Brendon Todd heading into the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge. He
10:31 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Eun-Hee Ji made quick work of Madelene Sagstrom in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play quarterfinals, playing only 12 holes in a 7-and-6 victory Saturday. Andrea Lee, Lilia Vu and Ayaka Furue needed extra holes to join her in the semifinals. “My putting works really well today,”
The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth features five of the world’s top 10 players including Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler looking to return to form after a poor showing at the PGA Championship. Scheffler, a four-time tour winner since February, will be joined in this latest visit to Texas along by
5:00 PM ET Associated Press England’s Matt Wallace and France’s Victor Perez shared the lead on 10 under par after the third round of the Dutch Open, where two shots separated the top nine on Saturday. Wallace shot 2-under 70 and Perez 3-under 69 at Bernardus Golf, and they were one stroke ahead of four
Apparently someone confused the dates of the superintendent’s revenge outing with the high school state championship. The following video comes from Jake Brend, a news director at SCTV, who was covering the Iowa Girls 3A State Golf Tournament at the River Valley Golf Course in Adel. Brend’s video went viral after capturing what appears to
11:24 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Caroline Masson beat top-seeded Minjee Lee 2 and 1 on Friday in 100-degree heat in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play to finish 3-0 in the group stage and advance to single-elimination play. Masson will face Andrea Lee on Saturday in the round of 16 at Shadow
It was a last-minute call. Anna Nordqvist withdrew from the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. The first round was set to begin on Wednesday, so the tour called in an alternate. Gemma Dryburgh filled Nordqvist’s spot, and she’s playing like she belonged in
9:52 PM ET Cobra Puma got into the name, image and likeness space when the golf company announced on Friday the signing of 12-year-old golf phenom, Xavier “Xeve” Perez. It’s the first NIL deal for the company and while Cobra Puma did not disclose specifics, the agreement includes free product and monetary compensation to help
Justin Thomas’ attitude was commendable after winning the PGA Championship in dramatic—and draining—fashion. No one would have faulted the 29-year-old for taking a week off following his playoff win at Southern Hills. Instead, Thomas kept his commitment to play in the Charles Schwab Challenge, referencing the words of his alma mater’s football coach, Nick Saban,
5:05 PM ET Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Scott McCarron didn’t have time to think about his surgically repaired left ankle on Friday. Mother Nature wouldn’t let him. “It was crazy,” McCarron said of the weather changes. He shot a 5-under 66, including eight birdies, in the rain and wind at the Senior PGA
With a forecast of sunny skies and warm but dry temperatures, the first round of stroke play at the NCAA Championship begins Friday for the 30 teams in the field at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Yet one of those 30 teams has already played its third round of NCAAs. Confused? Well, we’ll explain.
8:21 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Scottie Scheffler did something last weekend that he rarely does, watching a golf tournament at home after missing a cut. The world’s No. 1 player is back on the course, and tied atop a crowded leaderboard at Colonial. Scheffler was among eight players who shot 4-under
Michelle Wie West announced on Thursday that she plans to step away from full-time golf after competing next week in the U.S. Women’s Open. At 32, she’s ready to focus on life outside the ropes after spending more than two decades making headlines inside them. Indeed, one could describe Wie West as the oldest 32-year-old