Scottie Scheffler’s uncharacteristic missed cut a week ago in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, his favorite course, was just that—an uncharacteristic missed cut. No need to go back to the proverbial drawing board. No need to dig it out of the dirt (though that mantra seemed to work for Will Zalatoris after missing the
News
10:41 AM ET Michelle Wie West, who was the youngest player to ever qualify for an LPGA event at age 12, plans to step away from competitive golf after next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina, she told Golfweek in a story published Thursday. Wie West, 32, said she
Michelle Wie West will step away from the LPGA, according to a report from Golfweek. Beth Ann Nichols writes that Wie West will play in next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, N.C., before transitioning to a new phase in her life. “It seems like it’s been a couple years coming
Early on, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship final largely became devoid of drama on Wednesday, while not devaluing what transpired at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., an unsurprising victory for a talent-deep Stanford team. The No. 1-seed featuring the last two NCAA individual champions, Stanford broke to early leads in three of the five
9:39 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jodi Ewart Shadoff routed defending champion Ally Ewing 6 and 5 on Wednesday at Shadow Creek in the first round of group play in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play. After Ewing opened with a birdie win and halved the second with a par, Shadoff won seven
Tournament interview schedules are generally a matter of media housekeeping, letting writers and reporters know when a player will speak prior to an event. However, an interview schedule release from the USGA Wednesday broke some news regarding next week’s United States Women’s Open. That’s because, in the 10:30 a.m. slot on May 31 at Pine
3:15 PM ET NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers will face off against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in Capital One’s The Match on June 1 on TNT. The four quarterbacks participated in a media event Wednesday, and they showed a glimpse of what fans might expect on the television broadcast of the 12-hole
National Golf Links of America, the famed course in Southampton, N.Y., was named Wednesday as the host of the 2030 Curtis Cup. This will be the third USGA championship conducted at National Golf Links, following the 1922 and 2013 Walker Cups and it will become just the fourth course to host both the Curtis Cup
8:20 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — As Mito Pereira stood in the interview area in a tent at Southern Hills Country Club on Sunday, TVs to his left and right showed Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris preparing for a playoff in the 104th PGA Championship. After Pereira answered a couple of questions, someone had enough
Justin Thomas, just days after winning his second major championship title, is among five of the top 10 players in the world playing this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He’ll be joined Masters champ and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland competing at historic Colonial Country Club in
4:28 PM ET Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson will be sidelined for four to six weeks because of a torn meniscus, he announced on social media on Monday. Watson, 43, was in contention at last week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had the low round on Friday, carding a
There are a lot of intriguing facts about Justin Thomas’ landmark victory in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. No one has come from seven strokes back of the lead to win a major on Sunday since Paul Lawrie at the 1999 Open Championship. Plus, as the champion joked on Sunday, he was probably the
5:00 PM ET Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Former Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker has pulled out of the Senior PGA Championship after testing positive for the coronavirus. Stricker revealed his positive test Tuesday on Twitter, saying he was “super bummed” and that it was “just a small setback.” Stricker was out of competition
Victory laps typically occur only in motorsports, but how else to describe heralded Stanford freshman Rose Zhang’s final round in the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Individual Championship on Monday at Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.? If ever a victory entered the realm of foregone conclusion it was Zhang’s, when she carried a seven-stroke lead
4:14 PM ET PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, a former Alabama star and big Crimson Tide football fan, couldn’t help but weigh in on the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher feud after winning a second Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. Thomas, who rallied from a 7-shot deficit in the final round at Southern Hills Country Club to win
These days, it usually takes going exceptionally low to win on the PGA Tour, and it’s apparently no different in qualifying for the U.S. Open. In the first final qualifier played in North America on Monday at two courses in Dallas, 11 under for 36 holes was the number to be the medalist—and there were
10:55 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Sean Crocker found form at just the right time and qualified for his first U.S. Open, among 13 players in Dallas and three in Japan who earned spots at The Country Club next month. The 36-hole qualifiers were the first of 11 that will fill the field for
It may not have been a performance that was 2008 U.S. Open Tiger-esque, but Bubba Watson apparently gutted out contending in the PGA Championship while playing on a significantly injured knee. In a tweet on Monday, Watson congratulated PGA winner Justin Thomas and said of his 30th-place finish after having a strong first two rounds,
8:17 AM ET TULSA, Okla. — Justin Thomas‘ long wait to win another major championship is over after he defeated Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Zalatoris will have to wait again for his first PGA Tour victory, along with Mito Pereira, whose costly mistake
TULSA — JT beat Willy Z. A pillow-fight final round turned downright chaotic down the stretch Sunday at Southern Hills, with Justin Thomas clipping Will Zalatoris in a playoff—with serious help from Mito Pereira—for a most unlikely victory and a second major championship title. There is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting
10:07 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. For the first time since 2017, the Wanamaker Trophy belongs to Justin Thomas. Despite entering the final
TULSA — During the pro-am at the Genesis Invitational earlier this year at Riviera Country Club, Jim “Bones” Mackay overheard a conversation between his player Justin Thomas and one of Thomas’ playing partners, who was asking if there was anything the young star liked to collect. “Something that really rings in my ears,” Mackay recalled,
12:32 AM ET TULSA, Okla. — There are some distinct odors that float through the air on Sundays at major championships: cigar smoke, warm beer, mediocre barbecue and freshly cut grass among them. It can be an oddly comforting cocktail as a fan. But if you’re a player trying to win your first major, there
TULSA — If you’re looking for a lingering image from Rory McIlroy’s Sunday at the PGA Championship, you could do worse than the space outside the locker room at Southern Hills, where he strode past a group of journalists, trailed by his agent, bound for the parking lot. After a two-under-par 68 that wasn’t nearly
3:45 PM ET Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus is being sued by Nicklaus Companies, which says it paid the 18-time major champion $145 million in May 2007 for exclusive rights to his golf course design services and marketing, promotional and branding rights in May 2007. The lawsuit alleges tortious interference, breach of contract and breach of
TULSA — If you’re an optimistic soul, you could talk yourself into believing that 16 golfers still have a shot to win the PGA Championship. That encompasses everyone with a score under par, and—bear with our logic—if Mito Pereira tanks, the winning score could be as low as eight under. (Could be worse, but conditions
9:23 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — After several of golf’s biggest stars failed to make up ground on moving day at the PGA Championship on Saturday, six players are in good position to win their first major championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Chile’s Mito Pereira moved to 9 under after the third round and
TULSA — The third round of the PGA Championship teetered on anarchy, with brand-name players flying up (and mostly down) the leaderboard on an exacting test buffeted by breezes. By day’s end, Mito Pereira had claimed a three-stroke lead at nine under, but this still feels like the most wide-open major championship Sunday in recent
10:12 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — The 14th hole at Southern Hills Country Club is a monstrous par-3, the kind of hole that can demoralize even the best golfers in the world. But Saturday, Rory McIlroy hit a 5-iron there that I would contend was the best shot of the entire PGA Championship. It was
After two days of some typically-hot weather in Tulsa, Okla., temperatures have dropped considerably on Saturday at the PGA Championship. Out with the buckets of sweat, in with the sweater vests and long sleeves at Southern Hills. Due to dangerous weather in the area this morning, tee times were actually pushed back by 37 minutes.