There is nothing in the profile of K.H. Lee to suggest he would emerge from this week’s crimson-splashed leaderboard at the AT&T Byron Nelson with a victory over the likes of Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Thomas—all major champions. Nothing in the strokes-gained categories or his scoring average this season, or even his recent
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6:47 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Steve Stricker completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title. Stricker’s second Tradition win at Greystone Golf & Country Club came in his third event since returning from a
Long story short, 54-hole leader Minjee Lee shot a final-round 70 to pull out a victory at the Cognizant Founders Cup by two shots over Lexi Thompson and continue the event’s uncanny history of its winners all also being major champions. But that leaves out how tight things got on Sunday for the 25-year-old Aussie
2:24 PM ET Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium — English golfer Sam Horsfield claimed his third European tour title by shooting 3-under 68 to win the Soudal Open by two strokes on Sunday. His other wins came in a two-week span in August 2020. Horsfield teed off at the 18th hole with a one-stroke lead over
The 29-year-old Colombia native, who calls the Dallas area home, sits at 21 under for the tournament, one stroke up on Jordan Spieth, another Dallas-area resident. Munoz is seeking his second career PGA Tour win but has some history he’ll have to overcome to do it. This is the fourth time that Munoz is tied
7:48 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — Minjee Lee seemed to be more worried about finishing her third round on a dreary, rainy day than keeping the lead at the Cognizant Founders Cup. The 25-year-old LPGA Tour scoring leader did both Saturday, moving within a round of posting her first win of the year
It was something out of a scene of a sketch comedy, and after seeing it, we’re not sure which was funnier on Saturday: the slapstick way Ladies European Tour Chloe Williams flipped backward over a sign, or her reaction upon seeing replays of it. Call it a dead heat, because Chloe was an awfully good
8:03 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sebastian Munoz will be the “other” local guy in the final pairing of the final round of the Byron Nelson. It’s cool by the Colombian who now calls the Dallas area home and has at least shared the lead after all three rounds. Munoz shot a 6-under
John Daly and pedestrian aren’t normally words that appear in the same sentence. Yet it’s safe to say that golf folk hero has had a pedestrian season to date on the PGA Tour Champions. In six starts prior to this week’s Regions Tradition, the first major on the senior circuit calendar, the 56-year-old had finished
7:48 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — The only only thing missing from Minjee Lee‘s resume this year is a victory and the best scorer on the LPGA Tour took a big step toward that in the second round of the Cognizant Founders Cup. Lee flirted with the best round on tour this season
Karl Kimball is currently the head professional at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, N.C., but in 1991 he was on the PGA Tour and playing in the Greater Greensboro Open at Forest Oaks Country Club. One of his playing partners during the second round of that tournament was Sean Murphy, a young player out of
8:02 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Jordan Spieth thought the course for his hometown Byron Nelson would play more difficult after yielding more birdies in its debut than any other tournament on the PGA Tour last season. The three-time major winner says he couldn’t have been more wrong, and is frankly surprised over
For a man who will stare down history next week, the past two days in Texas have served as an auspicious showing for Jordan Spieth. Spieth, who would become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete the career Grand Slam with a win at the PGA Championship, turned in a 66 on
5:28 PM ET Reigning PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, who hasn’t played competitively in more than three months, won’t defend his title next week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The PGA of America announced on Friday that Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. “We have just been informed that Phil Mickelson
Lev Grinberg, a 14-year-old who was born in Ukraine, spent time honing his game in Belgium before working more in the United States over the last three years, shot one-under 70 Thursday in the opening round of the DP World Tour’s Soudal Open. Playing on one of six tournament exemptions that go to amateurs, Grinberg
6:13 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Steve Stricker shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take a 2-stroke lead over Miguel Angel Jimenez and Wes Short Jr. after the opening round of the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Stricker, the 2019 champion, closed his bogey-free round with a
“The last subject I want to talk about, and most importantly, is something we’ve discussed a lot this week. We’ve gone from a demand problem in terms of players to a supply problem. The lack of supply is hours in the day, lack of balance in our members’ lives and a lack of pipeline of
8:05 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday. Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off,
A wise football coach named Herm Edwards once said “Hello! You play to win the game!” It seems Kyle Wilshire was listening. Last week, the 29-year-old was playing on the All Pro Tour and earning an $8,000 check for finishing in a tie for second. He had knee surgery in 2018, had a forgettable 2019
9:11 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sebastian Munoz was standing in the middle of the fairway on the 18th hole thinking about his shot at a 59 in the first round of the Byron Nelson. After missing the green, he became the first player in PGA Tour history with two rounds of 60
No golfer in PGA Tour history has shot 60 two times in one season. No golfer, that is, until Sebastian Munoz closed out the accomplishment Thursday during the first round of the AT&T Byron Nelson. Last November, Munoz shot a 10-under 60 in the opening round of the RSM Classic at Sea Island, making a
11:54 AM ET The LIV Golf Invitational Series has attempted to clarify CEO Greg Norman’s comments that referred to the Saudi Arabian monarchy’s alleged involvement in the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake,” a remark that drew widespread criticism, including from Khashoggi’s fiancée. On Wednesday, during a news conference in London
The defending champions failed to advance to the NCAA Championship, a streak came to an end for one of the biggest names in women’s college golf, the 11th-ranked team in the country missed out by one shot and there was a playoff to determine the last team into the championship field. In other words, Wednesday
3:46 PM ET McKINNEY, Texas — With players facing potential suspensions and/or lifetime bans, Justin Thomas hopes the PGA Tour’s decision to deny conflicting-events releases for the first event of the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series will prevent players from going to London next month. “I would hope it would deter them from going
Greg Norman seemed to brush off Saudi Arabia’s human-rights atrocities when speaking to the media on Wednesday, noting that “We all make mistakes.” Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf—an organization funded by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia—has tried to distance himself from the government’s issues while downplaying the crimes alleged against the Saudi
8:33 AM ET The PGA Tour remains in Texas for one more week with the AT&T Byron Nelson as the best in the world get one last competitive event in before the year’s second major, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app | WatchESPN As always,
On Tuesday the PGA Tour denied conflicting-event releases to players seeking a spot in the LIV Golf series opener in London. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has been consistent and unequivocal in his “them or us” messaging throughout the various iterations of rival threats, yet the tour’s denials still took some by surprise, wrongfully assuming
8:29 AM ET Most of golf’s young superstars will be heading to Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, next week for the PGA Championship, the second major of the season. But all eyes will be on two aging former champions — Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods — and also on London. 2 Related On
Seven of the top 15 golfers in the world are making their way to McKinney, Texas, just outside of Dallas to test their wares heading into the PGA Championship. FedEx Cup leader and Masters champ Scottie Scheffler headlines the field at AT&T Byron Nelson, after taking a two-week break after Augusta and the Zurich Classic.
6:40 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Craig Ranch in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Texas this week. K.H. Lee won last year’s AT&T Byron Nelson for his first career PGA Tour title. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile?