6:49 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Potomac, Maryland, this week. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile? Betting analysts Anita Marks and sports betting deputy editor David Bearman offer their tips to help you
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Rory McIlroy will tee it up for the first time since his hot final-round finish of 64 at Augusta National when he plays this week at the Wells Fargo Championship. Not only will he be coming off of one of the lowest rounds in Masters history but he’ll be looking to defend his 2021 Wells
This week’s Wells Fargo Championship is a unicorn, moving for one year from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte (which hosts the Presidents Cup in September) to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm outside of Washington, D.C. Rory McIlroy, coming off a red-hot final round at Augusta National, is looking to defend his 2021 Wells Fargo title
1:07 PM ET Associated Press Oliver Bekker eagled the par-5 15th hole for the second straight day to shoot a 5-under 67 on Saturday and take a two-stroke lead going into the final round of the Catalunya Championship. Bekker, 11-under 205 for the tournament, made four birdies and a lone bogey at the Stadium Course
The road to the 2022 U.S. Open has begun as the USGA rolls out more than 100 qualifying tournaments for the right to compete for this year’s national championship. The 122nd U.S. Open will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., June 16-19. This is the fourth time the major will be played
4:00 PM ET Associated Press Home favorite Adri Arnaus won a six-hole playoff to beat Oliver Bekker at the Catalunya Championship and claim his first European tour win on Sunday. Arnaus, who is from Barcelona in northeast Spain near Girona, trailed overnight leader Bekker by seven shots at the start of the day, but he
A few months ago we thought to ask PGA Tour stars a seemingly simple question: When did you know you were good? Open-ended as it sounds, we were looking for specific moments in which, for the player, a future in golf suddenly revealed itself. From Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas to Viktor Hovland and Scotte
8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steven Alker returned from a two-hour rain delay by playing a six-hole stretch in 6-under par on the back nine to race past Steve Stricker, close with a 6-under 66 and win the Insperity Invitational on Sunday for his second victory this year on the PGA
Whatever happens the rest of this year on the PGA Tour, it will be hard to top, from both a gut-check and feel-good perspective, the story of Ryan Brehm, who used his one and only start on a Minor Medical Extension to win the Puerto Rico Open. The Medical Extension, which dates to 1987, was
1:47 PM ET Greg Norman’s new golf league was prepared to launch the same week in February that Phil Mickelson‘s controversial comments about the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia were published, which caused many committed players to back out. At the time, Norman told ESPN on Monday, at least 30% of the top 50 players
Lydia Ko was in contention on Sunday at the LPGA’s Palos Verdes Championship, trying to catch eventual winner Marina Alex down the stretch outside Los Angeles. Under the circumstances, then, the sight of physical therapist Chris Wicker coming out on the back nine and stretching out the 25-year-old’s hips and back was concerning. What had she
6:12 AM ET It has been nearly a month since the Masters, the first major championship of the season, and the PGA Championship, the second major, is just two weeks away. Not much has changed since Scottie Scheffler won his first major and slipped on a green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club on April
Marina Alex wasn’t sure how much competitive golf she had left in her. The 31-year-old from New Jersey has been on the LPGA Tour since 2013. In 2018, she secured her first win. But on Sunday in Los Angeles, after enjoying a champagne celebration for winning the Palos Verdes Championship by a shot over World
9:15 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Marina Alex won the Palos Verdes Championship on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour title, breaking a tie with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th and parring the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over Jin Young Ko. Three strokes behind Hannah Green
Let’s not bury the lead here: Jon Rahm won the Mexico Open at Vidanta by staying “positive.” Read on for the details, but the crux of the story on Sunday can be neatly encapsulated by the fact that the occasionally volatile Spaniard—OK, it can be more than occasionally—didn’t have his Mariano Rivera-level stuff in trying
7:14 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm pulled out of a four-way tie with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole and then held on with pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Mexico Open. Rahm won for the first time since the U.S. Open
It’s never over until it’s over is a cliché that took on new meaning this past week at a mini-tour event in England when the apparent winner had his title taken away. Chris Hanson and Dan Brown went to a playoff in the 2020 Pro Tour’s Golf Travel People Masters, an 18-hole tournament on April
6:46 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steve Stricker wanted to stay in bed Saturday morning and some of the players at the Insperity Invitational probably wish he did. Stricker took advantage of calm conditions with a 7-under 65 for a three-way share of the lead in his return to the PGA Tour
Steve Stricker keeps saying he doesn’t know what to expect, yet somehow keeps playing better. The victorious 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup captain had a health scare back in November which put him in the hospital just before Thanksgiving. It’s been labeled as a “mystery illness” by Stricker and he hasn’t played competitively since a PGA
12:00 AM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Hannah Green held onto the lead Saturday in the Palos Verdes Championship after a frustrating start on the hilly, windswept course perched above the Pacific Ocean. Three strokes ahead of Lydia Ko and three other players entering the day, Green overcame bogeys on the first
America, Ireland, Spain, United Arab Emirates, the Bahamas. That’s the list of countries in which Jon Rahm has scored a professional victory, and on Sunday, he’ll have a chance to add Mexico to that roster. Rahm holds a two-shot lead after a solid but unspectacular Saturday at the Mexican Open at Vidanta, where a three-under
7:26 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm birdied the last two par 5s and got some help from a couple of poor chips by Cameron Champ to take a 2-shot lead into the final round of the Mexico Open. Rahm, whose last victory was at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines
Was Tiger Woods’ scouting trip to Southern Hills on Thursday a success? There’s only one person who can formally answer the question, but for the man who was carrying that person’s golf bag for 18 holes, it certainly seemed so. Cary Cozby, the Director of Golf at Southern Hills since 2015, said the PGA of
8:54 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm faced the wind and handled it just as well Friday in the Mexico Open, making eight birdies on his way to a 5-under 66 that staked the world’s No. 2 player to a two-shot lead over Alex Smalley. Rahm birdied all four of the
Bryson DeChambeau shared a photo late Friday of his surgically repaired left hand. The eight-time PGA Tour winner released a tweet showing a massive incision on the palm of his left hand with a caption saying, “Healing up! Gripped a club today. Can’t hold on to it for long, but getting there!” The 28-year-old broke
10:50 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Hannah Green took the lead into the weekend in the Palos Verdes Championship, rebounding from consecutive bogeys Thursday in gusting wind to birdie the two late par 5s in a 5-under 66. Green had a three-stroke lead over five players at hilly Palos Verdes Estates
Just by simply having the whole family together, in their home country, this week was already a victory for brothers Carlos and Alvaro Ortiz. Having them all together on the weekend, though, would require some good golf. That was hardly a foregone conclusion, however, given the way each of them were playing. Carlos, 31, had
7:15 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steve Stricker played his first round in 201 days and it seemed as though he was healthy as ever, opening with a 5-under 67 on Friday to share the lead in the Insperity Invitational on the PGA Tour Champions. Stricker dropped only one shot on a
How familiar are you with 14-time PGA Tour winner and 2017 PGA champion Justin Thomas? You’ve probably heard hundreds of times how he’s friends with Jordan Spieth. And how competitive they are with each other (which is true). But here are a few other things you need to know about the 29-year-old. Justin Thomas has
9:25 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm is the biggest star in the Mexico Open and he lived up to his billing Thursday, chipping in for birdie and making a late eagle putt for a 7-under 64 and a six-way share of the lead in the first round. Jonathan Byrd, Brendon