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9:36 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — It was a day made for low scoring, to the degree a major championship yields low scores, but the player most likely to post one stumbled, ending a remarkable record streak. Jin Young Ko, No. 1 in the Rolex Ranking, had made a habit of posting low scores, an LPGA-record 34

10:03 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Jennifer Kupcho shared the lead Thursday in The Chevron Championship in her second — and last — start at Mission Hills, the tree-lined layout she has quickly fallen in love with. “Honestly, I think it’s just being comfortable on this golf course,” Kupcho said. “I get

For the competitors in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Friday is arguably the most anticipated day of the tournament, even if it’s only an occasionfor practice rounds.  Not just any practice rounds, mind you. All 72 players are guaranteed to fulfill what is universally a dream to play Augusta National Golf Club. This particular Friday,

7:50 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Harris English has decided not to play in the Masters next week as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn labrum. English was a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last year and finished third in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He has not played

“It’s such a great honor to tee it up with Jack and Gary,” Watson told Golf Channel in January. “They are icons in the game of golf.” Although the honorary starters are at Augusta National in a ceremonial capacity, they are indisputably a hefty part of the tournament’s lore. It is why patrons, media and

7:40 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Already in the World Golf Hall of Fame, Lorena Ochoa now gets a spot in the LPGA Hall of Fame along with eight of the LPGA’s founders. The LPGA announced modifications to its Hall of Fame criteria on Tuesday, which includes lifting the requirement that players

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lorena Ochoa returned to Mission Hills Country Club on Wednesday, this time not as a star, but as a mother of three, a wife, an ambassador, a mentor, a philanthropist and the newest member of the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ochoa, 40, was here to be honored by the LPGA, inducted

12:58 PM ET As Tiger Woods decides whether to play in next week’s Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, one of his competitors said it would be phenomenal to have the 15-time major champion in the field. “I think for golf and for the Masters tournament and for everyone, to have Tiger there would be

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Brooke Henderson is a fan favorite of sorts here in the Coachella Valley, a Canadian at home among Canadians, the snowbirds who leave the frigid north to winter in the warmth of the desert sun. But don’t call it a home-course advantage. Whatever level of comfort she derives from it potentially

6:53 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — California teen Anna Davis birdied the par-5 closing hole at Champions Retreat and shared the lead with Alabama sophomore Benedetta Moresco of Italy at 2-under 70 on a tough, windy start on Wednesday to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Only five players in the elite field of

You also can’t help but wonder how much sleep you’d actually get in the tiny twin beds, or if there would be a line to get in the small bathroom each night and morning, or how staying with five other guys the night before the biggest tournament of your life might affect you the following

7:16 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN It has been three years since Jennifer Kupcho hit the first tee shot of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Three days after her historic tee shot, Kupcho made history again. Rolling in a 20-foot birdie putt on Augusta National’s 18th hole, Kupcho won the inaugural event, edging out Maria

The Valero Texas Open celebrates its 100th anniversary, and with that huge achievement comes a strong field at TPC San Antonio. Defending champ Jordan Spieth will tee off this week, as will 2021 Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama is returning from a lingering back injury that forced him to withdraw from the Players Championship and

6:02 PM ET Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods, who is trying to come back from serious leg and foot injuries he suffered in a car wreck about 14 months ago, played 18 holes at Augusta National Golf Club on Tuesday, sources told ESPN. Woods, 46, played all 18 holes with his son, Charlie, and PGA

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — The Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club has proven itself a bona fide major championship layout over the years, producing worthy champions, including eight who are in the World Golf Hall of Fame. And this does not count winners of the event before it became a major. With

7:43 AM ET One of the most competitive rounds in women’s golf might not take place at LPGA events. Each Tuesday and Thursday, the Stanford women’s golf team plays qualifiers to determine the top five players to compete in upcoming tournaments. The competitors include five of the top 66 players in the world, according to

Woods, who sustained traumatic injuries in a single-car accident in February 2021, remains on the official list of participants on the Masters website but has not yet announced whether he’ll play. The 46-year-old has not competed on the PGA Tour since the Masters in November 2020. Fans and media tracked Woods’ private jet on Tuesday

8:10 AM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com HOBBS, N.M. — On the first Sunday after the crash, Christian Center Church welcomed its worshipers. In the atrium, a large screen with a countdown clock signaled the beginning of the service. Inside the sanctuary, a nine-member band broke out into song. Three screens behind the band showed the young

With just 10 sleeps ahead of the first tee shot of the 2022 Masters, there is increasing speculation that Tiger Woods will tee it up in the year’s first major. It’s extraordinary to even type that sentence given the events of the past 14 months, but Woods has spent 25 years turning the extraordinary into

10:45 AM ET Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson shot a composed final-round 70 in windy conditions to finish at seven-under overall and claim his maiden European Tour title at the Qatar Masters on Sunday. Ferguson recovered from an early double bogey, chipping in for an eagle at the par-four 16th and sinking birdies on the sixth and

Scottie Scheffler drew the big headlines on Sunday by taking home $2.1 million for his win at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and moving to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, but in a way, there was a lot more on the line at the PGA Tour’s other event. And one player’s emotional

3:21 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Atlantic softball coach Joan Joyce, the only coach in the program’s 28-year history and whose numerous claims to fame included once striking out Ted Williams, has died, the school announced Sunday. Joyce died Saturday, the school said without disclosing the cause. She was 81. “Joan

After Jin Young Ko’s first full season on the LPGA Tour in 2018—a year in which she claimed her second LPGA title and earned the Rolex Rookie of the Year award—the then 23-year-old from South Korea faced a challenge she hadn’t encountered in her nascent professional career. With the conclusion of the CME Tour Championship

9:54 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Atthaya Thitikul won the JTBC Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, three-putting for bogey on the second hole of a playoff to outlast Nanna Koerstz Madsen. After Koerstz Madsen’s 15-foot bogey putt hit the edge of the cup and stayed out away, the 19-year-old

CARLSBAD, Calif.—When Atthaya Thitikul finished her eight-under-par 64 round in the JTBC Classic on Sunday, a few dozen fans leaned against white plastic fence outside the scoring area waiting for her autograph. She happily obliged them, posing for a few selfies along the line. Since the 19-year-old from Thailand has played only a handful of

7:00 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Scottie Scheffler is the hottest player in golf and now has the ranking to prove it. Six weeks after his first PGA Tour victory, Scheffler won the Dell Technologies Match Play for his third title in his past five starts, this one enough to move him to

Scottie Scheffler was looking invincible in the 18-hole final of the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship on Sunday, holding a 3-up lead against match-play menace Kevin Kisner through 11 holes. The only way it appeared Scheffler would be rattled at Austin Country Club is if he made a mistake of his own doing, which didn’t look

6:03 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Chad Ramey won the windswept Corales Puntacana Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Ben Martin and Alex Smalley by a stroke. Ramey closed with a 5-under 67, completing a two-putt par on the par-4 18th after Martin missed a 6-foot birdie

One thing has always been obvious about Ewen Ferguson. From early in his golfing life, the now 25-year-old was clearly a winner. British Boys champion in 2013, he picked up the Scottish Boys Match Play and Stroke Play titles a year later. Then in 2015, he was the Scottish “Champion of Champions,” then part of