RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The Chevron Championship will end a 51-year run at Mission Hills Country Club today, but women’s professional golf will still have a home in the desert with the announcement on Sunday that a new Legends of the LPGA tournament will debut next April. The announcement was made here by Mike Galeski,
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10:08 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods says it will be a “game-time decision” on whether he competes in the 86th Masters, which is scheduled to begin Thursday. Woods, 46, gave the update in a tweet Sunday, writing that he would be returning to Augusta National Golf Club “to continue my preparation and practice.”
They’re playing for the Valero Texas Open title on Sunday at TPC San Antonio, but there is more on the line than a PGA Tour win and a prize money payout of $1.548 million. Can we interest anybody in a last-minute trip to Augusta? Of the top 20 players on the leader board after 54
5:47 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Shortly after LSU junior Latanna Stone walked off the 18th green in the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Saturday, Annika Sorenstam, a 10-time major championship winner, was waiting to hug her. So was two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
There was a time when Brandt Snedeker was not only a Masters regular, but a regular contender. As of right now, he’s in danger of missing the year’s first major for a second straight season, something he hasn’t done since 2006 and 2007. The following year, at the 2008 Masters, Snedeker was in the final
3:59 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anna Davis didn’t know many of the players when the 16-year-old arrived for her first Augusta National Women’s Amateur. They all know who she is now. Davis got into the mix with two birdies around Amen Corner, closed with a 3-under 69 and took the title Saturday
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Professional golf is a solo pursuit, though for two days here the definition of solo was expanded by Annie Park, who played alone. She, too, was briefly alone atop the leader board. One-hundred-fifteen players qualified for the Chevron Championship, a tournament that sends the players out in twosomes. The odd number
8:42 PM ET Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Ryan Palmer shot a bogey-free round of 6-under 66 at the Valero Texas Open to lead by 2 shots over Kevin Chappell, Dylan Frittelli and Matt Kuchar after Friday’s second round. Palmer, at 10 under, surged into the lead with consecutive birdies midway through the back nine.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A quick out in San Antonio means no Augusta trip for Jason Day. For the first time since 2010, the former World No. 1 will not tee it up at the Masters, as his bid for a last-minute invite to the year’s first major ended with a missed cut at the Valero
11:54 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Hinako Shibuno’s first impression of Mission Hills Country Club was far from confidence-inspiring — and, in hindsight, mistaken. “It was a hard course for me. I couldn’t even imagine I could play here,” the 23-year-old from Japan said through a translator Friday, recalling the initial time
Matt Kuchar has played in 27 consecutive major championships. He hasn’t contended in all of them. Heck, he’s missed every major cut since the 2019 Open Championship, where he finished T41. But the kind of consistency it takes to qualify for every major since the 2015 Masters is not so common on tour. Kuchar, now
5:48 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — After falling one shot below the cut line, Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in women’s golf, made birdies on her final three holes at Champions Retreat to qualify for the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Zhang, the former U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, was
AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s still anyone’s guess who will win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur come Saturday—collegians Beatrice Wallin and Latanna Stone share the 36-hole lead at even-par 144 with 13 players within three shots. But you can’t win if you aren’t among the 30 who qualified for the final round, and a few top-ranked
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