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
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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
6:51 PM ET Associated Press Matthew Jordan and Adrian Meronk share the lead heading into the final round at the Qatar Masters, with Kalle Samooja one stroke back after shooting 6-under 66 on Saturday. Jordan (70) and Meronk (72) have 54-hole totals of 8-under 208 at Doha Golf Club as both search for their first
Maybe it’s a Texas thing. Or a match-play thing. Or a young-guy-being-oblivious thing. Whatever. Whether you bet on golf, have a stake in fantasy games, or just plain love to pick a guy to root for every tournament, if you didn’t hitch yourself to Scottie Scheffler’s well-oiled wagon in Texas this week, we have a
9:46 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen was tied for the lead in the JTBC Classic when she teed off Saturday on the par-4 18th. She two-putted for par and a 3-under 69 — and walked off with an unexpected 3-stroke lead over Na Rin An. Coming off a breakthrough victory
The LPGA Tour set up the par-3 third hole at Aviara Golf Club for some excitement on Saturday. Still, it probably got more than it wished for in the third round of the JTBC Classic. The gorgeous third—easily among the most picturesque in women’s golf—was set at 97 yards. That put a wedge in every
6:12 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Ben Martin shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday to hold onto a 2-shot lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship. Martin had five birdies and three bogeys as the wind dropped a bit at Corales Golf Course to take a 14-under 202 total into
It already had been a rough day for Lucas Herbert on Friday at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship. A win in his match with Takumi Kanaya at Austin Country Club would have pushed the 26-year-old Aussie to a 3-0-0 record in group play and secured a spot in the Round of 16 in his first
10:20 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the JTBC Classic in a bid to win in consecutive starts. Two weeks after breaking though in Thailand to become the LPGA Tour’s first Danish champion, Koerstz Madsen was back on top
AUSTIN—The action was nonstop on a wild Friday at the WGC-Dell Match Play, particularly when the group playoffs began around 2:30 p.m. local time. Among the borderline ridiculous moments of drama: • Scottie Scheffler, last year’s runnerup, beat Matt Fitzpatrick in a six-hole playoff that tied the record for longest playoff since group play was
8:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Jon Rahm lost his match and still made it to the weekend. Scottie Scheffler needed only 14 holes to win his match against Matt Fitzpatrick, and then six more to beat him in a playoff. The third full day of endless action in the Dell Technologies Match
AUSTIN—After Richard Bland finished tied for 54th in the DP World Tour’s Ras Al Khaimah Classic in mid-February, he fell to 61st in the World Ranking, and with 64 players qualifying for the WGC-Dell Match Play, his inclusion seemed in jeopardy. Bland, the definition of a late bloomer, never had to worry about his world
6:16 PM ET Associated Press Pablo Larrazábal had an eagle and three birdies on the back nine to erase a bad start Friday at the Qatar Masters, allowing the Spaniard to take a one-shot lead into the weekend. The 122nd-ranked Larrazábal, seeking his seventh DP World Tour title, shot 1-under 71 at Doha Golf Club
Sixty-four of the world’s top 69 players are set to play in the PGA Tour’s only match-play event of the season. The field at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play will be divided into 16 groups of four before the round-robin play begins on Wednesday. Players will earn a full point for a win and a
9:06 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The format is fickle enough even before that notorious Texas wind arrived. Kevin Kisner, Mackenzie Hughes and even Sergio Garcia showed how quickly fortunes can change Thursday in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Kisner added to his record of most matches won since the move to Austin
Pace yourself. If you’re doing it right, the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship is a long, but rewarding, week of golf—whether you’re a competitor or a fan watching at home. The eventual winner of the Walter Hagen Cup will have battled through seven individual matches over five days, including back-to-back double sessions of single-elimination play on
10:13 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Jin Young Ko picked up where she left off three weeks ago in Singapore on Thursday in the first round of the JTBC Classic. The top-ranked Ko shot a bogey-free 7-under 65 at Aviara Golf Club to take a one-stroke leader over Nanna Koerstz Madsen in the
AUSTIN — Let’s get theoretical here: If you were a golf writer, and you saw Collin Morikawa leading 3 up with five holes to play, and you considered the fact that he won his opening match on Wednesday and went 3-0-1 in the Ryder Cup, you may—just may—have been planning to write a story about
Morgan Pressel has played many different roles at the Solheim Cup: player, winning point-scorer, broadcaster. Now, she gets to add another title to that list: assistant captain. Stacy Lewis, the recently named American captain, has picked Pressel as her first assistant captain for the 2023 match in Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain. Team USA will