4:26 PM ET Associated Press Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson will take a four-shot lead into the final day of the Kenya Open after his round of 66 left him with a healthy advantage over the chasing pack on Saturday. Marcus Kinhult and Ashun Wu are joint second while a four-way group are a further five shots
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story first ran in March 2019. The hole has continued to strike fear in the hearts of PGA Tour pros and every day golfers. FEAR. That’s the prevailing feeling on the tee of the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass’ Players Stadium Course. It’s said that tour pros are intimidated by only two
7:19 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Viktor Hovland had the lowest round of the day with a 6-under 66 and is off to another great start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. This time, he has a good idea what to expect on the weekend at Bay Hill. Rory McIlroy got a sneak preview.
Viktor Hovland followed the blueprint for picking apart Bay Hill with the surgical precision of a veteran on Friday, playing the par 5s in four under par during a six-under-par 66 that vaulted him into the Arnold Palmer Invitational lead as he stalks his fourth worldwide win since last summer. Hovland must have had a
12:53 AM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Cameron Beckman eagled the par-5 18th for a 7-under 64 and the first-round lead Friday in the PGA Tour Champions’ Hoag Classic. Beckman also had six birdies and bogey in cool, breezy conditions at Newport Beach Country Club. “It was nice,” Beckman said. “I got off
It appears Phil Mickelson will not play in next week’s Players Championship for the first time since 2003 as his hiatus from competitive golf continues. The PGA Tour released the official field for its flagship event on Friday afternoon and Mickelson was not listed, though a tour official said he can enter until one hour
6:04 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau is in line to return to the PGA Tour next week. Phil Mickelson is not. DeChambeau, who hasn’t played since missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in late January, is in the field for next week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Mickelson, who
There are days when Rory McIlroy makes this most vexing game look impossibly easy, when he’s swinging freely, putting like a kid and bouncing around like he owns the place. Thursday was one of those days. McIlroy opened the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a seven-under 65 on a Bay Hill track with juicy rough and
6:14 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko moved into a tie for the lead at the HSBC Women’s World Championship on Friday in only her second round since returning from a three-month break from the LPGA Tour. Ko shot a 5-under 67, including a birdie on the par-5 16th, and was
It was a good day for Mykhailo Golod, because he has lived to see another. It is deep into the night of March 3 when Mykhailo, 15, videoconferences from Kyiv. The town has just suffered its fiercest bombardment since the unprovoked assault by Russian forces began and reports vary if the 40-mile long convoy of
7:35 PM ET Jon Rahm doesn’t miss much on the PGA Tour — especially not from 10 inches. But it happened Thursday during the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The world No. 1 went to clean up a 10-inch putt for par on the par-3 seventh hole, decelerated his putter just before contact
Adenil “Dening” Day, mother of major champion and 12-time PGA Tour winner Jason Day, passed away Wednesday evening alongside her family in Ohio after a five-year battle with cancer. She was 65. “Last night, my mum peacefully left us,” Day, who withdrew from this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational to be by his mother’s side, wrote
4:11 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Rory McIlroy opened with a 7-under 65 on Thursday and had reason to expect a score like this at Bay Hill, not so much because of the golf course but rather the day of the week. Good starts have not been a problem for McIlroy at the
Following the 2016 Players Championship, the PGA Tour did something it had never done since moving the competition to the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in 1982: It completely tore apart one of the original holes and built a new one. Pete Dye had renovated or remodeled TPC Sawgrass—perhaps his most transformative piece of
6:47 AM ET Things are about to get serious. And that doesn’t even count all the serious that has been taking place away from the golf course — the Saudi-backed challenger to the PGA Tour, the Phil Mickelson saga, Tiger Woods winning the first-ever Player Incentive Program. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app |
Jason Day withdrew from the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational on Wednesday. Day, 34, is a former champion at Bay Hill, winning the event in 2016. No reason was given for his WD. The 2015 PGA champ has battled numerous injuries throughout his career, including chronic back pain. It is the third time in four years
9:55 AM ET Tiger Woods, who hasn’t played in a PGA Tour event for more than a year while recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck, won the tour’s inaugural Player Impact Program bonus. The program measures a player’s popularity based on a set of criteria. Woods, a 15-time major champion, collected the $8
No player has been as outspoken against a Saudi-backed golf league as Rory McIlroy, and his candor has extended to those toying with jumping to the proposed breakaway circuit. One of those targets was Phil Mickelson, with McIlroy calling Mickelson’s now infamous comments “naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant” at the Genesis Invitational. But in the wake
8:13 AM ET The PGA Tour heads to Arnie’s place, Bay Hill Club & Lodge, this week for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau pulled out this week, citing an ongoing hand injury. Play begins Thursday. But a strong field will be at Bay Hill, a week before the Players Championship and a
6:44 AM ET The PGA Tour’s Florida swing treks on this weekend with the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. The tournament usually attracts some of the best golfers in the world, and this year will be no different. While 2021 champion Bryson DeChambeau withdrew from the tournament on Monday because
Despite not playing a single round on the PGA Tour in 2021, Tiger Woods won the inaugural Player Impact Program and its $8 million first prize. Players were notified Wednesday morning of the results from the first year of the program, enacted at the beginning of 2021 to reward the 10 players who bring the
It remains one of the great “golf nerd” moments on the calendar each year – the reveal of the Seminole Pro-Member tee sheet, usually tweeted out by Andy Johnson of The Fried Egg. When it hit social media on Monday, most golf fans had a similar thought: is this a better field than the Honda
Even with defending champion Bryson DeChambeau’s Monday withdrawal from Bay Hill, there will be quite a collection of PGA Tour stars at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. Set to compete in Orlando this week are several high-profile players, from World No. 1 Jon Rahm to FedEx Cup leader Hideki Matsuyama. With a $2.16 million first-place
Nelly and Jessica Korda, Minjee and Min Woo Lee, Preston and Grace Summerhays. The list of golf sibling duos is numerous, these being just some of the most recent prosperous pairings at the pro and amateur levels. Many of those pairs have succeeded at each other’s side, at least at some point during their careers.
IN 2017, BRYSON DECHAMBEAU WAS struggling to make short, soft putts. It didn’t take a genius to realize he needed to start sinking them if he wanted to stay on the PGA Tour beyond his rookie season, and he began his typically exhaustive efforts to fix the problem. After experimenting with a range of approaches,
11:34 AM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The Americans recorded the biggest blowout over Europe in the Ryder Cup last year, and their new captain doesn’t see a need to change much of anything. Zach Johnson was introduced as the 30th U.S. captain on Monday, next in line to try to end
The date was April 4, six days before the first round of Woods’ first Masters appearance as a professional. As was his custom back then, Woods was set to play a casual-but-competitive round—every round, under any circumstance, comes with a healthy dose of competition when Woods is involved—at his home course, Isleworth Country Club in
12:16 PM ET Defending Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Bryson DeChambeau won’t try to defend his title at Bay Hill Club & Lodge this week because of a lingering left hand injury. DeChambeau won the 2021 event by 1 shot over Lee Westwood for his eighth career PGA Tour victory. DeChambeau withdrew from the API on
This PGA Tour Champions season, though early, is shaping up as one for the ageless, led by a pair of graybeards who seem to have matured better than the fine red wines they enjoy. On this Sunday, it was Miguel Angel Jimenez’s turn. Again. Jimenez, 58, won the Cologuard Classic at Omni Tucson National on
6:55 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Miguel Angel Jimenez had his second hole-in-one of the tournament and closed with a 7-under 65 on Sunday to win the Cologuard Classic. Jimenez started the final round with a two-shot lead and got off to a birdie-eagle start at Tucson National. Reigning Charles Schwab Cup champion