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Local authorities say evidence from an ongoing investigation points to a propane torch used by construction workers as the cause. Bloomfield Township Fire Chief John LeRoy spoke at a news conference on Thursday and described surveillance camera footage that showed the workers using the torch to install rubberized flashing during a rebuild of a patio

4:13 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Adam Hadwin won his first PGA Tour title at the Valspar Championship five years ago, and 125 starts later, the Canadian is still looking for his next one. This week might be as good as any. Hadwin got off to a sluggish start on a spectacular

Six members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams, along with their coach, died on Tuesday night when the passenger van they were in was involved in a two-vehicle collision in West Texas. The teams were competing in the TankLogix Collegiate at Ranchland Hills Golf Club in Midland, Texas, and driving

4:38 PM ET Associated Press HOBBS, N.M. — A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said Thursday. The truck’s left front tire, which was a spare tire, also blew out before impact,

Brooks Koepka is off to an auspicious start at the Valspar Championship thanks to a four-under, bogey-free performance Thursday. “I felt like I played pretty solid. It was very, very easy. No stress. Stress-free,” Koepka said. “Three more of those, I should be right there.” But, in all due respect to the fine folks at

8:10 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns prefers to look at what’s next instead of what happened, and that was a big part in how he responded for a 7-under 64 and a share of the lead Thursday in the Valspar Championship, his first time as defending champion. He used the

Last Sunday, Matthew Wolff delivered us the most casual club toss in club-toss history at the Players Championship. On Thursday at the Valspar Championship, Charl Schwartzel gave us the most vicious club toss in club-toss history. Needless to say, it’s been a huge five days for tossin’ sticks. Actually, this was more of a throw

7:59 AM ET Nothing about golf on the PGA Tour has been easy the past few weeks. The Arnold Palmer Invitational was challenging, so much so that Rory McIlroy said he left the event “punch-drunk.” The Players was a marathon that stretched into a Monday thanks to wind and rain that made the tour’s marquee

It was a sign of maturity, surely, though incongruously, that a mature college golfer somehow concluded he was not yet mature enough to leave the friendly confines of the university for the cutthroat world of professional golf. This despite an impressive résumé that includes a 59 at Oakmont Country Club. OK, not that Oakmont. The

Editor’s Note: In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re shining a light throughout March on women who have created, own and run businesses in golf—from apparel, to golf schools, to golf courses. Good golf instruction is a mixture of art and science—building a player up while obeying the laws of physics that govern a swing.

On the heels of the biggest win of his career at the Players Championship, Cameron Smith released a statement Wednesday announcing he has decided to withdraw from next week’s WGC-Dell Match Play Championship in Austin, Texas. “We had a long, extended week at the Players and we needed a little break,” he wrote, in a

12:49 PM ET The Saudi Arabian-financed breakaway golf league isn’t going away. LIV Golf Investments on Wednesday announced an eight-event series that will start in London in June and will feature four tournaments played in the United States. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will include seven-regular season events and a team championship match-play finale at

When Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts conceived of the golf club that became Augusta National, their plans were ambitious: two 18-hole golf courses, one for women; tennis courts, a pool, outdoor squash courts and a bridle trail; an extensive real-estate development with at least two dozen large building lots overlooking the course; and 1,800 members,

6:33 AM ET ESPN News Services A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing multiple people, authorities said. The vehicles collided Tuesday night in Andrews County. Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Department of Public Safety told KWES-TV there were fatalities

7:03 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Smith was unflappable as ever on a TPC Sawgrass stage that causes so much anxiety. Through 13 holes in the final round at the Players Championship, Smith had only one par. With a 2-stroke lead on the par-3 17th hole and staring at an

You may be recovering from the Players Championship—we know we are—but the PGA Tour never stops, and a strong field is set to take on Innisbrook Resort outside of Tampa, Fla., for the Valspar Championship. Defending champion Sam Burns will return to tame the Copperhead Course for a second straight year, and five of the

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—If Netflix was hoping for drama in the upcoming PGA Tour docuseries, the streaming service got all of it and then some from the group of Daniel Berger, Viktor Hovland and Joel Dahmen in the 16th fairway on Monday at TPC Sawgrass. The video clip, which took over Golf Twitter immediately, features

9:35 AM ET Associated Press Henrik Stenson is Europe’s choice to be the Ryder Cup captain for the 2023 matches in Italy, with an announcement Tuesday indicating he has decided not to join a Saudi-funded rival league. Stenson was a logical choice for Europe. A former champion at The Open who has won top honors

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The week that would not end finally did. Cameron Smith won a peculiar Players Championship with a roller coaster final round, birdieing his first four holes and getting up-and-down at the last for a clinching bogey. There is much to discuss. Here are 18 Parting Thoughts from TPC Sawgrass. 1: We

3:07 AM ET Coming into the final round with a one-shot lead, Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fell short by a stroke to finish second at The Players Championship at Ponte Vedra Beach. Lahiri (69) needed a birdie on the 18th hole, the 72nd of the tournament, to force a play-off with Cameron Smith of Australia,

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—The meteorologists were wrong. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised given it’s a profession synonymous with inaccuracy. But the weather reports said there was a 1 percent chance of rain for Monday, which in forecast parlance means no chance of rain, and those reports were 100 percent wrong. It poured during Round 4

7:43 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Around 4 p.m. ET on Monday, after rain started falling again at the Players at TPC Sawgrass, Sepp Straka was the leader in the clubhouse with a 72-hole total of 7 under. For a tournament that stopped and started more than the traffic on state highway A1A,

We should be crowning a champion Monday at The Players. The weather is rather benign—although not hot like Thursday, it is not cold, windy or stormy—so we will take it. (Scroll down for the latest updates) This wild Players Championship has set up another marathon day—with the leaders playing the back nine of their third

8:16 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — In what already was the toughest pre-cut round at the Players Championship in 15 years, Justin Thomas and Bubba Watson managed to play bogey-free Saturday in ferocious wind on a day of far more spills than thrills. The rain finally cleared out and TPC Sawgrass

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — A wet and wild (and cold and windy and just plain crazy) week at TPC Sawgrass is finally set to come to an end on Monday (!). Thanks to a great weather forecast, seemingly rare around these parts, that we know. As for who is going to actually win the tournament,

3:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — LPGA star Nelly Korda will be sidelined for an undisclosed amount of time after doctors diagnosed her with a blood clot, she announced on social media on Sunday. Korda, 23, was in Ponte Vedra Beach on Friday for a photoshoot and commercial appearance. After working out that

There’s no denying the drama that Pete Dye’s Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass lends itself to each year at the Players Championship. In particular, the closing stretch of the par-5 16th (reachable in 2), par-3 17th (the famed island green) and par-4 18th (water left the whole way home) brings with it a level of

9:07 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Anirban Lahiri showed up at the TPC Sawgrass in darkness Sunday morning wearing four layers of clothes — with a fifth layer just in case — to cope with near freezing temperatures he never experienced growing up in Bangalore, India. He walked off the course

PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Saturday’s blustery conditions at TPC Sawgrass conjured comparisons to the Open Championship, comparisons that, to be frank, were somewhat lazy. The Open is a tournament played on the ground, the Players a contest very much played in the sky. There is one correlation, however, that does hold up between these two championships, and

11:00 AM ET Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal claimed victory over Jordan Smith on the second playoff hole at the DP World Tour’s MyGolfLife Open at the Pecanwood Country Club in Haartbeespoort, South Africa on Sunday. The pair had been locked on 22 under-par with another Spaniard, Adri Arnaus, after 72 holes, but the latter dropped out