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10:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Two-time major champion and 13-time LPGA Tour winner Stacy Lewis has been named captain of Team USA for the 2023 Solheim Cup. Lewis will lead a team of the top 12 American golfers who will seek to reclaim the cup when they face a Team Europe squad captained by Suzann
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6:42 PM ET SiriusXM has fired former PGA Tour pro Mark Lye, who made controversial comments about women’s basketball during a show on Saturday. “You know the LPGA Tour, to me, is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago,” Lye said Saturday on PGA Tour Radio. “You couldn’t pay me to watch.
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11:54 AM ET Associated Press Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard held his nerve to win his second DP World Tour title at the Ras al Khaimah Championship in United Arab Emirates on Sunday. The 20-year-old had led by three shots overnight, but a mid-round wobble on Sunday left him trailing Jordan Smith by two on the back
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10:32 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Overnight leader Harold Varner III eagled the par-5 18th by sinking a long putt to overtake clubhouse leader Bubba Watson and win the Saudi International in dramatic fashion Sunday. The 31-year-old American shot a 1-under 69 in his final round at Royal Greens
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6:06 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history Saturday, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory in the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony. “It’s huge for Irish golf,” Maguire said. “There was never an Irish player on the tour,
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The PGA of America announced on Tuesday legendary photographer David Cannon as the second recipient of their recently created Lifetime Achievement Award in Photojournalism. Cannon follows Leonard Kamsler, who was named the inaugural recipient of the award at the beginning of 2020. Cannon, from Sussex, England, has been a fixture at the biggest events in
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6:33 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA tour heads to Arizona this week for the 2022 WM Phoenix Open as some of the best golfers in the world compete TPC Scottsdale. The tournament, historically has been a strong event on tour with a loaded field including last year’s winner Brooks Koepka and top ten
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For the 10th consecutive year, Golf Digest is celebrating Golfers Who Give Back, partnering with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation and the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. Our joint committee has selected legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood, the PGA Tour’s Brandt Snedeker and the LPGA Tour’s Morgan Pressel as this
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5:34 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Even as the exams change, Lydia Ko continues to provide the proper answers needed to stay in front at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Ko opened with a 63 when conditions were prime for scoring. When temperatures dipped into the 40s on Saturday and the
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10:52 AM ET South Africa’s Justin Harding retained a two-shot lead going into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic after a 1-under-par 71 on Saturday kept him ahead of four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. The 35-year-old Harding hit a bogey on the eighth hole but recovered with two birdies on the 12th and
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9:12 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Will Zalatoris and Jason Day charged past Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas on Friday at Torrey Pines to share the third-round lead at the Farmers Insurance Open. Zalatoris posted the day’s best round with a 7-under 65, and two-time Farmers champion Day shot a 67. They were
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7:03 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — A week and a half into the 2022 LPGA Tour season, Danielle Kang has a new home. She has taken up residence at the top of the leaderboard with no indication of leaving. A winner in the season opener in Orlando, Florida, last week, Kang birdied
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