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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 20, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The last amateur to hold at least a share of the first-round lead in an Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club was Bobby Jones in 1930.

HOYLAKE, England — There has always been a bit more to Adrian Otaegui than the fact that his seven-letter surname contains all five vowels. The 30-year-old Spaniard, a four-time winner on the DP World Tour, is a protege of former Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal and one of the most talented individuals on the Old

Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti Jul 19, 2023, 05:21 PM ET HOYLAKE, England — When Brooks Koepka walked up to the first tee at Royal Liverpool Golf Club for a practice round Monday,

Top coach Pete Cowen warned Royal Liverpool’s 17th hole “could ruin somebody’s career” on the eve of the 2023 Championship. It certainly didn’t take long on Thursday for it to ruin one golfer’s first round. Lucas Herbert was cruising around Hoylake and in a tie for the lead following an eagle on the par-5 15th.

Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 08:37 PM ET MIDLAND, Mich. — Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan shot a 6-under 64 in alternate-shot play Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event. Castren, from Finland, and Tan, from Malaysia, birdied the final two holes and

The chatter about a fifth major in men’s professional golf ebbs and flows, mostly just as a talking point each year around the PGA Tour’s Players Championship. It’s an event that boasts among the strongest fields and highest purses while contested on the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course with a ton of history made there. The

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 19, 2023, 08:56 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — With the purse for The Open more than doubling over the past decade, R&A CEO Martin Slumbers on Wednesday wouldn’t rule out taking money

Zalatoris hadn’t discussed anything publicly himself until this week when he joined the “Chris Vernon Show” on the radio in Memphis as part of a media tour promoting the upcoming FedEx St. Jude Championship, where Zalatoris claimed his maiden PGA Tour win a year ago. The 26-year-old, who has been sidelined since April after undergoing

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 19, 2023, 08:15 AM ET HOYLAKE, England — Nine years ago, the resplendent orange Rickie Fowler wore against the backdrop of Hoylake’s cement-colored palate seemed like it glowed a little brighter. At the 2014 Open Championship, Fowler was still in his mid 20s, wearing a flat-billed, white and orange Puma hat with

HOYLAKE, England — It was a surprise to those who haven’t been paying attention, which apparently is a lot of people. Then again, Rory McIlroy is not a storyline heading into this year’s Open Championship but the storyline, an amalgamation of his recent form and local ties and his existence as the sport’s emotional fulcrum.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 18, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — As Rory McIlroy finished playing 14 holes during a practice round with Shane Lowry on Tuesday morning, the rain started to fall at Royal

HOYLAKE, England — Scottie Scheffler’s pre-tournament press conference at the 151st Open Championship covered a range of topics from the beloved, beaten-up 2012 Yukon XL he recently upgraded from, to video games and even using YouTube highlights of Tiger Woods’ 2006 Open victory at Royal Liverpool as homework for this week. Only one topic bothered

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 18, 2023, 09:30 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy will play the first two rounds of the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club with Masters champion Jon Rahm and

UC Berkeley can lay claim to producing plenty of brilliant minds, but we’re most thankful to the school for churning out arguably the two best characters on Golf Twitter. Max Homa, of course, is the undisputed king in those parts, but former college teammate Michael Kim has emerged as a must-follow in recent years as

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 18, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Royal Liverpool Golf Club, which was built in 1869 and is the second-oldest seaside course in England, underwent a facelift since the last time

HOYLAKE, England—The Ryder Cup is less than three months away and it’s still unclear if LIV Golf members will be allowed to compete for the United States team. Which is why eyebrows were raised Monday when discovering Brooks Koepka was practicing at Royal Liverpool with a certain influential person on the matter. The person in

Associated Press Jul 16, 2023, 08:33 PM ET NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Vincent Norrman lipped in an 8-footer for bogey on the 72nd hole to get into a playoff, then scrambled for par on the same hole in sudden death on Sunday to beat Nathan Kimsey and win the Barbasol Championship, his first PGA Tour victory.

The thing with out of bounds, a topic almost as hot this week at Royal Liverpool as Rory McIlroy’s pre-tournament press conference boycott, is that it’s almost always absurdly unfair. In other words, it’s golf. More prescriptively pejorative than an Australian golf club’s sock length requirements, and nearly as inscrutable, out-of-bounds rules may be as

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 17, 2023, 11:26 AM ET HOYLAKE, England – A few moments after reigning Open Champion Cameron Smith got emotional when returning the Claret Jug he’s had for a year, the Australian delivered a message on the future of LIV Golf in the wake of the PGA Tour’s framework agreement with the Public

No, the winner of this week’s Open Championship and its $3 million first-place check won’t be a hardship case who will have to hitchhike home. However, competing in a U.K. tournament as an American-based player can be shockingly expensive—and not just because of the cost of flying private across the Atlantic. The United Kingdom has

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:40 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy won a Claret Jug the last time the Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, in 2014. Three weeks later,

Like just about everything else with the British Open, there is something singularly distinct regarding tee times at golf’s oldest major. It’s not so much who the R&A pairs with whom that holds people’s curiosities, as is the case with the cheeky-themed threesomes the USGA often puts together at the U.S. Open. Rather, it’s the

Jul 16, 2023, 09:02 PM ET Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry rolled in a long eagle putt on the final hole to win the American Century Championship on Sunday in Stateline, Nevada. Curry wound up two points ahead of former tennis player Mardy Fish in the celebrity golf event at Edgewood Tahoe Resort. Editor’s

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Associated Press Jul 16, 2023, 06:39 PM ET SYLVANIA, Ohio — Linn Grant won her first LPGA Tour title after an outstanding start to her career in Europe, enduring a charge from U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz and closing with a 3-under 68 for a three-shot victory in the Dana Open on Sunday. The

The claret jug visits Royal Liverpool for the first time since 2014. Among those hoping to hoist golf’s oldest trophy is the man who held it in its last visit to Hoylake. Rory McIlroy, off a near-miss at the U.S. Open and heartbreak from last year’s Open, but victory at the Genesis Scottish Open, enters

Associated Press Jul 16, 2023, 10:14 AM ET GULLANE, Scotland — Rory McIlroy birdied the last two holes in whipping wind Sunday for a 2-under 68 to win the Genesis Scottish Open, his first victory on Scottish soil, and take a load of confidence into the final major of the year. McIlroy was 1 shot

There may be no bigger fan of golf in professional sports than the NBA’s Steph Curry. Which is why watching him celebrate a hole-in-one on Saturday in the American Century Championship will never, ever get old. On NBC’s telecast of the biggest celebrity golf event there is, played each year at Lake Tahoe, Curry hit

Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 09:04 PM ET SYLVANIA, Ohio — Linn Grant put herself in position to become just the second LPGA Tour player to break 60, but she played the final five holes in even par for a 9-under 62 and has a 6-stroke lead entering the final round of the Dana Open.

Rory McIlroy is one strong round away from securing his 24th win on the PGA Tour while also achieving a long-sought first victory in Scotland. The Ulsterman shot three-under-par 67 on Saturday in the Genesis Scottish Open at the Renassiance Club in Gullane, Scotland, to take a one-stroke lead over American Tom Kim (67) heading