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Baxter Holmes, ESPN Senior WriterJun 29, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. ONE MORNING IN the winter of 2005, RJ Caswell finds

It’s been another week and another emergence of a talented young player on the LPGA Tour. With back-to-back rounds of 68, 15-year-old Monday qualifier Mia Hammond of New Albany, Ohio, reached the weekend in her home state at the Dana Open. “To know that I did that [make the cut], it’s just, it is a

Jul 15, 2023, 09:52 AM ET Rory McIlroy shot a 3-under 67 to maintain a 1-stroke lead after the third round at the Scottish Open on Saturday in North Berwick, Scotland. McIlroy, who sits at 13-under 197 for the tournament, recorded five birdies against two bogeys at The Renaissance Club to stay 1 stroke ahead

GULLANE, Scotland — Not once during the 16 years he has played golf professionally has Rory McIlroy won a tournament in Scotland. He’s been close, of course, more than once. Five top-four finishes in the Dunhill Links Championship represent strong evidence of consistent excellence. But throw in three top-three finishes in the Open Championship—two at

Associated Press Jul 14, 2023, 08:04 PM ET STATELINE, Nev. — Stephen Curry took a four-point lead Friday in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. Curry had 27 points in the opening round under a form of the modified Stableford scoring system that awards a point for par, three for birdie and six for

GULLANE, Scotland ­— It happens every week, of course, even in the biggest events. Or maybe even especially when the starting lineup is particularly strong. Inevitably, not everyone plays well and some notable names leave disappointed, having failed to qualify for the final 36 holes. The Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club was no different

Associated Press Jul 14, 2023, 05:58 PM ET AKRON, Ohio — Harrison Frazar found Firestone a bit more difficult on Friday, shooting a solid 2-under 68 for a 1-shot lead over Stewart Cink at the Kaulig Companies Championship. The 51-year-old Frazar was at 7-under 133 in the fourth of five majors on the PGA Tour

GULLANE, Scotland — Quietly, Tyrrell Hatton is amassing quite a record in 2023. The 31-year-old Englishman has yet to win a tournament, but his schedule is dotted with high-quality performances. It’s a lengthy and impressive list: T-6 in the WM Phoenix Open, T-4 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, second at the Players, T-3 at Wells

Associated Press Jul 13, 2023, 07:26 PM ET Jaravee Boonchant holed out from 128 yards for eagle on her second shot of the round and had a 7-under 64 on Thursday for a share of the first-round lead with Linn Grant in the LPGA Tour’s Dana Open. “I was just like on the first cut

A key provision that neither the PGA Tour nor LIV Golf would recruit players from the other circuit as officials from the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund attempt to create a new for-profit entity has been scrapped. One of the few details outlined in the framework agreement signed by the PGA Tour and

Associated Press Jul 13, 2023, 08:46 PM ET NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Lucas Glover continued the hot streak that began when he switched to a long putter, shooting a 9-under 63 on Thursday for a one-shot lead in the Barbasol Championship. The 43-year-old Glover extended his run of consecutive rounds in the 60s to nine. After

You’re freshly minted U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz, and the biggest first-place check in women’s golf history is now burning a hole in your pocket. What do you do with it? “I don’t have anything big planned,” Corpuz said with a laugh last Sunday at Pebble Beach when asked about her $2 million payday.

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2023, 05:29 PM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Tony Romo is the betting favorite at this week’s American Century celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Romo, the defending champion, is listed at +285 at Caesars Sportsbook, followed by Mardy Fish at

GULLANE, Scotland — Going low on the DP World Tour is something Byeong Hun An (Ben to his English-speaking followers) has always been able to accomplish. So even a starling nine-under-par 61 in the opening round of the Scottish Open at a breezy Renaissance Club is nothing new. Back in 2015, An won the biggest

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 13, 2023, 09:07 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia If Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had its way, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy would partially own and captain teams in the LIV Golf League once the

Fans would have forgiven U.S. Women’s Open winner Allisen Corpuz if she withdrew from the Dana Open this week. After all, it’s a cross-country flight from San Jose, Calif., to Sylvania, Ohio. But instead, Corpuz followed through on her obligation to the Dana Open, teeing it up at Highland Meadows Golf Club only four days

Associated Press Jul 12, 2023, 01:14 PM ET GULLANE, Scotland — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan returns to work next week, and some top players believe he has to regain their trust after leaving members in the dark over an about-face deal with the Saudi Arabia wealth fund behind LIV Golf. “I’d say he has

PINEHURST, N.C. — Kipp Popert came to the 18th tee at Pinehurst No. 6 with the men’s U.S. Adaptive Open well in hand, two shots ahead of last year’s winner Simon Lee, but that advantage evaporated at the exact moment when he launched a drive down the right side, watched it roll into the trees,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 12, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Like many golf fans around the world Tuesday, Scottie Scheffler watched the Senate hearing regarding the PGA Tour’s planned alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi

For all the discussion of where golf’s going and who’s behind the wheel, there’s no question the DP World Tour’s been relegated to the backseat. The circuit’s fate was a bargaining chip in professional golf’s schism; Saudi Arabia viewed it as an avenue into the sport’s ecosystem, the PGA Tour deemed its European counterpart as

ESPN News Services Jul 12, 2023, 06:32 AM ET The Open is increasing its purse to $16.5 million, with the winner next week at Royal Liverpool getting $3 million. The total prize fund was $14 million a year ago. Cameron Smith, who won at St. Andrews, earned $2.5 million. The second- and third-place finishers at

Once again, the PGA Tour will co-sanction the Genesis Scottish Open with the DP World Tour, with an almost even split of golfers from the two tours competing this week at The Renaissance Club in Gullane, Scotland. It’ll be a challenging links test for some of the best golfers in the world, as the course

Jul 11, 2023, 05:19 PM ET After consecutive weeks appearing near the top of the leaderboard, Peter Kuest has been rewarded with special temporary membership to the PGA Tour after earning enough “non-member” FedEx Cup points to pass the threshold. Kuest, 25, was a standout golfer at BYU but had nowhere to play when he

The first U.S. Women’s Open played at Pebble Beach Golf Links was expected to be a big win in raising exposure and awareness for the female side of the game, and the television numbers confirm that it was a success. Allisen Corpuz’s steady handed play Sunday led to a three-stroke victory as she broke away

Jul 11, 2023, 10:08 AM ET PGA Tour officials pushed to oust Greg Norman as the CEO and commissioner of the LIV Golf League during its negotiations with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which proposed that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy own LIV teams, according to documents released by

According to documents released by a Senate investigative subcommittee during Tuesday’s hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund, an Augusta National membership for Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, was among the potential proposals. In addition, another proposal featured Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy being given

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 07:48 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Sepp Straka won the John Deere Classic on Sunday with a final-round 9-under 62 that could have been much better, making double bogey on the final hole but taking the title by two shots when Brendon Todd and Alex Smalley were unable to catch

GULLANE, Scotland — News flash: Links golf in the British Isles is different. Different from the norm on the PGA Tour that is. Where most events in the U.S. involve shots that are played mostly through the air, across the pond the bounce and roll of the ball after it lands are typically also parts

Jul 10, 2023, 09:55 PM ET Before 2023, Ruoning Yin, Lilia Vu and Allisen Corpuz had a combined zero LPGA victories to their name. Now, they rank fourth, fifth and sixth in the world, respectively, after splitting the first three majors of the women’s golf season. Corpuz rocketed from No. 29 to No. 6 in

In prepared remarks for Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Senator Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) will assert the new alliance shows how a “brutal, repressive regime can buy influence–indeed even take over–a cherished American institution simply to cleanse its public image.” A copy of the