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For a figure like Young Tom Morris, there’s always a threat that time will leave him a little colorless—nothing more than a name you vaguely recognize, but with all but the most prominent details (“he won some Open Championships, right?”) washed out with history. He didn’t live into his 80s like his father, Old Tom…in

Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 08:33 PM ET Former AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson resigned from the PGA Tour’s policy board over concerns about the tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The PGA Tour confirmed the resignation in a memo to its members, referring to Stephenson’s “exemplary service”

PEBBLE BEACH — On the Monterey Peninsula, and particularly at Pebble Beach Golf Links, everything just feels better when the sun shines. The changing shades of blue and green in the water are more stunning. The sand on the beach looks whiter, the grass on the course greener. For the first two days of the

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 9, 2023, 09:04 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — In the same week that Honolulu native Michelle Wie West bid goodbye to the women’s game, another Honolulu product, Allisen Corpuz, stepped up at Pebble Beach to win the U.S. Women’s Open — the first ever played at the legendary course — for

Randall Stephenson, a former AT&T executive and an influential voice in professional golf, resigned from his position on the PGA Tour’s policy board over the weekend, citing “serious concerns” with the tour’s proposed deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Stephenson’s resignation, which was first reported by the Washington Post, has been confirmed by Golf

Jul 9, 2023, 03:35 PM ET Playing in his final event before defending his Open Championship later this month, Cameron Smith survived a closing bogey on Sunday to win the LIV Golf event at Centurion Club in London. The Australian shot 3-under 68 to finish at 15 under, one stroke ahead of American Patrick Reed

There was a time, of course, when Matteo Manassero’s career trajectory was steeply upward, the word “prodigy” hardly doing the Italian justice. Certainly, the notion that the lad from Verona, who won four times on what’s now the DP World Tour by age 20, would today be competing on the second-tier Challenge circuit would have

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 07:04 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Brendon Todd scrambled for par on the par-4 18th to take a 1one-stroke lead Saturday in the John Deere Classic, holing a 12-foot putt after drawing an awkward stance near a fairway bunker. Todd had a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions to reach 16-under

PEBBLE BEACH — When you name your child after something as big as the U.S. space program, the expectations would seem to be as high as the moon. Jinichi and Norumi Hataoka welcomed their daughter into the world in 1999 and dreamed as big as any parents could. “They both wanted her to accomplish something

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 10:02 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Neither the wind at Pebble Beach nor the stage of a U.S. Women’s Open could stop Nasa Hataoka, who delivered the best round in the toughest conditions Saturday for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead. Hataoka not only posted the low score

The nature of an important looming two-week stretch abroad means the 2023 John Deere Classic doesn’t boast the most stout field on the PGA Tour’s schedule. But that doesn’t mean the action itself isn’t compelling. Coming into the final round, there are a few interesting storylines at stake. With the biggest names in golf resting

Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 09:24 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Cameron Young shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the John Deere Classic and put himself into position to erase an unwelcome distinction from his PGA Tour resume. Young was at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run, with

PEBBLE BEACH — The 78th U.S. Women’s Open, in another first this week, moves to six hours of primetime coverage on NBC for the third round Saturday. With rookie Bailey Tardy holding a two-shot lead at seven under, here are seven storylines to follow at Pebble Beach: How will the final pairing handle the pressure?

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 8, 2023, 12:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — There was no other way it could have ended. After a gloomy week at Pebble Beach, where Michelle Wie West struggled to find the bottom of the cup, the 30-foot par putt on the 18th green — the final one of her career

PEBBLE BEACH — Michelle Wie West and her caddie and husband Jonnie West approached the bunker fronting the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Friday evening and found her ball in a wet and nearly plugged lie. It wasn’t the way they’d envisioned the one-time star and face of women’s golf finishing up

Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 11:49 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Bailey Tardy picked a good time and a beautiful location to play her best golf. Tardy made eagle on the par-5 sixth hole at Pebble Beach for the second straight day as part of a torrid start to her second round Friday in

PEBBLE BEACH — Bailey Tardy nearly didn’t get into the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach for one reason—procrastination. She almost didn’t sign up for the final qualifier, saying she had no interest in battling through 36 holes in one day. It took pushing from her mother to sign up. “My mom would tell me

ESPN News Services Jul 7, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Matthew Wolff, who was accused by LIV Golf teammate Brooks Koepka of quitting on the course, said it’s “heartbreaking” that the Smash GC captain would criticize him amid Wolff’s mental health “challenges on and off the golf course.” Earlier this week, Koepka told Sports Illustrated that

The LIV Golf League is back where it all started, returning this week to Centurion Club outside of London, site of the inaugural Invitational a little more than a year ago. Suffice it to say, A LOT has happened since Greg Norman and Company were last here. More than we’ve really got space to summarize

Associated Press Jul 6, 2023, 11:55 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Xiyu Janet Lin and Hyo Joo Kim had rounds that matched the beauty at Pebble Beach, each of them with a 4-under 68 on Thursday to share the lead in the first U.S. Women’s Open held at one of America’s most famous courses.

PEBBLE BEACH — It is the most knee-knocking, white-knuckle shot in all of golf. None other than Jack Nicklaus deemed it the “most dramatic.” And why not? On the eighth hole at Pebble Beach, players stand on an outcropping of land, the Pacific Ocean 70 feet below. In 2022, Jordan Spieth created the most news

Associated Press Jul 6, 2023, 09:06 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Jonas Blixt got hot on the back nine at TPC Deere Run on Thursday, playing his last six holes in 6 under for a 9-under 62 and a 2-shot lead over Grayson Murray in the first round of the John Deere Classic. Murray was

PEBBLE BEACH – Smashing drivers down the center of Pebble’s fairways is crucial to succeeding on the trouble-filled course. Irish amateur Aine Donegan, 21, playing in her first-ever professional tournament at the U.S. Women’s Open, hit 12 of 14 fairways on her way to a three-under-par 69 Thursday, a stroke off the lead. Before the

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 6, 2023, 08:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Mina Harigae has never seen Pebble Beach like this. Last year’s U.S. Women’s Open runner-up was born in Monterey, California, attended the nearby Stevenson School and has played the course over 50 times. Of the 156 players in this year’s field, Harigae has

File this one under “things professional golf didn’t see coming,” right next to the PGA Tour and LIV Golf joining forces after a bitter battle. At this week’s LIV Golf London event, the Majesticks GC team will debut a digital billboard on the front of their staff bags. Majesticks GC co-captains Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood

M.A. Voepel, ESPN.comJul 5, 2023, 07:12 PM ET Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. SILVIS, Illinois – After leading the Iowa Hawkeyes to their first NCAA women’s basketball championship game, being consensus

Tour pros are no strangers to sponsor logos. Most of the time the prime real estate on tour players (shirts, hats and bags) is taken up by larger companies that are able to shell out some big bucks for a little extra publicity. But this week at the Women’s U.S. Open we’re seeing something different.

Associated Press Jul 5, 2023, 08:29 PM ET Pine Valley will host the Curtis Cup matches for female amateurs in 2034, the first time the course regarded as America’s best will hold an international competition in nearly 50 years. The announcement Wednesday adds to a movement by the USGA to bring its female championships to

Last week more than 350 pages of emails, documents and investment agreements from the PGA Tour were made public by the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, with more than a few items in the release spurring headlines and conjuring a public statement from Tiger Woods. Turns out the document release was not

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 5, 2023, 12:15 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — It has been 72 years since the best female golfers in the world played a competitive round at one of the most famous golf courses in the history of the game. The 1951 Weathervane Transcontinental Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links, won