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Last season, the shot of the year belonged to Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 9 iron out of a fairway bunker on the 72nd hole at The Country Club sealed an epic U.S. Open win. This season, another Fitzpatrick may have already locked up shot of the year in July — Matt’s brother Alex. The younger Fitzpatrick,

ESPN News Services Jul 4, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Sergio Garcia‘s quest to play in his 25th straight Open Championship ended Tuesday when he failed to qualify for the season’s fourth major. Playing in a qualifier at West Lancashire Golf Club, Garcia shot a 5-under 67 in the morning round of the 36-hole competition. But

PEBBLE BEACH — The end of Michelle Wie West’s LPGA career is here, 20 years after her first U.S. Women’s Open start at Pumpkin Ridge. The opportunity to tee it up at Pebble Beach has kept Wie West grounded as she contemplates what like will look like beyond playing professional golf. But come Sunday, Wie

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 4, 2023, 09:18 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Michelle Wie West has no problem admitting it: She has thought about her last walk up to the 18th hole at Pebble Beach — the final one of her career — plenty. She has visualized it, dreamt about it, even idealized it. “Gosh,

PEBBLE BEACH — Rose Zhang will no doubt look back at it as a time of joy and innocence, when she and Stanford teammates were among the first women to compete in a college tournament on the Pebble Beach Golf Links. The Cardinal, coming off their national championship the season before, made their 2022-23 season

Charlotte Gibson, ESPNJul 1, 2023, 07:00 AM ET AMARI AVERY IS frustrated. It’s her first hole of the day, and her drive on the par-4 10th hole at Rancho Santa Fe Country Club in California has fizzled barely 150 yards along the right rough. Now she stands behind her golf ball, lodged deep in the

Aldrich Potgieter came up one shot short of Monday qualifying for this week’s John Deere Classic. But the newly turned pro from South Africa has a heck of a story to tell from his 18 holes at Pinnacle Country Club in Milan, Ill. The 18-year-old former British Amateur champion shot a six-under 66 with a

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 03:41 PM ET SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — A 40-foot eagle putt sparked a stunning finish from New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier as he won the British Masters on Sunday and secured his place in the British Open. Hillier’s first European tour title was delivered in spectacular fashion when he carded a

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Nelly Korda doesn’t like learning about courses before arriving. She wants to process the course in her own way, with her own eyes, before coming up with a plan of attack. While her team members have scouted out Pebble Beach before their arrival, Korda’s only experience with the historic course before

Jul 3, 2023, 03:54 PM ET Tiger Woods says he never received scripted comments, purportedly prepared by the PGA Tour, that now are part of a federal lawsuit. Multiple outlets reported Monday that the remarks are among 357 pages of emails and other documents included in an antitrust lawsuit involving the PGA Tour filed in

The U.S. Women’s Open makes its much-anticipated debut at Pebble Beach Golf Links this week, the first time the USGA has hosted a women’s championship at the famed course on California’s Monterey Peninsula since the 1948 U.S. Women’s Amateur. It’s one of four visits the Women’s Open is scheduled to make at “the greatest meeting

Jul 3, 2023, 11:57 AM ET WASHINGTON — Two PGA Tour officials have agreed to testify before a U.S. Senate panel next week about the tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, but LIV officials declined to appear, lawmakers said Monday. Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, and board member Jimmy Dunne have

For all of the right reasons, there will be plenty said and written this week about Amy Olson competing in the 78th U.S. Women’s Open. The 30-year-old is 31 weeks pregnant and will traverse on foot the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links. With a few steep climbs along the cliffs, it’s not an easy stroll—about

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 03:14 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, outlasting Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin two weeks after squandering a chance to win his first major at the U.S. Open. Fowler, 34, got his first PGA Tour

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Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 05:15 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld to break the PGA Tour Champions’ career victory record. Pushing his record as the oldest winner on the 50-and-over tour to 65 years, 10 months, 5 days, the German star broke a

Following his drought-breaking playoff win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday, nobody asked Rickie Fowler specifically about the Ryder Cup. But he mentioned it anyway. “One of the end goals was to be a part of the Ryder Cup team and that’s still what we’re focusing on right now,” he said, in response to

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 01:14 PM ET SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Talor Gooch won his third LIV Golf League title of the year Sunday when he made a curling 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Valderrama for a 4-under 67 and a 1-shot victory over Bryson DeChambeau. Gooch won $4 million for the

The fate of the LIV Golf League remains uncertain as its financial backer, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, works with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to create a for-profit entity that will help handle the commercial aspects of the three circuits. But as LIV proceeds, it might behoove the other two

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 12:11 AM ET JASPER, Ind. — Angela Stanford took advantage of Trish Johnson’s late collapse Saturday at Sultan’s Run to win the Senior LPGA Championship. Five strokes back entering the day and four behind playing the final hole, the 45-year-old Stanford birdied the par-4 18th for a 7-under 65 and

Ask Rickie Fowler whether he needs to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday and his answer is a version of, “Not necessarily.” He’s contending regularly on the PGA Tour, and after a slump that saw him plummet to 185th in the Official World Golf Ranking, that’s satisfying for right now. But four years removed

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 08:05 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler has put himself in a position to win a PGA Tour title again. He’s hoping to take advantage for a change. Fowler birdied six of his last eight holes Saturday to surge into the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 20 under, giving him

The PGA Tour will host a new event in Utah beginning in 2024. In an announcement on Friday, the tour said it is ending a six-decade hiatus from the Beehive State, as the Black Desert Championship is scheduled to launch in the fall of next year. “We are thrilled to partner with Black Desert Resort

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 01:42 PM ET SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Bryson DeChambeau made eagle on his final hole at the par-5 17th for an 8-under 63 and a one-shot lead over Talor Gooch on Saturday in LIV Golf-Valderrama. DeChambeau has yet to win against the 48-man fields on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, and

At 660th in the Official World Golf Ranking and 210th in the FedEx Cup standings, Andrew Landry is a pretty good professional golfer who hasn’t played good golf for quite some time. That fact doesn’t make him particularly unique. Good golfers struggle. Great ones do, too. Here’s the thing though: If they’re really any good,

Associated Press Jun 30, 2023, 07:45 PM ET DETROIT — Taylor Moore and Taylor Pendrith shared the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 13 under Friday, hoping to hold off a veteran trying to end a victory drought and a promising young pro aiming for his first PGA Tour victory. Pendrith shot an 8-under 64 at

After his disappointing finish at the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club two weeks ago, Rickie Fowler could have sulked or taken a mental holiday or even questioned just how much progress he has truly made in what has been a comeback year. Instead, he has just kept the comeback theme going. And going.

Associated Press Jun 30, 2023, 09:13 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer has been able to avoid most of the trouble at SentryWorld in the U.S. Senior Open. He still was far from unscathed Friday in a 3-under 68 that gave him the second-round lead. “Believe it or not, I had two three-putts

In the runup to the U.S. Senior Open at Sentry World, 65-year-old Bernhard Langer didn’t particularly fancy his chances, noting the distance he gives up to younger players on a layout that he said favors the bombers. “They’re going to hit driver, 9-iron [into the greens]. I’m hitting driver, 3-iron, which makes it hard to

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 05:53 PM ET SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — As expected, Justin Rose set the pace in the first round of the British Masters with a 7-under 65. Rose, the World No. 31 and top-ranked player in the field, had eight birdies and a solitary bogey at the Belfry on Thursday. The