News

Dylan Wu was cruising along nicely after four holes Thursday at the Rocket Mortgage Classic when business started to pick up. The second-year PGA Tour pro started on the 10th hole at Detroit Golf Club and bogeyed the 11th hole, then made consecutive birdies on the next two holes to get to one under. On

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 08:02 PM ET DETROIT — Taylor Moore and Monday qualifier Peter Kuest shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead in the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Thursday, with a slew of players chasing in what’s expected to be a shootout. Dylan Wu had the third albatross on the PGA Tour

First-round leads generally mean little, but specifically can be surprisingly newsworthy, as was the case with Peter Kuest on Thursday. Peter who? Kuest, 25, was a Monday qualifier for the Rocket Mortgage Classic and as such is among the least likely players in the field to make news on Thursday. Yet he had six 3s

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 09:21 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Retief Goosen got right to the point after the first round of the U.S. Senior Open at punishing SentryWorld. “You got to hit the fairways, otherwise, you’ve got no shot,” the two-time U.S. Open champion said Thursday after a 1-under 70 that left

Seeking to play in his 25th consecutive Open Championship, Sergio Garcia will lead several members of the LIV Golf League in hoping to secure last-minute entry into the field at Royal Liverpool via 36-hole qualifying next week. From major champions like Garcia, Graeme McDowell and Charl Schwartzel, to reserve players like Andy Ogletree and Wade

ESPN News Services Jun 29, 2023, 12:50 PM ET Nobody expects Nick Faldo to deal niceties when asked for thoughts on the LIV Golf League, and he drilled the PGA Tour rival at his latest opportunity Thursday previewing the British Masters. The six-time major winner questioned the circuit’s shift to add emphasis to team play

Amid speculation that LIV Golf’s days are numbered, Phil Mickelson asserts the fledgling circuit is here to stay. Though Mickelson played two weeks ago in the U.S. Open, the six-time major winner declined to speak at Los Angeles Country Club on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. However,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 28, 2023, 09:17 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia In his first public comments since the PGA Tour’s stunning alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund was announced June 6, six-time

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — In 1985, Golf Digest contributor Tom Callahan, in his guise as the sports guy for Time Magazine, wrote a profile of Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird and Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky. In the piece Callahan told the remarkable tale of how both men, when shown a picture from the previous night’s

Associated Press Jun 28, 2023, 02:48 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Changes will be made to the TPC River Highlands golf course after record-low scoring last week during the PGA Tour’s annual Travelers Championship, tournament officials said Wednesday. Andy Bessette, Travelers’ executive vice president and chief administrative officer, told The Associated Press that officials at

Two executives running the PGA Tour while commissioner Jay Monahan recovers from a medical situation have revealed they anticipate the 53-year-old’s return. On June 13, Tuesday night of U.S. Open week, the tour announced Monahan was “recuperating from a medical situation” and would step back from his duties. That came a week after Monahan stunned

The LIV Golf League hits the halfway point of its 2023 schedule at Real Club Valderrama in Spain this weekend. There are six regular season tournaments remaining, including one in London and four more in the U.S. The individual and team championships will take place in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 3-5. After that, no one

A Pinehurst native now holds a coveted local scoring record. In the first round of the 123rd North & South Amateur on Tuesday, Jackson Van Paris shot a nine-under, 61, setting a new course record at Pinehurst No. 4. He broke the old record, previously held by Jackson Koivun, by two strokes. Van Paris, a

Associated Press Jun 27, 2023, 11:30 PM ET DETROIT — The PGA Tour sought to assure players Tuesday that they will have a say in the tour’s new partnership with the Saudi funders of LIV Golf, with its policy board issuing a statement that noted players would have to approve any final agreement between the

The PGA Tour’s policy board issued a statement Tuesday night following a players meeting in Detroit regarding the proposed deal between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, signaling a “new phase” of negotiations have begun while signaling the deal may ultimately not come to fruition. The statement comes a day after the framework

ESPN News Services Jun 26, 2023, 04:40 PM ET Detroit Golf Club took a heavy hit from storms that passed through the area Sunday, leaving the PGA Tour with little time to clean up the course before the scheduled start of the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Thursday. The PGA Tour on Monday tweeted two photos

Tony Finau has a chance to do something he’s never done on the PGA Tour before: win the same tournament in back-to-back years. The 33-year-old tees it up this week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, where he claimed the title a year ago at Detroit Golf Club and is looking to win for the third

ESPN News Services Jun 27, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis made her professional debut in 2008 in the U.S. Women’s Open at Interlachen, had a one-shot lead going into the final round and wound up in a tie for third behind Inbee Park. Her earnings of $162,487 did not count toward

The severe and dangerous storms that have hit the Midwest and now are arriving on the East Coast caused damage on Sunday to the golf course that will host this week’s PGA Tour event. The PGA Tour tweeted an aerial photo on Monday of cleanup being performed at Detroit Golf Club, where winds toppled several

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 26, 2023, 11:07 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The five-page agreement signed by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley and Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan to form a new

The PGA Tour announced Monday that the 2028 Presidents Cup has been awarded to Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. The club is consistently ranked among the best courses in the world and is listed No. 2 behind Royal Melbourne G.C for Golf Digest’s Best Courses in Australia. Kingston Heath has been the site

Associated Press Jun 26, 2023, 07:45 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The Presidents Cup is headed Down Under for the fourth time, this time to Kingston Heath for the 2028 matches. Kingston Heath is among the more popular golf courses on the fabled sand belt in Melbourne that has hosted several events, none more highly

New golfers and younger ones might not be familiar with the late James Walter FitzGerald, who went by “Fitzy” to close friends and “Jay” to a legion of acquaintances in golf. His passing on May 23 at age 84 led to a period of mourning remarkable for its persistence. He’ll be reminisced well at a

Jun 26, 2023, 10:47 AM ET Fenway Sports Group, owner of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and Premier League club Liverpool, said Monday that it has added a team in the TGL, the tech-forward team golf league developed by Tiger Woods, to its portfolio. The Boston team joins Los Angeles Golf Club, which was

It was a shot for history. Stephanie Meadow, her tee shot on Baltusrol’s par-5 18th finding the fairway, was facing the best opportunity of her eight-year career for victory and a chance to become the first woman from Ireland to win an LPGA major. In her 138th career start, Meadow faced a difficult lie trying

Associated Press Jun 25, 2023, 06:42 PM ET ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington played his final seven holes in 7 under par, a stunning finish for a 9-under 63 to successfully defend his title in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open with a 1-shot victory on Sunday. Harrington was going nowhere at the En-Joie Golf Club

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Rose Zhang returned to the Tri-State area this week to compete in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship—just three weeks after her historic win at the Mizuho Americas Open. “​​The first week at Mizuho, it felt a little bit just surreal,” Zhang said. “I didn’t feel like I was a professional. I was

Associated Press Jun 25, 2023, 07:08 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn — Keegan Bradley built a big enough lead in front of adoring New England fans that he broke the tournament record at the Travelers Championship despite a shaky closing stretch, closing with a 2-under 68 for a three-shot victory on Sunday. Bradley, who went 62-63-64

Heading into the final round of the Memorial Tournament earlier this month, we noted how a Rory McIlroy victory would have lifted him into rare territory on the PGA Tour. A win that week would have been his 24th career tour title, but it also would have come with a $3.6 million first-place prize money

Associated Press Jun 24, 2023, 02:04 PM ET MUNICH — Joost Luiten carded a bogey-free 7-under 65 on Saturday to match his lowest round of the season and take a three-shot lead into the final round of the BMW International Open. The 37-year-old Luiten is in prime position at 14 under to claim his seventh