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Because of a nearly two-hour frost delay on Thursday, the second round of the 105th PGA Championship might not finish on Friday (it’ll be close), but this is what we already know about how this tournament could play out at Oak Hill Country Club: (Scroll down for live updates) • After a restoration/redesign that included

ESPN News Services May 19, 2023, 04:47 PM ET Will Zalatoris, who hasn’t played since late March after undergoing back surgery, said Friday he is targeting a September return to the PGA Tour. For the first time in the past two years, Zalatoris is pain-free, he said on ESPN’s “Matty & the Caddie” PGA Championship

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Will Zalatoris was this close to hoisting the Wanamker last year, falling just short to Justin Thomas in a three-hole playoff at the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Unfortunately the fledgling star is sidelined for this year’s edition of the championship as he rehabs from recent surgery. But in a Friday appearance on

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 18, 2023, 09:53 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When Tom Kim went searching for his errant tee shot on the par-4 sixth hole in the opening round of the PGA Championship at

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Ryan Fox stepped up Thursday as the obligatory mystery man that tends to pop up on a first-round leaderboard of a major championship—though he shouldn’t be. By saying he shouldn’t be, we mean that he shouldn’t be a mystery man. After all, the guy is ranked 41st in the world. And, yeah,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 18, 2023, 10:30 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are the top three players in the Official World Golf Ranking, but only one of them performed

When Bryson DeChambeau sets his mind to something, he goes full throttle. All gas, no brakes. The shining example of this came when he decided to bulk up in order to become the longest player in professional golf, which he succeeded in doing. It makes sense, then, that he’d apply that same mentality to cutting

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 18, 2023, 04:40 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After blasting a chip shot out of the rough and over the No. 2 green at Oak Hill Country Club on Thursday, Rory McIlroy

Insert all your “What did you expect for upstate New York?!?” jokes here. Yes, it gets cold in May in Rochester, N.Y., and so a frost delay to kick off the 105th PGA Championship—and push back the start by nearly two hours—was predictable (literally). But when things finally got started at 8:50 a.m., temperatures hovering

Associated Press May 17, 2023, 11:05 PM ET A Florida judge ruled late Wednesday that the ex-girlfriend of Tiger Woods must abide by a nondisclosure agreement she purportedly signed and resolve her lawsuits seeking millions from the golf superstar through private arbitration behind closed doors. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger, in an 11-page opinion, rejected Erica

These kids these days, they are precocious and fearless, even with a national championship at stake, even facing a deficit halfway through the final of the U.S Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship, as the high school duo of Gianna Clemente and Avery Zweig showcased on Wednesday. Clemente, 15, No. 1 in the American Junior Golf Association

Associated Press May 18, 2023, 12:20 AM ET DuPONT, Wash. — Teens Avery Zweig and Gianna Clemente won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday, beating California college players Tiffany Le and Kate Villegas 3 and 1 at The Home Course. Zweig, 16, of McKinney, Texas, and Clemente, 15, of Estero, Florida, overcame an

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and Sergio Garcia have been interviewed by the United States Department of Justice, along with lawyers from the PGA Tour, according to a report from the New York Times. The tour remains involved in a probe by the Justice Department that was spurred by the advent of LIV

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 17, 2023, 08:15 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Nearly a year ago, after Justin Thomas matched the largest 54-hole comeback in PGA Championship history by chasing down Chile’s Mito Pereira from 7

There’s a scene in the second episode of Netflix’s “Full Swing” in which Brooks Koepka reveals an impressive trophy setup in his house. The shelves are full except for one big spot in the middle, which Koepka explains he’s keeping open for when he wins the Masters. Fast forward a few months and Koepka nearly

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 16, 2023, 10:43 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — No one has been a more outspoken proponent of the PGA Tour than Rory McIlroy during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf League.

ROCHESTER — He is the defending champ and that alone makes Justin Thomas a success, for this is the PGA Championship, one of the four events whose outcomes matter in perpetuity. Whatever argument can be made is silenced by the fact he’s won two of the major variety and 15 events in total. If you

Associated Press May 16, 2023, 07:48 PM ET RANCHO MIRAGE, California — Marlene Hagge-Vossler, a Hall of Fame player and the last surviving founder of the LPGA Tour, died Tuesday morning, her family said. She was 89. Hagge-Vossler won 26 times on the LPGA Tour, including the 1952 LPGA Championship, and she was inducted into

Let’s get the biggest question on groupings for the 105th PGA Championship that begins on Thursday out of the way first. What did they do with the LIV Golf guys? Admit it, that was your first thought when you saw the pairings were out on Tuesday. You scrolled and scrolled to find that one juicy

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 16, 2023, 02:38 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh said he doesn’t believe the LIV Golf League is a lasting business model but commended the startup circuit

In 2015, Jason Day was on top of the golf world. The Australian star had won five times on the PGA Tour, including a maiden major at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. He also made his debut as World No.1 in the fall. His success was built on long, straight driving and a delightful

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 16, 2023, 07:45 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ROCHESTER, N.Y. — This week, Oak Hill Country Club is hosting the PGA Championship for the fourth time. Editor’s Picks 1 Related It will be the first

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Hopefully Monday morning at the PGA Championship is not a sign of what’s to come. When the PGA of America awarded Oak Hill its fourth PGA Championship, the Wannamaker Trophy was still being contested in August. Which, we are told, is a lovely time to visit upstate New York. But in 2017, the governing

May 15, 2023, 10:36 AM ET Past winner John Daly has withdrawn from the PGA Championship, tournament organizers said Monday, and will be replaced in the field by German Stephan Jaeger. The larger-than-life Daly, who won the tournament in 1991, has played only a handful of PGA Tour events in the past two years but

Do a Google search for “Jon Rahm Basque,” and you’ll get a few hits, but nothing very substantial beyond a story about the Basque population of Boise, ID celebrating his Masters win. The situation would be better if you spoke Spanish, but still, there’s a dearth of information on the cultural heritage of the No.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterMay 15, 2023, 08:24 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The 105th PGA Championship is returning to Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, for the fourth time. The East Course will play much different this

ROCHESTER—John Daly has pulled out of the 2023 PGA Championship. Daly, 57, has been a mainstay at the event since earning his breakthrough win at the 1991 PGA Championship. Getting a spot in the field at Crooked Stick as the ninth alternate, Daly had to drive through the night to reach the course in time

Associated Press May 14, 2023, 08:37 PM ET CLIFTON, N.J. — Trailing by four shots heading into the final round of the Founders Classic, Jin Young Ko got a little inspiration about comeback wins watching fellow South Korean Sung-jae Im rally from a big deficit to win on the KPGA Tour. If he could do

Neither Austin Eckroat or Marty Dou accomplished the main objective on Sunday at the AT&T Bryon Nelson: win their first PGA Tour title. Yet the 24-year-old Eckroat and 26-year-old Dou both walked away pleased with their performances, even if it didn’t end quite as happily as they hoped after starting the final round in a

Associated Press May 14, 2023, 08:41 PM ET BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Dustin Johnson overcame a triple bogey Sunday by making birdie on the 18th hole to join a playoff and another birdie on the 18th to win LIV Golf Tulsa for his first win this year. The victory was Johnson’s second since he joined