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We don’t know what kind of internal turmoil Keith Mitchell was facing in the moment. We do know that the first 13 holes of his second round on Friday in the Players Championship were eventful. Starting on No. 10, he’d made four birdies and four birdies to be even for the day and tied for

3:32 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Standing on the ninth tee box, his last hole of the second round at the Players on Friday, Jordan Spieth was 2 over par and probably needed a birdie to make the cut and stick around for the weekend. Spieth’s tee shot sailed far right and was

Well, this figures. Twenty-four hours ago, we were celebrating the fact that we weren’t going to experience last year’s nightmare of long weather delays that pushed the Players Championship finish into Monday. And then on Friday … we get a weather delay. And not just a short stoppage, but a suspension of the second round

6:31 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Chad Ramey became the only player to reach double digits under par at the Players Championship. The TPC Sawgrass, as usual, had the final say. Ramey put two tee shots in the water on the island-green 17th hole Friday for a quintuple bogey that cost

PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Jon Rahm has withdrawn from the 2023 Players Championship. The No. 1 player in the world was announced as a late WD ahead of his second round tee time Friday at TPC Sawgrass. The PGA Tour announced that Rahm dropped out due to an unspecified stomach illness. Rahm was part of the super-pairing

12:49 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — World No. 1 golfer Jon Rahm withdrew from the Players Championship shortly before the start of the second round at TPC Sawgrass on Friday because of a stomach illness, according to the PGA Tour. Rahm, from Spain, carded a 1-under 71 in the first round on Thursday.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Aaron Wise averted equalling the highest-ever score on the 18th hole at TPC Sawgrass during the Players Championship on Thursday, only because he got up and down from 69 yards for a 10 on the par 4. Wise hit three consecutive tee shots into the water on 18. Each looked identical

6:30 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — It almost seemed like the PGA Tour’s middle (and working) class had a reminder for its stars in the opening round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday. The message: Hey, we’re not that bad either. After the tour announced Tuesday that it will stage

After the first day of the 2023 Players Championship, we do know this: We’re not going to deal with the nightmare of a year ago, when the second round wasn’t completed until Sunday afternoon, and Cam Smith’s victory was celebrated late on Monday. Though there is some light rain in the forecast for Friday afternoon,

8:05 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Chad Ramey managed to avoid stress and bogeys Thursday in the Players Championship for an 8-under 64, making him an unlikely leader on a TPC Sawgrass course that rarely fails to deliver a surprise. Ramey had a 1-shot lead over two-time major champion Collin Morikawa

Rory McIlroy did something to a golf ball on Thursday morning that only a few people on the planet could even dream of. Unfortunately, moments later, he did something that every golfer can relate to. The four-time major champ’s 16th hole on Day 1 at the 2023 Players was a wild swing of emotions. Let’s

Mar 7, 2023 PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — While acknowledging that the emergence of the LIV Golf League led to radical changes on the PGA Tour, including future events with limited fields of 70 to 80 players and no 36-hole cuts, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan insisted Tuesday that the rival circuits won’t be the

Quibble if you’d like about the legitimacy of the Official World Golf Ranking and whether it needs a few tweaks or to be blown up and rebuilt from the ground up. This much is true: In this calendar year, the OWGR has offered the black-and-white evidence of what has been a fantastic battle at the

2:42 PM ET Tiger Woods‘ former longtime girlfriend is asking a judge to remove her from a nondisclosure agreement that she claims the 15-time major champion forced her to sign when their relationship started in August 2017, according to court records obtained by ESPN. The civil complaint filed Monday in the Circuit Court of the

A complaint by Erica Herman, Tiger Woods’ former girlfriend, filed against Woods this week was preceded by litigation filed in October against the golfer, according to court documents. On Oct. 26, 2022, Herman filed a complaint against Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust—a trust that Woods controls—that the entity was in violation of the Florida Residential

5:33 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington of Ireland, the late Tom Weiskopf and the remaining founders of the LPGA Tour were among those elected Wednesday for the World Golf Hall of Fame. The induction will be June 10, 2024, the Monday ahead of the U.S. Open

PONTE VEDRA BEACH — One of the best traditions at the Players Championship occurs on Wednesday morning, when all the first-timers are made available to the media just outside TPC Sawgrass’ sprawling clubhouse. Most of them are wide-eyed and eager to get the week started, well aware that one of the toughest tests of their

9:30 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players has never had a back-to-back champion, and it won’t again this year with defending winner Cameron Smith playing in the LIV Golf League. Top stories of the week from Get exclusive access to more than 3,000 premium articles a year from top writers.• Kiper picks

Rory McIlroy gave an honest, thoughtful answer Tuesday at the Players Championship when he admitted that the arrival of a certain Saudi-backed rival golf league has elevated the professional game as a whole. “I’m not going to sit here and lie, I think the emergence of LIV or the emergence of a competitor to the

10:00 PM ET Rory McIlroy called it “a slap in the face” for James Hahn to miss Tuesday’s player meeting after Hahn had strongly criticized the PGA Tour’s new format of play announced for 2024. “Like, you say all this s— and you’re not even in the meeting?” McIlroy said of Hahn. “If you want

Phil Mickelson has made it abundantly clear that he believes if the PGA Tour leadership had latched onto some of his ideas to emphasize its marquee players, it wouldn’t find itself in the position of contending with LIV Golf. And to take it a step further, maybe the upstart Saudi circuit wouldn’t have come into

3:19 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods isn’t the only familiar name missing at the Players Championship this week. Defending champion Cameron Smith, who had eight one-putts in the final nine holes to win by a stroke over India’s Anirban Lahiri last year, also isn’t at TPC Sawgrass to defend what was

PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Even if Rory McIlroy has been the most vocal critic of LIV Golf since its emergence last year, he is giving the rival league credit where it’s due. The radical changes made to the PGA Tour in the past 12 months—spearheaded by creating a series of “designated” events that next year will have

7:03 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A year ago, Cameron Smith captured what was then the richest winner’s purse in men’s golf history when he one-putted eight of the last nine holes to win the Players in a Monday finish. Smith collected $3.6 million after surviving rainy and windy conditions, along with a

Jariah Beard, the longtime Augusta National caddie who carried the bag for Masters rookie Fuzzy Zoeller when he won in 1979, died Friday. Beard’s son, Eric Beard, sent an email to Golf Digest confirming the news, saying that his father succumbed to cancer. He was 82. “My father was an amazing man,” Eric Beard wrote,

The Players Championship has its traditionally standout field in place with 43 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking making the trip this week to TPC Sawgrass. While defending champion Cameron Smith is missing, having joined the LIV Golf League, eight past Players winners are competing—Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Webb Simpson,

Mar 5, 2023 Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Colombian rookie Nico Echavarria seized control with two straight birdies on the back nine and closed with a 4-under 68 for a 2-shot victory in the Puerto Rico Open for his first PGA Tour title. Echavarria was soaked on a sunny day at Grand Reserve,

If you’ve followed professional golf for some defined period of recent history—let’s say since the year 2000—it might have seemed as though the LIV Golf breakaway came out of nowhere. Sure, it’s obvious that players like Phil Mickelson had some serious issues with the PGA Tour, but at no point in the prime of his

8:15 AM ET Golf fans won’t get to see Tiger Woods at The Players, the PGA Tour’s signature event, but they won’t have to wait long to see him back on the course. Woods is expected to return at the Masters, the first major championship of the season. The start of the tournament at Augusta

ORLANDO — Tim Tucker thought his days as a PGA Tour caddie were over after he parted ways with his former boss, Bryson DeChambeau, abruptly on the eve of a tournament in 2021. Their split came only a few months after DeChambeau bashed his way to a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And yet