Gone to Play Golf

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 28, 2024, 07:25 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler has won six times this season, including a second green jacket at the Masters in April,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 27, 2024, 02:25 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Defending FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland, who walked away with an $18 million bonus after winning the Tour Championship last year, is

Aug 27, 2024, 04:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The third and final leg of the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs is here. The Tour Championship tees off this week at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, as the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings look to capture the PGA Tour’s biggest prize. Each

Field Level Media Aug 27, 2024, 11:22 AM ET Open Extended Reactions U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis finalized her team by naming Lexi Thompson, Jennifer Kupcho and Sarah Schmelzel as her three wild-card picks Tuesday. World No. 46 Thompson will be competing in her seventh consecutive Solheim Cup, Kupcho (53) will play for a

Associated Press Aug 25, 2024, 07:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — The BMW Championship was one tournament Keegan Bradley never thought he could win, only because he didn’t think he would be playing. Bradley was a bundle of nerves one week ago Sunday as he sat in a hotel room in

Associated Press Aug 26, 2024, 01:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Georgia Hall will play in her fifth straight Solheim Cup after the English golfer was among four captain’s picks announced Monday for the competition against the United States next month. Hall, three-time major champion Anna Nordqvist of Sweden and Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pedersen all

Associated Press Aug 25, 2024, 09:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Adam Scott is playing in the Presidents Cup for the 11th straight time, the most of any player from the International team. That wasn’t much of a surprise. Neither were the six players for the American team. The BMW Championship

Field Level Media Aug 25, 2024, 10:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Rose Zhang, Megan Khang, Andrea Lee and Lauren Coughlin are among the players joining world No. 1 Nelly Korda on the U.S. Solheim Cup team this year. The team’s nine automatic qualifiers were solidified Sunday following the AIG Women’s Open. That leaves three

Associated Press Aug 25, 2024, 02:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Lydia Ko captured her third major title — and first in eight years — by breaking free from a logjam of world-class talent to win the Women’s British Open at the home of golf Sunday, capping a summer when she

ESPN News Services Aug 23, 2024, 12:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Hideki Matsuyama withdrew from the BMW Championship with a lower back injury Friday, one day after he shot an opening-round, 5-under 67 to sit one shot off the lead. Matsuyama has dealt with back and neck injuries for the past few years. Matsuyama

ESPN News Services Aug 24, 2024, 02:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Two-time champion Jiyai Shin capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women’s British Open at St. Andrews on Saturday. Nothing will give the 36-year-old Shin more confidence heading into the

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 07:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Keegan Bradley finished with an 8-foot birdie putt, his eighth birdie of a round that only gave him a 2-under 70 on Saturday on a day where Castle Pines took more than it gave and created plenty of possibilities in

Associated Press Aug 23, 2024, 02:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Nelly Korda looks to be back to her dominant best at the home of golf. The top-ranked American mastered more blustery conditions at St. Andrews by shooting a bogey-free, 4-under 68 in the second round on Friday to take a

Associated Press Aug 23, 2024, 07:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Adam Scott kept making birdies and changing his outlook on the season until he finished with his lowest score of the year, a 9-under 63 on Friday in the BMW Championship that gave him a three-shot lead going into the

Associated Press Aug 23, 2024, 05:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Rory McIlroy‘s tee shot on the par-5 17th hole at Castle Pines went in the rough. His 3-wood went in the water. That summed up the day, and the PGA Tour postseason, for McIlroy. He managed a par on the

Aug 22, 2024, 07:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler downplayed any concerns about a back injury after he was seen hunched over following an approach shot on his penultimate hole Thursday at the BMW Championship. After he hit his second shot on the par-5 17th hole at Castle Pines Golf

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 07:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Keegan Bradley went from a bundle of nerves waiting to see if he would advance in the PGA Tour postseason to a blissful day of birdies in mile-high air Thursday that led to a 6-under 66 and the lead in

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 03:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf balls wobbled on the tees and greens. Players wore big earmuffs and neck warmers and donned oven-style mitts between shots. American star Rose Zhang said she lost balance simply standing up. Gusts of up to 40 mph (64 kph)

Aug 20, 2024, 08:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The second leg of the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs tees off this week with the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, Colorado. Hideki Matsuyama won last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship. Now, the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings move

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 21, 2024, 05:34 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The PGA Tour is returning to Colorado for the first time in a decade this week for the BMW Championship, the penultimate event of

Aug 20, 2024, 10:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions International team captain Mike Weir named Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama as his fifth and final assistant for this year’s Presidents Cup showdown against the United States in Montreal. The 2024 edition of the biennial competition, which pits a 12-man U.S. team against a lineup of international players

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 20, 2024, 05:15 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The final major championship in women’s professional golf this season, the AIG Women’s Open, will be played at the Old Course at St. Andrews

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 11:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVINE, Scotland — Lauren Coughlin pulled away with superb putting and closed with a 3-under 69 to win the Women’s Scottish Open on Sunday, her second LPGA title this summer, to secure a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team. Coughlin, who won the

ESPN News Services Aug 18, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Jose Luis Ballester, a rising senior at Arizona State, became the first player from Spain to win the U.S. Amateur, fending off Iowa sophomore Noah Kent and finishing 2 up Sunday at Hazeltine in the 36-hole match on his 21st

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama could feel the tournament getting away from him, an odd sensation considering he had gone 27 holes without a bogey and had a five-shot lead just an hour earlier. Even more improbable was how it ended Sunday. On the

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 07:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Brooks Koepka picked up his second LIV Golf League victory of the year Sunday when he shot 7-under 63 at The Greenbrier and beat Jon Rahm with a par on the first playoff hole. Rahm, who lost a four-shot

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 07:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CALGARY, Alberta — Ken Tanigawa won the Rogers Charity Classic on Sunday for his third career PGA Tour Champions victory, closing with a 6-under 64 to beat Richard Green by two shots. Two strokes behind Green after matching the Canyon Meadows record with a

Associated Press Aug 18, 2024, 01:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth ended his season Sunday after one FedEx Cup playoff event and already was planning for surgery on his left wrist, which has troubled him the past 16 months. “I’ve got to have it operated on ASAP, and then I’ll

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Noah Kent loves the high stakes of match play, and it has taken the Iowa sophomore all the way to the championship match of the U.S. Amateur. Kent was on the verge of his semifinal match going all square when Jackson