Gone to Play Golf

Field Level Media Jul 10, 2024, 09:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Rest is the buzzword as Nelly Korda prepares to compete at the Amundi Evian Championship this weekend in Evian-les-Bains, France. The world’s No. 1 player has felt fortunate to be able to recharge in recent weeks, spending time with family at home in

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 10, 2024, 03:17 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Most of the world’s best women golfers are competing in this week’s Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth major championship of the season, and for

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 10, 2024, 07:12 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — More than three weeks after his collapse in the final three holes of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2,

Open Extended Reactions No golfer has ever won the Scottish Open in back-to-back years. Defending champion Rory McIlroy looks to end that drought when he tees it up for the first time since missing two late par putts inside of 4 feet and losing the U.S. Open in mid-June. McIlroy and 155 other golfers head

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 9, 2024, 03:11 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The first time anyone from the PGA of America talked to Keegan Bradley about being the next U.S. Ryder Cup team captain was the

Associated Press Jul 8, 2024, 04:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Keegan Bradley is making another Ryder Cup team, this time as the U.S. captain. The PGA of America announced his selection Monday after months of talking with Tiger Woods about taking the job. The PGA of America pushed out the news on Instagram after

Associated Press Jul 7, 2024, 06:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SILVIS, Ill. — Davis Thompson won his first PGA Tour title Sunday with a 7-under 64 to set the 72-hole scoring record at the John Deere Classic and leave all the drama to second place. Staked to a two-shot lead, Thompson made a 45-foot

Associated Press Jul 7, 2024, 12:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MUNICH — Ewen Ferguson won the BMW International Open by two shots on Sunday for his third European tour title — and clinched a spot in the Open Championship taking place in his native Scotland this month. The 168th-ranked Ferguson smiled as he rotated

Associated Press Jul 6, 2024, 06:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SILVIS, Ill. — Davis Thompson made birdie on half of his holes Saturday on a soft and defenseless TPC Deere Run, matching his career low with a 9-under 62 for a two-shot lead going into the final round of the John Deere Classic. Thompson

Associated Press Jul 6, 2024, 09:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MUNICH — Bernhard Langer has bid farewell to the European tour on home soil in Germany 50 years after the two-time Masters champion made his debut. Langer, 66, missed the cut at the BMW International Open in Munich on Friday but said he will

Associated Press Jul 5, 2024, 09:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SILVIS, Ill. — Aaron Rai of England went from a close call last week in Detroit to another chance at his first PGA Tour victory, playing another bogey-free round of 8-under 63 on Friday to share the lead with C.T. Pan going into the

Associated Press Jul 4, 2024, 03:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SILVIS, Ill. — Hayden Springer posted the 14th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history when he finished eagle-birdie in the John Deere Classic on Thursday for a 12-under 59. Springer shot 27 on the front nine of the rain-softened TPC Deere Run, and then

Keith Jenkins Jun 17, 2024, 04:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions While golf was one of the first modern sports to set out its rules in 1744, it didn’t become a fixture at the Olympics until 2016. Prior to appearing in the Rio Games, golf, which originated in Scotland, was featured in Olympic programming only

Open Extended Reactions Independence Day coincides with the start of the John Deere Classic, as the PGA Tour heads to TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. A total of 156 golfers will take on the 7,268-yard course, including defending champion Sepp Straka and two-time winner Jordan Spieth. Straka closed last season’s event with a 9-under

ESPN News Services Jul 2, 2024, 04:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sergio Garcia, after complaining to officials for being put on the clock for slow play in his final qualifier for the Open Championship, again failed to make the field for the year’s final major Tuesday. The 44-year-old member of LIV Golf came up

Associated Press Jun 30, 2024, 01:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CERVIA, Italy — Marcel Siem beat Tom McKibbin in a playoff to win the Italian Open on Sunday in the German’s fourth event back after hip surgery in February. It was Siem’s sixth victory on the European tour. Both Siem and McKibbin finished at

Associated Press Jun 30, 2024, 04:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIDLAND, Mich. — Atthaya “Jeeno” Thitikul of Thailand made a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole as she and Ruoning Yin of China won the Dow Championship on Sunday by closing with an 8-under 62 in the four-ball format. Thitikul and and Yin,

Associated Press Jul 1, 2024, 01:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — Richard Bland shot a 4-under 66 in the final round of the U.S. Senior Open, catching leader Hiroyuki Fujita after rain postponed the finish to Monday morning and then banging a chip shot off the pin to beat him on the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 1, 2024, 09:01 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions The R&A has tabbed rugby club CEO Mark Darbon as its new chief executive and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of

Associated Press Jun 30, 2024, 05:22 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — Hiroyuki Fujita held a three-stroke lead with eight holes to play in the final round of the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday when the tournament was suspended because of severe weather at Newport Country Club. Fujita was 2 under for the

ESPN News Services Jun 30, 2024, 06:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic for the second time, closing with a 2-under 70 on Sunday that gave him a one-shot victory when Akshay Bhatia three-putted from 32 feet on the final hole. “I wouldn’t wish what happened to

Associated Press Jun 29, 2024, 07:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIDLAND, Mich. — Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho handled a strong wind and the tough foursomes format for a 3-under 67 on Saturday, giving the American duo a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Dow Championship. The South Korean tandem of

Associated Press Jun 29, 2024, 08:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Akshay Bhatia and Aaron Rai each shot 4-under 68 on Saturday to reach 17 under through three rounds and share the lead for the second straight day at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Cam Davis (66) and Cameron Young (67) were a shot

Associated Press Jun 29, 2024, 04:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — The wind at Newport Country Club hasn’t been able to slow down Hiroyuki Fujita in the U.S. Senior Open. Maybe the rain will stop him. The Japanese Tour veteran shot a 3-under 67 on Saturday to improve to 14 under in

ESPN News Services Jun 28, 2024, 07:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Akshay Bhatia walked down a fairway at Detroit Golf Club, looking for his ball after a long, straight tee shot, and found it in an improbable spot — underground, after it fell into a drain. Bhatia said he and the PGA

Associated Press Jun 28, 2024, 08:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — Hiroyuki Fujita shot a 4-under 66 in the second round of the U.S. Senior Open on Friday, taking a one-shot lead as he attempts to earn his first victory on American soil. Fujita was at 11-under 129 at Newport Country Club.

Jun 28, 2024, 11:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Dennis Walters remembers sobbing as his father cradled his head in his arms. It was late January 1975. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Am was playing on the TV in the Walters’ living room in Neptune Township, New Jersey. The celebrity-studded annual PGA event from Pebble Beach

Associated Press Jun 28, 2024, 10:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — Frank Bensel turned up a pair of aces — on back-to-back holes — in the second round of the U.S. Senior Open at the Newport Country Club on Friday. Bensel aced the 184-yard fourth hole and then followed it with another

Associated Press Jun 27, 2024, 08:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWPORT, R.I. — Richard Green and Hiroyuki Fujita each shot 7-under 63 in the U.S. Senior Open on Thursday, taking advantage of low wind in the morning to attack the seaside Newport Country Club course and pull a stroke ahead of local favorite Billy

Associated Press Jun 27, 2024, 05:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SYDNEY — Jason Day will finally make it to an Olympics while a brother-and-sister combination are two of the other three golfers set to play for Australia at the Paris Games. Day was ranked world No. 1 in 2016 when he decided not to