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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

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama felt his lower back starting to act up. On a whim, he decided to put a new putter in his bag for the start of the PGA Tour postseason. And now the Japanese star has a five-shot lead going

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 04:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Jon Rahm finished eagle-birdie-birdie for an 8-under 62 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead over Brooks Koepka and three others in LIV Golf Greenbrier. The Old White course at the West Virginia resort was as vulnerable as ever—

Associated Press Aug 16, 2024, 08:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Talor Gooch holed out from the fairway for eagle on the par-4 fifth hole and played bogey-free for a 7-under 63 that gave him a three-way share of the lead with Sebastián Muñoz and Jason Kokrak after one round

Associated Press Aug 16, 2024, 09:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — Illinois senior Jackson Buchanan finally got a breather Friday in the U.S. Amateur, needing only 15 holes and never trailing for a 4-and-3 victory over Jacob Modleski to reach the semifinals at Hazeltine National. The semifinals feature a pair of Americans

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 06:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVINE, Scotland — Two-time major champion Minjee Lee of Australia managed a strong wind and caught a break with rare sunshine in a wet Scottish summer with a 5-under 67 on Thursday for a one-shot lead in the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open before

ESPN News Services Aug 15, 2024, 07:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hideki Matsuyama lost his wallet, his caddie and his coach for the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs when thieves in London snatched their bag containing passports, but none of that seemed to bother the Japanese star Thursday at the

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 09:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHASKA, Minn. — One day after Ethan Fang had to survive a playoff, he won two matches Thursday at Hazeltine National to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur that now only has one player left from the top 10 amateurs in the world

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2024, 01:34 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Hideki Matsuyama won’t have his regular caddie and swing coach at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship after the Japanese golfer and his team were robbed during

Field Level Media Aug 14, 2024, 02:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The PGA Tour released the 2025 FedEx Cup regular season and playoffs schedule on Wednesday. The 36-event regular season begins with the first of eight signature events, The Sentry in Hawaii from Jan. 2-5. The regular season concludes with the Wyndham Championship in

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2024, 02:55 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrived at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, this week with a newly won Olympic gold medal around his