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Tuesday at a major championship means another parade of the top-ranked players in front of the media. A few of the headliners this week at Torrey Pines avoided the set list on Tuesday. The local Phil Mickelson rolled through for an early Monday interview to pay his compliments to the conditioning and mostly bite his

In sports, there are gods, and just beneath them are humans that occasionally attain the godly heights. When I say “god” here, I mean it in the Greco-Roman sense of fallible immortals, man-like creatures who nevertheless have harnessed supernatural power and seem to exist beyond our plane. Tiger Woods is such a god; even his

8:00 AM ET SAN DIEGO — There’s nothing quite like playing in your hometown PGA Tour event, on a course you got to know as a kid, in front of family and friends, at a place where you’ve had success. It’s even better when it’s a major. The U.S. Open is on the South Course

SAN DIEGO—It is U.S. Open week, and how can you not be romantic about this U.S. Open? Torrey’s Pacific backdrop and a return to Father’s Day elict gushiness, sure, but also a return to the ethos of this tournament. The most egalitarian of majors felt anything but in 2020 with qualifiers canceled and no fans

8:00 AM ET The U.S. Open arrives with plenty of drama. Jon Rahm has been in isolation since having to leave the Memorial. Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka have been feuding. And there’s Phil Mickelson, fresh off his improbable win at the PGA Championship, arriving in his hometown searching for that elusive U.S. Open title.

SAN DIEGO—How do you like the sound of the U.S. Open being played at Eucalyptus Grove? Not very sexy, we’d all admit. And the logo would sure look different. Hard to make a small artistic rendering of what Aussies call “gum trees,” unless there’s a koala clinging to it. In realty, though, the municipal golf

When the U.S. Open comes to Torrey Pines South Course, it will be the third time that a major championship has been played on a course that also annually hosts a PGA Tour event, and the second time in three years that it’s happened for a U.S. Open. The venerable coastal California municipal golf course

6:18 PM ET To: The United States Golf AssociationFrom: Kevin Van Valkenburg, ESPN senior writer (current 8.8 Index) Greetings to all my friends and fellow golf obsessives (golf nerds?) at the USGA! I hope this finds you well. I realize this is an extremely busy time for the organization, what with the 121st playing of

SAN FRANCISCO — As the final group stood on the first tee at Lake Merced Golf Club on Sunday, the last rays of sunshine beaming ahead of their biggest round of their lives, Matilda Castren, Min Lee and Lauren Kim combined for just one top-10 finish in 146 career starts. Thirteen players outside of the

7:30 AM ET The U.S. Open returns to Torrey Pines for the first time since 2008. That year, Tiger Woods famously won the tournament on a broken leg, defeating unlikely challenger Rocco Mediate in an 18-hole Monday playoff. Woods won’t be here this time while he recovers from his February car accident. Still, there are

It’s been a whirlwind two weeks for Chile’s Mito Pereira, and the chaos has only just begun. With a victory on Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am, seven days removed from a playoff win at the REX Hospital Open, the 26-year-old from Santiago, Chile saw his win total rise to three on

Foursomes partners at Royal County Down in the 2007 Walker Cup matches, fellow Northern Irishmen Rory McIlroy and Jonathan Caldwell both turned professional not long after playing their parts in Great Britain & Ireland’s one-point loss to the United States. Before this week and in the 14 years since, they had amassed a cumulative 261

Jun 11, 2018 Editor’s note: As the U.S. Open returns to Torrey Pines for the first time since 2008, we look back at that event and Tiger Woods‘ playoff win over Rocco Mediate. This story was originally published on June 11, 2018, as part of the 10-year anniversary of that event. Just 12 feet of

RIDGELAND, S.C. — Scroll down the Official World Golf Ranking list and click the arrow a few times. Well, maybe more than a few—however many it takes to get to the 100 men who rank between 501 and 600 in the world. It’s a hodge-podge group of guys who wish they were playing better. Some

10:49 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Min Lee made a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for a 4-under 68 and two-stroke lead Saturday in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. Coming off a Symetra Tour victory, Lee also birdied the par-5 15th and par-3 17th to pull away from former Stanford player

The Tain Lee storybook tour of Congaree Golf Club was absolutely magical on Saturday. Until it wasn’t. Until the inward nine, which turned into an outright disaster—the extent of which could end up even worse, depending on events still to be decided. A Monday qualifier with no World Ranking points and playing in just his

Stefan Schauffele is searching for the right word. He speaks four languages, so his ever-fertile mind must flash through pages of a variety of dictionaries. He’s trying to describe what finishing second nine times in the last two years has meant to his son, Xander, the sixth-ranked golfer in the world. Scar tissue? No, that

9:48 AM ET Overnight leader Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall struggled to a third-round 73 on a blustery day at Scandinavian Mixed on Saturday but managed to hold onto a share of the lead. Hedwall, 32, shares the lead at 12-under in Gothenburg, Sweden with three other players following a tough day three that included four bogeys

It was the strangest and most innocent of mistakes, but no matter how unintentional the error was, it didn’t help the bottom line on Mark Hensby’s result in the Palmetto Championship at Congaree. In the first round on Thursday, Hensby suffered an eye-popping 10-stroke penalty that he called on himself for using the wrong ball.

10:48 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif — Danielle Kang birdied the par-5 18th hole for a 6-under 66 and a one-stroke lead Friday in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, the tour’s second straight event on the San Francisco Peninsula. Coming off a 35th-place tie last week in the U.S. Women’s Open at nearby Olympic

Chesson Hadley cracked himself up. After taking the solo lead at 11 under by backing up a first-round 65 with a 66 on Friday in the Palmetto Championship, he was describing how hot he’s been with his putter. “So, if I can just keep riding the putter—she’s a sweet girl. So, I’ll just ride her

On the 354-yard 15th hole at Congaree Golf Club, Broc Everett, like many others in the field, pulled driver to take advantage of the firm-and-fast conditions and try to put one on or around the green. Unlike many other players in the field, his tee shot nearly went in. Just incredible stuff. And it’s made

7:48 PM ET Associated Press RIDGELAND, S.C. — Dustin Johnson got off to a fast start Thursday at Congaree in his home-state Palmetto Championship, shooting a 6-under 65 that left him a shot behind leader Wes Roach. Johnson, the world’s top-ranked player and a South Carolina native, hadn’t played since missing the cut the last

SAN FRANCISCO — Only four days after one of the more difficult rounds of her career, Lexi Thompson shot a one-under 71 to open the LPGA Mediheal Championship at Lake Merced Golf Club. Her success, in light of the demoralizing finish at Olympic Club, isn’t necessarily the most surprising part. That might be that she

11:04 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Irish rookie Leona Maguire shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday at Lake Merced to take the first-round lead in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, the tour’s second straight event on the San Francisco Peninsula. Lexi Thompson followed her Sunday back-nine meltdown in the U.S. Women’s Open at

While we were all trying to figure out what was wrong with Dustin Johnson—no top-10s since Riviera, GASP!—Dustin Johnson was doing what Dustin Johnson does: not really giving a damn. He knew he was playing fine, even if the results weren’t indicating that. “I feel like I’ve been playing pretty good all year,” Johnson said

A man seeking shelter on a golf course from a pop-up thunderstorm in southern New Jersey died on Wednesday, authorities say, when lightning struck a tree near him. The man was in his 70s, according to a CBS Philly report, and was pronounced dead on the scene at Burlington Country Club in Westampton, N.J., a

1:05 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Mikko Korhonen of Finland withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday because of travel concerns getting to Torrey Pines. He was replaced in the field by Cole Hammer, the first alternate from the Columbus, Ohio, qualifier that featured the strongest field. Korhonen has never played in the

It was a valid request for NBC. Really, for all golf fans. The U.S. Open returns to Torrey Pines next week, and inescapably there will be the chatter about the 2008 championship there and Tiger Woods’ incredible performance in beating Rocco Mediate in a Monday playoff. What’s the over-under on how many times we see

4:40 PM ET The head of the proposed Premier Golf League is hoping to have a conversation with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and has reached out to him this week with hopes of explaining his concept. Andy Gardiner, the CEO of the Premier Golf League, told ESPN an interview Wednesday that he’s been seeking