You’d think a walk-off hole-in-one to win a match/playoff in an elite professional tournament would be high on the list of “very rare occurrences” in golf. In March, Sergio Garcia pulled off the feat at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, making an ace in a playoff against Lee Westwood to advance out of the group
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Kay Cockerill, a native of Northern California and, at the time, the reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, attended her first U.S. Open in 1987, when she was a 22-year-old spectator watching at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course. Her memories of the championship, faded a bit with time, return as slightly abstract images in her mind.
9:39 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas set up a showdown Friday for a spot in the final 16 in the LPGA Match Play. First, they planned to watch “Friends: The Reunion” together. “Of course,” Salas said. “There’s a reunion,” Kang added. “We have matching ‘Friends’-like doors,
Much like a microwave, Jordan Spieth (and his putter) knows how to reheat and reheat quickly. Of course, that wasn’t quite the case during his prolonged slump. There was no heating or reheating during that Ice Age, but coming off a woeful putting week at Kiawah, Spieth quickly bounced back at Colonial. It’s the latest
11:21 AM ET Tiger Woods is in a familiar place: extensive rehabilitation. That was the gist of his comments in a brief interview with Golf Digest, the first he has done since being involved in a serious one-car crash in Southern California on Feb. 23 that left him hospitalized for nearly a month. “This has
Tournament officials announced Thursday that fans attending the Memorial next week will be offered the chance to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at Muirfield Village. A station near the main tournament entrance will be staffed by Ohio Health officials, who will administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The station will be open during the second, third
It often takes years of playing in USGA championships before victory is finally achieved. Nobody apparently told that to Kiko Francisco Coelho and Leopoldo Herrera III. The teenagers who live in Florida and became friends after competing against each other in a state junior event were in their first USGA event at this week’s U.S.
2:48 PM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Very few people on Earth can understand or relate to what it’s like to be an NFL quarterback. Even fewer know what it’s like to actually be good at the job. Only a handful know the experience of
It is a cliché in sports, the best team on paper, but in the case of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship that Mississippi won on Wednesday, the paper proved to be prescient. It was written by Ole Miss’s Julia Johnson in advance of her freshman year in 2017. Her written goals were to become the
11:05 AM ET Fresh off his victory at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson didn’t wait long to get involved in another high-profile golf match involving celebrity quarterbacks — and Bryson DeChambeau. Mickelson, who captured his sixth major title on Sunday to became the oldest major champion at age 50, will be part of a July
After witnessing what happened on Sunday at Kiawah Island, we were all left wondering the same thing – how? How did Phil Mickelson pull off winning a major at 50? How did this notorious high-wire act of a golfer keep it together on such a hard golf course for four straight days? How was he
The Monday when most of the U.S. Open sectional qualifying tournaments are played is among the best days on the golfing calendar, when hundreds of aspiring players across the country battle it out over 36 holes to earn a spot in the national championship. “Golf’s longest day” is what we’ve come to know it as.
7:23 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gile Bite Starkute holed a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the first extra hole and Arizona, which grabbed the last qualifying spot, stunned top-seeded Stanford in the quarterfinals of the NCAA women’s golf championship. Stanford earned the No. 1 seed with a 13-shot victory over
You’re in the right place if you want sympathy for not betting Phil Mickelson last week. Join the club. Of course, who could’ve seen Phil’s historic PGA Championship victory coming . . . and we were all so happy for him. But as a historic 200-1 longshot, well, we’ll be kicking ourselves for eternity for
1:56 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird. Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Brooks Koepka
RICHMOND, Va. — U.S. Ryder Cup assistant captain Davis Love III had planned to join captain Steve Stricker at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course for last week’s PGA Championship, in part to do some reconnaissance on potential team members for this fall’s matches at Whistling Straits. On their list of targets: Phil Mickelson. But Love underwent
This is the week where it all started. The 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge was the first event back post-COVID-19, and we were never so happy to have professional golf back. We had an exciting result, too, with Daniel Berger edging Collin Morikawa in a playoff—and Xander Schauffele being there until the end. We’ll hope for
11:48 PM ET The CEO of the PGA of America apologized Monday for the poor crowd control on the 18th hole of the Ocean Course as eventual winner Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka tried to complete the final round of the PGA Championship. Both players were swarmed by boisterous spectators Sunday at the Kiawah Island
It is an unwritten, though not unavoidable, decree in school hierarchy that freshmen need to know their place. So it is that Stanford freshman Rachel Heck has spectacularly affirmed that her place is atop leader boards. Heck, 19, from Memphis, Tenn., concluded the individual part of her remarkable freshman season by winning the NCAA Division
11:39 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson was so focused on the task at hand Sunday that it was understandable he might not have had time to grasp all the various things he accomplished with his PGA Championship victory. Perhaps that is part of the reason for his success at the Ocean Course.
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — It’s unclear whether the PGA of America uses terms like “rota” or “anchor site”, but whatever nomenclature it employs to signify a favored and worthy venue for its PGA Championshi, it should be applied to the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. The Pete Dye marvel in the low country dunes of
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Running, sweating, screaming, scuffling, tweeting, the fans that swarmed the 18th hole of the Ocean Course on Sunday evening were not merely cheering for a golfer. They had been swept up in a communal experience that was bigger and grander than that. Phil Mickelson didn’t just win the PGA Championship a
9:46 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson loves the banter, loves the competition, loves golf. That would seemingly be a pre-requisite for greatness, but is hardly a common trait among the elite. It’s why careers fade away, why glory is fleeting. Lefty never lost that passion, which is why he on Sunday at
Less than an hour after Phil Mickelson made it official and became the oldest golfer ever to win a major with his triumph at the 103rd PGA Championship, the contemporary who would be most widely considered his nemesis during his professional career took a moment to give Lefty his due. Woods was just one of
7:10 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Perhaps Phil Mickelson‘s ability on a golf course, the body of work he has established over more than three decades in the public eye, have gotten lost or diminished the past few years. That is why this PGA Championship, so unlikely because it made him the oldest major
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — As if bidding to become the oldest major champion in history wasn’t hard enough, Phil Mickelson will have to do it with a club he had no intention of putting in the bag on Sunday at the Ocean Course. According to CBS’ Dottie Pepper, Mickelson cracked his Callaway X Forged UT
Phil Mickelson has made a career of surprises. It’s part of his appeal. That he has a legitimate chance to win the 103rd PGA Championship to become golf’s oldest major champion at age 50 is up there as one of his late, great ones. But it’d also be a surprise if he suddenly was out
9:12 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — It’s not quite the same storyline that enveloped another major championship. The backdrop there was whether or not a beeper in his golf bag would go off at any moment, summoning him home. But Phil Mickelson requesting that a drone be removed from his line of flight when
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Too good to be true doesn’t tell the half of it. Lefty had played 10-and-a-half perfect holes, five under for the day, four shots clear of the whippersnappers chasing him. After flushing his second into the par-5 11th, he holstered his long iron and leaned onto his right leg, admiring his
6:47 PM ET Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Wei-Ling Hsu birdied the final hole Saturday for a 6-under 65 and a share of the third-round lead with Moriya Jutanugarn in the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship. Jutanugarn eagled the par-5 seventh in a 65 to match Hsu at 10-under 203 on Kingsmill Resort’s firm and