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Imagine trying to explain 2020 to your former self from, say, 2014. “Things got really weird,” you’d say, and your former self would have to ask, “How?” And when you began to explain the inexplicable, your former self would think this was some kind of prank, get angry and start an argument. And there you

For the most part, no one of note placed any unfair expectations on Charlie Woods, even after the 11-year-old put on a show at the PNC Championship. Of course, there was always going to be a few folks who took it too far on social media, some even claiming Charlie will be winning majors in

6:19 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko took the lead into the weekend in the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship, putting herself in position to win the season money title in only four events. Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday in chilly and breezy conditions at Tiburon Golf

To say it’s hard to become a rookie on the LPGA Tour for the 2021 season is an understatement. But A Lim Kim, the surprise U.S. Women’s Open winner earlier this month, has done it. A week after her victory at Champions Golf Club in Houston, the 25-year-old from South Korea accepted LPGA Tour membership

There were a few wayward shots later in Sei Young Kim’s third round at the CME Group Tour Championship on Saturday that up foreshadowed what was to come in her final round. Kim scrambled her way out of trouble in round three and entered Sunday’s final round with a one-shot lead over Jin Young Ko.

Jin Young Ko took nearly a year away from the LPGA Tour and returned with a prohibitive goal to accomplish, even for the No. 1 player in the world. With just three events left to play in the regular season, Ko set out to score enough points to qualify for the LPGA Tour’s season finale,

For every tournament his son has won as a competitive golfer since grade school, Mike Thomas has a golf ball from the event on display back at Harmony Landing Country Club in Goshen, Ky., where he’s worked since 1990 as the head professional. The question after Sunday’s victory at the PNC Championship: Does Mike put

There’s a reason why everyone on the LPGA Tour wants to play in the CME Group Tour Championship. Competing in the no-cut, limited-field wrap-up to the tour year is a symbol of a season well played, even if the season was interrupted by a pandemic. And what’s on the line on Sunday at Tiburón Golf

ORLANDO — They say every golf tournament has one winner and a whole bunch of losers. Whoever said that has clearly never watched Tiger Woods play golf with his son. “I don’t think words can describe it,” Woods said. “The fact that we were able to have this experience together, Charlie and I. It’s memories

Tiger and Charlie Woods won’t be winning the PNC Championship on Sunday, which is just fine by them. Yes, they’re both competitive, but a victory in their debut in the event wasn’t really the main goal. The point of being at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando was for them to have fun and enjoy the

It has not been a year synonymous with “feel good,” and as much as we love this game, 2020 was a reminder that golf is just that—a game. That doesn’t mean golf, and how we feel about it, should be devalued in priority, for that overlooks the truth that in these chaotic and divided times:

During a rare moment on the eve of the 2020 Masters in which the conversation shifted from Bryson DeChambeau, Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee turned his attention to another big hitter. “Imagine Kyle Berkshire,” Chamblee said with Augusta National Golf Club as a backdrop. “Imagine him out here if he could chip and putt.” At that

There were golfers in 2020 who never thought they’d be golfers. Or they had been before life intervened—kids, jobs, herniated discs. They coached soccer, or took spin classes. They packed trains every morning and shuffled home every night. A game played in four-and-a-half hour increments wasn’t much of an option—until, abruptly, it was. “I can’t

It’s been quite a 2020 for Lee Westwood. The year started with his 25th European Tour victory in Abu Dhabi and is ending with another first-place finish. For the fourth time in his distinguished professional career, the 47-year-old Englishman has been named the European Tour’s Golfer of the Year. Westwood built on his early success

3:27 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Jin Young Ko missed most of the LPGA Tour season and still won the yearlong money title. That’s what a $1.1 million check does. Ko, the No. 1 player in the world, put an emphatic capper on her truncated year Sunday by shooting a final-round 6-under 66

5:45 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods has a notoriously bad back, but it was his son, Charlie, who might have been feeling the pain Saturday after carrying his dad for most of the first round of the PNC Championship. Charlie Woods, 11, made his debut in the tournament reserved for major champions and

6:24 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Sei Young Kim is in position to defend her title in the CME Group Tour Championship, take player of the year honors, win the money title and possibly even move to No. 1 in the world. Kim took a 1-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko into

1:05 PM ET There have been glimpses of 11-year-old Charlie Woods’ golf swing. Some social media footage leaked out into the world. Then this week, some range sessions next to his famous father, Tiger Woods, at the PNC Championship. With the cameras on, it took three holes for Charlie to post his first highlight-reel moment.

3:32 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Padraig Harrington is playing in the PNC Championship for the third time and loves the idea of bonding with his son, Patrick, and exposing him to the game he has excelled at as a pro. He also enjoys checking out the various golf swings of legends and amateurs alike.

5:02 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods will be 45 years old the next time we see him, and even though age is just a number, it is not his friend at this point. The ongoing back problems, the fall down the World Rankings, the inevitable struggles are there regardless what the calendar says.

4:09 PM ET ESPN News Services ORLANDO, Fla. — Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods traded text messages on the eve of the final round at the PNC Championship, their teams tied for the lead and in contention. Neither mentioned winning. This was about Woods getting to play alongside 11-year-old son Charlie, watching him twirl the

6:43 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Lee Westwood was voted as the European Tour’s golfer of the year for 2020 on Monday, winning the award for the fourth time in his career after ending the season as the Race to Dubai champion at the age of 47. Westwood started the 27th year

4:08 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Wearing the same customary Sunday red as his dad, Charlie Woods exhibited many of the same characteristics of his accomplished father, including the walk, the talk and the swing. But if he’s really like Tiger Woods, Charlie will be wondering how to make up the five strokes they lost

7:07 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — He walked in the birdie putt and looked like he had been doing so forever, the couple of dozen fans surrounding the ninth green at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club chuckling at what they were witnessing. Charlie Woods looked like a mini pro golfer out there, all the mannerisms on

8:20 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Bryson DeChambeau figured a score well into the double digits below par could win the inaugural 3M Open. He’s already there, halfway through. DeChambeau dominated the second round, racking up nine birdies to finish Friday at a career-low 62 and vault into the lead with a 14-under-par

Andrew “Beef” Johnston’s rise to fame was a quick one, so fast that one couldn’t help but wonder how he was able to handle all the attention as well as he did. While competing, Johnston could be seen smiling and thumbs-upping fans as he strutted up fairways so much that Phil Mickelson was jealous. Apparently,

Changes are coming to the Open Championship. Or there was a misunderstanding. Either way, someone at the social reins of the R&A’s flagship event appears to have gotten a tad trigger happy. On Friday morning, the Open’s Twitter account posted the following message: “The Open will have a three hole play-off at The Open. If

9:20 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Scott Piercy went on a late birdie binge en route to a 9-under 62 and the first-round lead at the inaugural 3M Open on Thursday. Adam Hadwin and Hideki Matsuyama are each two shots back after a 7-under 64 at the TPC Twin Cities. Seeking his fifth

Scott Piercy opened with a nine-under 62 on Thursday at the 3M Open, highlighted by a back-nine 30 that featured six birdies. “Last couple weeks, the U.S. Open and RBC [Canadian Open], I started off the U.S Open well, but it was kind of smoke and mirrors and a hot putter,” said Piercy, who struggled

10:12 PM ET Associated Press ONEIDA, Wis. — One year after Yu Liu shot her lowest round on the LPGA Tour at Thornberry Creek of Oneida, she tied the course record with a 10-under 62 for a one-shot lead in the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic. “I really like the golf course, apparently,” Liu said. “So