7:45 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Zack Sucher shot a 5-under 65 in the rain Friday morning and his 11-under 129 total held up in the afternoon sunshine for a two-stroke lead midway through the Travelers Championship. The 32-year-old from Alabama says he’s finally feeling healthy again after knee surgery sidelined him for
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The 2019 Augusta National Women’s Amateur was a huge success, so much so that the conversations about it overshadowed the LPGA’s first major of the year, the ANA Inspiration, which was being played simultaneously. The TV ratings of the dynamic duel between Maria Fassi and Jennifer Kupcho were also high, the highest ratings that a
Tony Romo’s venture into competitive golf is at a crossroads. Romo, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current NFL on CBS commentator, has tried to make a name for himself on the course since his retirement from football in 2017. Though his game makes him a formidable weekend warrior—owning a +0.4 handicap—Romo is discovering there’s
6:07 AM ET Frenchman Clement Berardo has been disqualified from a Challenge Tour event for running out of golf balls. Berardo was competing in the first round of the Andalucia-Costa del Sol Match Play 9 in Spain and lost the final ball in his bag on the 16th hole. The 32-year-old was therefore disqualified for
CHASKA, Minn. — In the morning wave of the opening round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the sun was out, it was a little windy, but nothing crazy. By the afternoon, the temperature dropped and rain started coming down hard. Everyone was taking off their sunglasses and putting on their rain gear. Well, almost
10:06 PM ET Associated Press CHASKA, Minn. — Hannah Green of Australia couldn’t miss on the greens and holed a bunker shot late in her round at Hazeltine National for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot lead in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Thursday. Green started with a 15-foot par putt, made a birdie
CHASKA, Minn. — There are many different types of players who can win on the LPGA Tour week to week. That’s evident, as 13 different players have won in the 15 events that have been played in 2019. But the range of player who wins the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is likely to be more
At first glance, every player looks great on the practice range at a PGA Tour event. Soaring tee shots. SMACK! Piercing irons. THWACK! Look a little closer, though, and you can tell a lot about a guy—his star power, personality, social skills, habits, the state of his game or even his life. It’s not all
7:19 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — The executive who led the extraordinary growth of the English Premier League is joining a new Ryder Cup committee aimed at enhancing the commercial value of golf’s biggest team event. Richard Scudamore was chief executive then executive chairman of the Premier League from 1999 until last
Even for golf’s best players, weeks off are few and far between. That’s by choice this week—as a trip across the country from Pebble Beach to Hartford, Conn., awaited players who grinded through the year’s last major in the United States ahead of the Travelers Championship. Yet we have one of the season’s best fields
5:33 PM ET The PGA Tour’s developmental tour is going by a new name after 10-year sponsorship agreement was announced Wednesday. Known as the Web.com Tour, the circuit that serves as a feeder system for the PGA Tour will now be called the Korn Ferry Tour with the Los Angeles-based global organizational consulting firm taking
Nathan Grube’s reputation proceeds him. As the tournament director for the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship, held now yearly the week after the U.S. Open and just a few weeks after the NCAA Championship, Grube has become known as the man who can help launch aspiring tour pros’ careers, one sponsor’s exemption at a time. In
As Andrew Stephens describes it, he was “burning the candle at both ends.” The 2018 Kentucky PGA Section champion was battling through a partially torn ligament in his left hand, all while trying to maintain a teaching academy, buy his local driving range and, as he says, “raise the 2040 Masters champion” with his wife,
7:00 AM ET PHOENIX — Gary Woodland could hear the words of his friend, Amy Bockerstette, as he stood over the chip shot on the 17th hole that helped propel him to winning the U.S. Open. “You’ve got this.” That’s her mantra on the course, and it became his on that shot Sunday at Pebble
Michelle Wie has been hitting balls for only a week, but she’s playing in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National. A wrist injury, that started two years ago and has forced her to take breaks from playing several times over the past two seasons, flared up again, forcing Wie to take time. Her
9:48 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tiger Woods does not figure to be picking up a golf club anytime soon. Much to the dismay of tournament organizers in Detroit and Minneapolis, he will instead spend time with his family, decompressing from one major championship, then trying to build back up to another. That he
Following a highly entertaining major on the West Coast, the PGA Tour makes its way back across the country for the Travelers Championship, an event that’s gone from one of the best-kept secrets on the schedule to what’s now a premier tournament. The evidence of this is all in this year’s field, which consists of
Previously known for his prodigious length and elite ball-striking, Gary Woodland’s career-defining victory at Pebble Beach puts the 35-year-old into a new category. His 13-under total at the 2019 U.S. Open bested Brooks Koepka by three shots, preventing Koepka from becoming just the second player to win three consecutive U.S. Open titles. Woodland’s first major
10:30 AM ET The third major of the year — the 2019 U.S. Open — is in the books, with unlikely winner Gary Woodland holding the trophy after an impressive 13-under performance. Woodland held off Brooks Koepka, who came up just short in his bid for three straight U.S. Opens and his second major of
Monday qualifying for a PGA Tour event is one of the most difficult tasks in all of golf, as it typically requires a low score on an unfamiliar course to earn one of four spots in a field of often more than 100 players. Never mind trying to do it fresh off a red eye
1:55 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Four members of a Texas family have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in what prosecutors say was a scheme that used stolen identities to obtain tickets to the Masters golf tournament, which were then resold for a profit. U.S. Attorney Bobby Christine’s office said in a news
Gary Woodland, gentleman that he is, is not like us. Given what he did down the stretch at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the U.S. Open, this is hardly a revelation. The 263-yard 3-wood to 14, the already legendary nipped chip from one side of the 17th green to kick-in distance
In 1992, after he had finally won his first major championship, an exhausted Tom Kite shook his head and said, “Well, now I know what the first sentence of my obituary will say.” That comment came after he had won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach on one of the most treacherous days in golf
9:31 PM ET Gary Woodland won the 119th U.S. Open by three strokes over Brooks Koepka at Pebble Beach on Sunday to capture his first major championship. Woodland, 35, made a long birdie putt on 18 to shoot a 2-under 69 on the final day to finish at 13 under for the tournament. Koepka, who
PEBBLE BEACH — Gary Woodland once caught a knee in the throat in a high-school basketball game in his native Topeka, Kan., that landed him in the hospital with a collapsed trachea. Three days later, he led his Shawnee Heights team to victory with 20 points. “The guy was trying to dunk on me,” Woodland
8:27 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Don’t expect to see Tiger Woods again until The Open next month in Northern Ireland. The 2019 Masters champion shot his best final round at the U.S. Open in 10 years on Sunday — despite a horrific start to the round — to move into the top 20
U.S. Open Sunday is one of the most anticipated days of the golf season. Father’s Day coincides with the conclusion of our country’s national championship—surely a highlight for any golf fan. This year is no different, with Pebble Beach playing host to the finale of its sixth U.S. Open in history. RELATED: U.S. Open 2019:
For several years when my boys were quite young, the predominant emotion I associated with golf as a father was guilt. It was an indulgence, a wildly impractical use of time given the new strains of parenting. I recall even my first few months at Golf Digest, when my editor asked in passing whether I
11:27 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Gary Woodland made pars from all over the Monterey Peninsula on Saturday afternoon, dodging one miscue after another to remain atop the leaderboard at the U.S. Open through 54 holes. Was that a sign of good karma or potential deal-with-the-devil folly? Woodland shot 69 with just a single
PEBBLE BEACH — Gary Woodland will take the lead into the final round of a major championship for the first time in his career. As if that fact isn’t enough to cause him stress, Woodland also has to worry about a bevy of big-name golfers chasing him on Sunday at Pebble Beach. So which of