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Associated Press Oct 9, 2023, 11:35 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Matt Fitzpatrick captured his first European tour title in two years by winning the weather-affected Dunhill Links Championship by 3 strokes Monday. The 2022 U.S. Open champion shot 6-under 66 on the Old Course at St. Andrews to finish on 19-under-par overall for

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 08:25 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Luke List won when he least expected it, getting into a five-way playoff Sunday in the Sanderson Farms Championship and ending it quickly with a birdie putt from just inside 45 feet for his second career PGA Tour victory. The playoff would not have

45 Panelists From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten: A decade after golf architect Tripp Davis created one of the finest replica courses in the country, The Tribute Golf Club on the shoreline of Lake Lewisville north of Dallas, he returned and built another 18 adjacent to it called Old American Golf Club. The

Associated Press Oct 8, 2023, 04:49 PM ET NEWBURGH, Ind. — Paul Barjon had a big weekend at the right time, closing with a 4-under 68 on Sunday for a 3-shot victory in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to move him into the top 30 of players who earned PGA Tour cards for 2024. Barjon

Ben Griffin takes a three-shot lead over Carl Yuan into the final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship, providing the 27-year-old the chance to claim his first career PGA Tour win and put the perfect bow on his unusual professional golf journey. Griffin’s story has been fairly well-chronicled. Upon graduating from North Carolina in 2018

Associated Press Oct 7, 2023, 07:44 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Ben Griffin moved into position for his first PGA Tour victory with another bogey-free round Saturday for a 6-under 66, giving him a three-shot lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Griffin got up-and-down for par on his final three holes, the last one from

Cameron Champ largely has gone missing in recent months and even spilling over to years, yet all it seemed to take for his talent to resurface was a return to the Sanderson Farms Championship, a tournament he won in 2018. “I love the course,” he said of the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Miss.,

Now that the Ryder Cup is over and done, many a pundit and golfer are coming out of the woodwork to express how they would do things differently if given a chance. Billy Horschel, when asked about what went wrong for the U.S. by the U.K. publication Bunkered while playing at this week’s Dunhill Links

Associated Press Oct 6, 2023, 07:59 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim shot a 3-under 68 on Friday in The Ascendant LPGA to take a two-stroke lead over Sofia Garcia into the weekend, with resurgent Lexi Thompson tied for third. Kim had four birdies and a bogey in her morning round at

A new video shows Lowry making his way over to Donald before the festivities started to thank him for putting the Irishman on the team. Donald had used one of his captain’s picks on a struggling Lowry, a move that many questioned heading into the event. But Lowry contributed 1.5 points to Europe’s cause in

Associated Press Oct 6, 2023, 08:07 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Ben Griffin joined a crowded pack of contenders in the Sanderson Farms Championship and then moved past them Friday afternoon with a 30 on the back nine, sending him to a 9-under 63 and a 2-shot lead going into the weekend. Griffin’s score was

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Don’t get too excited. Halfway through the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Nicolas Colsaerts isn’t leading the tournament. Then again, no one really is. With three courses — the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns — in the rotation, who is actually atop the leaderboard will not become completely clear

The powerlines near the tee on No. 9 at the Country Club of Jackson struck again. They got Sam Burns last year, but on Friday at the Sanderson Farms, they didn’t lay a glove on Australia’s Harrison Endycott. At last year’s event, Burns hit the powerlines with an otherwise perfect drive that found the fairway

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:16 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sarah Gallagher won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, beating Brenda Corrie Kuehn 1-up on Thursday at Troon Country Club. The 50-year-old Gallagher, a sixth-grade social studies teacher from Canton, Georgia, won with a 5-foot bogey putt for a halve on the final hole. “I

The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., has hosted 17 USGA events since its founding in 1882. On Thursday, the club and the governing body announced four more will come to the historic venue, including a fourth U.S. Open and a first U.S. Women’s Open. The quartet of future championships include the 2030 U.S. Girls’ Junior,

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:19 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim took the first-round lead Thursday in The Ascendant LPGA, breaking away at Old American with a back-nine birdie run in a 7-under 64. Kim, the 28-year-old South Korean player ranked No. 7 in the world, had a two-stroke lead over

Sarah Gallagher took an early 4-up lead, then withstood a late rally by Brenda Corrie Kuehn to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, 1 up, on Thursday at Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Gallagher, a financial planner from Canton, Ga., won the second through fifth holes with birdies Her lead was cut to

A golfer was arrested in the middle of his round in San Ramon, Calif. His alleged crime? Cheating other golfers. Sort of. According to San Ramon police, the arrest took place last month when officers got golf carts from a local course’s pro shop and took the unidentified man into custody on the eighth hole.

Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 02:33 PM ET GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — A large fire in a temporary hospitality structure at the Marco Simone club outside Rome that hosted the Ryder Cup last weekend was quickly brought under control, organizers of golf’s biggest team event said Thursday, adding that nobody was injured “A fire was

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — It was, as he laughingly admitted, his first visit to a media center in quite some time—“about seven years” to be sort of exact. But David Howell wasn’t up on stage to talk about his chairmanship of the DP World Tour’s Tournament Committee. Nor had he been asked to come in

Oct 4, 2023, 11:47 PM ET Peter Malnati hasn’t been shy when it comes to sharing his opinions since joining the PGA Tour policy board, but he found himself choosing his words very carefully when speaking about Lexi Thompson on Tuesday. Thompson, who owns 11 career LPGA victories, was given an exemption for next week’s

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — There was a time when the name of “Andrew Waterman” appeared in the draw for this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. But only a time. At 2:41 p.m. locally on the eve of the event, “Waterman” disappeared and was replaced by Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor

PGA Tour rookie Ludvig Åberg hasn’t played in a major championship just yet, but he’s already a Ryder Cup winner and is one of the favorites at the upcoming Sanderson Farms Championship. The 23-year-old Swede, who turned pro in June, is looking to improve upon a fourth-place finish at the John Deere Classic as his

Oct 4, 2023, 01:23 PM ET LIV Golf chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan is participating in this week’s DP World Tour event in Scotland. Al-Rumayyan, 53, will compete in the pro-am portion of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrew’s. The participation of the governor of Saudia Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in a European tour event

ROME — Rory McIlroy bounced like a bobblehead on a trampoline, a man too joyous to worry about rhythm or pretense. Next to him was Shane Lowry, who had been pounding his chest or screaming to the heavens for the better part of three days, including now. They were standing inside the team bus, singing

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterOct 1, 2023, 01:50 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — Zach Johnson indicated he wouldn’t change a thing about America’s preparation and plan for

ROME — It didn’t sound like Rory McIlroy had any doubts in his mind. And he does know a thing or five about winning Ryder Cups. Seven times the Northern Irishman has been part of Old World squads charged with taking on the New World from across the Atlantic; only twice has he ended up

Yet on Monday, the 19-year-old Alabama sophomore came inches away from accomplishing something even more unique: Becoming the first golfer to shoot a 59 in college competition. Dunlap was playing with his Crimson Tide team in the Hamptons Intercollegiate at Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y. After shooting a three-under 69 in the morning round,

Oct 3, 2023, 09:24 AM ET Rory McIlroy said not having the “big personalities” of LIV golfers Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter at the Ryder Cup allowed others to step into leadership roles and gave younger players room to grow at the tournament. Garcia, Westwood and Poulter were absent from Europe’s victory over

ROME — In the face of the obvious truth that European golfers were much better at executing their shots than the Americans over the past three days at Marco Simone, it’s time now to take stock of the latest home blowout in the Ryder Cup and ask the deeper “why?” Here are seven critical reasons