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Aug 14, 2023, 11:48 AM ET Two-time major champion Lilia Vu is the new No. 1 in the women’s world golf rankings. She rose from No. 6 in the latest rankings, released Monday, after her victory Sunday at the AIG Women’s Open. Vu, a 25-year-old from California, overtook Nelly Korda, who dropped to No. 2.

Life seemed so simple last week. It was even simpler two weeks ago. When I undertook the mission of becoming the Joe Lunardi of the Ryder Cup, forecasting who’s in, who’s out, and who’s riding that bubble, I did not anticipate a week like Memphis. The FedEx St. Jude Championship is the first leg of

The 2023 PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup season is down to two events and 50 golfers. After battling the brutal heat and humidity at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the surviving players will head to the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs this coming week, the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club outside Chicago.

Following a flurry of four majors over seven weeks, the next biggest deadline on the LPGA’s calendar is finalizing the Solheim Cup rosters ahead of the trip to Finca Cortesín, Andalucía, Spain, on Sept. 22-24. Europe will post its squad after this week’s ISPS Handa World Invitational and the United States will select its team

It’s been more than two months since the suprise announcement that both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour plan to partner with LIV Golf. That doesn’t mean all involved are still on the same page yet. On Monday morning, a pair of English tour pros, Lee Westwood and Eddie Pepperell, got into a

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 09:36 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Megan Schofill won the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Sunday at Bel-Air Country Club, beating Latanna Stone 4 and 3 in the 36-hole final. The 22-year-old Schofill, from Monticello, Florida, is a graduate student entering her fifth season at Auburn University. “It’s definitely a dream

LOS ANGELES — When Auburn women’s golf coach Melissa Luellen has a team issue to mull over or an opinion she needs from one of her players, she says she’s got a go-to person in Megan Schofill. The 22-year-old, Luellen says, she is smart, driven, thoughtful and walks the careful line between being confident and

Associated Press Aug 13, 2023, 01:45 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — American golfer Lilia Vu won the Women’s British Open to claim her second major title of 2023, taking any potential drama out of the final round by shooting 5-under 67 for a 6-stroke victory on Sunday. The 25-year-old Californian, who also won the Chevron

MEMPHIS — A disappointing stretch of results late in the season has Mackenzie Hughes in danger of missing next week’s BMW Championship, and he didn’t help his cause much at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, forcing him to sweat out the scores from players who finished after him on Sunday at TPC Southwind. He also

There’s something apropos about a player being on a heater … in August … in Memphis. That certainly describes what’s going on with Lucas Glover, who before winning last week’s Wyndham Championship was on the outside looking in for the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. But a victory in Greensboro, N.C., extended the 43-year-old’s season

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 08:22 PM ET Lucas Glover shot 4-under 66. He has the 54-hole lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He has made only two bogeys going into the final round. Such is the state of his game that he said he needed time to think about all the things that

MEMPHIS — Lucas Glover usually likes to unwind at night on the road with a good book, but after his second-round 64 propelled him into the lead on Friday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, he capped off the evening in style. Well, he had style in mind. He did his laundry. The PGA Tour

Associated Press Aug 12, 2023, 03:11 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Lilia Vu moved into position to become the first American this century to win multiple women’s majors in the same year. She’s got company atop the leaderboard in home favorite Charley Hull at the Women’s British Open. The final major of the year came

MEMPHIS – Among the infinitesimal number of factors large and small that might encroach on a golfer’s ability to post a score, we can now add a member of the Lepidoptera order of flying insects. We’re referring to a moth that was drawn to a Rose, subgroup Justin, at just the wrong time, which in

MEMPHIS — Perhaps the coolest day Andrew Argotsinger ever had on a golf course was serving as caddie for his brother, Danny, in last year’s U.S. Open qualifier in Columbus, Ohio, where they were paired with PGA Tour player Andrew Putnam. Now it’s the second coolest day of his life. On Friday at TPC Southwind,

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 08:06 PM ET BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Cameron Smith bounced back from his worst finish of the year with a 5-under 66 on Friday, giving him a one-shot lead over Charles Howell III at LIV Golf-Bedminster. Smith finished 35th last week at The Greenbrier. He had never been to the Trump

MEMPHIS — This Lucas Glover fellow is hot. Riding the wave hot. Hitting on all cylinders hot. Maybe U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson should take a look at him hot. On a steamy day in the city known as the “Home of the Blues,” Glover was red-hot, a carryover from his impressive victory last

Associated Press Aug 11, 2023, 04:06 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — Ally Ewing, seeking her first major title, is running away with the Women’s Open championship thanks to precise driving and a red-hot putter. The No. 39-ranked Ewing rolled in six birdies in her first 11 holes at Walton Heath and shot 6-under 66 on

The weekend has arrived at the AIG Women’s Open as Ally Ewing holds a five-stroke lead at 10 under par after 36 holes. American compatriot Andrea Lee, U.S. Women’s Open runner-up Charley Hull, and Japan’s Minami Katsu form the closest chase group at five under. Chevron Championship winner Lilia Vu put herself in contention for

MEMPHIS — All hail Jordan Spieth, who just gave every golf enthusiast a lifetime hall pass. It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that a surefire way to play better golf is to play more golf. Who knew? If it’s good enough for a three-time major winner, then it’s good enough for the rest of us.

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 08:06 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth kept a clean card and clean pants, even without having to roll them up to his calves on a rain-soaked course. He opened with a 7-under 63 on Thursday for a 1-shot lead in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Spieth chipped in

MEMPHIS — The restaurant in Lahaina, Hawaii, has long been out of business, but now the building that housed the Morikawa Restaurant is gone, too. Wednesday’s deadly wildfires that decimated Front Street at the popular tourist destination on Maui and killed at least 36 people hit Collin Morikawa harder than many people looking on from

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 03:39 PM ET WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England — The United States is seeking its third female major champion of 2023 at the AIG Women’s Open this week. Few would have predicted Ally Ewing would be leading the charge. Ewing made eagle from 5 feet at the par-5 16th to leapfrog a five-way

TADWORTH, England — Perhaps only the pot bunkers on the Old Course at St. Andrews are comparable. Or the rough at what used to be called a “traditional” U.S. Open. But maybe nowhere in golf is the penalty for missing fairways more severe than at Walton Heath. It’s the heather. Or calluna vulgaris, to give

At No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and already a selection for the U.S. Walker Cup team competing next month at St. Andrews, Michael Thorbjornsen would have been among the favorites next week to contend at the U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills. Instead the 21-year-old rising senior at Stanford announced on Wednesday that

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 05:09 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia One last major championship. One last shot at glory for women’s professional golfers this season. The final major championship of the 2023 season, the AIG Women’s Open,

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — In Phil Mickelson’s words, he’s “thrown himself into the fire” plenty over the past two years while LIV Golf emerged as a breakaway to the PGA Tour. With the Ryder Cup just over a month away, Lefty doesn’t want to cop more heat for telling U.S. captain Zach Johnson who to select

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 12:57 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia MEMPHIS, Tenn. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that he took a monthlong leave of absence from his position because of anxiety that resulted in

MEMPHIS — “A work in progress.” That’s how PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan described his biggest challenge to date. He was referring to himself. Monahan on Wednesday revealed that anxiety-induced “mental and physical health challenges” precipitated his decision to take a leave from his day-to-day duties with the tour for slightly more than a month.

MEMPHIS — The new pressure point on the PGA Tour starts at 50. It is the new 125. It’s the thing to play for because it enables a tour player to play in more things worth playing for. The stakes at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship have changed this year. Only the top 70