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Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 21, 2023, 06:12 PM ET HOYLAKE, England — When Brian Harman drained a 15-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole Friday afternoon to go to 10 under, he changed the calculus of this year’s Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. The weekend will now turn into a field-wide chase of Harman,

HOYLAKE, England — A birdie on the final hole was not enough for Collin Morikawa to salvage weekend golf at Royal Liverpool. His second consecutive 73, and four-over-par total, meant the two-time major winner has missed the cut in both Open Championships since his 2021 victory at Royal St. George’s. World No. 19 Morikawa, who

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 21, 2023, 11:49 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Justin Thomas wants to make U.S. team captain Zach Johnson‘s job easy when it comes time to decide whether he will receive one of

HOYLAKE, England—Tom Kim is playing through injury after suffering a grade-1 ankle sprain at the Open Championship. Speaking to the media on Friday afternoon at Royal Liverpool, Kim said he suffered the injury at Thursday evening at his residence this week. “Where I’m staying, there is like this patio and it drops down to the

Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti Jul 20, 2023, 08:36 PM ET HOYLAKE, England — The first round of the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club had a little bit of everything. Thursday

Sun. Shinny, bright, radiant sun. There was lots and lots of it on Thursday at Royal Liverpool for the opening round of the Open Championship. Too much, perhaps, for those golf enthusiasts who like to see the game’s top players struggle with rain and wind and other bits of foul weather when they’re competing in

HOYLAKE, England — There has always been a bit more to Adrian Otaegui than the fact that his seven-letter surname contains all five vowels. The 30-year-old Spaniard, a four-time winner on the DP World Tour, is a protege of former Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal and one of the most talented individuals on the Old

Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti Jul 19, 2023, 05:21 PM ET HOYLAKE, England — When Brooks Koepka walked up to the first tee at Royal Liverpool Golf Club for a practice round Monday,

Top coach Pete Cowen warned Royal Liverpool’s 17th hole “could ruin somebody’s career” on the eve of the 2023 Championship. It certainly didn’t take long on Thursday for it to ruin one golfer’s first round. Lucas Herbert was cruising around Hoylake and in a tie for the lead following an eagle on the par-5 15th.

Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 08:37 PM ET MIDLAND, Mich. — Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan shot a 6-under 64 in alternate-shot play Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event. Castren, from Finland, and Tan, from Malaysia, birdied the final two holes and

The chatter about a fifth major in men’s professional golf ebbs and flows, mostly just as a talking point each year around the PGA Tour’s Players Championship. It’s an event that boasts among the strongest fields and highest purses while contested on the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course with a ton of history made there. The

Zalatoris hadn’t discussed anything publicly himself until this week when he joined the “Chris Vernon Show” on the radio in Memphis as part of a media tour promoting the upcoming FedEx St. Jude Championship, where Zalatoris claimed his maiden PGA Tour win a year ago. The 26-year-old, who has been sidelined since April after undergoing

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 19, 2023, 08:15 AM ET HOYLAKE, England — Nine years ago, the resplendent orange Rickie Fowler wore against the backdrop of Hoylake’s cement-colored palate seemed like it glowed a little brighter. At the 2014 Open Championship, Fowler was still in his mid 20s, wearing a flat-billed, white and orange Puma hat with

HOYLAKE, England — It was a surprise to those who haven’t been paying attention, which apparently is a lot of people. Then again, Rory McIlroy is not a storyline heading into this year’s Open Championship but the storyline, an amalgamation of his recent form and local ties and his existence as the sport’s emotional fulcrum.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 18, 2023, 09:30 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy will play the first two rounds of the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club with Masters champion Jon Rahm and

HOYLAKE, England — Scottie Scheffler’s pre-tournament press conference at the 151st Open Championship covered a range of topics from the beloved, beaten-up 2012 Yukon XL he recently upgraded from, to video games and even using YouTube highlights of Tiger Woods’ 2006 Open victory at Royal Liverpool as homework for this week. Only one topic bothered

UC Berkeley can lay claim to producing plenty of brilliant minds, but we’re most thankful to the school for churning out arguably the two best characters on Golf Twitter. Max Homa, of course, is the undisputed king in those parts, but former college teammate Michael Kim has emerged as a must-follow in recent years as

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 18, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Royal Liverpool Golf Club, which was built in 1869 and is the second-oldest seaside course in England, underwent a facelift since the last time

HOYLAKE, England—The Ryder Cup is less than three months away and it’s still unclear if LIV Golf members will be allowed to compete for the United States team. Which is why eyebrows were raised Monday when discovering Brooks Koepka was practicing at Royal Liverpool with a certain influential person on the matter. The person in

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:40 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy won a Claret Jug the last time the Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, in 2014. Three weeks later,

The thing with out of bounds, a topic almost as hot this week at Royal Liverpool as Rory McIlroy’s pre-tournament press conference boycott, is that it’s almost always absurdly unfair. In other words, it’s golf. More prescriptively pejorative than an Australian golf club’s sock length requirements, and nearly as inscrutable, out-of-bounds rules may be as

The British Open has been played 12 times at Royal Liverpool. This will be the 13th. Lucky us, to have this game. Lucky golf, to have this event, this 13th Open at Royal Liverpool, aka Hoylake, just when golf needs it most. Of the first 12, I’ve only been to the last two. In 2006,

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 17, 2023, 11:26 AM ET HOYLAKE, England – A few moments after reigning Open Champion Cameron Smith got emotional when returning the Claret Jug he’s had for a year, the Australian delivered a message on the future of LIV Golf in the wake of the PGA Tour’s framework agreement with the Public

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Jul 16, 2023, 09:02 PM ET Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry rolled in a long eagle putt on the final hole to win the American Century Championship on Sunday in Stateline, Nevada. Curry wound up two points ahead of former tennis player Mardy Fish in the celebrity golf event at Edgewood Tahoe Resort. Editor’s

Like just about everything else with the British Open, there is something singularly distinct regarding tee times at golf’s oldest major. It’s not so much who the R&A pairs with whom that holds people’s curiosities, as is the case with the cheeky-themed threesomes the USGA often puts together at the U.S. Open. Rather, it’s the

The claret jug visits Royal Liverpool for the first time since 2014. Among those hoping to hoist golf’s oldest trophy is the man who held it in its last visit to Hoylake. Rory McIlroy, off a near-miss at the U.S. Open and heartbreak from last year’s Open, but victory at the Genesis Scottish Open, enters

Associated Press Jul 16, 2023, 10:14 AM ET GULLANE, Scotland — Rory McIlroy birdied the last two holes in whipping wind Sunday for a 2-under 68 to win the Genesis Scottish Open, his first victory on Scottish soil, and take a load of confidence into the final major of the year. McIlroy was 1 shot

Those who love links golf with a dollop of weather punishment are enjoying the final round of the Genesis Scottish Open. The anticipated 20 to 30 mile-per-hour winds have been present at the Renaissance Club on Sunday, with gusts into the 40s. “It’s the kind of day where you have to throw out your yardages,”

Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 09:04 PM ET SYLVANIA, Ohio — Linn Grant put herself in position to become just the second LPGA Tour player to break 60, but she played the final five holes in even par for a 9-under 62 and has a 6-stroke lead entering the final round of the Dana Open.