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Randall Stephenson, a former AT&T executive and an influential voice in professional golf, resigned from his position on the PGA Tour’s policy board over the weekend, citing “serious concerns” with the tour’s proposed deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Stephenson’s resignation, which was first reported by the Washington Post, has been confirmed by Golf

There was a time, of course, when Matteo Manassero’s career trajectory was steeply upward, the word “prodigy” hardly doing the Italian justice. Certainly, the notion that the lad from Verona, who won four times on what’s now the DP World Tour by age 20, would today be competing on the second-tier Challenge circuit would have

Some of golf’s best players stopped by the 2023 Wimbledon matches on Sunday. Editor’s Picks Before making their way to The Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, which starts on July 20, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler were spotted at the All England Club with their wives. Spieth is the only one of

PEBBLE BEACH — When you name your child after something as big as the U.S. space program, the expectations would seem to be as high as the moon. Jinichi and Norumi Hataoka welcomed their daughter into the world in 1999 and dreamed as big as any parents could. “They both wanted her to accomplish something

Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 10:02 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Neither the wind at Pebble Beach nor the stage of a U.S. Women’s Open could stop Nasa Hataoka, who delivered the best round in the toughest conditions Saturday for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead. Hataoka not only posted the low score

The nature of an important looming two-week stretch abroad means the 2023 John Deere Classic doesn’t boast the most stout field on the PGA Tour’s schedule. But that doesn’t mean the action itself isn’t compelling. Coming into the final round, there are a few interesting storylines at stake. With the biggest names in golf resting

Two years ago, the U.S. Women’s Open’s purse was $5.5 million. This week, the prize money payout at Pebble Beach Golf Links is an impressive $11 million, a literal exponential rise that speaks to what the USGA thinks of women’s golf and its flagship women’s championship. “I remember last year, maybe a year and a

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 8, 2023, 12:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — There was no other way it could have ended. After a gloomy week at Pebble Beach, where Michelle Wie West struggled to find the bottom of the cup, the 30-foot par putt on the 18th green — the final one of her career

PEBBLE BEACH — Michelle Wie West and her caddie and husband Jonnie West approached the bunker fronting the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Friday evening and found her ball in a wet and nearly plugged lie. It wasn’t the way they’d envisioned the one-time star and face of women’s golf finishing up

Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 09:24 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Cameron Young shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the John Deere Classic and put himself into position to erase an unwelcome distinction from his PGA Tour resume. Young was at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run, with

It wasn’t exactly a golf ball “rollback,” per se, but Cameron Young did go back to an old golf ball ahead of the John Deere Classic this week. Judging by his 65-64 start, the switch was a stroke of genius. Of course, we’re not talking about a balata here, just the ball he played all

If you’re going to take a curtain call for a career, you could choose worse places than Pebble Beach Golf Links to do it. Michelle Wie West had played just two LPGA events in the previous 24 months, but was excited to compete one last time, the U.S. Women’s Open making its debut on the

ESPN News Services Jul 7, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Matthew Wolff, who was accused by LIV Golf teammate Brooks Koepka of quitting on the course, said it’s “heartbreaking” that the Smash GC captain would criticize him amid Wolff’s mental health “challenges on and off the golf course.” Earlier this week, Koepka told Sports Illustrated that

PEBBLE BEACH — It is the most knee-knocking, white-knuckle shot in all of golf. None other than Jack Nicklaus deemed it the “most dramatic.” And why not? On the eighth hole at Pebble Beach, players stand on an outcropping of land, the Pacific Ocean 70 feet below. In 2022, Jordan Spieth created the most news

Associated Press Jul 6, 2023, 09:06 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Jonas Blixt got hot on the back nine at TPC Deere Run on Thursday, playing his last six holes in 6 under for a 9-under 62 and a 2-shot lead over Grayson Murray in the first round of the John Deere Classic. Murray was

PEBBLE BEACH — In her U.S. Women’s Open debut, LPGA Tour rookie Natthakritta Vongtaveelap was disqualified after five holes during Thursday’s first round when her caddie, Jinsup Kim, was seen using a rangefinder multiple times. The USGA confirmed that had Vongtaveelap’s caddie breached the model local rule in place for the championship that prohibits the

Rickie Fowler’s last three weeks (and Keegan Bradley’s emotional win in Hartford) reminded me why golf is the greatest sport. Where else can you have a player come back from near oblivion to claim a big victory? #askalan @david_troyan This is nicely said. It has certainly been a rousing stretch, and don’t forget Nick Taylor’s

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 6, 2023, 08:25 AM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Mina Harigae has never seen Pebble Beach like this. Last year’s U.S. Women’s Open runner-up was born in Monterey, California, attended the nearby Stevenson School and has played the course over 50 times. Of the 156 players in this year’s field, Harigae has

Tour pros are no strangers to sponsor logos. Most of the time the prime real estate on tour players (shirts, hats and bags) is taken up by larger companies that are able to shell out some big bucks for a little extra publicity. But this week at the Women’s U.S. Open we’re seeing something different.

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 5, 2023, 12:15 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — It has been 72 years since the best female golfers in the world played a competitive round at one of the most famous golf courses in the history of the game. The 1951 Weathervane Transcontinental Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links, won

Last week more than 350 pages of emails, documents and investment agreements from the PGA Tour were made public by the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, with more than a few items in the release spurring headlines and conjuring a public statement from Tiger Woods. Turns out the document release was not

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Charlotte Gibson, ESPNJul 5, 2023, 09:11 AM ET LPGA star Nelly Korda joins an all-star lineup of more than 20 professional golfers featured in the PGA Tour 2k23 video game on July 5. The eight-time LPGA Tour winner, with one major victory, becomes the fourth professional women’s golfer available on the PGA Tour 2k23 roster.

PEBBLE BEACH — The end of Michelle Wie West’s LPGA career is here, 20 years after her first U.S. Women’s Open start at Pumpkin Ridge. The opportunity to tee it up at Pebble Beach has kept Wie West grounded as she contemplates what like will look like beyond playing professional golf. But come Sunday, Wie

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 4, 2023, 09:18 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Michelle Wie West has no problem admitting it: She has thought about her last walk up to the 18th hole at Pebble Beach — the final one of her career — plenty. She has visualized it, dreamt about it, even idealized it. “Gosh,

PEBBLE BEACH — Rose Zhang will no doubt look back at it as a time of joy and innocence, when she and Stanford teammates were among the first women to compete in a college tournament on the Pebble Beach Golf Links. The Cardinal, coming off their national championship the season before, made their 2022-23 season

If you’re winning PGA Tour Champions majors at age 65, like Bernhard Langer did at the U.S. Senior Open Sunday, by definition times have changed since you turned professional. Langer is cashing first-place checks in a remarkable sixth decade as a professional, dating all the way back to the 1975 German National Open, a tournament

Jul 3, 2023, 11:57 AM ET WASHINGTON — Two PGA Tour officials have agreed to testify before a U.S. Senate panel next week about the tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, but LIV officials declined to appear, lawmakers said Monday. Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, and board member Jimmy Dunne have

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Nelly Korda doesn’t like learning about courses before arriving. She wants to process the course in her own way, with her own eyes, before coming up with a plan of attack. While her team members have scouted out Pebble Beach before their arrival, Korda’s only experience with the historic course before

Jul 3, 2023, 03:54 PM ET Tiger Woods says he never received scripted comments, purportedly prepared by the PGA Tour, that now are part of a federal lawsuit. Multiple outlets reported Monday that the remarks are among 357 pages of emails and other documents included in an antitrust lawsuit involving the PGA Tour filed in