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Tiger Woods says he never received scripted comments reportedly sent from the PGA Tour last summer when the tour was intensifying its defensive stance against the just launched LIV Golf circuit. On July 1 Twitter user “desertdufferLLG” posted a snapshot of documents from an antitrust lawsuit involving the tour in the 15th Judicial Circuit in

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 03:14 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, outlasting Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin two weeks after squandering a chance to win his first major at the U.S. Open. Fowler, 34, got his first PGA Tour

It was to have evolved into a race against time for Bernhard Langer in his pursuit of Hale Irwin’s PGA Tour Champions record for victories, yet time stood no chance. Langer on Sunday, two months shy of his 66th birthday, posted his record 46th senior victory in a dominating manner, on the senior game’s biggest

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 05:15 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld to break the PGA Tour Champions’ career victory record. Pushing his record as the oldest winner on the 50-and-over tour to 65 years, 10 months, 5 days, the German star broke a

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The fate of the LIV Golf League remains uncertain as its financial backer, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, works with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to create a for-profit entity that will help handle the commercial aspects of the three circuits. But as LIV proceeds, it might behoove the other two

Associated Press Jul 2, 2023, 12:11 AM ET JASPER, Ind. — Angela Stanford took advantage of Trish Johnson’s late collapse Saturday at Sultan’s Run to win the Senior LPGA Championship. Five strokes back entering the day and four behind playing the final hole, the 45-year-old Stanford birdied the par-4 18th for a 7-under 65 and

Ask Rickie Fowler whether he needs to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday and his answer is a version of, “Not necessarily.” He’s contending regularly on the PGA Tour, and after a slump that saw him plummet to 185th in the Official World Golf Ranking, that’s satisfying for right now. But four years removed

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 08:05 PM ET DETROIT — Rickie Fowler has put himself in a position to win a PGA Tour title again. He’s hoping to take advantage for a change. Fowler birdied six of his last eight holes Saturday to surge into the Rocket Mortgage Classic lead at 20 under, giving him

The PGA Tour will host a new event in Utah beginning in 2024. In an announcement on Friday, the tour said it is ending a six-decade hiatus from the Beehive State, as the Black Desert Championship is scheduled to launch in the fall of next year. “We are thrilled to partner with Black Desert Resort

At 660th in the Official World Golf Ranking and 210th in the FedEx Cup standings, Andrew Landry is a pretty good professional golfer who hasn’t played good golf for quite some time. That fact doesn’t make him particularly unique. Good golfers struggle. Great ones do, too. Here’s the thing though: If they’re really any good,

Charlotte Gibson, ESPNJul 1, 2023, 07:00 AM ET AMARI AVERY IS frustrated. It’s her first hole of the day, and her drive on the par-4 10th hole at Rancho Santa Fe Country Club in California has fizzled barely 150 yards along the right rough. Now she stands behind her golf ball, lodged deep in the

After his disappointing finish at the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club two weeks ago, Rickie Fowler could have sulked or taken a mental holiday or even questioned just how much progress he has truly made in what has been a comeback year. Instead, he has just kept the comeback theme going. And going.

Associated Press Jun 30, 2023, 09:13 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Bernhard Langer has been able to avoid most of the trouble at SentryWorld in the U.S. Senior Open. He still was far from unscathed Friday in a 3-under 68 that gave him the second-round lead. “Believe it or not, I had two three-putts

In the runup to the U.S. Senior Open at Sentry World, 65-year-old Bernhard Langer didn’t particularly fancy his chances, noting the distance he gives up to younger players on a layout that he said favors the bombers. “They’re going to hit driver, 9-iron [into the greens]. I’m hitting driver, 3-iron, which makes it hard to

Steve Stricker remained just four shots off the Rod Pampling’s lead after Day 1 of the U.S. Senior Open, the winner of 2023’s first two senior majors hardly out of the hunt to win the third. But with a one-over 72 showing on Thursday at SentryWorld in his home state of Wisconsin, the 56-year-old saw

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 08:02 PM ET DETROIT — Taylor Moore and Monday qualifier Peter Kuest shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead in the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Thursday, with a slew of players chasing in what’s expected to be a shootout. Dylan Wu had the third albatross on the PGA Tour

First-round leads generally mean little, but specifically can be surprisingly newsworthy, as was the case with Peter Kuest on Thursday. Peter who? Kuest, 25, was a Monday qualifier for the Rocket Mortgage Classic and as such is among the least likely players in the field to make news on Thursday. Yet he had six 3s

Associated Press Jun 29, 2023, 09:21 PM ET STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Retief Goosen got right to the point after the first round of the U.S. Senior Open at punishing SentryWorld. “You got to hit the fairways, otherwise, you’ve got no shot,” the two-time U.S. Open champion said Thursday after a 1-under 70 that left

Seeking to play in his 25th consecutive Open Championship, Sergio Garcia will lead several members of the LIV Golf League in hoping to secure last-minute entry into the field at Royal Liverpool via 36-hole qualifying next week. From major champions like Garcia, Graeme McDowell and Charl Schwartzel, to reserve players like Andy Ogletree and Wade

Amid speculation that LIV Golf’s days are numbered, Phil Mickelson asserts the fledgling circuit is here to stay. Though Mickelson played two weeks ago in the U.S. Open, the six-time major winner declined to speak at Los Angeles Country Club on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. However,

Baxter Holmes, ESPN Senior WriterJun 29, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. ONE MORNING IN the winter of 2005, RJ Caswell finds

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — In 1985, Golf Digest contributor Tom Callahan, in his guise as the sports guy for Time Magazine, wrote a profile of Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird and Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky. In the piece Callahan told the remarkable tale of how both men, when shown a picture from the previous night’s

The LIV Golf League hits the halfway point of its 2023 schedule at Real Club Valderrama in Spain this weekend. There are six regular season tournaments remaining, including one in London and four more in the U.S. The individual and team championships will take place in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 3-5. After that, no one

Two executives running the PGA Tour while commissioner Jay Monahan recovers from a medical situation have revealed they anticipate the 53-year-old’s return. On June 13, Tuesday night of U.S. Open week, the tour announced Monahan was “recuperating from a medical situation” and would step back from his duties. That came a week after Monahan stunned

The framework agreement set to end professional golf’s civil war was five pages long and full of legal parlance when it was revealed Monday. But two weeks ago, at the U.S. Open, an agreement to end the fallout between two players, Rory McIlroy and LIV Golf recruit Sergio Garcia, was established via a simple text

Associated Press Jun 27, 2023, 11:30 PM ET DETROIT — The PGA Tour sought to assure players Tuesday that they will have a say in the tour’s new partnership with the Saudi funders of LIV Golf, with its policy board issuing a statement that noted players would have to approve any final agreement between the

The PGA Tour’s policy board issued a statement Tuesday night following a players meeting in Detroit regarding the proposed deal between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, signaling a “new phase” of negotiations have begun while signaling the deal may ultimately not come to fruition. The statement comes a day after the framework

ESPN News Services Jun 27, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis made her professional debut in 2008 in the U.S. Women’s Open at Interlachen, had a one-shot lead going into the final round and wound up in a tie for third behind Inbee Park. Her earnings of $162,487 did not count toward