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Tony Finau has a chance to do something he’s never done on the PGA Tour before: win the same tournament in back-to-back years. The 33-year-old tees it up this week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, where he claimed the title a year ago at Detroit Golf Club and is looking to win for the third

Rory McIlroy remains the runner-up of the 2023 U.S. Open. But a little more than a week after he finished one shot short of Wyndham Clark at Los Angeles Country Club, a USGA executive acknowledged that a free drop McIlroy received during a critical moment of the final round was incorrectly administered. In an interview

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 26, 2023, 11:07 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The five-page agreement signed by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley and Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan to form a new

The PGA Tour announced Monday that the 2028 Presidents Cup has been awarded to Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. The club is consistently ranked among the best courses in the world and is listed No. 2 behind Royal Melbourne G.C for Golf Digest’s Best Courses in Australia. Kingston Heath has been the site

Associated Press Jun 26, 2023, 07:45 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The Presidents Cup is headed Down Under for the fourth time, this time to Kingston Heath for the 2028 matches. Kingston Heath is among the more popular golf courses on the fabled sand belt in Melbourne that has hosted several events, none more highly

The severe and dangerous storms that have hit the Midwest and now are arriving on the East Coast caused damage on Sunday to the golf course that will host this week’s PGA Tour event. The PGA Tour tweeted an aerial photo on Monday of cleanup being performed at Detroit Golf Club, where winds toppled several

Associated Press Jun 25, 2023, 06:42 PM ET ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington played his final seven holes in 7 under par, a stunning finish for a 9-under 63 to successfully defend his title in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open with a 1-shot victory on Sunday. Harrington was going nowhere at the En-Joie Golf Club

It was a shot for history. Stephanie Meadow, her tee shot on Baltusrol’s par-5 18th finding the fairway, was facing the best opportunity of her eight-year career for victory and a chance to become the first woman from Ireland to win an LPGA major. In her 138th career start, Meadow faced a difficult lie trying

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Rose Zhang returned to the Tri-State area this week to compete in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship—just three weeks after her historic win at the Mizuho Americas Open. “​​The first week at Mizuho, it felt a little bit just surreal,” Zhang said. “I didn’t feel like I was a professional. I was

Associated Press Jun 25, 2023, 07:08 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn — Keegan Bradley built a big enough lead in front of adoring New England fans that he broke the tournament record at the Travelers Championship despite a shaky closing stretch, closing with a 2-under 68 for a three-shot victory on Sunday. Bradley, who went 62-63-64

Fifty-four-hole events tend to be a sprint to the finish line anyway, but Padraig Harrington’s furious back-nine kick was an extraordinary display of Sunday pressure golf that propelled him to a one-stroke victory in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. Harrington, 51, the defending champion, trailed leader Joe Durant by three at En-Joie Golf Course in

Associated Press Jun 24, 2023, 06:45 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Leona Maguire birdied the final hole for her eighth straight round in the 60s and took a 1-shot lead over fast-closing Jenny Shin on an unexpected sunny Saturday heading into the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Maguire, the halfway leader who

To win the Travelers Championship on Sunday will require one simple strategy: Shoot a low score. And make that “crazy low” says Justin Thomas if you’re more than four or five shots back (JT is seven back after shooting 62 on Saturday). And yet crazy low scores have been out there all week at TPC

CROMWELL, Conn. — Keegan Bradley used to have two cracks each year to win in front of his home New England crowd, but with the departure of the former playoff event at TPC Boston, the Travelers Championship is Bradley’s one chance to deliver for a loyal and supportive gallery. Yet while Bradley remains a fan

Associated Press Jun 24, 2023, 07:55 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Keegan Bradley shot a 6-under 64 on Saturday to break the tournament 54-hole scoring record at 21 under in the Travelers Championship, while Rickie Fowler had the second 60 of the week at TPC River Highlands. The previous three-round mark was 18 under, set

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — After a stellar 67 on Friday, Mel Reid was high up on the leaderboard going into the third round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She had a slow start out of the gates on Saturday, making two bogeys in her first four holes. But a mental mistake on the fifth hole

Associated Press Jun 23, 2023, 08:36 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Leona Maguire of Ireland birdied four of her final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-shot lead over three players Friday at the halfway point of the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol. The winner Sunday in Michigan for her second LPGA

Every golfer knows that one of the most difficult things to do is back up a stupid-low round with another good one. That’s certainly held true at the Travelers Championship, where Patrick Cantlay shot 60 in the second round in 2011 and followed it with a 72. Mackenzie Hughes did only slightly better in 2020

The scores atop the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship leaderboard mostly stayed the same from Thursday to Friday. Leona Maguire’s five under remains the lead at Baltusrol, and 15 players are under par heading into the weekend, instead of 16 players following the opening round. The on-and-off rain of Springfield, NJ., remain another constant. The names

Associated Press Jun 23, 2023, 07:12 PM ET CROMWELL, Conn. — Keegan Bradley and Denny McCarthy shared the Travelers Championship lead Friday at a tournament-record 15-under 125. McCarthy followed his first-round 60 with a 65 in the morning at TPC River Highlands. A few hours later, Bradley shot a 63 to go with his opening

CROMWELL, Conn. — As soon as Eric Cole’s name is mentioned on the broadcast this weekend at the Travelers Championship, give it five seconds. Ten, max. The son of PGA Tour winner Bobby Cole and 1973 LPGA Rookie of the Year, Laura Baugh, you might hear. It’s become a familiar refrain for the 35-year-old rookie

Associated Press Jun 22, 2023, 09:22 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Lee-Anne Pace isn’t playing a lot of competitive golf these days at 42-years-old and her practice habits have tailed off. She enjoys the game, and every once in a while, the South African really enjoys it. The first round of the Women’s PGA Championship

CROMWELL, Conn. — For a second consecutive week, there were a pair of opening 62s shot on the PGA Tour. Only this time, they were actually topped. Of course, low scoring is expected at the Travelers Championship and not so much at a U.S. Open. But Thursday’s fireworks were impressive even by this tournament’s standards

The LPGA’s return to Baltusrol for the first time since 1961 was rainy, cold and wet. With the course playing 6,500 yards, scores reflected the challenging conditions. Leader Lee-Ann Pace’s five-under-par 66 was one of only 16 players posting a red number. Impressively, it’s Pace’s first start at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship since 2019,

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJun 21, 2023, 01:08 PM ET The second LPGA major of the year returns to a course that the women’s game hasn’t been to since 1961. Baltusrol’s Lower Course in Springfield, New Jersey, was the site of the 1961 U.S. Women’s Open, where Mickey Wright won a prize of $1,800 with a score

CROMWELL, Conn. — Rory McIlroy was understandably disappointed to not claim a fifth major championship on Sunday at the U.S. Open. In the meantime, he’ll have to settle for accomplishing a career-first on Thursday at the Travelers Championship. In a stat that will certainly stun golf fans everywhere—this golf writer included—the former World No. 1

Associated Press Jun 21, 2023, 12:29 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles had to wait 75 years to get another U.S. Open and now it’s becoming a regular stop. The USGA is bringing the U.S. Open to Riviera Country Club in 2031. The announcement Wednesday comes three days after Wyndham Clark won the U.S.

Adam Scott admitted to listening to LIV Golf’s overtures in February of 2022, telling the media at Riviera ahead of the Genesis Invitational, “I think the schedule they’re proposing is very appealing to probably most golfers. Depending what your goals are in golf, I think the schedule is very appealing. From that side of things,

The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has invited PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan to testify at a public hearing on July 11. Following the surprise announcement of the planned partnership between the PGA Tour and PIF, Congress opened a probe

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 21, 2023, 12:55 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has invited PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, LIV Golf League CEO and commissioner Greg Norman and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of