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It’s golf’s chicken-or-the-egg question: Do golfers play well at certain courses because they like them, or do they enjoy certain courses simply because they play well on them? Whatever the answer, this much is true: Patrick Cantlay likes Muirfield Village, and Cantlay plays very well around the Jack Nicklaus design just outside Columbus. The 2019

Associated Press Jun 2, 2023, 10:05 PM ET JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Minjee Lee matched the tournament best with an 8-under 64 for a share of the lead Friday in the LPGA Tour’s weather-delayed Mizuho Americas Open. Cheyenne Knight had a 68 in the inaugural event to join Lee at 7-under 137 atop the tightly

The LPGA Tour’s best are taking over the top of the leaderboard in the inaugural Mizuho Americas Open at Liberty National in Jersey City. Five of the top 10 players in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings are in the top eight through the second round, which finished after sunset Friday following a one-hour, 45-minute weather

M.A. Voepel, ESPN.comJun 2, 2023, 03:04 PM ET Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark, the national women’s basketball player of the year and a golf enthusiast, will

DUBLIN, Ohio — Waking up early Friday to find several dozen text messages on his phone, Billy Horschel felt hopeful that he was going to have a good day in the second round of the Memorial Tournament. Or at least better than the previous day. And he was right. Buoyed by support from friends, fellow

Thursday afternoon’s marquee group lived up to the hype. Jordan Spieth (69), Tyrrell Hatton (71) and Rory McIlroy (72), all among the most entertaining players on tour, albeit for different reasons, put on quite the show at Muirfield Village. McIlroy got the trio of Ryder Cuppers started with a pin-seeker on the third. However, they’re

Associated Press Jun 1, 2023, 07:51 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Davis Riley opened with a 67 at the Memorial to finish atop the leaderboard after the opening round for the second straight year. And that’s where the similarities end. Riley birdied three of his last four holes Thursday afternoon when the turf was firm

DUBLIN, Ohio — Billy Horschel hit two greens in regulation Thursday at the Memorial Tournament—or as many times as he hit his ball in a single stroke during a miserable round that had the defending champion fighting back tears in the aftermath. One year after registering one of the more satisfying wins of his career,

Daniel Berger, who turned 30 on Friday of this year’s Masters, was last seen in action at the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club at Brookline. He missed the cut, shooting rounds of 70 and 75 before shutting it down for nearly a year due to lingering back issues. Yet those hoping they might

DUBLIN, Ohio – The PGA Tour is perhaps only a month away from announcing its revamped and reimagined 2024 schedule of tournaments, according to PGA Tour officials who met with the media Wednesday at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. PGA Tour executives Andy Pazder and Tyler Dennis provided an update on the

Associated Press May 31, 2023, 10:31 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Individual NCAA champion Fred Biondi beat Hiroshi Tai 1 up with a par on the 18th hole and Florida won its fifth men’s national golf title with a 3-1 victory over Georgia Tech on Wednesday. Florida’s Yuxin Lin won the opener 4 and 3

It was not a photo finish, though it came as close as possible to one, drama to the end, when the best player on the best team, Florida’s Fred Biondi, stepped up on the 18th hole and delivered the point that gave the Gators a 3-1 victory over Georgia Tech and the NCAA team championship

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 07:45 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Emiliano Grillo made a 5-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole at Colonial to get his first PGA Tour victory in more than 7½ years, after blowing a two-stroke lead with a double bogey on the 72nd hole Sunday. Grillo curled in

DUBLIN, Ohio — In another era, golf’s major championships made the players. It made their careers, and it made their ability to make a better living. Today, the players make the majors. Or so it appears, according to four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. In response to the launch of the LIV Golf League, which offers

DUBLIN, Ohio—Ludvig Aberg of Texas Tech, fresh off clinching the No. 1 spot in the final PGA Tour University rankings to earn a tour card, led a group of five players Tuesday chosen to receive the 2023 Jack Nicklaus Award. The senior from Eslov, Sweden, was the winner in NCAA Division I after becoming the

Associated Press May 30, 2023, 10:22 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Ricky Castillo birdied the third extra hole to beat Brett Roberts and give Florida a 3-2 victory over Florida State in the NCAA semifinals Tuesday at Grayhawk. National co-runner-up Ross Steelman two-putted for par to beat Peter Fountain 1 up, giving Georgia Tech a

We’re back at Jack’s Place, this time for a designated event with $20 million up for grabs. The PGA Tour will head to Muirfield Village for the Memorial Tournament, which debuted in 1976 and has become one of the tour’s longest-running events. The top five players on the Official World Golf Ranking will all tee

May 30, 2023, 01:33 PM ET The Ryder Cup should feature the best players and it should not matter whether some have decided to join LIV Golf, Jon Rahm said as he expressed sadness that Spanish compatriot Sergio Garcia would be absent from this year’s competition. Garcia is Europe’s all-time record points scorer and went

It’s been a hectic four days for Rose Zhang, packing up bags from Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she successfully (and historically) defended her NCAA title last week, for Liberty National as she makes her professional debut at the LPGA’s Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey. “Safe to say that the last 48

Crammed into the back corner of a WeWork high-rise in New York’s financial district, the PointsBet sportsbook studio feels as stifling as a sweat lodge. Various producers scurry to and fro, fanning themselves with folded papers and chugging water, but golfer-turned-social-media-juggernaut Paige Spiranac gives no indication that she minds the heat. Dressed in a form-fitting

Associated Press May 29, 2023, 09:36 PM ET Fred Biondi shot a 3-under 67 and rallied from a five-shot deficit in the final round to earn Florida’s third individual men’s NCAA golf championship on Monday. Biondi shot 2-under 35 on the front nine at Grayhawk Golf Club and was three back after a bogey on

Some tournaments are won, others are lost, but this time both applied equally, ultimately rendering a verdict in favor of Florida’s Fred Biondi, the new NCAA Men’s Individual national champion. Biondi, a senior from Brazil, began the final round five shots in arrears of leader Ross Steelman of Georgia Tech at Grayhawk Golf Club in

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 10:26 PM ET NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand capped off the longest week on the LPGA Tour with a 3-and-1 victory Sunday to win the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play over Ayaka Furue of Japan. Anannarukarn, who beat Linn Grant of Sweden in the semifinals

A marathon week ended Sunday night at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play with Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn emerging as the last woman standing, defeating Japan’s Ayaka Furue in the championship match, 3 and 1. All told, the 23-year-old competed in seven matches over five days at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, playing the equivalent

If a golf tournament were ever to be compared to a marathon, the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play fits the bill. A typical event sees 72 holes in four days, yet finalists Pajaree Anannarukarn and Ayaka Furue each played 116 holes over five days under the scorching Las Vegas desert sun at Shadow Creek.

May 28, 2023, 11:57 PM ET Jessica Korda will not compete on the LPGA Tour for the foreseeable future while she deals with a back injury, she announced on social media Sunday night. Korda wrote that the past year has been challenging due to the back ailment. “Following the advice of my doctor and the

We admit to being guilty from time to time of overusing the terms “bizarre” and “rules incident” in a same sentence. But we’re not entirely sure how to more aptly characterize what happened to Emiliano Grillo on the 72nd hole of the Charles Schwab Challenge than as, well, a “bizarre rules incident.” It all becomes

Associated Press May 28, 2023, 11:34 AM ET CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — Spanish golfer Pablo Larrazabal won the KLM Open by two strokes on Sunday to claim his ninth title on the European tour and a second in the space of four weeks. The 40-year-old Larrazabal started the final round with a one-stroke lead and shot

There has always been something about the KLM Open and the Spaniards on the DP World Tour. The first of Seve Ballesteros’ record 50 victories on what was then the European Tour came in the 1976 version of what was then the Dutch Open. The last of Sergio Garcia’s 19 wins on the Old World

It figures there are plenty of bathroom jokes told among those on the senior golf circuit. The athletes are, after all, 50 years and older, and they likely are separated into two camps: those who have prostates the size of oranges, or those who dutifully take their meds. Either way, there are frequent trips to