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PACIFIC Palisades, Calif.—A young fan in the crowd at Riviera tried to warn media and officials that Tiger Woods was soon to start walking through a busy crowd after finishing his second round Friday at the Genesis Invitational. Good point, kid. But the question is, will he stay around for the weekend at Riviera Country

1:34 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — John Paramor, the mustachioed European tour rules official whose career spanned six decades, has died after a cancer diagnosis. He was 67. The European tour confirmed the death of Paramor, who retired in 2020 as chief referee. He had officiated at dozens of major championships over

A judge has ruled that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and its governor can be deposed and must produce documents in the ongoing litigation battles between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. The decision is a major victory for the tour, as federal magistrate judge Susan van Keulen has rejected LIV’s arguments that the PIF

9:15 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — The walk to the Riviera Country Club clubhouse from the 18th green is a steep one. But any pain the smiling Tiger Woods might have felt in his right ankle seemed soothed by the crowd chanting his name near the hole’s surrounding grass auditorium. Despite an injury

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — The “look” was absolutely priceless. Anybody who’s ever topped a buddy’s birdie with their own to win a buck or two would recognize the pure joy in the slightest of smiles. That was the silent exchange that took place between Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas on the 18th green Thursday at

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5:14 PM ET LOS ANGELES — As the PGA Tour continues to rebuild itself during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf League for the best players in the world, Rory McIlroy says he believes the tour should look at another professional sports league, the NBA, as a model for growth. McIlroy, speaking to reporters

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Rory McIlroy hesitated to use the word. In fact, he said he “hated” it, because he no doubt understands the connotations it carries. Anytime you use the word “product” when it comes to speaking about sports, it feels as if you could be selling beers or cars rather than acknowledging the

8:00 PM ET 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 LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods will tee it up at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday (3:04 p.m. ET, ESPN+) in his first official PGA Tour

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — In his prime, Tiger Woods was expected to win at any course he played on the PGA Tour, particularly any course he’d played more than once. En route to claiming a record-tying 82 tour titles, there were a handful of venues—notably Bay Hill, Firestone and Torrey Pines—where Woods won on several

Weekends on the LPGA Tour just got a little smaller. On Wednesday, the tour announced a rule change to the cutline that’s being put in place at full-field events, with the top 65 players and ties now advancing. Previously, it was top 70 and ties. The smaller cuts will begin at the LPGA Drive-On Championship

12:51 PM ET Mito Pereira, who last year squandered a chance to become the first man from Chile to win a major championship and the first PGA Tour rookie to win one in 11 years, has officially joined the LIV Golf League. Pereira, 27, and Sebastian Munoz, another PGA Tour member, were among four players

We’re at the rookie media session, Players Championship week (legitimately a great opportunity for journalists, hat tip PGA Tour), where Mito Pereira, who was apparently a wunderkind everyone was constantly talking about—I missed this, as did everyone I’ve ever talked to—goes in for the Dreaded Contrast with Sahith Theegala, who will be playing the part

4:30 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods walked back into the epicenter of the golf world Tuesday, just days after he announced he would be playing in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. He discussed many topics, including his health, the way he approaches playing competitive golf at this stage of

There are a lot of ways to praise the field at this week’s Genesis Invitational. Every player among in top 30 players of the latest FedEx Cup standings is competing at Riviera Country Club outside of Los Angeles, as are 23 of the top 25 in the world led by new World No. 1 Scottie

LOS ANGELES — Even in his youngest days, Justin Rose was never considered one of the hipper guys in pro golf. Maybe it’s hard to truly gather tons of street cred when your proper British diction is the envy of even the Prime Minister. Now that Rose is 42, the chance for being trendy is

7:00 AM ET Devin Gordon STREAKING IS WRONG — let’s be clear about that up front. It’s boorish, infantile, and it always ends badly. That being said, sometimes a legend comes along who pulls off a marathon streak so improbable, so filled with performative flourishes and so in keeping with the whole sloshy drunken gestalt

LPGA star Anna Nordqvist revealed she has ended her endorsement deal with Aramco—Saudi Arabia’s state-run petroleum company and a major financial supporter of women’s golf—due to ongoing backlash for the partnership. In an interview with Swedish news agency TT, the three-time major winner did not express second thoughts regarding the moral and ethical issues of

6:06 PM ET Former world No. 1 Stacy Lewis has been named U.S. captain for the 2024 Solheim Cup in Gainesville, Virginia, the LPGA announced Monday. Lewis is already on track to captain the 2023 U.S. team that will face Europe at the Sept. 22-24 Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain. “This is

For a second consecutive week, golf fans will be treated to a stacked field featuring three guys battling for the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. But Tiger Woods’ return to competition adds a fun world ranking wrinkle as well. The 15-time major champ will play in an official PGA Tour event for

When Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf this week at the Genesis Invitational, his first official PGA Tour event since the Open Championship in July, he’ll be getting reacquainted with a golf course that, paradoxically, is one he deeply cherishes but which chafes him like no other venue on Earth. Winner of a record-tying 82

12:00 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy entered the year ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. You could certainly argue that over the past few weeks, Spain’s Jon Rahm was performing like the best player in the world. On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler reminded everyone in the sport who was ranked No. 1

Looking at the PGA Tour’s career money list to determine the relative success of a player’s career is mostly a futile endeavor. Sure, Tiger Woods at No. 1 with $120-plus million makes sense, but Jack Nicklaus with $5,734,031—which ranks him a mere 314th all time—does not. The clearest evidence at how skewed prize money has

6:43 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler successfully defended his WM Phoenix Open title Sunday at TPC Scottsdale to regain the No. 1 spot in the world. Scheffler closed with a 6-under 65 to beat Nick Taylor by 2 strokes in breezy conditions on the firm and fast Stadium Course. The 26-year-old

Jon Rahm started the final round of the WM Phoenix Open two shots behind Scottie Scheffler. If he pulled out the victory, it would have been his third tour win in six weeks and would have lifted the 28-year-old Spaniard to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. And yet, it wasn’t meant to

Rickie Fowler gets applause from the crowds at the WM Phoenix Open simple by throwing a few blades of grass in the air, he’s that much a fan favorite in the Arizona desert. So imagine what the reaction would be if he were to make a hole in one on one of the par 3s

11:36 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — South Africa’s Ockie Strydom shot a 9-under 63 on Sunday to power up the leaderboard and clinch the Singapore Classic by one stroke from Finland’s Sami Valimaki. Strydom carded a final round of 63 — the best score of the final day at Laguna National Golf Resort Club

SCOTTSDALE — “RORYYY MCILROYYY!” The fan takes another swig of his beer—he’s holding two of them—and points to Rory as he approaches the 13th green. “There’s like a million golfers in the world, and that guy’s No. 1,” he explains. “You gotta shout his name.” There was no mention of the man currently holding the

9:36 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to successfully defend his title and regain the No. 1 spot in the world. The second-ranked Scheffler shot a 3-under 68 in front of some 200,000 fans — including WNBA star Brittney

On Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open, fans were treated to a fascinating discussion about club selection between Tom Kim and his caddie, Joe Skovron. The moment wasn’t necessarily a new element to golf broadcasts—more so a great job by the announcers of not talking over the audio coming from the mics on the course—which