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The responses were in, and they weren’t favorable. When pictures surfaced from St. Andrews, Scotland, of work done to the path leading toward the famed Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole of the Old Course, golfers on social media were quick to note their displeasure with the new look. The overarching question being raised: Why?

11:23 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Abraham Ancer of Mexico closed with a 2-under 68 for a 2-shot victory over Cameron Young in the Saudi International on Sunday. Ancer capped off a wire-to-wire victory, which featured a majority of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league. It was his third worldwide

PEBBLE BEACH — Saturday’s third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was suspended for the day due to high winds and that is forcing a Monday finish to the tournament. The PGA Tour moved up Saturday’s tee times by an hour due to the harsh winds in the forecast. However, conditions were deemed unplayable

7:32 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — A strong wind was more than just a menace at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It brought the tournament to a halt Saturday because of two holes on one of the courses, and set up a Monday finish without the amateurs. Keith Mitchell made it through

There will be much consternation and disappointment that the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will need to go to a Monday finish after third-round play was suspended on Saturday due to wind gusts of more than 35 mph. But with a forecast for sunny skies on Monday, it’s highly likely they’ll finish the tournament. That’s more

PEBBLE BEACH — It was a nice day until it wasn’t, whipping winds off the Pacific arriving late and bending the flagsticks that once looked so inviting into yoga poses. If that sounds dramatic, talk to Will Gordon, who owned a share of the lead at eight under in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am when

11:46 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Abraham Ancer had a 6-under 64 to bump his lead to two shots over Cameron Young on Saturday going into the final round of the Saudi International. Ancer and Young, the PGA Tour rookie of the year who had a 65, have separated

PEBBLE BEACH — He had been in the lead minutes earlier, but that was no more, the byproduct of a bad drive and poor approaches and a failed up-and-down attempt at Pebble Beach’s par-5 sixth. Pros have no stomach for bogeys, especially on par 5s, especially when things are going as good as they were

10:19 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Kurt Kitayama is starting to feel more comfortable each time he gets in contention on the PGA Tour, and the Californian can only hope that’s the case going into the weekend at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Kitayama opened with 10 straight pars before getting on

On a day that Justin Rose aptly described as “kind of English”—as in dreary, gray, rainy—it was the Northern California guy, Kurt Kitayama, who held on for the 36-hole lead at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Playing at the course from which the tournament takes its name, Kitayama followed up his brilliant Thursday 64 at

The LIV golfers competing in this week’s Saudi International should feel right at home after the Asian Tour relaxed a longstanding rule about long pants. Starting this week, Asian Tour players are allowed to wear shorts during tournament rounds. And it’s a move that was directly affected by LIV Golf’s decision to do the same

5:00 PM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Abraham Ancer had a 7-under 63 for a 1-shot lead over Sebastian Munoz after the first round of the Saudi International on the Asian Tour. Dustin Johnson, a two-time winner of the tournament when it was part of the European tour schedule, withdrew

Phil Mickelson has awoken from his social-media slumber, and any hopes that he had learned his lesson about talking first and asking questions later are as wayward as his final drive at Winged Foot in 2006. To those not on Twitter because they are busy living life, a golf account called Flushing It posited that

10:50 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Changes in weather and fortunes can happen without notice in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which seems to suit Hank Lebioda just fine these days. Playing his sixth different course in his past six rounds on the PGA Tour, Lebioda ran off six birdies in an

Hank Lebioda’s timing couldn’t have been better — in regard to both what he shot Thursday in the opening round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and when he shot it. Having missed the cut in all five starts this season and seven in a row overall, and ranked 420th in the world, Lebioda carded

The sun is out today on the lovely Monterey Peninsula, making for a beautiful day at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. It’s a tad chilly, sure, but compared to the frigid temperatures in the Northeast and other places, it’s hard to complain about a high of 60 degrees on Feb. 2. Seriously, we don’t want

7:01 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jordan Spieth‘s daring second shot over a cliff at the par-4 eighth hole in last year’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am will be harder to replicate this year thanks to an adjustment by the resort in part due to guests attempting to re-create Spieth’s shot while playing the

PEBBLE BEACH — He is most comfortable when he’s uncomfortable. Jordan Spieth’s words, not ours, about himself and his game, although the man took that motto to the extreme in Monterey last season. For those who missed it—and if you have, we direct you to the video—Spieth defied science and gravity and mortality in hitting

11:36 AM ET With many of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars taking the week off before teeing it up in Phoenix during Super Bowl week, the golf world’s attention shifts back to the Middle East, where hopefully someone is shaking that palm tree to find Patrick Reed’s ball. A handful of PGA Tour members and

PEBBLE BEACH—This week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am coincides with the Saudi International, an Asian Tour event which is notably sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the primary backer of LIV Golf. The Saudi-backed circuit has spurred a schism in the professional game, leading to hurt feelings and contentious views on both sides of the

How do we know that this isn’t now all scripted and acted out? @EatandSleepGolf What I love about this question is that it can mean so many things! Is it good guy Max Homa becoming the star next door that the PGA Tour desperately needs? Rory McIlroy’s walk-off putt in Dubai to end a melodramatic

Jan 31, 2023 Phil Mickelson said he’s as light as he has been in three decades and will be a little quieter on social media as he prepares to play in the LIV Golf League’s second season, which begins in Mexico next month. Mickelson, speaking to reporters Tuesday ahead of this week’s PIF Saudi International

PEBBLE BEACH — Ryan Palmer and Canelo Alvarez were named 2023 recipients of the Arnie Awards on Tuesday at Pebble Beach. The awards—which are presented by Golf Digest, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM—honor golfers who give back through charitable work. Palmer is a four-time winner

9:03 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Blue Bay LPGA has been canceled for the third time in four years because of ongoing COVID-19 matters, the association said Tuesday night in a short statement released from its headquarters. The decision came from the China Golf Association, which regulates golf in the country.

The phrase “it’s personal” has been around for a while now, but it may have been the cheesy tagline from the movie Jaws: Revenge—”this time, it’s personal”—that brought it into the Western linguistic consciousness. More recently, another hungry pop-culture icon, Michael Jordan, popularized the notion with his now memed-out catch phrase from The Last Dance:

The landslide is still happening. As I watch from the back seat of our Jeep, a Nepali policeman in a bright-orange rainsuit and motorcycle helmet signals us to wait. He looks hundreds of feet above us, up into the rain, “reading the greens” of the upper slopes—checking for boulders. I hope he’s a good boulder-reader

10:39 AM ET When defending Masters champion Scottie Scheffler bumped into two-time winner Bubba Watson while on vacation in Tennessee late last year, he joked that he was going to have a separate table for him in a corner at the Champions Dinner at Augusta National Golf Club in April. Watson is among six former

Afterward, McIlroy acknowledged he felt extra motivation during the final round with Reed being the golfer making the charge. “Did I want to win? Yes. Was there added incentive because of who was up there? Absolutely.” Yet McIlroy hasn’t always had issues with Reed; he’s even been one of his bigger defenders over the years.

7:16 PM ET Associated Press A federal judge denied a request by LIV Golf to expand discovery in its antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour to include communication with 10 Augusta National members, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. LIV Golf had issued subpoenas to five PGA Tour board members and Tim Finchem, the

After a tumultuous year that included playing a key part in the launch of LIV Golf, Phil Mickelson is excited about 2023 and beyond—even if that future doesn’t ever include another PGA Tour appearance or participating again in the Ryder Cup. In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s Bob Harig, the six-time major champ discussed