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It would be understandable if the 29-year-old was satisfied with what he’s already accomplished this season, yet he’s teeing it up at the CJ Cup at Congaree Golf Club this week when he could be kicking back and watching football from his Jupiter, Fla., home. Why? It’s not because the 78-man, no-cut CJ Cup has

2:07 PM ET RIDGELAND, S.C. — Cameron Young, a five-time runner-up this past season, was named the winner of the Arnold Palmer Award as the PGA Tour’s top rookie on Wednesday. Young, 25, was presented with the Arnold Palmer Award by past winner Sungjae Im and Webb Simpson during a news conference at Congaree Golf

RIDGELAND, S.C. — One of the worst kept secrets in golf was confirmed Wednesday. Cameron Young was confirmed as the PGA Tour’s 2022 Rookie of the Year by way of fellow Wake Forest alum Webb Simpson walking the Arnold Palmer Trophy into the media center and interrupting Young’s press conference ahead of the CJ Cup

The Official World Golf Ranking is having a moment, if for nothing more than quarrelsome reasons. Officials at LIV Golf are anxiously seeking a way for their members to earn OWGR points while playing in their events, largely to keep them from sliding in the rankings and losing out on qualifying directly off the OWGR

11:39 AM ET RIDGELAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour is set to announce this week that the WM Phoenix Open, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship and Travelers Championship will be among 13 elevated events with at least $20 million purses in 2023, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. They will join nine other elevated events,

RIDGELAND, S.C. — If you want a bunch of top players to show up to a tournament, a good way to go about it is to have a $10.5 million purse and no 36-hole cut. That’s usually the recipe for a deep field in the world of touring professional golf. But things get complicated as

9:00 AM ET The week that was in professional golf saw many notable players return to the winner’s circle. Keegan Bradley ended a four-year PGA Tour drought by winning the Zozo Championship in Japan. Brooks Koepka claimed his first victory in 20 months by winning LIV Golf’s first event in Saudi Arabia, which, if you

Congaree Golf Club in South Carolina will host six of the 10 top players in the World Ranking for this year’s CJ Cup, including No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and recent Spanish Open winner Jon Rahm. Rory McIlroy also will be on hand as he attempts to defend his 2021 championship in his first tour start

Argentine Emiliano Grillo had just posted what would be the best score of the day, a six-under-par 64 in the final round of the Zozo Championship on Sunday in Japan. In doing so, he grabbed himself a finish of solo fourth, marking his second top-10 result in only three starts on the young season. So

Oct 15, 2022 Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Peter Uihlein takes a one-shot lead going into the final day of the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah after a 7-under 63 in the second round on Saturday. The American made seven birdies and one eagle to compensate for a double bogey on the 13th

The golf boom that’s taken place over the past two years has been evident to many. In a post-COVID world, the sport was one of the safest activities to do with other people, and playing hooky from work has become a lot easier with more time spent in the home office. As a result, rounds

Oct 16, 2022 Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Brooks Koepka holed his birdie putt on the third playoff hole to win the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah on Sunday and claim his first victory on the breakaway tour. Little could separate Koepka from close friend and American compatriot Peter Uihlein all weekend, and

Bill Davis understood he wasn’t talking to just any golf parent on that Saturday evening last April in Augusta, Ga. Rick Pano had years of experience navigating the ins and outs of the junior/amateur golf scene, having been in the spotlight since he and his daughter, Alexa, appeared in the 2013 documentary “The Short Game”

Brooks Koepka was one of the headliners coming to LIV Golf over the summer—a four-time major winner still in his prime at just age 32—but he hadn’t necessarily played like one since joining the upstart Saudi-backed circuit. In his first four starts, he had finished no better than a T-11 until a week ago in

3:10 PM ET Associated Press Adrian Otaegui cruised in the final round to win the Andalucia Masters by six shots for his first home victory on Sunday. The Spaniard had four birdies and only one bogey in a 3-under 68 that left him at 19 under after four rounds, seven shots better than the previous

There are any number of remarkable numbers that tell the story of the stunning round Fred Couples played on Sunday at the SAS Championship, but we’ll start with the most important: 60. The World Golf Hall of Famer had never shot a score that low in his 2,172 rounds on the PGA Tour or his

5:43 PM ET Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Fred Couples broke his age by three shots with the lowest round of his PGA Tour Champions career, a 12-under 60 that sent him to a six-shot victory Sunday in the SAS Championship for his first title in more than five years. Couples was two shots behind

There was little doubt who was going to win the DP World Tour’s Andalucia Masters on Sunday. Adrian Otaegui led by six shots entering the final round at Valderrama in Sotogrande, Spain, a difficult course to be sure but one the 29-year-old Spaniard had shown he had a handle for. So that meant there was

Bradley was fortunate enough, and played beautifully enough, to be in the cauldron with Woods during both weekend rounds at Narashino Country Club in Chiba, Japan. He drew on that experience a lot early Sunday morning (U.S. time) while in contention again at the Zozo this week. “Just kind of remembering Tiger and how he

3:26 AM ET Associated Press INZAI CITY, Japan — It was worth the trip to Japan for Keegan Bradley, who won the Zozo Championship on Sunday with a final-round 2-under 68 to finish one shot ahead Rickie Fowler and Andrew Putnam for his first PGA Tour win in just over four years. Bradley raised both

It was a Ladies European Tour event held in New York, with amateurs teaming with the pros, but the circumstances were of no concern to Lexi Thompson. Not when she’d finally lifted a trophy again. Thompson shot three-under-par 69 on Saturday at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point to win the LET’s Aramco Team Series

4:54 PM ET Associated Press Adrian Otaegui grabbed a commanding six-stroke lead of the Andalucía Masters after carding a 7-under 64 over the third round on Saturday. Otaegui entered the day sharing the lead with countryman Angel Hidalgo and Min Woo Lee of Australia. But Otaegui opened up a huge gap on the leaderboard after

If you examine the career paths and not their Q Scores, there isn’t a good reason why Rickie Fowler should feel any more pressure heading into the final round of the Zozo Championship than Keegan Bradley. At 33 years old, Fowler has won five times on the PGA Tour and, as the leader by one

A year ago at the Zozo Championship, Hideki Matsuyama held a one-shot lead entering the final round at Narashino Country Club outside Tokyo. Naturally, there was a certain kind of pressure felt by the Japanese icon, playing his 200th PGA Tour event, to close out the tournament in front of his loyal local fans. And

12:13 PM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Brooks Koepka took a two-shot lead at the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah on Friday after an 8-under 62 in the first round, matching the lowest score on the breakaway tour that has torn the world of golf in two. The American made eight

The CJ Cup has a rather interesting history for being on the PGA Tour’s schedule for such a relatively short time. It was inaugurated in October 2017 and played the first three times at the Nine Bridges Golf Club in Jeju Island, South Korea. The winners were impressive, with Justin Thomas sandwiching victories in ’17

4:52 PM ET Associated Press Angel Hidalgo carded an 8-under 63 to grab part of a three-way lead at the Andalucia Masters after two rounds on Friday. The Spaniard sunk eight birdies on an error-free day at Valderrama to join overnight leader Min Woo Lee and Adrian Otaegui on 9 under par. “I made every

No disrespect to fans of “Happy Gilmore,” “Tin Cup,” or “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” but there has not been a truly great golf movie since “Caddyshack” hit theaters in 1980. It appears as though that could change very soon. On Friday, in an exclusive on film news website Above the Line, it was reported

The rain was gone in Chiba, Japan, and with clear skies and a dry course, a resurgent Rickie Fowler shot a bogey-free 63 to jump into a tie for first at the Zozo Championship on Friday. It was just one stroke shy of his best score in 13-plus seasons on the PGA Tour—a 62 at

6:05 AM ET Associated Press INZAI CITY, Japan — Rickie Fowler and Andrew Putnam shared a one-stroke lead after Friday’s second round of the Zozo Championship, where scores were low with drier conditions after rain in the first round. It was a tougher day for former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, who is also the defending