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When KPMG came on as title sponsor of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in 2015, they entered the deal with three promises: to play the event at sites that have hosted men’s majors, to air the major on network television and to increase the purse. In 2022, all three promises have been fulfilled: the event

8:29 PM ET Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker are going at it again on a big stage, and this time they have more say over the outcome at the U.S. Senior Open. The two Ryder Cup captains at Whistling Straits last September will be in the final group going into

Even Bernhard Langer can have a bad week. The 64-year-old German was 63-for-63 in making the cut in major championships on the PGA Tour Champions, but the streak came to an end on Friday when Langer shot four-over-par 75 in the second round of the U.S. Senior Open, and combined with his 74 on Thursday,

Well, we can probably put down Jason Kokrak as one of the next PGA Tour players to announce that he’s a defector to LIV Golf. Either that, or he just threw one of the biggest tantrums this side of your 5-year-old before naptime. How else could you explain the utterly bizarre and memorable way in

7:21 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Xander Schauffele shot his second straight 7-under 63 on Friday to take a five-stroke lead in the Travelers Championship. The Olympic champion shot a 31 on the front nine at TPC River Highlands with four birdies, then had a 32 on the back, making birdies on 11,

Take-take-take-take-take-take-take-take-take. Also: more-more-more-more-more. Everywhere you look these days in professional golf, there’s a whole lot of taking going on, coupled with a demand for more. It’s not good for business. The LIV Golf series—Greg Norman presiding; the notorious MBS lurking—is taking various name-brand players from the PGA Tour. The players leaving for greener pastures—Brooks Koepka,

7:42 PM ET The DP World Tour will announce on Friday that golfers participating in the LIV Golf Invitational Series won’t be allowed to play at the Scottish Open, according to The Telegraph. The $8 million event will be held July 7-10 at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, one week before the 150th

If Emma Talley had to do it over again, maybe it would have been better if she had really unloaded, a hard bang of her left shoe rather than a soft tap of the toe. At least then the unusual rules situation that transpired during the first round of the Women’s KPMG PGA Championship would

If you thought Rory McIlroy might be flagging just a little, following a run of terrific form interrupted only by his regular vociferous defenses of the PGA Tour in the face of the LIV Golf threat, well … you’d be right. He’s under the weather, he’s tired after a punishing U.S. Open and he’s looking

The PGA Tour is in Cromwell, Connecticut this weekend for the Travelers Championship. The course is one of the shorter ones on the tour but carries an $8.3 million purse. Some of golf’s best talent will look to get a win at TPC River Highlands this weekend. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 2

PGA Tour player Kramer Hickok claims that 17 players have signed on to the proposed Super Golf League. “You’re going to see a lot of big names jump over there. I think there’s already been 17 guys that have jumped over and I can’t say who they are, but there’s going to be some big

12:49 PM ET Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy offered some of the harshest criticism yet of PGA Tour players who have defected to the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, saying Wednesday that some are “duplicitous” for backing out of their commitments to the tour. McIlroy, speaking to reporters at a news conference ahead of this

CROMWELL, Conn.—It wasn’t so long ago that the PGA Tour featured 60 ​exempt ​haves and an ocean of have-nots—hundreds of striving rabbits who went week to week trying to Monday qualify their way into a career. The dollars are different now, but the vision described by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at the Travelers Championship

Elite junior golfers seem often to be bred in warm weather places. California, Texas, Arizona, the Carolinas—those are the states you expect to see when you look at the makeup of the national junior golf rankings. But right now, the player who sits atop the Rolex AJGA and Junior Golf Scoreboard Rankings breaks the mold:

2:55 PM ET If there was any doubt about the venom brewing between the PGA Tour and the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, the latest salvo was delivered by the breakaway circuit on Wednesday. Just as PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was unveiling increased purses, a revamped schedule and dramatic changes to the FedEx Cup

Justin Thomas has withdrawn from the Travelers Championship with a back injury, the two-time major winner announced on Twitter on Wednesday. He will be replaced in the field by Satoshi Kodaira. Given the craziness of recent weeks in professional golf, the world No. 5 took to social media to pre-empt any speculation that his withdrawal

5:23 AM ET Players involved in the LIV Golf Series will be allowed to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews next month, organizers the R&A announced on Wednesday. The USGA allowed players who have joined the LIV Golf Series, which is financially backed by Saudi Arabia’s government-backed PIF Fund, to play at

Brooks Koepka took one more step in leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf on Tuesday when he withdrew from this week’s Travelers Championship. The tour announced his withdrawal and said he would be replaced by Mark Hubbard. The move was a surprise to no one in the golf world, considering there were reports earlier

The 2022 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship announced on Tuesday that the purse for this week’s LPGA major at Congressional Country Club has been doubled to $9 million. While this changes the payouts throughout the field, notably, the winner will receive $1.35 million. That’s double what Nelly Korda earned when she won the tournament in 2021.

8:08 AM ET Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka is the latest golfer to defect from the PGA Tour to the LIV Golf Invitational Series, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Koepka, 32, is one of the highest-profile players to join the breakaway circuit, which is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and is fronted

PGA Tour players were informed of wholesale changes to the tour schedule and FedEx Cup that will begin in the fall of 2023, according to multiple players present at a mandatory meeting ahead of this week’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn. Starting next year, the fall portion of the PGA Tour schedule will include eight

6:47 PM ET Will Zalatoris has withdrawn from this week’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut, a move announced by the PGA Tour a day after he finished as runner-up in the U.S. Open. Zalatoris, the world No. 12, missed a 14-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that would have put him in a playoff

Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris. Both tied for second place at the U.S. Open behind Matt Fitzpatrick and both have made major headlines this year on the PGA Tour, although Scheffler has made them for winning and Zalatoris has made them for only coming painfully close. The duo each took home $1,557,687 for their consolation

BROOKLINE, Mass. — Matt Fitzpatrick is a major champion, winning the U.S. Open with a legendary ball-striking performance—and doing it at The Country Club, where it all started. There is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting thoughts from Brookline. 1: We start, as always, with the winner. This was the second consecutive

7:29 AM ET Multiple Contributors One day, years from now, when the history of professional golf is analyzed in full, the two-week stretch of June 7 through June 19 of 2022 may go down as one of the most consequential and volatile periods in the history of the sport. There is a good chance this

The leaderboard at the Meijer LPGA Classic looked like it had been fabricated, that’s how good it was. Heading into the final round, Nelly Korda led, followed by Jennifer Kupcho, Brooke Henderson, Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko and Minjee Lee. As should be no surprise with a leaderboard packed with the game’s stars, it took a

10:59 PM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Will Zalatoris couldn’t resist taking a peek at Matt Fitzpatrick‘s ball. He and Fitzpatrick were walking toward their tee shots on the 18th hole of The Country Club. Madness was unspooling all around them. The U.S. Open was hanging in the balance. Thousands of rowdy fans had just spilled

Norman Xiong was considered among the most talented players on the U.S. Walker Cup team that routed Great Britain & Ireland at Los Angeles Country Club in 2017. His company on that squad? Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris. You know where that trio was on Sunday. They were among the contenders in the

BROOKLINE, Mass. — According to ESPN Deportes, Abraham Ancer will be the latest golfer to move on from the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf. The news is not necessarily a surprise. Ancer has long been tied to the Saudi-backed circuit and played earlier this year in the Saudi International. Ranked 20th in the Official

12:54 PM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — The Country Club punished the field on Saturday. Expect more on Sunday in the final round of the U.S. Open as a packed leaderboard tries to grab the trophy. We have you covered with all the happenings: DeChambeau exits It wasn’t another great week for 2020 U.S. Open champion