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12:08 PM ET Tiger Woods has pulled out of next week’s U.S. Open, giving his body more time to heal and get stronger, as he still plans to play in the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews in Scotland in July. Woods, 46, announced that he wouldn’t play in the U.S. Open, scheduled for June

Tiger Woods will not play in next week’s U.S. Open, opting to withdraw from the tournament and instead give his surgically rebuilt right leg added time to rest ahead of the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. Woods put out a statement Tuesday on social media announcing his decision to skip the championship at The

Phil Mickelson released a wide-ranging statement on social media Tuesday outlining his return to golf, with his first start coming at this week’s LIV Golf Invitational. Within the statement, the 51-year-old also seemed to telegraph his intentions to play in a second event: next week’s U.S. Open. Mickelson noted that he was ready for “a

10:20 PM ET ESPN News Services POWELL, Ohio — Fran Quinn last played the U.S. Open eight years ago with his teenage son as his caddie. He thought they might have a moment even more special on Monday as both of them tried to get through the final stage of qualifying. Only one of them

Hours after Mickelson announced he would return to golf at this week’s LIV Golf Invitational event in London, the six-time major winner broke his nearly four-month silence in a conversation with Harig. One of the topics addressed was Mickelson’s reported gambling issues as detailed in Alan Shipnuck’s book on Mickelson, in which Shipnuck asserted Mickelson

3:13 PM ET After a four-month hiatus, Phil Mickelson is returning to competitive golf on the new LIV Golf Invitational Series. Mickelson, a six-time major champion winner, was added to the field on Monday for LIV Golf’s first event, which is scheduled to start Thursday at Centurion Club outside London. “Phil Mickelson is unequivocally one

In an interview with the Washington Post, Greg Norman said Tiger Woods was offered a gargantuan deal to join LIV Golf. Norman, who serves as the CEO for the Saudi-based golf league that launches this week, was profiled by the Washington Post’s Kent Baab. In the piece Baab notes that LIV Golf representatives pitched the

Minjee Lee began the final round of the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles with a three-shot lead. After starting the final round birdie-birdie, she widened her gap on the field even farther. The 26-year-old from Australia left no doubt, winning the U.S. Women’s Open by four over Mina Harigae. Here are some of the

7:26 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Australian Minjee Lee won the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club on Sunday by five strokes after shooting an even-par 71 in the final round to finish 13-under on the tournament and secure the second major victory of her career. Lee’s

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — In every major championship, there is a winning moment, but that doesn’t mean there’s always a dramatic moment. For Minjee Lee, who captured her second career major title with relative ease at the U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday, that proved to be the case since the 26-year-old Australian’s winning moment wound

9:06 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Steven Alker topped yet another PGA Tour Champions leaderboard Saturday, shooting an 8-under 64 for a share of the second-round lead in the Principal Charity Classic. Coming off a victory last week in Michigan in the major Senior PGA Championship, Alker played the four par-5 holes

DUBLIN, Ohio — Seventeen years after he ended his competitive career at the Old Course at St. Andrews, in Scotland, Jack Nicklaus will be granted honorary citizenship of the Royal Burgh of St. Andrews at a ceremony the week of The 150th Open next month. It will mark the fourth award at the Home of

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Through eight holes, Minjee Lee’s Saturday was merely average. On a relatively pleasant, slightly windy day at Pine Needles, she had made one bogey and one birdie, and stood a shot behind leader Mina Harigae, who had fought her way to 10 under. Four holes and an hour later, she had

4:20 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Danielle Kang is not a morning person. The 2017 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner really doesn’t like having to wake up early. Lately, though, she has been left with no other choice. Just over a month ago, Kang was diagnosed with a tumor on her spine,

DUBLIN, Ohio — Billy Horschel now has held the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour five times in his career, but never by a greater margin that the five-shot cushion he enjoys heading into the final round of the Memorial Tournament. “I’ve had it in my head plenty of times,” the convivial Florida native said.

11:54 AM ET Kevin Na, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, announced on Saturday that he has resigned from the tour, doing so rather than face potential discipline and/or legal action for playing in the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series. Na, who is ranked 33rd in the world, announced his resignation on social media.

Kevin Na announced on Saturday that he has resigned from the PGA Tour. Na, who is listed in next week’s LIV Golf Invitational field, took to social media to announce his association with the Saudi-backed series had led him to quit the tour. “For 19 years, I’ve played on the PGA Tour and I have

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — The list of women who have won a career Grand Slam is just seven players long, and that number dwindles all the way to one—Annika Sorenstam—when you consider the modern, five-major era. Last August, another Swedish star, Anna Nordqvist, would not have been anywhere near the Grand Slam conversation. Sure, she

4:15 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina — Michelle Wie West woke up on Friday morning and decided to solve a puzzle. On the day that would eventually feature her final LPGA round of the year, Wie West grabbed her phone and gave Wordle a shot for the very first time. With her

The young guns are here to play. We’ve been trending this way for some time. See: Scottie Scheffler’s ascension, 11 of the top 15 in the World Ranking are younger than 30 years old, ditto for seven of the last nine major winners at the time of their wins. In any given week, the top

1:57 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — In what will be her final golf tournament of the year, Michelle Wie West — winner of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open — is expected to miss the cut in the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open after shooting a 3-over 74 Friday and finishing 5-over after two

When it comes to hole-in-one stories, there’s almost nothing that could shock us these days. Players making multiple in the same round, husbands and wives going back-to-back on the same hole, someone acing the same hole for three(!) consecutive days, Tom Brady making one while a drone was filming him. OK, so the last one

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — To birdie half of the holes on a U.S. Open course is no mean feat, and Mina Harigae, who posted a seven-under 64 at Pine Needles to finish as the first round leader, might owe her spectacular Thursday to a slight putting adjustment made just 24 hours before the start of

5:37 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina — Lexi Thompson can’t open up a Band-Aid. On the 18th tee box in the middle of a humid, 95-degree day during the first round at the U.S. Women’s Open, the sixth-ranked player in the world is going through a relatable problem: the back of her

Narratives can be tough to rid, and in some cases stay long past the point where they are proven untrue. Conversely, there’s usually a reason why the narrative was constructed in the first place. Which is a long way of saying Will Zalatoris has been viewed as a good, really good player … but a

10:08 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PINE NEEDLES, North Carolina — The U.S. Women’s Open is back at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines for a record fourth time with a purse of $10 million — more than double last year’s purse of $4.8 million — and plenty of storylines. Between Michelle

The 2023 Masters ticket lottery opened on June 1 and will run for three weeks giving everyone an opportunity to be a patron at Augusta National next April. At least, in theory. In reality, you’ve probably got a better chance of winning the actual lottery. The year’s first men’s major has always been considered one

It probably should be no surprise that the NCAA Men’s Team Championship final between two heavyweight programs on Wednesday was won on the strength of twin branches from a family tree that has a green jacket. Texas seniors Parker and Pierceson Coody, twin grandsons of former Masters champion Charles Coody, delivered the first two points

6:37 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — The day of reckoning arrived for the PGA Tour and more than a dozen of its players on Tuesday, as 13 tour members were included in the field for the first LIV Golf Invitational Series in London next week. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has warned players that they

LIV Golf announced the field for its inaugural event in London, and while most of the competitors were players that have been linked to the Saudi-backed circuit for months, one name popped from the rest: two-time major winner and former World No. 1 Dustin Johnson. Though the 37-year-old had previously been rumored as a LIV