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10:41 AM ET Michelle Wie West, who was the youngest player to ever qualify for an LPGA event at age 12, plans to step away from competitive golf after next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina, she told Golfweek in a story published Thursday. Wie West, 32, said she

The advent of (Golf) Twitter has made us aware of some jaw-dropping scores out there, particularly around this time when every low handicapper thinks they have a chance to qualify for the U.S. Open. But what happened in a mini-tour event on Wednesday was about as wild a result as we’ve seen. Well, that we’ve

9:39 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jodi Ewart Shadoff routed defending champion Ally Ewing 6 and 5 on Wednesday at Shadow Creek in the first round of group play in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play. After Ewing opened with a birdie win and halved the second with a par, Shadoff won seven

Early on, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship final largely became devoid of drama on Wednesday, while not devaluing what transpired at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., an unsurprising victory for a talent-deep Stanford team. The No. 1-seed featuring the last two NCAA individual champions, Stanford broke to early leads in three of the five

Jordan Spieth is a Texas man, and it is a Texas bylaw that one must bow before the altar of football. As one who calls Dallas home, part of that worship ties Spieth to the Dallas Cowboys. But part of being a Cowboys fan, at least a realistic one, is realizing the Cowboys have been

4:14 PM ET PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, a former Alabama star and big Crimson Tide football fan, couldn’t help but weigh in on the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher feud after winning a second Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. Thomas, who rallied from a 7-shot deficit in the final round at Southern Hills Country Club to win

The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth features five of the world’s top 10 players including Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler looking to return to form after a poor showing at the PGA Championship. Scheffler, a four-time tour winner since February, will be joined in this latest visit to Texas along by

5:00 PM ET Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Former Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker has pulled out of the Senior PGA Championship after testing positive for the coronavirus. Stricker revealed his positive test Tuesday on Twitter, saying he was “super bummed” and that it was “just a small setback.” Stricker was out of competition

Justin Thomas, just days after winning his second major championship title, is among five of the top 10 players in the world playing this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He’ll be joined Masters champ and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland competing at historic Colonial Country Club in

There are a lot of intriguing facts about Justin Thomas’ landmark victory in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. No one has come from seven strokes back of the lead to win a major on Sunday since Paul Lawrie at the 1999 Open Championship. Plus, as the champion joked on Sunday, he was probably the

10:55 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Sean Crocker found form at just the right time and qualified for his first U.S. Open, among 13 players in Dallas and three in Japan who earned spots at The Country Club next month. The 36-hole qualifiers were the first of 11 that will fill the field for

Victory laps typically occur only in motorsports, but how else to describe heralded Stanford freshman Rose Zhang’s final round in the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Individual Championship on Monday at Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.? If ever a victory entered the realm of foregone conclusion it was Zhang’s, when she carried a seven-stroke lead

8:17 AM ET TULSA, Okla. — Justin Thomas‘ long wait to win another major championship is over after he defeated Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Zalatoris will have to wait again for his first PGA Tour victory, along with Mito Pereira, whose costly mistake

These days, it usually takes going exceptionally low to win on the PGA Tour, and it’s apparently no different in qualifying for the U.S. Open. In the first final qualifier played in North America on Monday at two courses in Dallas, 11 under for 36 holes was the number to be the medalist—and there were

With the PGA Championship over, the focus on majors turns to the U.S. Open June 16-19 at The Country Club outside of Boston, and the USGA was staging two qualifiers on Monday while also announcing an additional 30 players who have received full exemptions. Among them are two former major winners, Adam Scott and Keegan

10:07 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. For the first time since 2017, the Wanamaker Trophy belongs to Justin Thomas. Despite entering the final

TULSA — Let’s get this out of the way: I am not impartial when it comes to Matt Fitzpatrick. I can’t be. I know, I know: No cheering in the press box. I don’t care. He’s one of my best friends. That comes before any professional responsibility. Call me a fanboy, call me whatever you

12:32 AM ET TULSA, Okla. — There are some distinct odors that float through the air on Sundays at major championships: cigar smoke, warm beer, mediocre barbecue and freshly cut grass among them. It can be an oddly comforting cocktail as a fan. But if you’re a player trying to win your first major, there

TULSA — During the pro-am at the Genesis Invitational earlier this year at Riviera Country Club, Jim “Bones” Mackay overheard a conversation between his player Justin Thomas and one of Thomas’ playing partners, who was asking if there was anything the young star liked to collect. “Something that really rings in my ears,” Mackay recalled,

Consider what Mito Pereira faces Sunday morning. Sitting on the 54-hole lead at the Masters last month caused Scottie Scheffler—the hottest golfer on the planet—to break down crying and require his wife to build him back up. Pereira, the 24-year-old from Chile playing in just his second major, handled the nerves splendidly in the third

9:23 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — After several of golf’s biggest stars failed to make up ground on moving day at the PGA Championship on Saturday, six players are in good position to win their first major championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Chile’s Mito Pereira moved to 9 under after the third round and

TULSA — The third round of the PGA Championship teetered on anarchy, with brand-name players flying up (and mostly down) the leaderboard on an exacting test buffeted by breezes. By day’s end, Mito Pereira had claimed a three-stroke lead at nine under, but this still feels like the most wide-open major championship Sunday in recent

10:12 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — The 14th hole at Southern Hills Country Club is a monstrous par-3, the kind of hole that can demoralize even the best golfers in the world. But Saturday, Rory McIlroy hit a 5-iron there that I would contend was the best shot of the entire PGA Championship. It was

TULSA — They took separate routes to get here at the PGA Championship. Cameron Young fought the wind and somehow won, turning in one of the rounds of the tournament. Will Zalatoris … well, Zalatoris struggled Saturday, walking off the 18th like he needed a hot shower and a hug. But Young and Zalatoris will

Move over, Tyrrell Hatton, we have a new Classic-Course-Criticizer-In-Chief. Sheesh, that’s a mouthful. Speaking of mouthfuls, two-time tour winner Patton Kizzire had some seriously harsh words for Southern Hills, this week’s PGA Championship venue, following his third round. Kizzire, who has shot rounds of 69, 75 and 78 this week, went straight to Instagram after

9:38 AM ET Tiger Woods snuck into the weekend at the PGA Championship with a gritty end to his second round. Despite the accomplishment of making the cut just 14 months after a single-car crash that nearly cost him his leg, Woods isn’t just happy to be here. He wants to be a factor. “This

TULSA – The Will Zalatoris playbook already is rather familiar despite his brief tenure on the PGA Tour: attack with ball striking and hope to rattle in a few putts. It’s worked pretty well—though not well enough to win a tournament. And he’s been close, particularly in majors, where he has finished in the top-10

10:13 PM ET TULSA, Okla. — How do you feel, these days, when you watch Tiger Woods tee it up in a major championship? There are no wrong answers, which is one of the reasons we’re so drawn to the drama of sports. We can all watch the same events unfold, the same athletes compete

TULSA — Tyrrell Hatton has never been one to hold back how he feels about, well, how he feels. If you didn’t know that already from the endless number of on-course outbursts he’s displayed over the years following good, bad and indifferent shots, it was crystalized after the final round of last month’s Masters when

TULSA — It wasn’t very long ago—2016, in fact—that Talor Gooch was on the brink of collapse at the second stage of the Web.com Qualifying School, pondering a future career at Best Buy. The Midwest City, Okla., native had no profile to speak of, and at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas, it took every ounce