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8:02 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Jordan Spieth thought the course for his hometown Byron Nelson would play more difficult after yielding more birdies in its debut than any other tournament on the PGA Tour last season. The three-time major winner says he couldn’t have been more wrong, and is frankly surprised over

Phil Mickelson has dropped out of next week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills, continuing his sabbatical from golf. The PGA of America announced the decision was Mickelson’s, and in a statement said “we would have welcomed him to participate.” The announcement is somewhat of a surprise as Mickelson, 51, is the reigning PGA champ. However,

5:28 PM ET Reigning PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, who hasn’t played competitively in more than three months, won’t defend his title next week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The PGA of America announced on Friday that Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. “We have just been informed that Phil Mickelson

For a man who will stare down history next week, the past two days in Texas have served as an auspicious showing for Jordan Spieth. Spieth, who would become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete the career Grand Slam with a win at the PGA Championship, turned in a 66 on

By now, we’ve all gotten used to seeing Jordan Spieth pulling off incredible recovery shots. Even ones that risk bodily harm like that cliff shot at Pebble Beach earlier this year. Still, this one was particularly amazing—even by the three-time major champ’s lofty standards. After starting his second round at the AT&T Byron Nelson with

8:05 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday. Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off,

On May 12, Stanford University sophomore Rachel Heck announced that she has signed the first ever Nike Golf NIL (Name Image and Likeness) deal. The 3rd ranked amateur in the world announced the exciting news on her Instagram and Twitter accounts, writing, “Just Did It. So excited and honored to be the first NIL @NikeGolf

9:11 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sebastian Munoz was standing in the middle of the fairway on the 18th hole thinking about his shot at a 59 in the first round of the Byron Nelson. After missing the green, he became the first player in PGA Tour history with two rounds of 60

A wise football coach named Herm Edwards once said “Hello! You play to win the game!” It seems Kyle Wilshire was listening. Last week, the 29-year-old was playing on the All Pro Tour and earning an $8,000 check for finishing in a tie for second. He had knee surgery in 2018, had a forgettable 2019

Lev Grinberg, a 14-year-old who was born in Ukraine, spent time honing his game in Belgium before working more in the United States over the last three years, shot one-under 70 Thursday in the opening round of the DP World Tour’s Soudal Open. Playing on one of six tournament exemptions that go to amateurs, Grinberg

8:33 AM ET The PGA Tour remains in Texas for one more week with the AT&T Byron Nelson as the best in the world get one last competitive event in before the year’s second major, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app | WatchESPN As always,

The defending champions failed to advance to the NCAA Championship, a streak came to an end for one of the biggest names in women’s college golf, the 11th-ranked team in the country missed out by one shot and there was a playoff to determine the last team into the championship field. In other words, Wednesday

6:40 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Craig Ranch in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Texas this week. K.H. Lee won last year’s AT&T Byron Nelson for his first career PGA Tour title. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile?

Greg Norman seemed to brush off Saudi Arabia’s human-rights atrocities when speaking to the media on Wednesday, noting that “We all make mistakes.” Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf—an organization funded by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia—has tried to distance himself from the government’s issues while downplaying the crimes alleged against the Saudi

It wasn’t just hot that day for the final round of the big golf tournament in Tulsa, Okla., but exceedingly hot, the kind of oppressive heat that can be dangerous, when even shade brings little relief and makes a golfer want to quit. Which one golfer did after just five holes, departing and mumbling something

8:29 AM ET Most of golf’s young superstars will be heading to Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, next week for the PGA Championship, the second major of the season. But all eyes will be on two aging former champions — Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods — and also on London. 2 Related On

Seven of the top 15 golfers in the world are making their way to McKinney, Texas, just outside of Dallas to test their wares heading into the PGA Championship. FedEx Cup leader and Masters champ Scottie Scheffler headlines the field at AT&T Byron Nelson, after taking a two-week break after Augusta and the Zurich Classic.

6:42 PM ET ESPN News Services The PGA Tour has denied releases to the players looking to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. The debut tournament, set to take part in London from June 9-11, coincides with

The PGA Tour has opted against granting conflicting-event releases for the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series tournament, the tour told its membership in a memo distributed on Tuesday evening. Players who opt to still play in the LIV event at Centurion Golf Club outside London on June 9-11 will thus be deemed to be in

The road to the 2022 U.S. Open has begun as the USGA rolls out more than 100 qualifying tournaments for the right to compete for this year’s national championship. The 122nd U.S. Open will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., June 16-19. This is the fourth time the major will be played

1:11 PM ET Associated Press SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie to shoot 3-under 69 and take a 3-stroke lead into the final round of the British Masters as he bids for his first win in four years amid a career rebuild. The Danish golfer broke a four-way tie for the lead on

When you’re grandfather has a green jacket, it’s tough to do anything golf-related that’s going to really impress the rest of your family. But Parker Coody managed to do just that at a U.S. Open local qualifier on Monday. The University of Texas senior and grandson of 1971 Masters champ Charles Coody made not one,

2:35 PM ET Associated Press Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie for the second straight day to win the British Masters by one shot in a dramatic fashion Sunday, earning his first European tour title in nearly four years and igniting his career after a damaging court case. Olesen shot 1-over 73 to finish a stroke ahead

Editor’s Note: Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan’s new book, The Cup They Couldn’t Lose: America, the Ryder Cup and the Long Road to Whistling Straits goes on sale May 10 (Hachette Books, $29 hardcover). The book explores the modern history of the matches between the U.S. and Europe that led to the showdown at Whistling

If Ken Duke is in 32nd place when this disaster happened, we’d have never seen it. But that’s what made it all the more painful. Duke was leading the Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Saturday, and thus giving himself a chance for his first PGA Tour Champions victory. What happened then, at the 15th hole at

6:49 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — Steve Flesch rallied from four shots behind Sunday with a 7-under 65 for a one-shot victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, his second title at the TPC Sugarloaf. Flesch also won this tournament in 2018, his only other win on the PGA Tour Champions. Flesch finished the

Keegan Bradley entered the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship Sunday with a two-shot advantage over Max Homa, but Homa birdied the first hole at TPC Potomac and Bradley made double-bogey on the par-4 second hole and the see-saw battle continued for the next four hours. Ultimately, Homa shot a final-round 68 and walked

6:38 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Max Homa kept hearing from his coach, caddie and other supporters that he needed to carry himself with more confidence, an attitude befitting a multiple PGA Tour winner. With his fourth win overall, third in 15 months and second since he gave up his popular podcast to

These are the days Max Homa used to dread. The combination of a saturated golf course, juicy rough, swirling winds and layer-up temperatures expose any player not in full command of his swing and his emotions. And while it might feel like another lifetime, it wasn’t so long ago that Homa had little control of

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — Inherently the same. But, in so many ways, distinct. Forever, those have been the only and obvious conclusions when comparing the PGA Tour and the Old World circuit formerly known as the European Tour, what is now the DP World Tour. Different in culture—certainly. Different financially—for sure. Different in the quality