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6:12 AM ET It has been nearly a month since the Masters, the first major championship of the season, and the PGA Championship, the second major, is just two weeks away. Not much has changed since Scottie Scheffler won his first major and slipped on a green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club on April

Marina Alex wasn’t sure how much competitive golf she had left in her. The 31-year-old from New Jersey has been on the LPGA Tour since 2013. In 2018, she secured her first win. But on Sunday in Los Angeles, after enjoying a champagne celebration for winning the Palos Verdes Championship by a shot over World

7:14 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm pulled out of a four-way tie with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole and then held on with pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Mexico Open. Rahm won for the first time since the U.S. Open

It’s hard to say what will go down as the most remarkable part of Adri Arnaus’ maiden victory on the DP World Tour at the Catalunya Championship. Impressively, the 27-year-old Spaniard shot a bogey-free final-round 65 to overcome a seven-shot deficit, the biggest come-from-behind win on tour in the 2022 season. But to close things

The final round of the Mexico Open at Vidanta Vallarta begins with Jon Rahm in the lead at 15 under par, two shots ahead of Cameron Champ and Kurt Kitayama. Will it end that way? Your answer depends mostly on your personal instincts. Rahm, No. 2 in the World Ranking, was the overwhelming favorite heading

12:00 AM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Hannah Green held onto the lead Saturday in the Palos Verdes Championship after a frustrating start on the hilly, windswept course perched above the Pacific Ocean. Three strokes ahead of Lydia Ko and three other players entering the day, Green overcame bogeys on the first

America, Ireland, Spain, United Arab Emirates, the Bahamas. That’s the list of countries in which Jon Rahm has scored a professional victory, and on Sunday, he’ll have a chance to add Mexico to that roster. Rahm holds a two-shot lead after a solid but unspectacular Saturday at the Mexican Open at Vidanta, where a three-under

7:26 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm birdied the last two par 5s and got some help from a couple of poor chips by Cameron Champ to take a 2-shot lead into the final round of the Mexico Open. Rahm, whose last victory was at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines

Kiradech Aphibarnrat has quite the love affair with Vidanta Vallarta’s par-3 fifth hole at the Mexico Open. The 32-year-old from Thailand has played it in five shots total in three days. Five. Perhaps even more bizarre is that only one of those five strokes was a putt. On Thursday, Aphibarnrat started shaky in Round 1

Anna Davis was well outside the cut line late Friday at the LPGA’s Palos Verdes Championship. Then the magic happened. The 16-year-old champion of the third Augusta National Women’s Amateur earlier this month at Augusta National Golf Club had earned an exemption into the event in her native California. It was her first appearance in

8:54 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm faced the wind and handled it just as well Friday in the Mexico Open, making eight birdies on his way to a 5-under 66 that staked the world’s No. 2 player to a two-shot lead over Alex Smalley. Rahm birdied all four of the

Bryson DeChambeau shared a photo late Friday of his surgically repaired left hand. The eight-time PGA Tour winner released a tweet showing a massive incision on the palm of his left hand with a caption saying, “Healing up! Gripped a club today. Can’t hold on to it for long, but getting there!” The 28-year-old broke

7:15 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steve Stricker played his first round in 201 days and it seemed as though he was healthy as ever, opening with a 5-under 67 on Friday to share the lead in the Insperity Invitational on the PGA Tour Champions. Stricker dropped only one shot on a

For weeks the bitterness between officials at the PGA Tour and LIV Golf Investments has simmered, each side looking to improve its position in a multiyear game of cat-and-mouse that looks to be moving, inevitably, toward a battle not on the golf course but in court. Last Monday marked 45 days until the first round

How familiar are you with 14-time PGA Tour winner and 2017 PGA champion Justin Thomas? You’ve probably heard hundreds of times how he’s friends with Jordan Spieth. And how competitive they are with each other (which is true). But here are a few other things you need to know about the 29-year-old. Justin Thomas has

9:48 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Minjee Lee shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko after the first round of the Palos Verdes Championship. Coming off a third-place tie Sunday in the LA Open at Whilshire Country Club, Lee had a bogey-free

To no one’s surprise, Jon Rahm was made an overwhelming favorite by sportsbooks to win this week’s Mexico Open at Vidanta. At around 4-to-1 odds depending on where you looked, the 27-year-old Spaniard was given about as much respect as we’ve seen any player get since Tiger Woods was in his prime. And yet, after

4:11 PM ET Associated Press Oliver Bekker shot a 6-under 66 to take a share of the first-round lead at the Catalunya Championship on Thursday. Seeking his first European tour win, the South African made eight birdies and a double bogey at the Stadium Course to finish tied with Jeff Winther and Darren Fichardt. “Pretty

Give Vidanta Vallarta this: the course is providing fireworks. The site of this week’s Mexico Open has surrendered two early aces in Round 1 in its PGA Tour debut. The first came from the very first group of the day thanks to Kiradech Aphibarnrat. The man affectionately known as “Barn Rat” was three over through

The amazing thing about the disappearance of Phil Mickelson since stating in February was taking time away from the game in the wake of his controversial comments about the upstart Saudi-backed golf league was the completeness with which his withdrawal from society seemed to take place. The common thought was that he was secluded in

3:03 PM ET Associated Press LA PINEDA, Spain — Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal shot 8-under 62 on Sunday to win the ISPS Handa Championship for his seventh European tour title — and first on home soil. Larrazabal made nine birdies and a bogey at the Lakes Course to secure a one-shot victory over countryman Adrian Otaegui

Stanford, Oregon, South Carolina, Wake Forest, San Jose State and Oklahoma State each earned No. 1 seeds as the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Committee announced its selection of 72 teams and 36 individuals to participate in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Regionals, May 9-11. Twelve SEC schools earned spots into the Regional fields, the most

5:31 PM ET Associated Press IRVING, Texas — Scott Parel two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th hole for a 6-under 65, and then won the inaugural ClubCorp Classic on Sunday with a par on the same hole in a playoff for his second PGA Tour Champions title. Parel won a three-man playoff at Las

Back in January, while enjoying some early season success, Kevin Na was up to his usual Kevin Na tricks, which is to say he was walking in putts left and right. He was also taking his time before actually striking the putts, in addition to all his other shots, as Na is also known to

World No. 3 Jon Rahm will lead the field at this week’s Mexico Open at Vidanta, a new event added to the 2021-22 PGA Tour schedule and the third ever tour event to be played in Mexico. This will be Rahm’s first start since the Masters, and he’ll be the highest-ranked player showing up to

11:31 AM ET Associated Press ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The 150th edition of The Open is expected to attract a record-breaking crowd of 290,000 when St. Andrews hosts in July, organizers said Tuesday. The R&A received more than 1.3 million ticket applications, leading to the highest-ever number of general admission tickets being issued to fans

The Mexico Open at Vidanta will feature a wide array of talent from World No. 3 Jon Rahm to local favorites like WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational winner Abraham Ancer. The Greg Norman-designed Vidanta Vallarta course hosts this first-year event through 2024 and has already been extended 250 yards from its original design to get ready

12:38 PM ET Associated Press When he isn’t busy trying to get the Golden State Warriors back to the NBA Finals, Stephen Curry is doing his part to create golf opportunities for minorities. His latest venture is expanding his “Underrated” brand into golf by launching a series of five tournaments in conjunction with the American

Phil Mickelson remains in his self-appointed penalty box, although a Monday statement from his agent Steve Loy conveyed that Mickelson may be nearing a return. How Mickelson will be received following his controversial remarks and alleged conduct will be one of the many unknowns surrounding the 51-year-old when he tees it up again. To Jon

12:13 AM 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. Who needs 3s when you can score a 4.0? In the fall of 2021, 16-year NBA veteran