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Matt Kuchar has played in 27 consecutive major championships. He hasn’t contended in all of them. Heck, he’s missed every major cut since the 2019 Open Championship, where he finished T41. But the kind of consistency it takes to qualify for every major since the 2015 Masters is not so common on tour. Kuchar, now

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Save the cake and candles, because there’s no birthday gift that can beat what Paula Schulz-Hanssen gave herself. Schulz-Hanssen—one of Germany’s top amateurs who is committed to Arizona State—triumphed in a four-hole, four-for-one sudden death playoff following a rain-delayed second round at Champions Retreat Friday to earn the final spot for the final round

9:36 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anna Davis was little more than a silhouette from right of the ninth green as darkness fell quickly at the end of a long day at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The only light came from a video board and headlights from carts making their way in.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — It was a day made for low scoring, to the degree a major championship yields low scores, but the player most likely to post one stumbled, ending a remarkable record streak. Jin Young Ko, No. 1 in the Rolex Ranking, had made a habit of posting low scores, an LPGA-record 34

10:03 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Jennifer Kupcho shared the lead Thursday in The Chevron Championship in her second — and last — start at Mission Hills, the tree-lined layout she has quickly fallen in love with. “Honestly, I think it’s just being comfortable on this golf course,” Kupcho said. “I get

For the competitors in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Friday is arguably the most anticipated day of the tournament, even if it’s only an occasionfor practice rounds.  Not just any practice rounds, mind you. All 72 players are guaranteed to fulfill what is universally a dream to play Augusta National Golf Club. This particular Friday,

12:58 PM ET As Tiger Woods decides whether to play in next week’s Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, one of his competitors said it would be phenomenal to have the 15-time major champion in the field. “I think for golf and for the Masters tournament and for everyone, to have Tiger there would be

Even more than a decade after Jack Nicklaus competed in his last Masters, there was still a rite of spring for him at Augusta National Golf Club. Each Wednesday afternoon of tournament week, the Golden Bear played in the Par 3 Contest, alongside other legends such as Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, and it was

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Lorena Ochoa returned to Mission Hills Country Club on Wednesday, this time not as a star, but as a mother of three, a wife, an ambassador, a mentor, a philanthropist and the newest member of the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ochoa, 40, was here to be honored by the LPGA, inducted

6:53 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — California teen Anna Davis birdied the par-5 closing hole at Champions Retreat and shared the lead with Alabama sophomore Benedetta Moresco of Italy at 2-under 70 on a tough, windy start on Wednesday to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Only five players in the elite field of

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Brooke Henderson is a fan favorite of sorts here in the Coachella Valley, a Canadian at home among Canadians, the snowbirds who leave the frigid north to winter in the warmth of the desert sun. But don’t call it a home-course advantage. Whatever level of comfort she derives from it potentially

In a perfect world, if Tiger plays at Augusta, what is a realistic expectation? If he makes the cut, where does that rank in terms of great comebacks? If he wins, which seems nearly impossible, that’s the greatest comeback of all time—in any sport—right? @opinionsvary328 It is becoming increasingly difficult to be realistic about Tiger

7:16 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN It has been three years since Jennifer Kupcho hit the first tee shot of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Three days after her historic tee shot, Kupcho made history again. Rolling in a 20-foot birdie putt on Augusta National’s 18th hole, Kupcho won the inaugural event, edging out Maria

With the Masters on the horizon, the Valero Texas Open will be the last time for pros to prep for the year’s first men’s major; 20 players in this week’s tournament are then off to Augusta National. A strong field at TPC San Antonio includes defending champ Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau for

8:10 AM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com HOBBS, N.M. — On the first Sunday after the crash, Christian Center Church welcomed its worshipers. In the atrium, a large screen with a countdown clock signaled the beginning of the service. Inside the sanctuary, a nine-member band broke out into song. Three screens behind the band showed the young

The Valero Texas Open celebrates its 100th anniversary, and with that huge achievement comes a strong field at TPC San Antonio. Defending champ Jordan Spieth will tee off this week, as will 2021 Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama is returning from a lingering back injury that forced him to withdraw from the Players Championship and

Woods, who sustained traumatic injuries in a single-car accident in February 2021, remains on the official list of participants on the Masters website but has not yet announced whether he’ll play. The 46-year-old has not competed on the PGA Tour since the Masters in November 2020. Fans and media tracked Woods’ private jet on Tuesday

7:43 AM ET One of the most competitive rounds in women’s golf might not take place at LPGA events. Each Tuesday and Thursday, the Stanford women’s golf team plays qualifiers to determine the top five players to compete in upcoming tournaments. The competitors include five of the top 66 players in the world, according to

Scottie Scheffler drew the big headlines on Sunday by taking home $2.1 million for his win at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and moving to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, but in a way, there was a lot more on the line at the PGA Tour’s other event. And one player’s emotional

What Scottie Scheffler has done of late—and, let’s face it, he’s done a lot in a very short time—we have witnessed before, though not often and never so quickly. It happens when a player finally wins that first PGA Tour title and just keeps winning. Floodgates don’t just open, but they get busted off their

Better late than never. That has to be the outlook for five players who on Monday morning officially qualified for the Masters, potentially the last players into this year’s field at Augusta National. With the first round of the first men’s major of 2022 less than two weeks away, among the final ways to get

Scottie Scheffler was looking invincible in the 18-hole final of the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship on Sunday, holding a 3-up lead against match-play menace Kevin Kisner through 11 holes. The only way it appeared Scheffler would be rattled at Austin Country Club is if he made a mistake of his own doing, which didn’t look

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — It was called, simply and affectionately, the Dinah. It still is by so many, even as a string of title sponsors has dislodged her name from a tournament on which she bestowed stature, the most beloved in women’s golf. “All due to Dinah might,” the renowned columnist Jim Murray wrote. Dinah

With just 10 sleeps ahead of the first tee shot of the 2022 Masters, there is increasing speculation that Tiger Woods will tee it up in the year’s first major. It’s extraordinary to even type that sentence given the events of the past 14 months, but Woods has spent 25 years turning the extraordinary into

After Jin Young Ko’s first full season on the LPGA Tour in 2018—a year in which she claimed her second LPGA title and earned the Rolex Rookie of the Year award—the then 23-year-old from South Korea faced a challenge she hadn’t encountered in her nascent professional career. With the conclusion of the CME Tour Championship

The race for the 2022 FedEx Cup title is under way as the 2021-22 PGA Tour season begins with the fall series. The season-long FedEx Cup points standings will help determine who keeps their PGA Tour cards and who’ll be eligible for the FedEx Cup Playoffs come August. The 2021-22 season includes 45 regular season

CARLSBAD, Calif.—When Atthaya Thitikul finished her eight-under-par 64 round in the JTBC Classic on Sunday, a few dozen fans leaned against white plastic fence outside the scoring area waiting for her autograph. She happily obliged them, posing for a few selfies along the line. Since the 19-year-old from Thailand has played only a handful of

Big things were expected of Atthaya Thitkul, the 19-year-old Thai native having won four times on the Ladies European Tour (including twice as an amateur) before earning her LPGA Tour card last fall with a third-place finish in LPGA Q-Series. But this quickly? In just her third start as an official LPGA Tour member, Thitikul

Sports icon and former LPGA player Joan Joyce died on Saturday. She was 81. Joyce is considered one of the best multi-sport athletes of the 20th century. She is primarily known for her softball dominance; in over two decades in the Amateur Softball Association Joyce pitched 150 no-hitters and 50 perfect games and owned a

6:51 PM ET Associated Press Matthew Jordan and Adrian Meronk share the lead heading into the final round at the Qatar Masters, with Kalle Samooja one stroke back after shooting 6-under 66 on Saturday. Jordan (70) and Meronk (72) have 54-hole totals of 8-under 208 at Doha Golf Club as both search for their first