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6:12 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Ben Martin shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday to hold onto a 2-shot lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship. Martin had five birdies and three bogeys as the wind dropped a bit at Corales Golf Course to take a 14-under 202 total into

2:52 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — One match required a comeback the likes of which Austin Country Club has never seen. The other was easy enough to feel like a warm walk along Lake Austin. Either way, Kevin Kisner just seems to win in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Three down on the

8:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Jon Rahm lost his match and still made it to the weekend. Scottie Scheffler needed only 14 holes to win his match against Matt Fitzpatrick, and then six more to beat him in a playoff. The third full day of endless action in the Dell Technologies Match

7:00 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Scottie Scheffler is the hottest player in golf and now has the ranking to prove it. Six weeks after his first PGA Tour victory, Scheffler won the Dell Technologies Match Play for his third title in his past five starts, this one enough to move him to

9:54 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Atthaya Thitikul won the JTBC Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, three-putting for bogey on the second hole of a playoff to outlast Nanna Koerstz Madsen. After Koerstz Madsen’s 15-foot bogey putt hit the edge of the cup and stayed out away, the 19-year-old

6:03 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Chad Ramey won the windswept Corales Puntacana Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Ben Martin and Alex Smalley by a stroke. Ramey closed with a 5-under 67, completing a two-putt par on the par-4 18th after Martin missed a 6-foot birdie

3:21 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Atlantic softball coach Joan Joyce, the only coach in the program’s 28-year history and whose numerous claims to fame included once striking out Ted Williams, has died, the school announced Sunday. Joyce died Saturday, the school said without disclosing the cause. She was 81. “Joan

10:45 AM ET Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson shot a composed final-round 70 in windy conditions to finish at seven-under overall and claim his maiden European Tour title at the Qatar Masters on Sunday. Ferguson recovered from an early double bogey, chipping in for an eagle at the par-four 16th and sinking birdies on the sixth and

9:46 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen was tied for the lead in the JTBC Classic when she teed off Saturday on the par-4 18th. She two-putted for par and a 3-under 69 — and walked off with an unexpected 3-stroke lead over Na Rin An. Coming off a breakthrough victory

Angel Cabrera was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, Argentina convicted Cabrera of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, who was Cabrera’s partner between 2016 and 2018. In the trial Cabrera denied any wrongdoing. He will serve the sentence

6:53 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, convicted the 51-year-old of assaulting, threatening and harassing

Eleven months ago, the LPGA Tour returned to northwest Ohio in its first steps back from the COVID-19 schedule break. It created the LPGA Drive On Championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, and then played the Marathon LPGA Classic in Sylvania. As the tour makes its first trip back to the Marathon since returning to

11:25 PM ET Tom Van Haaren Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady 3 and 2 in “The Match” on TNT on Tuesday. The four played in the charity match at picturesque The Reserve Golf Course at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana. It was the fourth version of “The Match,”

Bryson DeChambeau’s British Open odds held steady at 20/1 following his missed cut at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. The odds for who will carry his bag at Royal St. George’s next week, however, are a bit more interesting. DeChambeau’s longtime looper, Tim Tucker, parted ways with the PGA Tour star shortly before last week’s event

During a conference call on Monday, Aaron Rodgers said he hadn’t played much golf since last summer. Maybe nine rounds, total. Given how serious Phil Mickelson takes these things, and how much Tom Brady wanted to avenge his first loss with Lefty, Brady and Phil were the obvious pick based off this information. Apparently, Rodgers

8:18 PM ET Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady are taking on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers in an 18-hole match, raising money for My Brother’s Keeper and Feeding America. This is the fourth version of The Match and, as we’ve seen in the past, the trash talk is out in force. It’s just an exhibition,

The John Deere Classic returns to the heartland this week after a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was a lamentable loss on the 2020 schedule, a patchwork ad-hoc attempt (and a successful one) to save the season around a global pandemic and varying local regulations that made certain tournaments unfeasible. The Deere

7:38 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff. Davis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes. The 26-year-old Australian left 6- and 18-foot

The unforgettable act of the 1969 Concession between Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin serves as inspiration for the newly created Nicklaus-Jacklin Award presented by Aon. This first-of-its-kind award will be given to one player from both the U.S and European Ryder Cup teams who exemplifies sportsmanship, demonstrates teamwork and maximizes performance. A final day match

There are golfers who haven’t played a round in months and would be jittery if the starter even dared take a peek at their swing on the first tee. Imagine what it’s going to feel like for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday in his debut in The Match 4, the made-for-TV event teaming Rodgers

8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Jin Young Ko closed with seven straight pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic, her first start since losing the No. 1 world ranking. Ko sank her shoulders when she made her par putt from just outside

Last week was not a good week for Phil Mickelson. It started when The Detroit News ran a story saying that a local gambler had stiffed Mickelson on a $500,000 debt almost 20 years ago, the facts coming from the transcript of a 2007 trial involving local gamblers unsealed in 2018. Mickelson didn’t deny the

7:48 AM ET They have been talking about this for weeks, mostly with social media back-and-forth, but at last, Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady will take on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday. This is the fourth iteration of the match, a series which began with Tiger Woods and Mickelson playing winner-take-all against each

It’s been nearly 24 months since the R&A named Shane Lowry its last “champion golfer of the year,” the COVID-19 pandemic causing the cancellation of the Open Championship in 2020 for the first time since World War II. When R&A CEO Martin Slumbers announced the decision to hold off on playing a year ago, he

While most living in Dallas celebrated the Fourth of July holiday with time away from the office in a three-day weekend, one of the city’s newest residents, Jin Young Ko, put in overtime work to win the Volunteers of America Classic. The World No. 2 endured a 16-hour day of 32 holes on Saturday due

9:15 PM ET Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. — A professional golfer and two other men were killed in a shooting at an Atlanta-area country club and the suspect is still at large, authorities said. Officers found an unresponsive man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head Saturday near the 10th hole of the golf

Seventy. Seven. Straight. Holes. That’s how long Joaquin Niemann went without a bogey on the PGA Tour, a streak that goes back to the 14th hole the previous Sunday at the Travelers Championship. Niemann tied for 36th in that event. After 72 bogey-free holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Niemann was tied for first, putting

1:09 PM ET Associated Press THOMASTOWN, Ireland — Australian golfer Lucas Herbert completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Irish Open on Sunday, shooting 4-under 68 in the final round to win by three strokes and also secure a place at the British Open. It was Herbert’s second title on the European Tour, after the Dubai

After missing two of the past three majors, Rickie Fowler will be in the field for the 149th Open Championship that begins in eight days. But like a growing number of players, Fowler doesn’t sound ecstatic about the framework in place to compete for the claret jug. Last month the R&A announced it would welcome

We hate to do this. Apologies in advance to Joaquin Niemann, but he is bogey-free through 54 holes, and us telling you that is the golf version of saying “[insert pitcher] is perfect through seven innings.” JINX! There, did it for you. Should Niemann remain bogey-free for the duration of the tournament, AND win the