7:16 AM ET Associated Press Defending champion Bernd Wiesberger was two shots clear of fellow Austrian golfer Matthias Schwab on top of the second round leaderboard at the Made in HimmerLand on Friday. Wiesberger carded a 6-under 65 after an opening 66 to be 11 under overall. His round included seven birdies and a bogey.
Nobody will ever mistake the Charles Schwab Challenge for the Open Championship, but inclement weather in Texas this week made “the draw” quite important, at least for Jason Kokrak. Kokrak teed off late on Thursday and early on Friday, posting a pair of five-under 65s to reach 10 under for the tournament. The CJ Cup
7:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Phil Mickelson kept hearing congratulatory words as he made his way around Colonial, and there was a huge roar from the crowd when the PGA Championship winner made a long putt to finish his round. Jordan Spieth kept making birdies in the same group. Spieth shot
You’d think a walk-off hole-in-one to win a match/playoff in an elite professional tournament would be high on the list of “very rare occurrences” in golf. In March, Sergio Garcia pulled off the feat at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, making an ace in a playoff against Lee Westwood to advance out of the group
Have you ever watched a professional talk about strategy and course management but found it difficult to relate to your own game due to the distances that they hit the ball? Thats why I filmed this short 4 hours course lesson without any of my longer clubs, it allows me to show you exactly how
Many of you have requested that I film a lesson on driving and with it being such a key component to any players’ game, I felt it was important for me to take the time to share my insight. 11:10 – Check out VKTRY insoles (https://vktrygear.com/) Their carbon fiber insoles are the secret weapon that
Kay Cockerill, a native of Northern California and, at the time, the reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, attended her first U.S. Open in 1987, when she was a 22-year-old spectator watching at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course. Her memories of the championship, faded a bit with time, return as slightly abstract images in her mind.
9:39 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas set up a showdown Friday for a spot in the final 16 in the LPGA Match Play. First, they planned to watch “Friends: The Reunion” together. “Of course,” Salas said. “There’s a reunion,” Kang added. “We have matching ‘Friends’-like doors,
Much like a microwave, Jordan Spieth (and his putter) knows how to reheat and reheat quickly. Of course, that wasn’t quite the case during his prolonged slump. There was no heating or reheating during that Ice Age, but coming off a woeful putting week at Kiawah, Spieth quickly bounced back at Colonial. It’s the latest
11:21 AM ET Tiger Woods is in a familiar place: extensive rehabilitation. That was the gist of his comments in a brief interview with Golf Digest, the first he has done since being involved in a serious one-car crash in Southern California on Feb. 23 that left him hospitalized for nearly a month. “This has
Tournament officials announced Thursday that fans attending the Memorial next week will be offered the chance to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at Muirfield Village. A station near the main tournament entrance will be staffed by Ohio Health officials, who will administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The station will be open during the second, third
Ben Hogan’s teaching on how the hips must lead the downswing. See http://www.thegolfreviews.com for a related article entitled “The Pro-Factor”.
5 GUARANTEED TIPS TO BREAK 100 – Simple Golf Tips In this golf lesson Matt Fryer Golf takes you through the 5 tips that will guarantee you will break 100. From course management tips, chipping tips, swing tips this golf lesson will help you break the elusive 100 mark out on the golf course. Even
On a recent trip to America European Tour Weekly spent time with the legendary musician Alice Cooper. Cooper has on several occasions credited golf as having played a major role in helping him to overcome his addiction to alcohol, and has even gone as far to say that when he took up golf, it was
It often takes years of playing in USGA championships before victory is finally achieved. Nobody apparently told that to Kiko Francisco Coelho and Leopoldo Herrera III. The teenagers who live in Florida and became friends after competing against each other in a state junior event were in their first USGA event at this week’s U.S.
2:48 PM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Very few people on Earth can understand or relate to what it’s like to be an NFL quarterback. Even fewer know what it’s like to actually be good at the job. Only a handful know the experience of
It is a cliché in sports, the best team on paper, but in the case of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship that Mississippi won on Wednesday, the paper proved to be prescient. It was written by Ole Miss’s Julia Johnson in advance of her freshman year in 2017. Her written goals were to become the
11:05 AM ET Fresh off his victory at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson didn’t wait long to get involved in another high-profile golf match involving celebrity quarterbacks — and Bryson DeChambeau. Mickelson, who captured his sixth major title on Sunday to became the oldest major champion at age 50, will be part of a July
After witnessing what happened on Sunday at Kiawah Island, we were all left wondering the same thing – how? How did Phil Mickelson pull off winning a major at 50? How did this notorious high-wire act of a golfer keep it together on such a hard golf course for four straight days? How was he
This really is the best golf swing lesson you will EVER have! I have to share this because this has worked on so many of my clients, and i want to share this with you! Club golfers will have confidence to strike the ball and create that ball then divot contact. A lot of golfers
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The Monday when most of the U.S. Open sectional qualifying tournaments are played is among the best days on the golfing calendar, when hundreds of aspiring players across the country battle it out over 36 holes to earn a spot in the national championship. “Golf’s longest day” is what we’ve come to know it as.
7:23 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gile Bite Starkute holed a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the first extra hole and Arizona, which grabbed the last qualifying spot, stunned top-seeded Stanford in the quarterfinals of the NCAA women’s golf championship. Stanford earned the No. 1 seed with a 13-shot victory over
You’re in the right place if you want sympathy for not betting Phil Mickelson last week. Join the club. Of course, who could’ve seen Phil’s historic PGA Championship victory coming . . . and we were all so happy for him. But as a historic 200-1 longshot, well, we’ll be kicking ourselves for eternity for
1:56 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. Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird. Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Brooks Koepka
RICHMOND, Va. — U.S. Ryder Cup assistant captain Davis Love III had planned to join captain Steve Stricker at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course for last week’s PGA Championship, in part to do some reconnaissance on potential team members for this fall’s matches at Whistling Straits. On their list of targets: Phil Mickelson. But Love underwent
David Leadbetter is widely regarded as one of the world great coaches. Coach to numerous tour winners, world number one’s and multiple major winners David has worked with the games elite to help them improve. In this video Chris gets a personal golf lesson from David and you have a front row seat to see
EASY GOLF SWING FIX FOR SENIOR GOLFERS – Simple Golf tips In this golf lesson Matt Fryer Golf shares a drill that he used in a recent golf lesson with a senior golfer. This drill will also work if you feel you have a steep golf swing. By working through a few stages in the
This is the week where it all started. The 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge was the first event back post-COVID-19, and we were never so happy to have professional golf back. We had an exciting result, too, with Daniel Berger edging Collin Morikawa in a playoff—and Xander Schauffele being there until the end. We’ll hope for
11:48 PM ET The CEO of the PGA of America apologized Monday for the poor crowd control on the 18th hole of the Ocean Course as eventual winner Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka tried to complete the final round of the PGA Championship. Both players were swarmed by boisterous spectators Sunday at the Kiawah Island