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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Yes, it is a game played outdoors in all kinds of weather. Yes, 18-hole matches are unpredictable sprints in which a hot putter can often be the springboard to a seemingly unexpected result. And yes, the inherent randomness of golf makes pre-emptive assumptions mere acts of folly. It’s all true. OK,

Associated Press Sep 1, 2023, 10:18 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — Perrine Delacour held onto the Portland Classic lead Friday with another bogey-free round at Columbia Edgewater, shooting a 5-under 67 in perfect conditions a day after opening with a 63 in the rain. “You had to adjust for the pins, especially on the wedges,”

As the Home of Golf, St. Andrews has been the site of more memorable moments in the game’s history than anywhere. But it produced a new kind of sight for golf fans on Friday. And quite a spectacle at that. On the eve of the 2023 Walker Cup, Team USA took to the Old Course

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Neal Shipley sat in the sun in a wooden captain’s chair outside the Ohio State University’s golf learning center at OSU Golf Club Thursday afternoon, and although the day was perfect—clear skies and temperatures in the high 70s—the new star of the Buckeyes golf team had no plans to play. His legs

ANDREWS, Scotland — In the run-up to any team contest, a few sporting metaphors invariably spring to mind when it comes to the various decisions, behavior and carefully considered comments required of the two captains. “Jockeying for position” comes to mind. So does “shadow boxing.” And, from cricket, “playing a straight bat.” Still, after all

Associated Press Aug 31, 2023, 10:05 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — Perrine Delacour shot a 9-under 63 in morning rain Thursday at Columbia Edgewater to take the first-round lead in the Portland Classic. Winless on the LPGA Tour, Delacour opened with a birdie and ran off five straight on Nos. 3-7 in a front-nine 30.

In trying to make sense of his Ryder Cup snub, Keegan Bradley described himself as an “outsider” in a conversation with Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis. One of U.S. captain Zach Johnson’s assistants, Fred Couples, implied Bradley might be onto something on his SiriusXM PGA Tour radio show. First, though, Couples denied that there was any

You may have heard this before in a golf context. Walker Cups, like every other golf competition, are played on grass and not, as the tired old cliché has it, on paper. Which is perhaps just as well for the 10-man Great Britain & Ireland side that this weekend will attempt to wrestle the trophy

Associated Press Aug 31, 2023, 05:10 PM ET TRUCKEE, Calif. — Todd White took the lead with a birdie on the par-5 seventh hole and never trailed the rest of the way in a 4-and-3 victory over Joey Flanagan of Ireland to win the U.S. Senior Amateur on Thursday for his second USGA title. Flanagan

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — As ever at such things, the opening press conferences two days before the 49th Walker Cup begins between the U.S. and Great Britain & Ireland consisted of mostly innocuous answers to generally predictable questions. Everyone on both sides is “really looking forward” to playing the 7,313-yard Old Course at St Andrews

Associated Press Aug 27, 2023, 04:42 PM ET GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Vijay Singh won the Ally Challenge on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title in nearly five years, mainly because of a five-putt triple bogey by Paul Goydos. Singh closed with a 4-under 68, and he walked off the 18th green at

Four-time PGA Tour winner and 2019 U.S. Open champ Gary Woodland announced on Wednesday that he will be undergoing brain surgery. The 39-year-old tweeted that he’s scheduled for a Sept. 18 operation “to remove a lesion found on my brain.” Although Woodland didn’t mention any sort of a timetable, he added, “I’m in good spirits

Outside of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, it’s likely no current golfer has reached the heights of popularity that Rickie Fowler has. Heck, you just have to look at the sea of orange-clad kids in the galleries when the PGA Tour star plays to tell that. But actual analytics from this season prove just how

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 30, 2023, 11:04 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Share Open Extended Reactions PGA Tour golfer Gary Woodland will have surgery on Sept. 18 to remove a lesion from his brain, he announced on X on

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — With two mostly full days of practice still to come, the United States Walker Cup team’s preparations for this weekend’s competition over the Old Course at St. Andrews were of the low-key variety Wednesday at the Home of Golf. Watched by captain Mike McCoy, members of the 10-man squad, having played

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 27, 2023, 07:38 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — When Oklahoma State golf coach Alan Bratton was recruiting Viktor Hovland in 2015, he remembers Hovland telling him that he couldn’t wait to get to

In the end, Zach Johnson wasn’t afraid to stir emotions with his captain’s picks for the U.S. team in the upcoming Ryder Cup in Italy. On Tuesday, Johnson announced his six choices—Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa and Sam Burns—and at least two of those picks will likely create much debate

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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 29, 2023, 10:03 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia A LIV Golf League captain will represent the United States when it takes on Europe in next month’s Ryder Cup in Italy. Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka

If you haven’t participated in the “Justin Thomas: Should he or shouldn’t he?” Ryder Cup discourse over the past couple weeks, let me give you a brief summary in the form of a dialogue: Person A: I think Justin Thomas should make the Ryder Cup team despite iffy form because his career Ryder Cup record

Associated Press Aug 27, 2023, 10:52 PM ET VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Megan Khang needed an extra hole to win her first LPGA tournament in 191 career starts. Andrea Lee agonizingly watched the leaderboard for nearly an hour to see if she would play on the Solheim Cup team for the first time. It was

Scottie Scheffler may have left East Lake without any hardware on Sunday, but he knows he’s at least got a couple trophies coming to him following a fantastic season. While the PGA Tour’s Player-of-the-Year debate will take a bit longer to settle and will likely go to Jon Rahm, Scheffler, the reigning POY already locked

Rickie Fowler isn’t old, but he’s old enough to recall the days before the PGA Tour’s wraparound season began in the fall of 2013. At first, there were mixed reviews. The 34-year-old remembers a funny but frustrating moment two years into the experiment, in the early portion of the 2015-16 schedule. “I think I went

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 28, 2023, 10:24 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia LPGA rookie Rose Zhang will represent the United States when it plays Europe in next month’s Solheim Cup in Spain. Zhang and four other players, Jennifer Kupcho,

Stacy Lewis filled out the remainder of the 12-player U.S. Solheim Cup team roster with three captain’s picks on Monday morning. In trying to put together an American squad to win in Europe for the first time since 2015, Lewis leaned on two veterans in Angel Yin and Ally Ewing, both having played twice previously,

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 28, 2023, 08:30 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — Another tumultuous season on the PGA Tour has come and gone. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Norway’s Viktor Hovland won the Tour Championship at East Lake

Playoffs again, anyone? Megan Khang and Jin Young Ko faced off in the eighth playoff of the LPGA season after both finished at nine under par at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, B.C., to settle the CPKC Canadian Women’s Open. Here is how the Massachusetts native walked away after a closing two-over 74

ATLANTA — Consistency or potency? The two-horse race for the PGA Tour’s 2023 Player of the Year honor will essentially come down to those criteria as tour members cast their votes after the Tour Championship. Does Scottie Scheffler, who won the WM Phoenix Open and the Players Championship while amassing 17 top-10 finishes in 23

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 27, 2023, 07:30 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia ATLANTA — When Keegan Bradley returned home from his first Ryder Cup appearance in 2012, he couldn’t open his suitcase following the Europeans’ stunning 14½-13½ victory at

Viktor Hovland’s six-shot lead heading into the final round of the Tour Championship would seem to suggest a sleepy Sunday awaits in Atlanta. Indeed, most golf fans anticipate the 25-year-old Norwegian will make one more successful loop at East Lake, be crowned the FedEx Cup champion, take home the $18 million bonus and close out