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7:09 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — David Toms flipped the script Saturday at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic with a four-shot swing on the 15th hole and closed with pars for a 1-under 71 that gave him a two-shot lead over Ken Duke going into the final round on the PGA Tour Champions. Toms

Anybody who’s attended a professional golf tournament has been there. You’re standing by the green, whispering to a friend or rustling the pairings sheet a bit, and you think to yourself: How much do these guys hear of what goes on outside the ropes? For some, apparently, all it takes is chewing. Yes, chewing! James

7:26 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Keegan Bradley did nothing special on the only easy scoring day this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, opening with an even-par 70 that left him around the cut line. Since the conditions got tougher, Bradley has been the best player at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.

They were out there because they are paid to be. There was no other justification for playing golf on Saturday at TPC Potomac, which was pounded with ceaseless downpour for the second consecutive day—only this time, the rain brought the cold and the wind with it. The vast majority of fans opted against ruining a

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — It’s been almost seven years since Paul Dunne was on the verge of something akin to golf immortality. With one round to play in the 2015 Open Championship at St. Andrews, the then 22-year-old amateur was tied for the lead alongside the winner of the previous Open played over the Old

4:46 PM ET Associated Press DULUTH, Ga. — David Toms ran off three straight birdies after a rain delay and closed with a short birdie when he judged the wind right, giving him a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with Ken Duke after one round of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Duke was

Perhaps more than any player in the world, Jason Day has been on the career roller coaster since the very start, with extremely high highs—his wins at the 2015 PGA Championship and 2016 Players Championship—and some shocking low lows, marked by totally unexpected droughts. Since his last resurgence in 2018, when he won at the

7:55 PM ET Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. — Jason Day shook his head vigorously after holing an 11-footer for birdie on his ninth hole at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm — not out of disgust, but to whip the excess water off his cap. For the rest of the round, Day shed the hat entirely.

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — He’s not leading. He’s not even on the medal podium at the halfway stage of the Betfred British Masters at The Belfry. But no one was happier on day two than two-time tournament host Danny Willett. After a mildly disappointing opening round of 73, the former Masters champion nipped round the

The former PGA Tour pro fired a six-under-par 66 at a U.S. Open local qualifier on Thursday to comfortably advance. Wilcox will next play in one of the final qualifiers, which begin later this month. After his round, Wilcox gave fellow former PGA Tour player John Peterson credit for motivating him. The retired Peterson was

2:55 AM ET Associated Press Former Ryder Cup player Thorbjorn Olesen and Ryan Fox shared a one-shot lead following the first round of the British Masters on Thursday. Both shot rounds of 66 to finish the day on six under par, while a trio of players — Hurly Long, Richie Ramsay and Ashun Wu —

At TPC Potomac’s par-5 10th hole, Garcia snap-hooked his drive into marsh on the left side of the hole, which was marked as a penalty area with red stakes. Garcia, having to wade across a creek and trudge through tall grasses, eventually spotted his ball, but a rules official deemed he found it outside the

6:17 PM ET Sergio Garcia‘s frustration over a ruling on a lost ball in the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Thursday might have caused him to reveal where he’s soon headed. After driving his tee shot on the 10th hole into a hazard at TPC Potomac in Potomac, Maryland, Garcia became frustrated

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England — It was on Dec. 8, 2021 that Thorbjorn Olesen got his life back. He hasn’t quite found his game yet, but he’s getting there. Six months after being cleared of sexual assault, assault by beating and being drunk on a July 2019 British Airways flight between Nashville and London, the 31-year-old

We know that even the best golfers in the world are capable of hitting a shank (especially if their names are Webb Simpson and Ian Poulter). But on Thursday we saw that the best golfers in the world are capable of doing this even when they’re playing their best golf. Such was the case for

10:35 AM ET Former world No. 1 golfer Lee Westwood told Sky Sports on Wednesday that he has requested releases from the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to play in the first Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London next month. Westwood, 49, told Sky Sports that any impact on his future

It’s already been quite a week for Gregory Odom, Jr., and it’s only Wednesday. The senior from Howard University has a team and individual victory under his belt, and in less than 24 hours after his last putt dropped at the PGA Works Collegiate Championship, he’ll be playing alongside the best players in the world

9:22 AM ET The PGA Tour is shifting locations for the Wells Fargo Championship, moving from its traditional stop at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Maryland. Rory McIlroy headlines a field that is readying itself for the year’s second major, the PGA Championship, which begins May 19

Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, North Carolina and defending champion Pepperdine earned top seeds when the NCAA men’s golf committee announced on Wednesday the 81 schools and 45 individuals to play in the six NCAA Men’s Regional tournaments May 15-18. The top five teams from each regional and the low individual not on those

POTOMAC, Md. — The guy’s so long he voluntarily took driver out of the bag. The holes simply wouldn’t allow for it. It’s part of the deal when your “fairway finder” flies 330 yards. Brandon Matthews, who’s in the field at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship on a sponsor’s invite, doesn’t yet play full-time on

6:49 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Potomac, Maryland, this week. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile? Betting analysts Anita Marks and sports betting deputy editor David Bearman offer their tips to help you

Rory McIlroy will tee it up for the first time since his hot final-round finish of 64 at Augusta National when he plays this week at the Wells Fargo Championship. Not only will he be coming off of one of the lowest rounds in Masters history but he’ll be looking to defend his 2021 Wells

8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steven Alker returned from a two-hour rain delay by playing a six-hole stretch in 6-under par on the back nine to race past Steve Stricker, close with a 6-under 66 and win the Insperity Invitational on Sunday for his second victory this year on the PGA

This week’s Wells Fargo Championship is a unicorn, moving for one year from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte (which hosts the Presidents Cup in September) to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm outside of Washington, D.C. Rory McIlroy, coming off a red-hot final round at Augusta National, is looking to defend his 2021 Wells Fargo title

The LIV Golf series is set to launch in a month with a London event. Though nearly all of the sport’s top and relevant names have publicly distanced themselves from the Saudi-backed enterprise, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman claims 15 of the top 100 players in the world have asked for waivers from the PGA

9:15 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Marina Alex won the Palos Verdes Championship on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour title, breaking a tie with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th and parring the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over Jin Young Ko. Three strokes behind Hannah Green

A few months ago we thought to ask PGA Tour stars a seemingly simple question: When did you know you were good? Open-ended as it sounds, we were looking for specific moments in which, for the player, a future in golf suddenly revealed itself. From Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas to Viktor Hovland and Scotte

1:47 PM ET Greg Norman’s new golf league was prepared to launch the same week in February that Phil Mickelson‘s controversial comments about the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia were published, which caused many committed players to back out. At the time, Norman told ESPN on Monday, at least 30% of the top 50 players

Whatever happens the rest of this year on the PGA Tour, it will be hard to top, from both a gut-check and feel-good perspective, the story of Ryan Brehm, who used his one and only start on a Minor Medical Extension to win the Puerto Rico Open. The Medical Extension, which dates to 1987, was

Lydia Ko was in contention on Sunday at the LPGA’s Palos Verdes Championship, trying to catch eventual winner Marina Alex down the stretch outside Los Angeles. Under the circumstances, then, the sight of physical therapist Chris Wicker coming out on the back nine and stretching out the 25-year-old’s hips and back was concerning. What had she