8:33 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio – Next to play, Tiger Woods. Silence. No roars. No applause. No “Let’s go Tiger” coming from the gallery that would go rows and rows deep with fans trying to get a glimpse as golf’s most famous player stood on the tee box at No. 1. Welcome back to the
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“A day like today I can get a lot of confidence from,” Jordan Spieth said Thursday after overcoming an early mishap to open the 45th Memorial Tournament with a two-under 70 at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Spieth’s uneven golf over the last few years makes one wonder if he truly feels this way or if
The LPGA Tour’s long wait to restart is finally, almost, over. The LPGA Drive On Championship, set for July 31-July 2 in Toledo, Ohio, will be the first LPGA event played since February. To get ready, Commissioner Mike Whan and his team took cues from what the PGA Tour has done in its five weeks
DUBLIN, Ohio—It’s been five months since Tiger Woods and Joe LaCava did their thing. You might think they’ve been communicating frequently—calling each other, texting, talking shop, staying sharp. “Everyone always says, ‘How’s Tiger doing? How’s he feeling?’” LaCava told Golf Digest and GOLFTV. “I say, ‘No idea. They’re like, ‘Seriously?’ I say, ‘Yeah, he’s off
4:45 PM ET PGA commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that he’s hopeful of having at least some spectators in attendance during tour events before the end of 2020. “I mean, we’re doing everything we can to be prepared to have fans at our tournaments certainly in the final quarter of the year post-Tour Championship,” Monahan
DUBLIN, Ohio — Things are going extremely well, and Bryson DeChambeau is a little surprised. When you put on 40 pounds and fundamentally change the way you play golf, there’s supposed to be some lag time. Some time to adjust to your new body, your new swing. Even Tiger Woods dealt with these barren mid-transformation
6:36 PM ET This is the 45th year of the Memorial Tournament, and host Jack Nicklaus has made a tradition of waiting behind the 18th green to congratulate the winner with a hearty handshake. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Nicklaus said Tuesday that he will not be changing anything. “I’m going to shake their hand. I
The second of back-to-back events at Muirfield Village, the Memorial Tournament is set to have a loaded field including the top nine golfers in the World Ranking, the five players in the FedEx Cup standings, Tiger Woods and Workday Charity Open champion Collin Morikawa. The FedEx Cup top five of Webb Simpson, Justin Thomas, Sungjae
Jack Nicklaus didn’t watch much of last week’s Workday Charity Open even though it was being played at his Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The Golden Bear was at his home in Florida, returning to Ohio on Sunday afternoon just before the conclusion of the final round so he could congratulate the winner
7:27 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic shut down golf in mid-March. But Tiger Woods was shut down a month before that. A stiff back kept him out of a host of tournaments he would normally play, such as the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players. When last we saw Woods, in February at the Genesis
With the COVID-19 pandemic having wiped out the seasons for PGA Tour Latinoamerica as well as the Mackenzie Tour in Canada and the PGA Tour’s developmental tour in China, the PGA Tour on Tuesday announced specifics for a replacement series of tournaments for players on those respective tours. The series will consist of seven 54-hole
Two weeks ago at Detroit Golf Club, Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III, Wes Bryan and Jason Day let cameras in on a friendly Wednesday nine-hole match as they prepped for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. At this week’s Memorial Tournament, fans will get to watch another foursome compete in a nine-hole exhibition that includes a charity
5:33 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Tiger Woods will be accompanied by two of golf’s biggest names when he returns to the PGA Tour at this week’s Memorial. Woods will play with Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka in the opening two rounds at Muirfield. Other featured groups announced Monday are:
Fans were denied their dream pairing for the first two rounds of the Memorial. But the consolation prize isn’t too shabby. After Brooks Koepka took a not-so-subtle shot at Bryson DeChambeau on Twitter last week, many were hoping to see the two bashers go head-to-head on Thursday and Friday at Muirfield Village. Alas, that heavyweight
12:01 PM ET The remaining events on the PGA Tour’s 2019-20 schedule will take place without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. The four tournaments that had yet to announce their intentions did so Monday. The Wyndham Championship — which follows the PGA Championship — announced that it will play its regular-season-ending event (Aug. 13-16)
Bryson DeChambeau has staged quite the show in golf’s post-pandemic return. A show the R&A has been carefully watching. Lest one forgets—and given the amount that’s happened this year, any loss of memory is forgiven—the R&A and USGA released their long-awaited Distance Insights report in Feburary. The two-year study of how far the golf ball
The city of La Canada Flintridge sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles, a community best known as the site of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and more notoriously, for dangerous wildfires that occasionally roar through the bone-dry hills. Just down the street from the Jet Lab and up the
7:23 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish won the American Century Championship on Sunday, holding off former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams a day after a record-setting round. The 38-year-old former tennis player jumped into Lake Tahoe in celebration. “I’ve wanted to play well here for a long
Finally, at 18, there was a smile. A tough day, an important day, ended with the kind of validating and satisfying conclusion that means so much to player like MJ Daffue—a player with a lot of heart, little status and no quit in him. For much of Sunday’s final round of the Workday Charity Open,
3:40 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin Morikawa never looked like a winner at the Workday Charity Open until he tapped in for par on the third playoff hole, capping off a wild finish Sunday at Muirfield Village. Morikawa trailed Justin Thomas by 3 shots with three holes to play and managed to
When you read this post, who knows who will be leading the Workday Charity Open. Justin Thomas started the final round at Muirfield Village on top at 16 under, having not made a bogey in his first 54 holes. He then proceeded to bogey two of his first three holes, proving that golf is a
Sunday’s winner of the Workday Charity Open will be a unicorn. When officials at the John Deere Open had to cancel their annual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA Tour threw together a one-time replacement tournament to fill the open spot on the schedule. Workday stepped up to help sponsor the event, and
7:05 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Justin Thomas kept another clean card at Muirfield Village and had a 6-under 66 to turn a three-shot deficit into a two-shot lead Saturday in the Workday Charity Open. Thomas first had to run off a string of birdies to stay within range of Collin Morikawa. And
What has appeared inevitable will soon become official. According to a Golf Channel report, there will be no fans or pro-ams at tournaments for the rest of the PGA Tour season. According to the report, the formal announcement will come Monday. Including this week’s Workday Charity Open, there are 10 events left on the 2019-20
1:23 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Muirfield Village was supposed to be set up easier for the first of two straight PGA Tour events. It sure didn’t feel that way to Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose and others who missed the cut at the Workday Charity Open. The second round was completed Saturday because
The LPGA season restart can’t happen soon enough for Haley Moore, who is having one heck of a rookie year as a pro golfer even if she’s stuck on just one LPGA start. The 21-year-old’s latest exploits came on the Cactus Tour in Scottsdale when she started the final round of the 54-hole event at
4:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Among the lessons Collin Morikawa took away from missing his first cut as a pro was that his reliable cut shot had left him. He found at it Muirfield Village, and suddenly looks as though he’ll be tough to catch at the Workday Charity Open. Morikawa ran
It wouldn’t be a PGA Tour event at Muirfield Village without a few weather delays, and we’ve already had three so far this week in Dublin, Ohio. The two extended delays on Friday have forced players to come back and finish their second rounds on Saturday morning, which should provide some early cut-line drama. Someone
OK, so this €500,000 joint European/Challenge Tour event is far from the biggest deal in his impressive career. But at 56, Vienna-resident Miguel Angel Jiménez leads the Austrian Open at the halfway stage. Already the oldest winner on the Old World circuit, after taking the 2014 Spanish Open title at 50 years and 133 days
1:40 PM ET Associated Press ATZENBRUGG, Austria (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez moved into position to break his own record as the oldest winner of a European Tour event when the 56-year-old shot 7-under 65 to take the second-round lead in the Austrian Open on Friday. Spain’s Jimenez made nine birdies in his first 13