In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: The PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field. Trump Bedminster, in tony, semi-rural central New Jersey? Out. Southern Hills Country Club, in the city
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6:47 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Steve Stricker completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title. Stricker’s second Tradition win at Greystone Golf & Country Club came in his third event since returning from a
There is nothing in the profile of K.H. Lee to suggest he would emerge from this week’s crimson-splashed leaderboard at the AT&T Byron Nelson with a victory over the likes of Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Thomas—all major champions. Nothing in the strokes-gained categories or his scoring average this season, or even his recent
Tiger Woods appears all but certain to play in the PGA Championship after the 15-time major champion was on-site for a practice round at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday afternoon. Woods, 46, has not played in a tournament since he competed at the Masters just 14 months after sustaining traumatic injuries to his right
2:24 PM ET Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium — English golfer Sam Horsfield claimed his third European tour title by shooting 3-under 68 to win the Soudal Open by two strokes on Sunday. His other wins came in a two-week span in August 2020. Horsfield teed off at the 18th hole with a one-stroke lead over
You might still be coming down from the Masters, but the major championship schedule allows for no such thing. The PGA Championship is upon us, with the strongest major field of the year set to take on the newly renovated Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla. To get you ready for the year’s second men’s major,
8:03 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sebastian Munoz will be the “other” local guy in the final pairing of the final round of the Byron Nelson. It’s cool by the Colombian who now calls the Dallas area home and has at least shared the lead after all three rounds. Munoz shot a 6-under
It was something out of a scene of a sketch comedy, and after seeing it, we’re not sure which was funnier on Saturday: the slapstick way Ladies European Tour Chloe Williams flipped backward over a sign, or her reaction upon seeing replays of it. Call it a dead heat, because Chloe was an awfully good
Karl Kimball is currently the head professional at Hillandale Golf Course in Durham, N.C., but in 1991 he was on the PGA Tour and playing in the Greater Greensboro Open at Forest Oaks Country Club. One of his playing partners during the second round of that tournament was Sean Murphy, a young player out of
8:02 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Jordan Spieth thought the course for his hometown Byron Nelson would play more difficult after yielding more birdies in its debut than any other tournament on the PGA Tour last season. The three-time major winner says he couldn’t have been more wrong, and is frankly surprised over
John Daly and pedestrian aren’t normally words that appear in the same sentence. Yet it’s safe to say that golf folk hero has had a pedestrian season to date on the PGA Tour Champions. In six starts prior to this week’s Regions Tradition, the first major on the senior circuit calendar, the 56-year-old had finished
5:28 PM ET Reigning PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson, who hasn’t played competitively in more than three months, won’t defend his title next week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The PGA of America announced on Friday that Mickelson has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. “We have just been informed that Phil Mickelson
For a man who will stare down history next week, the past two days in Texas have served as an auspicious showing for Jordan Spieth. Spieth, who would become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete the career Grand Slam with a win at the PGA Championship, turned in a 66 on
Harris English pulled out of the PGA Championship on Friday. English, coming off a career year in 2021 capped by a Ryder Cup appearance, has been sidelined for most of the 2022 campaign after undergoing hip surgery in February. Though his rehabilitation kept him out of the Masters, English was hopeful during a press conference
8:05 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday. Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off,
“The last subject I want to talk about, and most importantly, is something we’ve discussed a lot this week. We’ve gone from a demand problem in terms of players to a supply problem. The lack of supply is hours in the day, lack of balance in our members’ lives and a lack of pipeline of
9:11 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — Sebastian Munoz was standing in the middle of the fairway on the 18th hole thinking about his shot at a 59 in the first round of the Byron Nelson. After missing the green, he became the first player in PGA Tour history with two rounds of 60
A wise football coach named Herm Edwards once said “Hello! You play to win the game!” It seems Kyle Wilshire was listening. Last week, the 29-year-old was playing on the All Pro Tour and earning an $8,000 check for finishing in a tie for second. He had knee surgery in 2018, had a forgettable 2019
On May 12, Stanford University sophomore Rachel Heck announced that she has signed the first ever Nike Golf NIL (Name Image and Likeness) deal. The 3rd ranked amateur in the world announced the exciting news on her Instagram and Twitter accounts, writing, “Just Did It. So excited and honored to be the first NIL @NikeGolf
8:33 AM ET The PGA Tour remains in Texas for one more week with the AT&T Byron Nelson as the best in the world get one last competitive event in before the year’s second major, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app | WatchESPN As always,
Until this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the shot that resort guests at Pebble Beach Golf Links routinely inquired about most often was Tom Watson’s 17th hole chip in from the final round of the 1982 U.S. Open. Thanks to Jordan Spieth and his harrowing, half-crazy play from the cliff’s edge at the eighth hole
6:40 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour heads to TPC Craig Ranch in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Texas this week. K.H. Lee won last year’s AT&T Byron Nelson for his first career PGA Tour title. Which players are the favorites this time around? Who offers good odds? And what props are worthwhile?
Greg Norman seemed to brush off Saudi Arabia’s human-rights atrocities when speaking to the media on Wednesday, noting that “We all make mistakes.” Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf—an organization funded by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia—has tried to distance himself from the government’s issues while downplaying the crimes alleged against the Saudi
On Tuesday the PGA Tour denied conflicting-event releases to players seeking a spot in the LIV Golf series opener in London. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has been consistent and unequivocal in his “them or us” messaging throughout the various iterations of rival threats, yet the tour’s denials still took some by surprise, wrongfully assuming
8:29 AM ET Most of golf’s young superstars will be heading to Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, next week for the PGA Championship, the second major of the season. But all eyes will be on two aging former champions — Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods — and also on London. 2 Related On
Brooks Koepka bowed out of the AT&T Byron Nelson Wednesday morning. At the time of publication no reason was given for the WD. Satoshi Kodaira will replace Koepka in the field. The move is noteworthy for its timing, as next week the golf world descends on Tulsa for the 2022 PGA Championship. Koepka is a
6:42 PM ET ESPN News Services The PGA Tour has denied releases to the players looking to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. The debut tournament, set to take part in London from June 9-11, coincides with
Seven of the top 15 golfers in the world are making their way to McKinney, Texas, just outside of Dallas to test their wares heading into the PGA Championship. FedEx Cup leader and Masters champ Scottie Scheffler headlines the field at AT&T Byron Nelson, after taking a two-week break after Augusta and the Zurich Classic.
When the topic of Greg Norman comes up these days, most people want to talk about the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series. When Rick Reilly is asked about The Shark, though, he has a flashback to a long ago ride in Norman’s car. A heartpounding ride, that is. “He was friends with this race car driver
2:46 PM ET As injuries started piling up for John Eckert’s fantasy football team last fall, he knew what finishing last would mean for him: The owner of the last-place team in the SHIVA league would have to play in a local qualifier for the U.S. Open. On Monday, Eckert paid off his debt at