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4:48 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Well before COVID-19 intervened, the 149th Open figured to have its peculiarities and idiosyncrasies at a course known for its oddities. Royal St. George’s is the closest venue to London and likely the furthest from the top of anyone’s Open list of courses. That’s not to say the links

Jim Furyk hadn’t enjoyed much success of late when holding a 54-hole lead. In fact, since winning the 2010 Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title, Furyk had been 0-for-10 with a Saturday night lead or co-lead, a span of 3,941 days. And when he played his first three holes Sunday in the U.S. Senior Open

7:56 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Vinny Del Negro became the first basketball player to win the American Century Championship, birdieing the par-5 18th hole twice Sunday to beat John Smoltz. Del Negro, the 54-year-old former NBA player and coach making his 20th appearance in the celebrity tournament, birdied the 18th

Just a typical day out on the links really. At various times during Sunday’s final round of the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club, the sun shone and heavy rain fell. A haar (sea mist) hung around for a bit over the adjacent Firth of Forth, the body of water that separates East Lothian and

5:44 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has withdrawn from The Open, citing a recent COVID-19 diagnosis and his inability to practice properly in time for the year’s final major championship. Matsuyama, who became the first male golfer from Japan to win a major championship when he captured the Masters in April,

And, just like that, the end of major season stares us in the face. Come Sunday afternoon, once the final putt drops at 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s, golf fans the world over will be reckoning with a nine-month major-less void. Such is the reality of this new, compact men’s major schedule where

Scott Brown was born in Augusta, Ga., but the 10-year vet has never played the Masters. He’s damn close to making that dream a reality. Brown made nine birdies on Saturday for an eight-under 63, a performance that moved him from middle of the pack to near the top of the board in the John

7:15 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz eagled the par-5 18th hole Saturday to take a two-point lead over Vinny Del Negro into the final round of the American Century Championship. Smoltz had a 26-point round at Edgewood Tahoe in the modified Stableford scoring event for

Matthew Wolff, K.H. Lee and Danny Lee have withdrawn from the Open Championship, which begins Thursday at Royal St. George’s. They will be replaced in the field by Andy Sullivan, Antoine Rozner and Troy Merritt. K.H. Lee, who won his first PGA Tour event at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May, will miss the year’s

9:24 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. — Hall of Fame hockey player Mike Modano holed out from 205 yards on the par-5 18th Friday for the first albatross in American Century Championship history and a share of the first-round lead with John Smoltz. After managing nine points on nine pars on the

When you’re the son of Pete and Alice Dye, a career in golf course architecture is somewhat inevitable. Perry Dye got his first taste of course design when he was just 12 years old, before going on to build more than 80 courses of his own. On Thursday, according to the American Society of Golf

The PGA Tour’s best feel-good story got even better on Friday. And if Willie Mack III keeps this up through Sunday, it could be the makings of a Hollywood script. For a second consecutive week, the 32-year-old made a cut at a PGA Tour event. And while many tour pros are given the label “journeyman,”

7:56 PM ET Associated Press SYLVANIA, Ohio — Nasa Hataoka needed another birdie streak to hang onto the lead Friday in the Marathon LPGA Classic. A day after making six straight birdies in an opening 10-under 61, the 22-year-old Japanese player had four in a row on Nos. 14-17 to salvage a 69. “My shots

It’s not going to be the same, certainly not what we have become used to. How could it be? When Royal St. George’s hosts its 15th Open Championship next week, golf’s oldest major can’t possibly replicate what was once, pre-pandemic, the norm. “It is easy to say we sound like curmudgeons here,” says Mike Woodcock,

7:08 AM ET Connor O’Halloran A fan was ejected from the Scottish Open on Friday after removing a club from Rory McIlroy‘s bag and taking some practice swings. The spectator walked up to McIlroy on the 10th tee at the European Tour event at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick before removing a club from

A quick glance at Cameron Champ’s recent statistics, and the subsequent results, would lead you to believe he’s utterly lost on the golf course right now. Missed cut after missed cut, poor tee-to-green play, shaky putting. Not since the Masters has he posted a finish inside the top 20 on the PGA Tour. It’s been

When your day job is working for Jack Nicklaus, chances are you are too busy focusing on your responsibilities to devote much time to keeping your game in decent shape, let alone have it polished for a major championship. It’s also probably a good career move, too. So it says something about the respective talents

7:56 PM ET Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. — Authorities announced the arrest of a man Thursday in connection with the killing of three men found shot to death on the golf course of a suburban Atlanta country club. Cobb County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. marshals arrested Bryan Rhoden more than 25 miles from where the

Cameron Davis can take solace that his marriage is not the first to put the kibosh on a golf trip. Davis, who captured his first PGA Tour win days ago at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, was listed as an alternate for next week’s Open Championship. On Thursday morning that standing granted Davis a spot in

11:25 PM ET Tom Van Haaren Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady 3 and 2 in “The Match” on TNT on Tuesday. The four played in the charity match at picturesque The Reserve Golf Course at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana. It was the fourth version of “The Match,”

Angel Cabrera was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, Argentina convicted Cabrera of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, who was Cabrera’s partner between 2016 and 2018. In the trial Cabrera denied any wrongdoing. He will serve the sentence

Eleven months ago, the LPGA Tour returned to northwest Ohio in its first steps back from the COVID-19 schedule break. It created the LPGA Drive On Championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, and then played the Marathon LPGA Classic in Sylvania. As the tour makes its first trip back to the Marathon since returning to

6:53 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, convicted the 51-year-old of assaulting, threatening and harassing

On the eve of the Marathon LPGA Classic, her 225th career LPGA Tour start, Tiffany Joh announced that she would be retiring from competitive golf in a fashion only one of the most sarcastic players on tour could. “This is a news breaker here,” Joh, 34, cracked to womensgolf.com, “but this is my last tournament.”

8:18 PM ET Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady are taking on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers in an 18-hole match, raising money for My Brother’s Keeper and Feeding America. This is the fourth version of The Match and, as we’ve seen in the past, the trash talk is out in force. It’s just an exhibition,

During a conference call on Monday, Aaron Rodgers said he hadn’t played much golf since last summer. Maybe nine rounds, total. Given how serious Phil Mickelson takes these things, and how much Tom Brady wanted to avenge his first loss with Lefty, Brady and Phil were the obvious pick based off this information. Apparently, Rodgers

The John Deere Classic returns to the heartland this week after a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was a lamentable loss on the 2020 schedule, a patchwork ad-hoc attempt (and a successful one) to save the season around a global pandemic and varying local regulations that made certain tournaments unfeasible. The Deere

7:38 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff. Davis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes. The 26-year-old Australian left 6- and 18-foot

John Smoltz has played in much bigger events than the American Century Championship in his golf career, including the U.S. Senior Open. Yet still, an ACC victory remains at the top of his golf goals list, for the simple reason he’s yet to check it off. “I’ll make no bones about it, I’m not going

8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Jin Young Ko closed with seven straight pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic, her first start since losing the No. 1 world ranking. Ko sank her shoulders when she made her par putt from just outside