Big things were expected of Atthaya Thitkul, the 19-year-old Thai native having won four times on the Ladies European Tour (including twice as an amateur) before earning her LPGA Tour card last fall with a third-place finish in LPGA Q-Series. But this quickly? In just her third start as an official LPGA Tour member, Thitikul
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Sports icon and former LPGA player Joan Joyce died on Saturday. She was 81. Joyce is considered one of the best multi-sport athletes of the 20th century. She is primarily known for her softball dominance; in over two decades in the Amateur Softball Association Joyce pitched 150 no-hitters and 50 perfect games and owned a
What Scottie Scheffler has done of late—and, let’s face it, he’s done a lot in a very short time—we have witnessed before, though not often and never so quickly. It happens when a player finally wins that first PGA Tour title and just keeps winning. Floodgates don’t just open, but they get busted off their
Better late than never. That has to be the outlook for five players who on Monday morning officially qualified for the Masters, potentially the last players into this year’s field at Augusta National. With the first round of the first men’s major of 2022 less than two weeks away, among the final ways to get
After Jin Young Ko’s first full season on the LPGA Tour in 2018—a year in which she claimed her second LPGA title and earned the Rolex Rookie of the Year award—the then 23-year-old from South Korea faced a challenge she hadn’t encountered in her nascent professional career. With the conclusion of the CME Tour Championship
6:51 PM ET Associated Press Matthew Jordan and Adrian Meronk share the lead heading into the final round at the Qatar Masters, with Kalle Samooja one stroke back after shooting 6-under 66 on Saturday. Jordan (70) and Meronk (72) have 54-hole totals of 8-under 208 at Doha Golf Club as both search for their first
6:12 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Ben Martin shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday to hold onto a 2-shot lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship. Martin had five birdies and three bogeys as the wind dropped a bit at Corales Golf Course to take a 14-under 202 total into
2:52 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — One match required a comeback the likes of which Austin Country Club has never seen. The other was easy enough to feel like a warm walk along Lake Austin. Either way, Kevin Kisner just seems to win in the Dell Technologies Match Play. Three down on the
8:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Jon Rahm lost his match and still made it to the weekend. Scottie Scheffler needed only 14 holes to win his match against Matt Fitzpatrick, and then six more to beat him in a playoff. The third full day of endless action in the Dell Technologies Match
7:00 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Scottie Scheffler is the hottest player in golf and now has the ranking to prove it. Six weeks after his first PGA Tour victory, Scheffler won the Dell Technologies Match Play for his third title in his past five starts, this one enough to move him to
9:54 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Atthaya Thitikul won the JTBC Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, three-putting for bogey on the second hole of a playoff to outlast Nanna Koerstz Madsen. After Koerstz Madsen’s 15-foot bogey putt hit the edge of the cup and stayed out away, the 19-year-old
6:03 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Chad Ramey won the windswept Corales Puntacana Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Ben Martin and Alex Smalley by a stroke. Ramey closed with a 5-under 67, completing a two-putt par on the par-4 18th after Martin missed a 6-foot birdie
3:21 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Atlantic softball coach Joan Joyce, the only coach in the program’s 28-year history and whose numerous claims to fame included once striking out Ted Williams, has died, the school announced Sunday. Joyce died Saturday, the school said without disclosing the cause. She was 81. “Joan
10:45 AM ET Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson shot a composed final-round 70 in windy conditions to finish at seven-under overall and claim his maiden European Tour title at the Qatar Masters on Sunday. Ferguson recovered from an early double bogey, chipping in for an eagle at the par-four 16th and sinking birdies on the sixth and
9:46 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen was tied for the lead in the JTBC Classic when she teed off Saturday on the par-4 18th. She two-putted for par and a 3-under 69 — and walked off with an unexpected 3-stroke lead over Na Rin An. Coming off a breakthrough victory
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas — Being a PGA Tour caddie can be a pretty lucrative gig these days. With ever-increasing purses and shifting attitudes toward loopers—gone are the days of keep-up and shut-up, replaced by players talking about how well “we” executed—bagmen for the top players can bring in north of $1 million per year. Still,
Golf fans can expect to hear even more from David Feherty in 2022. SiriusXM announced on Tuesday the popular golf analyst is set to host a new radio show. The weekly program will feature Feherty along with fellow former pro and current SiriusXM host John Maginnes. “I can’t wait to work with John Maginnes,” Feherty
After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, the Hero World Challenge, hosted by Tiger Woods, returns to Albany Golf Club in The Bahamas with a small but stacked field set to play. Past major champions Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson will be joined by Race to Dubai victor Collin