A diamond’s brilliance forms under the perfect combination of time, pressure and heat. The gem rises to the surface through volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomena, then becomes mined from the land. In much the same way, Mina Harigae, 31 and winless on the LPGA Tour since first earning her card in 2010, was mined
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Wednesday morning, on the eve of the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Patrick Cantlay joined the long line of players who were asked their thoughts on the Bryson DeChambeau heckling issue. The question came in the wake of PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan’s announcement the previous day that fans who chant “Brooksy” as a taunt could
11:29 AM ET ATLANTA — After being hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia last week, Patrick Reed said Tuesday via social media that he is planning to play this week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. Reed, who missed both FedEx Club playoff events — the Northern Trust due to an ankle injury and then the
Matchup results from the BMW Championship: Mayo: 1 for 1 (Rory McIlroy (+105) over Brooks Koepka); Alldrick: 1 for 1 (Patrick Cantlay (-111) over Jordan Spieth); Everybody else: 0 for 1. Matchup Results this season (Wins-Losses-Pushes): Alldrick: 27-15-1 (up 6.63 units); Hennessey: 24-17-3 (up 5.22 units); Powers: 23-19-4 (up 1.93 units); Gdula: 22-22-2 (down 1.12
1:26 PM ET ATLANTA — An updated fan conduct policy could see spectators ejected from PGA Tour events for disrespectful behavior, including shouts of “Brooksy” that have gained considerable attention recently because of an ongoing spat between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka. “Fans who breach our code of conduct are subject to expulsion from the
Commissioner Jay Monahan on Tuesday at the Tour Championship addressed one of the hot-button issues on the PGA Tour: the apparent increase in fan harassment of players such as Bryson DeChambeau. At recent tournaments, DeChambeau—who has been in a very public feud with fellow major winner Brooks Koepka—has heard constant yells of “Brooksy!” from the
Let’s put aside all moral and ethical concerns, just for a second, and judge the feud between Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau like we’d judge a boxing match. Do that, and it’s a unanimous decision: Koepka won. Definitively, emphatically and completely, Koepka won. The condensed story of what happened here is that the two golfers
7:47 AM ET ATLANTA — The past two weeks saw a scramble for the last automatic places on the U.S. Ryder Cup team — and might have made captain Steve Stricker‘s job a bit easier. A good bit changed from the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Tony Finau won the Northern Trust in a
On the last day of the 1983 Kemper Open, the final threesome of Fred Couples, T.C. Chen and Scott Simpson slogged their way through a miserable finish at Congressional Country Club, reaching the 17th hole long after everyone else had finished. With little else to do while the players dawdled, CBS producer Frank Chirkinian cut
10:07 PM ET Associated Press OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Patrick Cantlay earned the sixth and final automatic spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team by winning the BMW Championship on Sunday. All that meant was avoiding a phone call from the captain, Steve Stricker, after the Tour Championship to inform him of being a pick.
Golf’s distance debate has somewhat cooled since Bryson DeChambeau burned Winged Foot down with a bomb-and-gouge approach last September, but the flames are very much alive with a couple of logs ready to be thrown into the fire. Where that discourse goes is a matter for a different day, yet over the weekend an interesting
Sunday at the BMW Championship already had the natural tension any head-to-head showdown fosters in the final round of a golf tournament. Patrick Cantlay and Bryson DeChambeau had been matching each other birdie-for-birdie since Saturday’s third round, and when they’d separated from the rest of the field on the back nine Sunday. The winner was
10:05 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Bryson DeChambeau was steaming. He had just missed a birdie putt that brought an end to one of the most memorable playoffs the PGA Tour has seen in recent years, and understandably, he wanted to get away. From everyone. The roars for Patrick Cantlay, the winner of the
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Even without winning a tournament prior to Sunday’s unforgettable showdown at the BMW Championship, this has been the Summer of Bryson on the PGA Tour. He’s dominated the news in every medium for what he’s said, what he hasn’t said, the beefs with players, caddies, his own equipment company and occasionally
7:28 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The top 125 players made the FedEx Cup playoffs. After the first event, the Northern Trust, the field was cut down to 70 players. After this week’s BMW Championship, won by Patrick Cantlay in an epic playoff over Bryson DeChambeau, only 30 advance to
Patrick Reed reached the PGA Tour’s season-finale despite not hitting a shot this postseason. Reed, who missed the first two weeks of the FedEx Cup Playoffs battling bilateral pneumonia, is the 30th and final man into the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. The former Masters champ has been released from a hospital in
If you want to win the BMW Championship on Sunday, there’s one thing you’ll have to do: Go low. In its debut as a PGA Tour venue, Caves Valley Golf Club has proven little match against the PGA Tour’s elite, the 7,542-yard, par-72 layout yielding a stroke average of 69.454 for 54 holes. That’s not
9:08 AM ET Golf memorabilia continues to rise in popularity, especially anything related to Tiger Woods. Golden Age Golf Auctions saw that trend on Sunday, when its auction closed and Woods’ 2002 Scotty Cameron backup putter sold for a record $393,300. Scotty Cameron produced backup putters for Woods to practice with and test out and