The LPGA Tour announced the cancellation of another event due to travel restrictions. The Buick LPGA Shanghai will not be played in October, marking the second consecutive year the event has been canceled. In 2020, COVID-19 travel restrictions also prevented the event from being played. Danielle Kang won the event in 2019, as well as
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10:14 PM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI, China — The LPGA Tour said in a statement Wednesday that the Buick LPGA Shanghai tournament scheduled for mid-October has been canceled due to ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions. The tournament was scheduled for the Qizhong Garden Golf Club from Oct. 14-17. There are two tournaments scheduled for the following
Matchup results from The Northern Trust: Mayo: 1 for 1 (Daniel Berger (+120) over Dustin Johnson); Alldrick: 1 for 1 (Xander Schauffele (+100) over Collin Morikawa; Powers: 1 for 1 (Maverick McNealy (+105) over Kevin Kisner); Caddie: Push (Bryson DeChambeau (-125) over Brooks Koepka); Gdula, Gehman, Hennessey: 0 for 1. Matchup Results this season (Wins-Losses-Pushes):
7:47 PM ET Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Tony Finau was developing a label as the player who did everything right but win. What he never lost was his belief he could beat the best. That moment finally arrived late Monday afternoon at the Northern Trust against the sunlit backdrop of the Manhattan skyline.
In today’s sports environment, many fans lament the fact that there isn’t enough hate between opponents. Flip on the end of an NBA or NFL game and you’ll often see opposing players embracing one another, and even swapping and signing jerseys. In golf, a lone-wolf sport, everyone is your opponent. Still, while the Bryson-Brooks saga
If any player was to stop the PGA Tour’s string of 54-hole leaders not closing the deal, it was going to be Jon Rahm on Monday at The Northern Trust. The U.S. Open champion is one of the better closers in the sport, and without much of an early push from any of the chasers,
7:48 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The FedEx Cup playoffs started with 125 players. When the weather-delayed Northern Trust finally came to an end Monday evening, only 70 advance on to this week’s BMW Championship. After that, the top 30 will qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship with a shot
Physically, Rory McIlroy is almost unrecognizable to the lad he was at 20 years old. A mop of dark curls spilled out of his cap, framing a still slightly chubby school boy’s face. Now 32, McIlroy wouldn’t trade the success in that kid’s future—the four major championships won or the 26 titles earned between the
8:23 PM ET Tony Finau first held up a trophy, victorious on the PGA Tour, in 2016 at the Puerto Rico Open at Coco Beach. Since that win, Finau has had 40 top-10 finishes, eight second-place finishes and five years without holding another trophy. Only Louis Oosthuizen has had more runners-up finishes (11) than Finau
Patrick Reed has been in a Houston hospital since Friday battling bilateral pneumonia, according to a report from Golf Channel. “I just want to update everyone…First and foremost-thank you all for your support,” Reed said in a statement. “The good news is, my ankle is okay. The bad news is I’ve been in the hospital
It’s been 25 years since Tiger Woods announced he was turning pro on the eve of the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open. That’s a quarter century of clutch putts, ferocious fist pumps, and wins. Lots and lots of wins. But Woods’ presence during that time has changed golf—and even sports in general—forever well beyond his legendary
7:11 AM ET Captain Catriona Matthew selected a trio of Solheim Cup rookies for Team Europe’s title defence as the biennial tournament kicks off next week at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Europe take on favourites United States with newcomers Nanna Madsen of Denmark, who finished fifth on Sunday at the women’s British Open,
The 18th at Carnoustie will forever be remembered for Jean Van de Velde’s aquatic adventure, a triple-bogey 7 after hitting it in the Barry Burn costing him the 1999 Open title. But now the home hole has another major horror story for fans to recall with sorrow after Sunday’s final round of the AIG Women’s
8:09 PM ET Associated Press SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Rod Pampling won the Boeing Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions victory when Jim Furyk and Woody Austin failed to get up-and-down for birdie from greenside bunkers on the par-5 18th. Pampling, playing five groups ahead of Furyk and Austin at Snoqualmie Ridge, shot
There was nothing minor about this major, the AIG Women’s Open, that had it all on Sunday, including a worthy champion on a historic links and 72nd-hole drama that delivered agony and ecstasy and a euphoric native Swede who had become a hometown favorite on the eastern shore of Scotland. Anna Nordqvist, 34, a Scottish
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Erik van Rooyen wasn’t sure which camera to look at, then had to introduce himself to the PGA Tour media official shepherding him through the carwash of post-round obligations. He’s still new at this, at least relatively so. At 31, he’s not particularly young by today’s phenom-impacted standards. He’s won on
9:25 PM ET Associated Press SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Woody Austin birdied the par-5 18th on Saturday for a 4-under 68 and a one-stroke lead over Jim Furyk and Colin Montgomerie in the PGA Tour Champions’ Boeing Classic. The 57-year-old Austin had three straight birdies on Nos. 13-15. He has four senior victories after also winning
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — They obliterated the golf course. Now, they wait. The best players in the world dissected a defenseless Liberty National on Saturday, when the average score at the Northern Trust was just a hair over three-under 68. Doug Ghim became the first player to break 30 on nine holes here, then Corey