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4:09 PM ET JERSEY CITY, N.Y. — Tiger Woods‘ long-time caddie, Joe LaCava, is back between the ropes for Patrick Cantlay — for one week at the Northern Trust. Cantlay’s regular caddie, Matt Minister, is out due to COVID-19, and so Cantlay reached out to LaCava, who lives approximately two hours away in Connecticut. “I

Here we go … 125 players with $15 million on the line. In just three weeks, we will have a new FedEx Cup and Tour Championship winner. Last year’s champ, Dustin Johnson, is also looking to defend his 2020 Northern Trust title, which he won by 11 strokes at 30 under at TPC Boston. It

5:26 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — A former United States Golf Association employee has been charged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the unauthorized sale of U.S. Open Championship tickets, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced Tuesday. According to a statement released by Williams, Robert Fryer, 39, of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, faces

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Joe LaCava lagged behind his new boss as he walked off the fifth green at Liberty National. He’s rusty, after all. “He’s going to have to put up with the scrub caddie this week,” LaCava joked. Tiger Woods’ caddie has picked up a substitute gig in Patrick Cantlay for this week’s

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — We’re talking course set-up. At Carnoustie. It’s a combination that immediately brings to mind the 1999 Open Championship, a horror show defined and defiled by the long, thick and suspiciously verdant green grass that all but covered the ancient links. All of which sounds nice from a distance. But it wasn’t pretty

7:32 AM ET JERSEY CITY, N.Y. — It’s playoff time, golf style. And there is not much time to get settled and take it all in. The FedEx Cup playoffs begin this week at the Northern Trust, continue next week with the BMW Championship and conclude a week later with the Tour Championship. At the

Throughout his 2020-’21 comeback season, Jordan Spieth has teetered on the brink of returning to his former, 2015-2017 self. Already with a win in 2021 at the Valero, he nearly added another at the Open Championship, just barely getting outplayed on Sunday by rising superstar Collin Morikawa. If not for Morikawa’s Sunday heroics at Royal

8:06 PM ET Associated Press ASH, England — Calum Hill of Scotland closed with a 5-under 67 for a 1-stroke victory at the Cazoo Classic on Sunday to clinch his first European Tour title. Hill finished at 16-under 272, 1 shot ahead of Alexander Levy of France. The 26-year-old Hill finished in a tie for

Matthew Wolff missed the weekend at the Wyndham Championship. Yet the fledging star made more money at the Greensboro event than everyone but eventual winner Kevin Kisner. That’s because Wolff won the Aon Risk Reward Challenge—a season-long competition taking a player’s two best scores on a designated hole each week—which bestowed a $1 million payday

A man who put the journey in journeyman, Doug Barron no longer wanders aimlessly around the golf world. At 52, he now knows where he is going and where he is going, as he reminded everyone on Sunday afternoon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is Hawaii. Again. Barron birdied the final three holes at Canyon Meadows

The extended Korn Ferry Tour season that stretched over two years ended Sunday with a journeyman pro, who has spent time as a bartender and a DoorDash driver, making a scrambling mad dash to victory and his first PGA Tour card at the age of 39. To rework a line from Brad Pitt in the

OAKMONT, Pa. — It’s hard to describe the expression on James Piot’s face when he held the Havemeyer Trophy for the first time behind Oakmont Country Club’s 17th green late Sunday afternoon. Let’s call it something between shock, exhilaration and awe, as the newly minted U.S. Amateur champion, a 2-and-1 winner over Austin Greaser in

2:36 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Golf’s regular season came to a close on Sunday, with a lot of last-day jockeying to get into the field when the FedEx Cup playoffs start next week at the Northern Trust. Only the top 125 advance to the first event. After that, the

7:19 PM ET Associated Press OAKMONT, Pa. — Trailing on the back nine at Oakmont for the first time all week, Austin Greaser responded by winning four straight holes and closing out Travis Vick on the 17th hole in their semifinal match Saturday in the U.S. Amateur. Greaser has yet to play the 18th hole

Jim King had a resume early in life that couldn’t have been matched by any other professional golfer. He was in his early 20s when he took up golf—and boxing—and three years into his PGA Tour career, King joined the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. In college, King played

GREENSBORO, N.C. — In any normal year, if a professional golfer stood at 141st in the FedExCup standings near the end of the regular season, had missed four straight PGA Tour cuts and 11 of 18 overall, and hadn’t even played in a major, he’d probably consider that a pretty tough season. But if that

OAKMONT, Pa. — If you didn’t know this was a big moment in the young golf career of Austin Greaser, all you had to do was listen. As the 20-year-old University of North Carolina junior rolled in a six-footer for birdie on the 17th hole at Oakmont Country Club to win his quarterfinal match at

8:04 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Russell Henley shot a 6-under 64 on Friday to open a four-stroke lead halfway through the Wyndham Championship. Henley was at 14-under 126, tying Stewart Cink at the RBC Heritage in April for the lowest 36-hole score this season. Olympic silver medalist Rory Sabbatini was tied for