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6:48 PM ET Associated Press HARRISON, N.Y. — Kentucky junior Jensen Castle won the U.S. Women’s Amateur on Sunday, beating Arizona junior Hou Yu-chiang of Taiwan 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final at Westchester Country Club. Castle, from West Columbia, South Carolina, won after surviving a 12-for-2 playoff late Tuesday to get into the

There are perennially a handful of marquee names on the PGA Tour’s postseason bubble entering the final regular-season event at the Wyndham Championship. Yet this season is a superseason, so it’s no surprise the names strandling the postseason cutoff are supersized as well. Surprisingly, one of those names whose bubble has popped is Charles Howell

7:41 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Abraham Ancer of Mexico won the FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns with a 6-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole. Ancer won the World Golf Championships event at TPC Southland after

Some players are synonymous with certain tournaments, and it’s usually because they’ve won said tournament multiple times. Webb Simpson and the Wyndham Championship are one of the prime examples, this despite the fact he has just one victory in the event. On top of that one victory though, Simpson has a truck load of top-six

In the annals of the Masters Tournament, Edward A. Heimann was a person of genuine importance and yet invisible, even as his contribution to golf’s celebrated event is one of the most iconic and coveted prizes in sports. Heimann, who died Aug. 1 in Cincinnati at the age of 83, was the longtime chairman of

7:53 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For the better part of two months, nothing has been easy for Bryson DeChambeau. The latest example occurred on Sunday at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, where the eight-time PGA Tour winner saw a chance to win evaporate with a couple of balls in the water on the back

At one time 10 points behind the leader during Sunday’s final round, Erik van Rooyen took advantage of a four-hole stretch that included two birdies and an eagle to vault himself into contention—and eventually the winner’s circle—at the Barracuda Championship. The mid-round burst was good for nine points under the modified Stableford scoring system used

9:58 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Erik van Rooyen won the Barracuda Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, finishing with 50 points in the modified Stableford scoring system. Van Rooyen, the 31-year-old former University of Minnesota player from South Africa, eagled the par-4 eighth and closed with a birdie on

HARRISON, N.Y. — The theme of the week at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur was chaos. The defending champion and the top-ranked women’s amateur in the world, Rose Zhang, was eliminated in the Round of 64 by someone who didn’t hit a single college golf shot as a freshman. Seven of the top eight seeds

The 2020-’21 Super Season has been feast or famine for Si Woo Kim, and the feasting has mostly come in marquee events. He grabbed his third PGA Tour victory in January, winning the American Express by one stroke over Patrick Cantlay. He also had a pair of T-9s at the Players Championship and the Memorial

8:14 PM ET Associated Press HARRISON, N.Y. — Kentucky junior Jensen Castle rallied to advance to the U.S. Women’s Amateur final Saturday, beating NCAA champion Rachel Heck of Stanford with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 19th hole. Castle, from West Columbia, South Carolina, will face Arizona junior Hou Yu-chiang of Taiwan in the 36-hole

The gnarly Bermuda rough surrounding the green complexes at TPC Southwind gives tour players fits every year at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Rory McIlroy had a tough time adjusting on Thursday. The four-time major champion lost a field-worst 3.08 strokes/around the greens on Thursday, according to datagolf, chunking two chip shots and duffing a

9:33 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Adam Schenk birdied the par-4 18th in smoky conditions from wildfires Saturday for an 11-point round and four-point lead in the Barracuda Championship, the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system. Players receive eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — To Bryson DeChambeau, controversy is like water to a fish—everywhere, all the time, and if he’s ever away from it too long, you might start to wonder if he’s still breathing. Harris English, on the other hand, could come out in his next tournament and do something wildly out of character, such

The final three rounds at Kasumigaseki Country Club were just what Shanshan Feng has envisioned. Scores of 64-68-67 made the Chinese native proud of the way she performed in her second Olympic start, a tournament that had been her true focus, more so than her play on the LPGA Tour of late, after winning bronze

7:03 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Before Team USA’s Nelly Korda teed off in the final round in the women’s Olympic golf competition at Kasumigaseki Country Club, gold medal winner and fellow Team USA member Xander Schauffele tweeted her a special message: “Bring home the gold @NellyKorda! I’ll be rooting for you tonight.” For 54 holes

It was an unexpected moment after the Olympic women’s golf event was over. New Zealand’s Lydia Ko went in front of a Golf Channel camera to talk about her bronze-medal finish in Jessica Korda’s triumph. And even Ko seemed taken off guard when she burst into tears. The emotions had nothing to do with the

9:37 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Emiliano Grillo had an early eagle in a 17-point round in smoky conditions Friday to take the second-round lead in the Barracuda Championship, the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system. Players receive eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for