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3:11 PM ET NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — – About to start his first event as a major champion, Jon Rahm was taking some practice swings on the first tee at the Scottish Open when his status as golf’s hottest player was underlined. “On the tee,” the official starter said, “the U.S. Open champion, the Race

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Many things have two sides. Coins come to mind. Then there are arguments, although they often enough involve multiple points of view. And in professional golf there are always winners and losers, the latter routinely and overwhelmingly outnumbering the former on a weekly basis. Twice Andrea Pavan has known the pleasure

6:53 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on charges he assaulted his former partner. A court in the province of Cordoba, 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, convicted the 51-year-old of assaulting, threatening and harassing

Eleven months ago, the LPGA Tour returned to northwest Ohio in its first steps back from the COVID-19 schedule break. It created the LPGA Drive On Championship at Inverness Club in Toledo, and then played the Marathon LPGA Classic in Sylvania. As the tour makes its first trip back to the Marathon since returning to

The Open Championship returns from its one-year hiatus and, with it, NBC Sports’ resumes its coverage of golf’s oldest major. But while the championship will be contested in Sandwich, England, it will be called nearly 3,500 miles away in studios in Stamford, Conn. Due to travel restrictions imposed by the United Kingdom and the R&A

11:25 PM ET Tom Van Haaren Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady 3 and 2 in “The Match” on TNT on Tuesday. The four played in the charity match at picturesque The Reserve Golf Course at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana. It was the fourth version of “The Match,”

Next week, it’ll be exactly 10 years since Darren Clarke’s lone major championship victory at the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George’s. It remains one of the most unforgettable wins in Open history, though it is easy to forget just how chaotic the final day was. Amidst it all, Clarke remained stoic. Calm, cool,

8:18 PM ET Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady are taking on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers in an 18-hole match, raising money for My Brother’s Keeper and Feeding America. This is the fourth version of The Match and, as we’ve seen in the past, the trash talk is out in force. It’s just an exhibition,

During a conference call on Monday, Aaron Rodgers said he hadn’t played much golf since last summer. Maybe nine rounds, total. Given how serious Phil Mickelson takes these things, and how much Tom Brady wanted to avenge his first loss with Lefty, Brady and Phil were the obvious pick based off this information. Apparently, Rodgers

The USGA and R&A remain on track with their plan for modernizing the Rules of Amateur Status come Jan. 1, 2022. But in the wake of new laws that went into effect last week in several states allowing college student-athletes to immediately profit on their name, image and likeness (NIL), and the NCAA temporarily lifting

7:38 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff. Davis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes. The 26-year-old Australian left 6- and 18-foot

Joey Chestnut’s Hot Dog eating prowess is not the extent of our gluttonous made-for-TV contest options this week. The Match is back—with Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers challenging Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady on Tuesday at The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont. Phil brings his 2-1 record in these matches into Tuesday,

8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Jin Young Ko closed with seven straight pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Volunteers of America Classic, her first start since losing the No. 1 world ranking. Ko sank her shoulders when she made her par putt from just outside

Last week was not a good week for Phil Mickelson. It started when The Detroit News ran a story saying that a local gambler had stiffed Mickelson on a $500,000 debt almost 20 years ago, the facts coming from the transcript of a 2007 trial involving local gamblers unsealed in 2018. Mickelson didn’t deny the

There are golfers who haven’t played a round in months and would be jittery if the starter even dared take a peek at their swing on the first tee. Imagine what it’s going to feel like for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday in his debut in The Match 4, the made-for-TV event teaming Rodgers

7:48 AM ET They have been talking about this for weeks, mostly with social media back-and-forth, but at last, Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady will take on Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday. This is the fourth iteration of the match, a series which began with Tiger Woods and Mickelson playing winner-take-all against each

Seventy. Seven. Straight. Holes. That’s how long Joaquin Niemann went without a bogey on the PGA Tour, a streak that goes back to the 14th hole the previous Sunday at the Travelers Championship. Niemann tied for 36th in that event. After 72 bogey-free holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Niemann was tied for first, putting

9:15 PM ET Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. — A professional golfer and two other men were killed in a shooting at an Atlanta-area country club and the suspect is still at large, authorities said. Officers found an unresponsive man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head Saturday near the 10th hole of the golf