The 2014 U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 had more than its share of intrigue. For the first time in history, the USGA staged the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open back-to-back at the same venue. And after Martin Kaymer’s impressive but drama-free eight-shot win in the first week, the women fashioned a more
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7:16 AM ET Associated Press Defending champion Bernd Wiesberger was two shots clear of fellow Austrian golfer Matthias Schwab on top of the second round leaderboard at the Made in HimmerLand on Friday. Wiesberger carded a 6-under 65 after an opening 66 to be 11 under overall. His round included seven birdies and a bogey.
There are weeks when club just doesn’t feel good in your hands. Or you spend some cash with a couple of sloppy bogeys down the stretch. Or there’s a baby crying all night in the hotel room next door. Then there’s Scott Piercy’s bad week. His was the kind for which you consider quitting to
Nobody will ever mistake the Charles Schwab Challenge for the Open Championship, but inclement weather in Texas this week made “the draw” quite important, at least for Jason Kokrak. Kokrak teed off late on Thursday and early on Friday, posting a pair of five-under 65s to reach 10 under for the tournament. The CJ Cup
7:56 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Phil Mickelson kept hearing congratulatory words as he made his way around Colonial, and there was a huge roar from the crowd when the PGA Championship winner made a long putt to finish his round. Jordan Spieth kept making birdies in the same group. Spieth shot
Kay Cockerill, a native of Northern California and, at the time, the reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, attended her first U.S. Open in 1987, when she was a 22-year-old spectator watching at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course. Her memories of the championship, faded a bit with time, return as slightly abstract images in her mind.
9:39 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Danielle Kang and Lizette Salas set up a showdown Friday for a spot in the final 16 in the LPGA Match Play. First, they planned to watch “Friends: The Reunion” together. “Of course,” Salas said. “There’s a reunion,” Kang added. “We have matching ‘Friends’-like doors,
You’d think a walk-off hole-in-one to win a match/playoff in an elite professional tournament would be high on the list of “very rare occurrences” in golf. In March, Sergio Garcia pulled off the feat at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, making an ace in a playoff against Lee Westwood to advance out of the group
Much like a microwave, Jordan Spieth (and his putter) knows how to reheat and reheat quickly. Of course, that wasn’t quite the case during his prolonged slump. There was no heating or reheating during that Ice Age, but coming off a woeful putting week at Kiawah, Spieth quickly bounced back at Colonial. It’s the latest
11:21 AM ET Tiger Woods is in a familiar place: extensive rehabilitation. That was the gist of his comments in a brief interview with Golf Digest, the first he has done since being involved in a serious one-car crash in Southern California on Feb. 23 that left him hospitalized for nearly a month. “This has
The phrase “all publicity is good publicity” is not universally true. Let’s say we learned tomorrow that a professional golfer was caught on camera stealing food from an orphanage. There’s no silver lining there, no material benefit to the fact that this player’s name was being mentioned often on digital platforms. It would be comprehensively
2:48 PM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Very few people on Earth can understand or relate to what it’s like to be an NFL quarterback. Even fewer know what it’s like to actually be good at the job. Only a handful know the experience of
It is a cliché in sports, the best team on paper, but in the case of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship that Mississippi won on Wednesday, the paper proved to be prescient. It was written by Ole Miss’s Julia Johnson in advance of her freshman year in 2017. Her written goals were to become the
LAS VEGAS — The LPGA Tour’s return to match play as an official event had a dramatic and controversial start on Wednesday. With a birdie on the 18th hole, four-time Solheim Cup veteran Carlota Ciganda of Spain thought she’d won her opening group-play match over American Sarah Schmezel. But in the scoring area at Shadow
11:05 AM ET Fresh off his victory at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson didn’t wait long to get involved in another high-profile golf match involving celebrity quarterbacks — and Bryson DeChambeau. Mickelson, who captured his sixth major title on Sunday to became the oldest major champion at age 50, will be part of a July
The Match”—the made-for-TV events with Phil Mickelson taking part as one of the headliners each time—will return for a fourth time, Turner Sports announced on Wednesday, with a July 6 match slated for The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont., on TNT. Mickelson—the 2021 PGA champion and a two-time winner in this format—will pair
7:23 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gile Bite Starkute holed a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the first extra hole and Arizona, which grabbed the last qualifying spot, stunned top-seeded Stanford in the quarterfinals of the NCAA women’s golf championship. Stanford earned the No. 1 seed with a 13-shot victory over
You’re in the right place if you want sympathy for not betting Phil Mickelson last week. Join the club. Of course, who could’ve seen Phil’s historic PGA Championship victory coming . . . and we were all so happy for him. But as a historic 200-1 longshot, well, we’ll be kicking ourselves for eternity for