The Charles Schwab Challenge was the first PGA Tour event to return after last year’s COVID hiatus. It’s back again in 2021, this time in its usual May spot in the calendar. Coming off the high of the PGA Championship, this upcoming tournament will feature a loaded field including the “new” oldest major champion even,
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1:56 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird. Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Brooks Koepka
Almost a year on from having to cancel the Open Championship at Royal St. George’s, the R&A is currently planning three events—no crowd, limited crowd, unrestricted crowd—for 2021. Only one will actually happen, of course, with the odds strongly in favor of a somewhat restricted crowd event at Royal St. George’s. According to chief executive
11:48 PM ET The CEO of the PGA of America apologized Monday for the poor crowd control on the 18th hole of the Ocean Course as eventual winner Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka tried to complete the final round of the PGA Championship. Both players were swarmed by boisterous spectators Sunday at the Kiawah Island
It is an unwritten, though not unavoidable, decree in school hierarchy that freshmen need to know their place. So it is that Stanford freshman Rachel Heck has spectacularly affirmed that her place is atop leader boards. Heck, 19, from Memphis, Tenn., concluded the individual part of her remarkable freshman season by winning the NCAA Division
This is the week where it all started. The 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge was the first event back post-COVID-19, and we were never so happy to have professional golf back. We had an exciting result, too, with Daniel Berger edging Collin Morikawa in a playoff—and Xander Schauffele being there until the end. We’ll hope for
11:39 AM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson was so focused on the task at hand Sunday that it was understandable he might not have had time to grasp all the various things he accomplished with his PGA Championship victory. Perhaps that is part of the reason for his success at the Ocean Course.
There were all sorts of sights and sounds worth savoring in the aftermath of Phil Mickelson’s stunning victory Sunday in the PGA Championship on Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course. There were the fans running amok after security completely lost control as Mickelson and Brooks Koepka tried to reach the 18th green. There was Mickelson setting a
9:46 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson loves the banter, loves the competition, loves golf. That would seemingly be a pre-requisite for greatness, but is hardly a common trait among the elite. It’s why careers fade away, why glory is fleeting. Lefty never lost that passion, which is why he on Sunday at
Less than an hour after Phil Mickelson made it official and became the oldest golfer ever to win a major with his triumph at the 103rd PGA Championship, the contemporary who would be most widely considered his nemesis during his professional career took a moment to give Lefty his due. Woods was just one of
As golf fans were made well aware, Phil Mickelson became the oldest player to win a major at the 2021 PGA Championship. But he also made a bit of gambling history. With pre-tournament odds of more than 200-to-1 (and as high as 250-to-1 at Westgate SuperBook), Mickelson is the biggest underdog to win one of
7:10 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Perhaps Phil Mickelson‘s ability on a golf course, the body of work he has established over more than three decades in the public eye, have gotten lost or diminished the past few years. That is why this PGA Championship, so unlikely because it made him the oldest major
We’ve been blessed as golf fans with some amazing final rounds at majors in recent memory. The palpable anticipation on Sunday at the 2021 PGA Championship ranks up there with any other, as 50-year-old Phil Mickelson has the chance to become the oldest major champion in our sport’s history (Julius Boros winning the 1968 PGA
9:12 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — It’s not quite the same storyline that enveloped another major championship. The backdrop there was whether or not a beeper in his golf bag would go off at any moment, summoning him home. But Phil Mickelson requesting that a drone be removed from his line of flight when
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Too good to be true doesn’t tell the half of it. Lefty had played 10-and-a-half perfect holes, five under for the day, four shots clear of the whippersnappers chasing him. After flushing his second into the par-5 11th, he holstered his long iron and leaned onto his right leg, admiring his
The final pairing of the 103rd PGA Championship might be the most delicious twosome you could have asked for. Phil Mickelson, certified Hall of Famer whose career takes on an incredible new twist with a victory on Sunday, and Brooks Koepka, future Hall of Famer who could cement his place with a victory, his third
6:47 PM ET Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Wei-Ling Hsu birdied the final hole Saturday for a 6-under 65 and a share of the third-round lead with Moriya Jutanugarn in the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship. Jutanugarn eagled the par-5 seventh in a 65 to match Hsu at 10-under 203 on Kingsmill Resort’s firm and
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C—When it comes to player interviews, we—fans, media, even golfers themselves—tend to gravitate towards the dramatic. A wisecrack or friendly jab can go viral; a knock on a competitor or course or governing body can produce commentary and articles and TV segments. Which is fine, but sometimes the focus on the sensational makes