Greg Norman announced on Instagram that he has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Norman, 65, shared the news Friday with a series of photos showing himself in a hospital bed, stating “This sums it all up. My Christmas Day.” “On behalf of millions, **** Covid,” Norman wrote. “Let’s get this [stuff] behind us never to experience
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Understandably, most of our memories from golf in 2020 involve social-distancing protocols, canceled tournaments and fanless majors. COVID-19 had an effect on all of our lives this year, and it had an unavoidable impact on golf. As our staff reflected on the year, it wasn’t always the gravity of the circumstances that drove our memories,
From the transformation of Bryson DeChambeau as he bashed his way to his first major championship at the U.S. Open, to Dustin Johnson wiping away tears after slipping his arms into the green jacket at the Masters, 2020 provided many indelible moments in golf that won’t soon escape us. In a year unlike any other—global
When golfers look back on a year, they typically think first of their best rounds—either in quantity of strokes or quality of a course. Rarely is the first round of a year the most memorable, or, at least, the most defining. For me, though, such is the case. I played like crap on a crap
The outcome was never in doubt on Wednesday at Bay Hill Club in Orlando. The only suspense left at the Arnold Palmer Cup, the annual Ryder Cup-style competition for college golf’s top male and female players, was how lopsided the final score would turn out. The 24-player International squad had a commanding 17-point lead over
6:24 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Sei Young Kim is in position to defend her title in the CME Group Tour Championship, take player of the year honors, win the money title and possibly even move to No. 1 in the world. Kim took a 1-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko into
Not even a global pandemic and a three-month shutdown of professional golf could slow down equipment news in 2020. In an unusual year there were unusual moves—like a steel-shafted driver used on the PGA Tour—unusual protocols for players and PGA Tour reps upon pro golf’s re-start and the nearly impossible thought of Tiger Woods benching
5:45 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods has a notoriously bad back, but it was his son, Charlie, who might have been feeling the pain Saturday after carrying his dad for most of the first round of the PNC Championship. Charlie Woods, 11, made his debut in the tournament reserved for major champions and
During a rare moment on the eve of the 2020 Masters in which the conversation shifted from Bryson DeChambeau, Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee turned his attention to another big hitter. “Imagine Kyle Berkshire,” Chamblee said with Augusta National Golf Club as a backdrop. “Imagine him out here if he could chip and putt.” At that
The PGA of America’s chief operating officer, Darrell Crall, will be leaving the organization following his arrest last month for an alleged assault on his girlfriend. According to an announcement from the PGA of America on Tuesday, the decision was mutual. “We will be providing a further update on operations and staffing in the near
3:27 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Jin Young Ko missed most of the LPGA Tour season and still won the yearlong money title. That’s what a $1.1 million check does. Ko, the No. 1 player in the world, put an emphatic capper on her truncated year Sunday by shooting a final-round 6-under 66
Imagine trying to explain 2020 to your former self from, say, 2014. “Things got really weird,” you’d say, and your former self would have to ask, “How?” And when you began to explain the inexplicable, your former self would think this was some kind of prank, get angry and start an argument. And there you
4:09 PM ET ESPN News Services ORLANDO, Fla. — Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods traded text messages on the eve of the final round at the PNC Championship, their teams tied for the lead and in contention. Neither mentioned winning. This was about Woods getting to play alongside 11-year-old son Charlie, watching him twirl the
For the most part, no one of note placed any unfair expectations on Charlie Woods, even after the 11-year-old put on a show at the PNC Championship. Of course, there was always going to be a few folks who took it too far on social media, some even claiming Charlie will be winning majors in
To say it’s hard to become a rookie on the LPGA Tour for the 2021 season is an understatement. But A Lim Kim, the surprise U.S. Women’s Open winner earlier this month, has done it. A week after her victory at Champions Golf Club in Houston, the 25-year-old from South Korea accepted LPGA Tour membership
6:43 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Lee Westwood was voted as the European Tour’s golfer of the year for 2020 on Monday, winning the award for the fourth time in his career after ending the season as the Race to Dubai champion at the age of 47. Westwood started the 27th year
It’s been quite a 2020 for Lee Westwood. The year started with his 25th European Tour victory in Abu Dhabi and is ending with another first-place finish. For the fourth time in his distinguished professional career, the 47-year-old Englishman has been named the European Tour’s Golfer of the Year. Westwood built on his early success
5:02 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods will be 45 years old the next time we see him, and even though age is just a number, it is not his friend at this point. The ongoing back problems, the fall down the World Rankings, the inevitable struggles are there regardless what the calendar says.